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by jmull 8mo ago
> The central promise—that distributed digital fabrication would bring manufacturing back to America, that every city would have micro-factories, that 3D printing would decentralize production—simply didn’t materialize. I never heard tha
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by jmull 8mo ago
I’m not the previous poster, but I don’t see any cogent points in the article to engage with in any depth.
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by jmull 8mo ago
Seems rather unlikely to me that people who ignore the constitution for the sake of political advantage would start following the constitution if it were worded differently.
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by jmull 8mo ago
> author/publisher reputation is a far better signal than looking for AI tells Hardly seems mutually exclusive. Surely you should generally consider the reputation of someone who posts LLM-responses (without disclosing it) to be pre
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by jmull 8mo ago
It's simpler than ideology about government vs. private enterprise. These are purely transactional people, looking out for what can benefit themselves. It's just about grabbing things for personal gain.
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by jmull 8mo ago
There’s no “if” to it. LLM-driven features will be monetized. Investors/shareholders will insist.
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by jmull 8mo ago
Systems tend to change over time (and distributed nodes of a system don’t cut over all at once). So what was valid when you serialized it may not be valid when you deserialize it later.
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by jmull 8mo ago
Regarding the shift away from time spent on agriculture over the last century or so.. > That was a net benefit to the world, that we all don't have to work to eat. I’m pretty sure most all of us are still working to have food to eat
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by jmull 8mo ago
Exactly. How much is coding actually the bottleneck to successful software development? It varies from project to project. Probably in a green field it starts out pretty high but drops quite a bit for mature projects. (BTW, "mature&quo
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by jmull 8mo ago
> The process of writing code helps internalize the context and is easier for my brain to think deeply about it. True, and you really do need to internalize the context to be a good software developer. However, just because coding is how
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by jmull 8mo ago
It doesn't look like you addressed issues raised in the article. E.g., see the "my experiences interviewing candidates" section where we can see this isn't just a problem of the author's (just one example in one sec
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by jmull 8mo ago
> Since [a few months ago], things have dramatically changed... It's not like we haven't heard that one before. Things have changed, but it's been a steady march. The sudden magic shift, at a different point for everyone,
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by jmull 9mo ago
I would think before. This would be one of the vaguely referenced previous places they had found to exploit (in Shroud). I think FenJuan appeared in Shroud as well, with a vague backstory that nevertheless seems consistent with this story.
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by jmull 9mo ago
The "blame is on the boomers" idea is rather poorly supported by facts or even rational ideas.
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by jmull 10mo ago
I don't know why people are downvoting your comment, but it could be considered a low-effort post: here's (a link to) something I prompted AI with, here's (a link to) what it produced (the whole repo). I would guess people do
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by jmull 10mo ago
I encourage people to think a few moments about what to log and at what level. You’re kind of telling a story to future potential trouble-shooters. When you don’t think about it at all (it doesn’t take much), you tend to log too much and to
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by jmull 10mo ago
Rust doesn't prevent programs from having logic errors. If LLMs produce code riddled with bugs in one language it will do in other languages as well. Rust isn't going to save you.
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by jmull 10mo ago
With a lot of competition you might have 20 great shows spread across 10 streamers. People will complain because they’d have to subscribe to 10 streamers to get everything. Consolidation reduces the number of streamers, but reduces the comp
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by jmull 10mo ago
> but quite weak evidence for the vaccine being efficacious That’s directly contradicted by the results of the study. E.g., “Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 (weighted hazard ratio [wHR], 0.26 [95
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by jmull 10mo ago
It's almost like the hype of AI is massively ahead of the reality, and the people being directly squeezed by that dynamic don't like how it feels.
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by jmull 10mo ago
What does any of this have to do with political correctness? Not being a dick is quite a different thing than political correctness. Makes me wonder how much to the mass strife and confusion of the internet is simply down to people not know
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by jmull 11mo ago
I think the author is trying to apply a preconceived cause on to the cloudflare outage, but there’s not a fit. E.g., they should try to work through how their own suggested fix would actually ensure the problem couldn’t happen. I don’t beli
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by jmull 11mo ago
I don't see the particularly useful/meaningful part here. Who knows what you're referring to, but generally IQ tests measure general mental abilities on things society generally finds good. That's fine, but general educa
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by jmull 11mo ago
IQ has an enduring mystique, but before getting to excited by it, people should ask themselves a question: Does "IQ" measure something particularly useful or meaningful? (I think, at best, it's a very incomplete measure of so
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by jmull 11mo ago
The advice here is contradictory. It suggests you should build and own things your business depends on, wherever possible, but also that you should buy things that aren't a core value of your core business. There would very typically b
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by jmull 11mo ago
Glad this popped up here. I've been low-grade tinkering with some USB things and this kind of info is really helpful for getting my bearings.
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by jmull 11mo ago
The US government can exert control over aspects of employee communications related to their job function. The US government cannot require employees to express political views unrelated to their job function. The US constitution places
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by jmull 1y ago
How is it harder to learn “want normal button” => <button type=“button”…> than “want normal button” => <div role=“button” tabindex=“0”…>, plus the javascript for keyboard access (plus css for at least the cursor), etc.?
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by jmull 1y ago
> Over the past three months... [we] have been building something really cool The claim is a fast-moving, high performing team has become a 10x fast moving, high-performing team. That's equivalent to 2-1/2 years of development
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by jmull 1y ago
According to their financial statement, the Zig Foundation pays contributors $60/hr, and spent $154K on their single employee (Andrew Kelley) in 2024. So that's around 3-4+ years of development. (Also, that $154K might include sig

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