jlarocco

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by jlarocco 1y ago
You mean incompetent users of AI will get people killed. You don't get a free pass because you used a tool that sucked.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I'm not anti-government, but a technical solution that elliminates the the problem is infinitely better than regulating around it. The internet is too big and distributed to regulate. Nobody will agree on what the rules should be, and
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I don't buy this line of pro-AI reasoning. It sounds like more work with less reliable results than just writing the code myself. First of all, nobody is writing and open sourcing their own XML parser in 2025, so that's hyperbo
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by jlarocco 1y ago
How are the existing PMs using AI to make themselves more efficient?
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Is there even a good reason to have TLDs at this point?
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by jlarocco 1y ago
It's a tool that dependson data mining everything. The only surprise is that they weren't already data mining what people feed into it.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
How can they know anything they train on is valuable? At the end of the day it doesn't matter. You got the wrong answer and didn't complain, so why would they care?
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I use it 5 days a week, and unless you're talking about an ancient version from the 90s, I don't understand how you can say that.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
> The only issue with linux I am wondering about is sharing my CV where most companies need a word file. Maybe it's regional, but I've never been asked for a Word file resume. I've never had somebody turn down a PDF. And
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by jlarocco 1y ago
> systemd replaces Unix This is the over the top hyperbole the OP was talking about. Even if systemd did "replace Unix", I don't know why anybody should care. As a long time Linux user it's clear that Systemd took ov
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by jlarocco 1y ago
It's definitely worth thinking about the real problem, but I wouldn't say it's never helpful. The underlying issue is unit conversion. "length" is a poor name because it's ambiguous. Replacing "length&quo
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by jlarocco 1y ago
That's basically what a string data type is for.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
VSCode is open source, too, but it's been pretty easy for them to keep forks from taking off by having proprietary extensions, a "markeplace", and other lock-in. All they have to do is only permit official builds to talk to o
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by jlarocco 1y ago
It doesn't work like that, though. Companies don't get to do whatever they want just because they didn't put any safegaurds in place to prevent illegally using the data they collected. The correct answer is to look at the dat
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by jlarocco 1y ago
That's only the first part of the story, though. Facebook isn't guilty because Flo sent medical data through their SDK. If they were just storing it or operating on it for Flo, then the case probably would have ended differently.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose, though? If you have to train the AIs on every specialized new problem, and then you have to babysit them as you apply them to similar problems, why even bother? It's not really intelligent in
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by jlarocco 1y ago
> Any piece of valuable software will get a free version after some amount of time. There are still plenty of areas where this isn't true. Or where the free versions are so far behind it may as well be true. I work on CAD software
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by jlarocco 1y ago
The benefits out weight the costs, or at least the people in charge perceive it that way.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
The AOL chat rooms were different than AIM. From the chat room you could open instant messages to specific people, and that one-on-one chat eventually became AIM. For one-on-one messaging, the 3rd party clients were often better, but I don&
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Neither of them respect their users, and their major products are all black boxes that you're not allowed to change, inspect, understand, etc. They're both the polar opposite of "tech friendly".
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by jlarocco 1y ago
As much crap as AOL used to get, there's not much difference between their chat in 1996 and Teams and Slack now. And it managed to do it with 8 Mb of RAM over a 14.4k modem. Of course it didn't have video, but the group chat its
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by jlarocco 1y ago
> And one of the best parts is, I've never had a Debian system break without it being my fault in some way. Every case I've had of Debian being outright unbootable or having other serious problems, it's been due to me tryi
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Air Canada already tried to claim their AI chatbot wasn't their responsibility. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb... They lost, but it's amazing that they even tried.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
That's for the AI to figure out. It's intelligent, right?
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I guess there are two cases. If I'm asking for my own enlightenment but don't care about a correct answer, then why bother? If my manager is fine with a half-assed response, then eventually he'll cut me out altogether and go
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I meant "we" in the collective sense. No single person or group is directly responsible, but overall humanity hasn't done a very good job building the internet, in retrospect. It's almost a no-op for humanity. In the p
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by jlarocco 1y ago
At work we use C#, .Net, and WPF. I've only used it at this company, and I can't say for sure if my dislikes are with WPF, or how our codebase is using it. Overall it's not terrible, except for being proprietary and Windows
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by jlarocco 1y ago
> recently it gave obviously wrong answers very rarely Are you concerned it may be giving you subtley wrong answers that you're not noticing? If you have to double check everything, is it really saving time?
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by jlarocco 1y ago
It's sad that we've made the internet so disorganized and crammed with advertising and crap that we now need tools to find actual information and summarize it for us.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
That's a strange conclusion to draw. There's plenty of open land where people could live without needlessly complicated automated electric drone taxis.

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