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by jjav 6mo ago
> I try LLMs for something every couple of months, and I have yet to see them produce anything actually correct. Calling non-existing library methods, confabulations, etc. That's too pessimistic, the productivity gains are real and
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by jjav 6mo ago
> I'd argue work on meaningful security improvements is mostly available outside industry security roles. I drift in and out of security roles and definitely agree. If a company truly wants secure products the proper way is to do
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by jjav 6mo ago
> So decades ago he worked for a company that no one’s heard of, You must be trolling? SGI is one of the legend companies of Silicon Valley.
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by jjav 6mo ago
> I haven’t seen any good study that showed AI to actually improve productivity overall. AI is overhyped, but on the other hand, I think it would be difficult to deny the significant productivity increases when used appropriately. For s
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by jjav 6mo ago
> I think the push from management for us to use AI has made it so we don’t have to be efficient with our consumption, so now we write md files which we feed to Claude in a loop instead of python and bash scripts to do routine tasks. We&
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by jjav 6mo ago
> What do you mean "mortgage never rises" in the US? > It can if you have an adjustable rate mortgage. Yes, that is true. Also, ARMs are rare and always a bad idea. The norm is a 30 year fixed rate mortgage. Which means the
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by jjav 6mo ago
> That's an assumption, but even if it's probably true, to what end? The issue most working Americans face is that the cost of living rises faster than their wages. Mortgage never rises (in the US), can only fall (if you refina
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by jjav 6mo ago
> You don't own a home until you've paid it off. That's not quite true. If you want to think that way, then you'd never own it because you'll always pay property taxes so the paying never stops. But as soon as yo
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by jjav 6mo ago
The US is not particularly rich. The GPD is way out there, but that doesn't mean anything. It is highly concentrated in a tiny fraction of 1% of the population. And the bulk of the population who by global standards might be middle cla
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by jjav 6mo ago
> I thought cursor became mostly obsolete with Claude Code and Codex TUIs? I wouldn't think so. At work I have both cursor and claude code and while I use both, cursor is by far the most pleasant to use. If I had to give one up, I&#
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by jjav 6mo ago
That I still do, but now it goes through a firewall, a bastion host and a second different firewall.
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by jjav 6mo ago
The game only works if they also have a lot of people losing money.
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by jjav 6mo ago
> In the enterprise space, if you mention globally reachable address space, the discussion tends to end pretty fast because “its not secure”. Topic drift, but for younger people who didn't live it, that's how it used to be! For
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by jjav 6mo ago
Very early in my career I'd take these vulnerability reports as a personal challenge and spent my day/evening proving it isn't actually exploitable in our environment. And I was often totally correct, it wasn't. But... I
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by jjav 6mo ago
> They made a donation ... somewhere. Likely some kind of gold statue was involved. And just like that, laws change in your favor.
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by jjav 6mo ago
> This mind set of yours is a relatively recent development. I published my first open source (we didn't call it that) program in the 1980s. I didn't know anything about licenses back then (and the open source licenses we use t
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by jjav 6mo ago
> if less efficient to execute like Java and Javascript and Python One of these is not like the others... Java (JVM) is extremely fast.
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by jjav 6mo ago
I'm not suggesting honesty should be behind a paywayll. Honesty should be upfront and it already is, in the license. The license (most, anyway) clearly state the software is not necessarily suitable for any purpose and that's all
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by jjav 6mo ago
It is interesting how every time this topic comes up it ends up with people for the most part in one of two camps: either the license is meant to be taken literally, or those who believe otherwise. Of all the files in a repo, the LICENSE fi
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by jjav 6mo ago
> I said their READMEs should accurately represent the state of the project. The state of expectations is usually in the LICENSE file, not in the README. But it's there in the repository, in most cases. I do agree that some maintain
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by jjav 6mo ago
> If we just had school teachers, or whoever else you idealize, we’d all be living in mud huts. Let's just look at countries which have high income and very low income unequality, like Finland. Turns out they don't live in mud
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by jjav 6mo ago
> The problem is that there's no overt way to tell whether the "car" (code) you're looking at is someone's experimental go-kart made by lashing a motor to a few boards, or a well tested and security analyzed comm
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by jjav 6mo ago
> That means being honest about when a pet project is just a pet project rather than talking about every POC as if it’s production ready. And who isn't honest about it? Read the contract you have with the provider. There is a way to
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by jjav 6mo ago
The end game is like the Asimov world which had only a few people and everyone else was robot servants. The trillionaires will survive, everyone else will be exterminated. This is the world that Musk and his kind dream about.
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by jjav 6mo ago
> Hopefully, this will finally lead to a shift in thinking so that security practices like those used in GrapheneOS become more widespread in the future. Most software developers simply patch security vulnerabilities as soon as they beco
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by jjav 6mo ago
> "This is unconstitional because Trump doesn't like it" is not a very strong argument. So far, it appears to be a very convincing argument to the supreme court most of the time.
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by jjav 7mo ago
> At the same time, we're still seeing 55+ leave the labor force rapidly It's about not being able to find any employment due to age discrimination, not really "retirement", which is an euphemism.
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by jjav 7mo ago
> Staffed desks would just tell you they need to open a ticket. That's not how it works at banks nor phone vendors. (Although, even being able to open a ticket would be 100% better than the black hole of nothingness that is google s
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by jjav 7mo ago
While acknowledging the frustration of someone who can't (always support cash, the ultimate zero-lock-in solution!), it is disingenious to call them comparable. Bank accounts and credit cards can be had for free, and if you can't
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by jjav 7mo ago
None of this is comparable lock-in. You could buy checks from hundreds of different vendors and none had any lock-in on you. You could use a different vendor each time if you wanted. By certain type of card I assume credit cards, which can

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