jimbokun

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by jimbokun 8mo ago
I think a simpler argument would be that small web is not a good fit if your content is sensitive in the place you are publishing from. It’s meant for public publishing. If you need encryption, use a different distribution mechanism.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
Maybe soon but not yet.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
Things do work according to the rules here. But the wealthy write the rules.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
The US is still mostly a Rule of Law country, in the sense that courts enforce the laws as written most of the time. But which laws are passed by Congress and signed by the President are mostly determined by financial donations more so than
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
Knowing nothing my guess would be he wants all the benefits of corruption accruing only to himself.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
Do you really think “extrajudicial” methods will improve social trust in the US?
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
Wow Americans really dislike Americans! (Pew link)
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
For a while before the US and other democracies left them in the dust. Mathematics and Physics maybe but not in a way that benefited the broader society overall.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
> Voters have since lost interest in actual lawmaking, and have in fact become hostile to it. This is a very succinct description of arguably the biggest problem of our democracy right now. A huge part of Trump’s success is convincing vo
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
One interesting effect of LLMs getting so good at generating code, all of the process related things you mention take up a greater and greater percentage of the overall time to develop and deploy a feature, making them even more salient.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
Seems like a big part of it is an extensive barter network since the straightforward exchange of cash for services has broken down, so you need to know the right people with skills or access to, and something of value to offer them in retur
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
Car repair companies won’t see a meaningful improvement to their bottom line with more custom software. Will it increase the number of cars per employee per day they can repair?
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
Even if you have perfect medical information and advice through an LLM, can you perform surgery on yourself? Can you prescribe yourself whatever medication you think you need? For education, if you know as much as the average Harvard grad,
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
By now you would have to say it’s because “intelligence” is no more well defined than “consciousness” or “the soul”. A more concrete idea like “learning” has been very strongly defined and quantifiable, which is maybe why progress in a theo
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
But if you were implementing it in 1976 you would have.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
This article shows how Emacs remains a beautiful, relevant project several decades after it was first created. The core design and implementation’s ability to evolve into something still useful today and competitive with modern tools is an
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
I’m not sure how you missed it, but the “why” was clearly a challenge to better learn and understand Emacs. And because it was fun.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
If they can’t succeed against Google and Apple the project is useless. Even if it’s not for lack of trying or lack of talent on their part, the fact remains their efforts could have been spent more productively elsewhere.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
This does seem exciting at first glance. Just write the narrative part of literate programming and an LLM generates the code, then keep the narrative and voila! Literate programming without the work of generating both. However I see two m
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
All of that is just code. Frameworks are just overly brittle and fragile libraries that overly restrict how you can use them.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
Because the human needs to tell the AI whether it’s the code or the comment that’s wrong.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
Notebooks are an example of literate programming.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
I find LLMs more diligent about keeping the documentation than any human developer, including myself.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
Well maybe if those people were managing one or more programmers and not writing the code themselves, they would have worked similarly.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
Yes and with Java they’re the ones still prioritizing annotations over the options built into the core language.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
Time again to learn the lesson of Lisp: Code is data. Data is code.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
"Web search portals, libraries, archives, and other information service" It's a weird employment category that includes both Google SWEs and your local librarian.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
> People with experience and/or credentials desired by companies in areas of growth (i.e. AI) are always in high demand This is tautological.
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
"And then what happens in a year when the models can handle that as well?" Either the machines exterminate us or we become glorified pets. Hope the AIs prefer us to cats (even though that's a long shot).
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by jimbokun 8mo ago
I was skeptical but I'm really starting to see the productivity benefits now. I very much follow the pattern of having the whole architecture in my head and describe it to the AI which generates the appropriate code. So now the bottle

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