joquarky

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   by joquarky 9mo ago

   > In my lived professional experience, that's not the case. In mine it is the case. Anecdata. But for me, this was over two decades in an underpaid job at an S&P500 writing government software, so maybe you had better peers.
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   by joquarky 9mo ago

   If most of your work involves working with a monitor and keyboard, you're in one of the the domains. Even if it doesn't, you will be indirectly affected. People will flock to trades if knowledge work is no longer a source of viabl
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   by joquarky 9mo ago

   Odd to see someone so adamantly insist that we have souls on a forum like HN.
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   by joquarky 9mo ago

   Anyone who figures out a reliable solution would probably never have to work again.
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   by joquarky 9mo ago

   I have worked over two decades creating government software, and I can say that this is not new. Security (and accessibility) are reluctant minimum effort check boxes at best. However, my experience is focused on court management software,
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   by joquarky 9mo ago

   Why can't we just write a nice IRC client?
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   by joquarky 9mo ago

   In practice, Doubleclick acquired Google, so they now cover both sides of the adversity.
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   by joquarky 9mo ago

   > the standards will just go up. This industry is in a deep quality slump. If it takes an existential threat to improve that, then it's all good news
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   by joquarky 9mo ago

   You mean like FTP and cron?
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    It's a whole lot easier if the app is intended to have only one user.
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    They just added task management in CC, which is a start in that direction.
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    > Copy paste the text into any AI detector online The use of the word "any" here only emphasizes that this advice is not very valuable.
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    > it's the people's house You dropped an adjective: wealthy
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    It's easy to say we should all start paying for things. Most people don't have much of a disposable income.
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    You must have a complexion on the lighter side if you think calling the police is the best solution to something like this.
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    The web is no better than phone apps when it comes to data gathering. Maybe the data is a little fuzzier, but you can be assured it's being gathered all the same as it is in phone apps.
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    The guy who is obsessed with using Lord of the Rings to name his companies certainly does want that.
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    How do we accomplish such abstract goals when 54% of U.S. adults aged 16–74 read below a sixth-grade level?
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    Brought to you by Carl's Jr
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    For a time, there was a lot of good deals on nice used office furniture.
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    That's why you write tests.
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    I can't help but feel the only reason to post a comment like this is due to something similar to Cunningham's Law. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    And what hardware they needed to run the model, because that's the real pinch in local inference.
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    I used to be skeptical that AI generated text could be reliably detected, but after a couple years of reading it, there are cracks starting to form in that skepticism.
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    Gen AI only produces hallucinations (confabulations). The utility is that the infrenced output tends to be right much more often than wrong for mainstream knowledge.
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    I would assume that most who were journalists 10 years ago have now either gone independent or changed careers The ones that remain are probably at some extreme on one or more attributes (e.g. overworked, underpaid) and are leaning on genAI
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    I'm unemployed and on a tight budget, and I still give a recurring donation to archive.org It's that important.
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    Are you describing the ideal that they should be doing, or are you describing what you have observed actually happens in practice?
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    I discovered that the inferences drop in quality when I'm tired. I realized it happens because I'm being more terse and using less friendly banter.
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    by joquarky 9mo ago

    Basic nutrition will be provided on the cafeteria floor of your assigned terrafoam building.