jdlshore

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by jdlshore 1y ago
This is the definition of an ad hominem attack. If you want to prove the judges are partisan, talk about the flaws in the ruling, not who appointed them.
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by jdlshore 1y ago
I think the point is that, as a manager, you can’t fake it and still feel good about yourself. Whereas an engineer can just feel good about doing a good technical job even if you don’t buy into the company direction.
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by jdlshore 1y ago
Quality is more important than quantity in engineering, so a mediocre hire can be a net negative. In so many ways: - consuming time and attention from people who help them - time spend checking and fixing their work - additional maintenance
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by jdlshore 1y ago
Landfills are designed to prevent that sort of leaching. There’s an interesting Practical Engineering article / video about it: https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/9/3/the-hidden-engin...
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by jdlshore 1y ago
> On topic, I don't think any good engineer ever claimed the title of the article. It’s been a common claim in the past, usually preceded by the phrase “research studies have found…” Steve McConnell is probably the most well known t
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by jdlshore 1y ago
Laurent Bossavit’s The Leorechauns of Software Engineering looks into this claim (and several others) and finds that, yes, many of these studies do share a common origin, and often misquote/misrepresent it.
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by jdlshore 1y ago
Just marketing spam. The message is interesting, but there’s so much shilling of their product and blatant bias , I wasn’t able to finish the article.
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by jdlshore 1y ago
It’s a name the community chose for itself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel
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by jdlshore 1y ago
GP made an important point that you seemed to have missed: in modern architectures, it’s much more important to minimize memory access than to minimize instructions. They weren’t saying optimization isn’t important, they were describing ho
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by jdlshore 1y ago
Probably about the same. IT process modernization efforts are as old as computers, and usually fail due to the (utterly foreseeable, but hubristically unforeseen) complexity in existing systems that only work due to undocumented institution
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by jdlshore 1y ago
Yes, and you have to do it in a loop on every request. Not joking. It’s called “LLM as judge.”
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by jdlshore 1y ago
At present, AI is starkly limited and not able to replace any job. At best, it can automate certain menial tasks, such as low-level support. In programming, it only works for non-trivial programs when used under the direction of an experien
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by jdlshore 1y ago
I get that you found it frustrating. But speaking as somebody who’s not used Cursor and is genuinely interested in hearing unbiased perspectives about it, your “review” isn’t helpful. It boils down to “I couldn’t get it to work.” Given that
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by jdlshore 1y ago
I find this sort of whataboutism in LLM discussions tiring. Yes, of course, there are teams of humans that perform worse than an LLM. But it obvious to all but the most hype-blinded booster that it is possible for teams of humans to work
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by jdlshore 1y ago
While this is technically correct, everyday use of LLMs involves a non-zero temperature, so they (the whole package that people think of as “AI”) are non-deterministic in practice.
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by jdlshore 1y ago
The question wasn’t “can we maintain our margin,” the question was “ can we manufacture in the US with the same margin we used to enjoy?” The whole thing is a stunt designed to focus ire against tariffs, but let’s not mischaracterize their
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by jdlshore 1y ago
Under the GDPR, it’s illegal to treat PII like currency. You can’t gate a service behind PII consent.
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by jdlshore 1y ago
Because LLMs match your prompt to data scraped off the internet, it’s plausible that being polite results in your response coming from more civil conversations that have more useful data.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
You can’t (practically) unit test LLM responses, at least not in the traditional sense. Instead, you do runtime validation with a technique called “LLM as judge.” This involves having another prompt, and possibly another model, evaluate the
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by jdlshore 2y ago
You seem to be missing the point that federal research grants are not gifts, but instead paying for a service.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Great clarification, thank you.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
This is for the UK.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
The airline ticketing industry is run by a massive pile of shared legacy code. (Except Southwest, which has a different pile of legacy code, as I understand it.) Changing it seems like a really big deal. What I didn’t see in the article was
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by jdlshore 2y ago
With some nastiness, you could make every link on the page a form submission and submit the session ID with the form. Then render it into the HTML that’s returned in response.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
You’re confusing the GDPR and the ePrivacy directive. (And maybe getting that wrong too. I’ve read the GDPR but not the ePrivacy directive. Oh, and IANAL.) The GDPR doesn’t require consent for cookies. What it requires is a lawful basis for
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Flight to cash.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Moonlighting is working a second job at night (“by the light of the moon”). Overemployment is fraudulently charging two companies for the same hour of time.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
It's a little bit click-baity, but an interesting article. It shows a demonstration attack against a WhatsApp MCP, not an actual in-the-wild attack. But it's still worth reading, and illustrates the problems with the MCP protoco
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by jdlshore 2y ago
I think you’re confusing the ePrivacy Directive, which regulates cookies, and the GDPR, which regulates PII.
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by jdlshore 2y ago
Bonds and stocks tend to have an inverse correlation. And, yep, bonds are up while stocks and real estate are down. That’s why financial advisors tell you to keep a mix of stocks and bonds, trending towards a greater percentage of bonds dep

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