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by jrumbut 6mo ago
The problem with up front spec writing was that it created this long, very high risk period where there was no code, no prototype, no hard limits. So you're arguing back and forth about exactly which fields should be collected where an
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
I had an occasion recently where I was working a lot of late nights/early mornings with AI use. And I'd be getting these instant, beautiful responses, and then, as soon as the sun started coming in the windows, it would take longe
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
To part of it, but chess is generally played one against one, there are well understood rules and a clearly defined goal, and every win is someone else's loss. When building software, if you can state an unambiguous goal and what rules
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
It really seems like a great use case for dynamic pricing. For $27.99 I can usually get MLB tickets people are dumping last minute (face value starts a few dollars higher) and can always get AAA baseball tickets for less than that. That dyn
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
Yeah, in most cases these security vulnerabilities are also regular bugs too. I'll bet at some point someone contact this company and said "hey I'm being shown the wrong course" or "I can't access the material
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
You could probably say the same about any operating system, especially if you exclude the same human user operating in multiple roles. Though in the Unix environment, additional user accounts and groups that don't actually correspond t
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
I'll be honest, that braking assist has saved me from a couple parking lot dings. That's worth something. The problem is I drive in a city with really narrow roads and it triggers the collision warning all over the place. I'v
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
It certainly was, but unfortunately FM radio has gotten pretty awful around me (which I find strange because we are in a fairly densely populated area). The only thing I listen to on the radio regularly are baseball games.
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
Maybe ours was weird then? We just didn't have much volume of that. No amount of it is pleasant but it still felt, even at the time, like training wheels on a diaper.
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
Babies are easier because they leave the faintest stain on the diaper the first week or so. Then it becomes more but not much scent, like a training period. And it's really only 4-6 months that it begins to get foul. Another advantage
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
I don't there's anything we interact with that has a texture much like the moon's surface. That would be a cool science museum exhibit: a recreation of regolith and perhaps visitors can interact with it in a glovebox or drive
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
It wasn't the first time I programmed but it was first time I encountered problem solving with code. I'm not one those (very admirable) people who build just to build, who make their own version of frogger or something. I need a p
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
They have been great for what I use them for, occasion niche discoveries, but I'm not sure they replace Spotify for the "hop in my car and my favorite mainstream hits begin playing without having to think too hard about it" u
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
As scary as it is right now, it warms your heart a little bit that this system existed for 30 years and is only now reaching a crisis point. I ran an open source project with tens of thousands of downloads (presumably all either developer m
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
I wonder at what point even a still functioning device no longer looks the same? I've been going through a lot of very old stuff recently and a lot of it is well preserved in a way but given enough years everything changes. I don'
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
I work for a non-defense government employer and my working conditions are so much better than my friends and relatives who did the same job in defense. I have never gotten searched, neither my car nor my person, at work. I don't need
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
We are also protected on both sides by an ocean. If Canada and Mexico were hostile powers then we would be investing more in artillery shells and less in fighter jets. Germany and North Korea are accessible by land to hostile powers, so the
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
We are not such a bad thing to fear. This technology interacts socially, so even if it can't jailbreak itself on a technology-level (which feels like a tough guarantee to make at this point) it can simply ask someone to do a bad thing
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
This is a great point. I'm kind of surprised there isn't a greater proliferation of open source models to do things the public ones won't. I know such things exist, but imagine how many web browsers there would be if all the
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
I find it interesting how uncommon it is for this to yield new works. It seems like it's always the same handful of texts. Ancient readers liked what they liked and weren't out for variety it seems. At the same time, Juvenal has a
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
It was a little before that even. Greek was the language of most fields of learning besides law in the Roman Empire. But the Greeks themselves wrote works on these papyrus scrolls that crumbled fast, so anything not actively used by the Rom
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
Yes, it also takes into account rising quality. For an example, in 2010 I rented a rat hole apartment for $x from a fisherman who had inherited the building. He never did maintenance (he was out to sea most of the year) and he never raised
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
I haven't seen anyone defend his conduct, but it is natural to discuss his political clout because of this line on TFA: > Today’s announcement makes clear no one is above the law What others are saying, IIUC, is that no reasonable p
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
I am getter 13 t/s on my 36GB M3 Max with almost everything closed (to debug some issues I was having).
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
They also had a wild system for growing citrus fruit in trenches in the USSR. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/04/fruit-trenches-cul... I've always wanted to try it in my own cold environment.
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
And no amount of BS detecting tells you what is true. The challenge that I see a lot of people have is they really don't have a framework to incorporate new information into. They're adrift, every new "fact" (whether tru
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by jrumbut 6mo ago
AI is certainly a dual good but I think the project is misguided at best. I put in one of the driest descriptions of the Holocaust I could find and it got a very high score for bias, calling a factual description of a massacre emotional sen
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by jrumbut 7mo ago
Yeah that ability to use old code is great as an emergency escape hatch but it's not really a viable day-to-day document editing strategy.
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by jrumbut 7mo ago
> the immense amount of pork involved (SLS is called "Senate Launch System" for good reason Most of science has always had this dual use purpose. No senator ever would have voted for any kind of space program just to send a few
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by jrumbut 7mo ago
As an aside, it would be straightforward to make vim/neovim the editor that opens when you double click a text file on the desktop. This kind of setup is at its most powerful when you live on the command line though. For instance, you

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