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by jdlshore 2mo ago
The “hidden until found” feature surprised me. What’s the use case for something like that?
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
This quote stood out to me: “Everyone else, I would say, was more of a ChatGPT person, and again, using it for small secretarial tasks or consumer fun use cases. But I didn’t meet a lot of people who suggested to me that AI was essential or
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
Okay, you told us what it said. Now what do you think? Do you have any expertise in this field? Do you have reason to believe that an LLM has the ability to predict the future with any accuracy (and if so, why)? If we want to hear from an
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
> Way more people die of being exposed to the cold than exposed to the heat. I was skeptical of this claim, so I looked it up. You’re right. Globally, about 9x as many people die due to cold-related causes than heat-related causes. It’s
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
Portland to Seattle is about 140 miles and has constant flights. Even if a small part of the flight uses fuel, that’s major cost savings.
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
It’s always charged. You plug it in when you get home and it’s ready to go when you leave.
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
It’s because the category is saturated, not because of the content.
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
It’s Trump, not the USA, and he seems to be ruled by passions rather than logic. Mostly, his goals seem to be to seek wealth and adoration by any means necessary. Now that he’s in it, there’s no way out, and particularly no way out that d
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
This is mostly recapitulating the article “AI Mania is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making” that was posted here a week or two ago. https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global...
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
It doesn’t matter. You’re saving nanoseconds when a db access costs milliseconds. Better to focus on making the code easy to understand and change and focus your effort on optimizing the database.
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
I’ve had people tell me, with a completely straight face, that they expected 10-100x productivity improvements. This is at the executive and VC level. The mania is extreme.
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
There was an article a while back that talked about their simulated world model. It has the ability to do things like floods, elephants on the road, etc.
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
Screens are mandated by law in the US, I believe, for the backup camera.
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
> The AI Visibility Evidence Model is a reference model that orders the publisher-side factors behind AI visibility by strength of evidence. What the F is this thing going on about? I got several screens in before closing it as slop, sti
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
It’s an easy mistake to make, given the name of the website, but Fowler frequently hosts guest authors. This article was written by Giles Edwards-Alexander, ThoughtWorks CTO for EMEA.
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
2x is 100% increase.
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
I don’t think you can judge a programming language based on its “Hello World.” AppleSoft BASIC has this: 10 PRINT “Hello World” Beautifully simple and readable. But it’s not a good language by modern standards. In your example, I see a lot
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
I use Fastmail. It’s excellent, and only $114 for two years. (Just processed my renewal today.)
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
I suspect we do. In my view, people using free software take the gift they were given as-is, and if they don’t like it, they either contribute in a way the giver appreciates, or move on. They certainly don’t whine about their free gift onli
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
That early 2025 METR study was particularly interesting because participants self-evaluated themselves as 20% faster, but the measurements showed they were actually 19% slower. All the reports of productivity since then are self-reported, o
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
If you care that much, you can donate money to Arch to buy a commercial license, or inform your sales rep that you find their conduct unprofessional. Or, yes, you can take the presence of the free version as a sign that the professional ser
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by jdlshore 2mo ago
Hmm, I don’t think I agree. The author is claiming that Anubis is meant to stop individuals using LLMs, but I don’t think that’s its purpose. I believe its purpose is to reduce mass scraping of data that puts excessive load on systems.
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
A “propaganda campaign” implies intent. I’ve seen a lot of dissatisfaction about capitalism, too, particularly among Gen Z, but to me it looks like an expression of the loss of faith the headline is talking about. What makes you think this
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
All of the above, but mostly the latter, IMO.
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
I think it’s because maintainability is a factor of software design, and good design is squishy and hard to articulate. There’s no good metrics for design. All the tools that purport to measure it are doing trivial things like cyclomatic co
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
You’re getting a lot of pushback, but I’m genuinely interested in your experiences. What differences have you seen between average and top leaders? Not in results, but in terms of how they approached the job?
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
Default payout is 50/50 author/publisher. If the author and publisher have a contract that states otherwise, then their contract overrides the default. Source: I’m an author and signed up to be part of the class action, and this w
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
To be clear, the issue is not that the books were used to train Claude, but that they were pirated.
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
There’s two types of quality: external quality, which is how well something works, and internal quality, which is how well something is built.
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by jdlshore 3mo ago
Nonetheless, some people have decided that the risk isn’t worth it, and have decided to geo-block the EU. You can choose differently, of course, and I’m not making value judgments here. Just explaining why a small local news site would geo-

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