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by jmull 3y ago
I wouldn't pick a side in this one... it looks to me like there are two bad guys here, and I hope they both get taken down a peg.
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by jmull 3y ago
You're arguing that LLMs would be a good user interface for AGI... Whether that's true or not, I don't think that's what the previous post was referring to. The question is, if you start with today's LLMs and progre
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by jmull 3y ago
I agree, the government should not have a role in influencing the content moderation policies of social media networks except for things that are strictly illegal. It's depressing, though, because the only time people seem interested i
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by jmull 3y ago
> That's why it's for the best if you avoid ads as much as possible. I wouldn't exactly just avoid them, though most are useless, so it's not a bad idea. You just want to understand what they are... even honest ones w
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by jmull 3y ago
The analogy implies sports gambling is just to get you started, but it’s as bad as anything. Actually, sport can largely stand on it own as entertainment, so sports gambling is possibly more addictive than other forms. The more you gamble t
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by jmull 3y ago
After reading the "Why JSR?" article I still don't understand why this exists. It looks like it has a few niceties but also some limitations. To catch on you need to convince some significant segment of both package publisher
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by jmull 3y ago
I can't tell how this is related to what I wrote... maybe a reply intended for the parent comment?
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by jmull 3y ago
To people downvoting this comment... to be fair, this might be a response to some of the breathless hype surrounding LLMs these days. There are people making wild claims about the capabilities of AI right now, and it's maybe worth po
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by jmull 3y ago
> The car project’s demise was a testament to the way Apple has struggled to develop new products in the years since Steve Jobs’s death in 2011. One failed product is a testament? I never really understood the Apple car, but I guess you&
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by jmull 3y ago
From the linked AP article: “Wingenroth, who openly advertised his business in area publications, was told by state game wardens last year that such an activity was illegal, authorities said. Wingeroth, though, told them his lawyer “has a d
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by jmull 3y ago
I didn't mean to say there are no reasons to have separate repos, just more responding to the post above mine. But I will note that almost all the benefits listed aren't specific to micro services. (Also, to me, it's flawed t
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by jmull 3y ago
> In a shared monolith however 0 people own it because everyone owns it and the repo becomes a disaster faster than you can say "we need enterprise caching". * I give two teams one repo each and tell each one: "This is you
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by jmull 3y ago
(1) Why assume Apple's browser is more secure than the likely alternatives, Chrome and Firefox? (2) Those high-ranking politicians almost certainly already make heavy use platforms that allow "side-loading" and alternative br
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by jmull 3y ago
I really don't think you read and understood my post. I thought I made it clear, but I'll try again: There are two cases. One, where a book can be written in a self-contained manner, without urls to external resources. As you can
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by jmull 3y ago
Fine with me. (op would still object, though, because their issue is "The URLs always break. The libraries never load properly. A book should never depend on a URL")
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by jmull 3y ago
Bugs emerge. Tools change. How do you update code printed in a book? If a book can be written in such that it does not need to change, then by all means, carefully proof and test all the code and hard code it into the book. But that'
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by jmull 3y ago
> What you want is for smaller companies to make up a larger proportion of the economy. Well… we could upend the foundations of capitalism to make it more likely corporations would be responsible for the well-being of society and there
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My perspective is of someone in the educational software business at the time. The idea of replacing teachers wasn’t really a thing there. We saw teachers as the co-primary users of the software. The other users were the kids, of course. So
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by jmull 3y ago
My clever idea to explain this is: It's a factory test script is getting triggered on the watch somehow. It would normally be run near the end of the manufacturing process to ensure everything is working as expected. It automatically r
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by jmull 3y ago
From experience, you really can't just take user reports at face value. There's almost always something there, but it may or may not be what the user thinks it is. So it's a good idea to apply Occam's razor. Digitizer&#x
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by jmull 3y ago
A pretty great mix of sharply prescient and horribly wrong. Maybe a few straw men mixed in too, because I don't think there were many serious claims that computers would replace teachers. Computers and software were seen as supplementa
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by jmull 3y ago
I think a lot of people understand the legal justification, but the question is whether it's right. Blackstone and other legal ancient history is hardly relevant though, since modern corporations bear little resemblance to companies of
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by jmull 3y ago
It probably is these days. A while ago we passed into a dystopia where the constitution protects corporations from the imposition of the interests of the citizens.
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> They basically decided the company was near worthless valuation pre-money. That may well have been true. If the company was out of reserves/revenue/sales/contracts and about to end without new investment, then it may hav
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by jmull 3y ago
I usually find myself rolling my eyes when HN collectively complains about Apple, because the perspective is so dev-centric, completely ignoring the concerns of the actual users. But this is a kick to @#&!s of users (and devs). Even you
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by jmull 3y ago
I can't think of a nice way to express what I think of vim, but I think your general point is apt. Some pretty full-featured editors already exist that people are happy with or, perhaps, have at least gotten used to. Where does a new e
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Well that just sucks.
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It’s just a beta, though, right now… We don’t know if this is getting released or not yet.
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I think the revolution happened and here we are. I guess when this was written (3+ years ago) a lot of people were still high on the marketing hype so the reality seemed flat. But I think we got some nice options. (Which, of course, aren&#x
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by jmull 3y ago
Some code completion bots are helpful to me but since you put this: "...and not just complete your words", I don't think I've seen anything. Well, except customer service bots (assuming the goal is to inexpensively absor

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