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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
The Gervais Principle is much more accurate in my experience. One of the important reasons middle management has to be "clueless" to drink the kool-aid and take on more responsibility for minimal extra compensation. The checked ou
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
The answer is "it depends". If someone printed out the documentation and bound it together to sell without permission? Yes. The mere act of converting from one medium to another usually isn't transformative. The test for writ
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
"a superhuman AI that can brainwash people over text" is the dumbest thing I've read this year. It's incredible to me that this guy has some kind of cult following among people who should know better. The real answer is
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
I have a 2018 Forester and it holds a surprising amount of furniture or 8' lumber. My only regret is that it won't fit 4x8 sheet materials well - if only they had designed the interior plastic cladding a little better it would be
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
The difference is that in a large organization the people documenting the procedure, the people doing the procurement, the people receiving the order and the people packing the drums are all different people. Potentially in different buildi
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
It really depends on the movies you're watching and how you watch them. I've watched "It Follows" like 4 times in the past year to show it to different people. I would watch The Shining every year at Halloween, and It&#x
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
Is anyone actually doing that level of fine-tuning? My understanding of LLMs is that they shovel in all the code they can find regardless of quality and let the Lord sort it out.
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
To be clear this is me making the most generous case for LLMs, which is that some people really do just want a shitty app to check a box. In my experience fixing LLM-produced software is worse than just writing it from scratch. I think LLM
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
People don't just ask AI to produce a Tailwind app, they also ask AI specific questions that are answered in the docs. When the AI regurgitates the answers from the docs they don't visit the actual docs. Like the Google answer box
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
I can understand recurring subscriptions and ads in MCP being a bright line that the team doesn't want to cross. You will probably say it's a bad business model to not make everything a recurring charge and packed full of ads. I&#
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> He also explicitly gave up his leadership position and then later wanted a say in management's direction. Ultimately, he sounds like a caring, nice guy, who was more interested in "having everyone heard" than learning so
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
The AI issue was that their docs advertise their paid offerings. When AI plagiarizes the docs it doesn't include the ads.
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
AI coding has massive factors that should make it the easiest to drive adoption and monetize. The biggest is FOMO. So many orgs have a principle-agent problem where execs are buying AI for their whole org, regardless of value. This is eas
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
Most people's problems aren't the cutting edge of computer science. They're "what does this log mean" or "how do I do X in Y framework". These are answers LLMs are great at regurgitating based on a big cor
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
Like so many things in American life these days, we've arrived at a "better solution" that extracts value from the past without producing a future. The decades of Stack Overflow answers fed into LLM training produce plausible
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
Whenever I hear people talk about rocket flights I think of the Stephen King short story "The Jaunt". Humans develop near-instant transportation but you have to be unconscious while travelling. A kid avoids being sedated and is dr
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
Subscriptions have a "boiling frog" phenomenon where a marginal price increase isn't noticable to most people. Our payment rails are so effective many people don't even read their credit card statements, they just have v
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
> Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services? Always have been. Ever since the SaaS revolution of the early 2000s high-growth software businesses have been
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
Mexico, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Hawaii, Guam, Cuba, Panama, and the Philippines? In the last 100 years the trend has been been for America to invade a country and try to install a friendly government rather than formally annex them - Vietnam, K
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At the time we didn't know prion disease could be transferred between species. There's no evidence that scrapie (sheep prion disease) or CWD (deer and moose prion disease) can be transmitted to other species. BSE is seemingly a un
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
Cuts aren't "natural" but they're part of the language of filmmaking, and most peoples experience of them is consistent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_effect#:~:text=The%20...
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by jrjeksjd8d 9mo ago
One anecdote, but I have a brick and mortar business and Adwords leads have fallen off a cliff year over year. Since AI stuff started getting pushed harder we've gotten fewer impressions and fewer conversions. Some of it is economic he
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by jrjeksjd8d 10mo ago
Thankfully the EU at least has regulations requiring compensation. On my last business trip to Europe I got 650 euros for an overnight delay. The last time I got delayed in the US I got a hearty "fuck off" from the gate agent.
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by jrjeksjd8d 10mo ago
As a North American it's fun to read a story about trains "being bad". The light rail in my city routinely just breaks in the winter. Everybody is afraid to use it and drives instead. A 20-60 minute delay would be unexception
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Their country is cash strapped and needs to be independent because of US sanctions. The CIA overthrew the democratically elected government in the 50s which led to the Islamic Republic.
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TFA seems to claim that the benefits of "nice buildings" outweigh the externalities of desolate, character-less street levels in cities. It doesn't seem very on brand for Strong Towns. This phenomenon is going on in the downt
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by jrjeksjd8d 10mo ago
To be more charitable to TFA, machine translation is a field where there aren't great alternatives and the downside is pretty limited. If something is in another language you don't read it at all. You can translate a bunch of docu
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by jrjeksjd8d 10mo ago
Super Mario 64 was an N64 launch title. Resident Evil 4 was a late Gamecube title. In my mind that's probably the biggest gap in graphical fidelity between generations of console. But I can see how going from NES games like Super Mario
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Americans simply need to release chickens into the urban environment the way they released domesticated pigeons. Soon any swift child will be able to catch a feral chicken and break it's neck on the way home from school, providing prot
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by jrjeksjd8d 10mo ago
The funniest part of this site is talking about how important design is, and then having one bad quality video of a US flag and a bunch of giant text fading into view while scrolling. It's giving "graphic design is my passion&quot

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