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by krupan 9mo ago
It does lead to poor non-constructive discourse. That's why we keep calling those CEOs to task on it. Why are you not?
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by krupan 9mo ago
Thank you. That was a long article that started with a claim that was backed up by no proof, dismissing it as not the most interesting thing they were talking about when in fact it's the baseline of the whole discussion.
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by krupan 9mo ago
But this time it will be different! This will be a huge change! They always say and are saying again
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by krupan 9mo ago
When we say generating code is only a small percentage, that does not imply that the rest is just talking. Simon, you were part of a relatively small fast moving project in Django and the news website it powered, with from I understand a p
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by krupan 9mo ago
Not extreme? Have you seen his interviews? I guess his wording and delivery are not extreme, but if you really listen to what he's saying, it's kinda nuts.
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by krupan 9mo ago
I've been thinking along these lines. LLMs seem to have arrived right when we were all getting addicted to reels/tic tocks/whatever. For some reason we love to swipe, swipe, swipe, until we get something funny/interest
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by krupan 9mo ago
There are plenty of technologies that have not become cheaper, or at least not cheap enough, to go big and change the world. You probably haven't heard of them because obviously they didn't succeed.
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by krupan 9mo ago
FWIW, kagi is better than Google
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by krupan 9mo ago
"for our benefit" lol! This is the best description of how we are all interacting with LLMs now. It's not working? Fire up more "agents" ala gas town or whatever
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by krupan 9mo ago
"What Flynn makes clear is that while we tend to think of human activity on the landscape as not only damaging but irreversible, this may not always be the case."
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by krupan 9mo ago
Any sort of evidence! I see none! It's not really a new thing to have no evidence of productivity gains when it comes to software development tools. Some feel like vim is a huge productivity boost and some don't. Some believe
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by krupan 9mo ago
The fact that he's an extremely talented developer actually supports my overall understanding that AI producing code is way over hyped. Sure, a master of his field can get a boost out of it, after spending (unaccounted for) time learn
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by krupan 9mo ago
You are waaaaay over exaggerating the non-deterministic nature of compiled code if you think it's anywhere near the ballpark of how unpredictable LLMs are.
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by krupan 9mo ago
This is a tough argument to engage with. Define "frivolous" when it comes to money printing. Define beneficial, and define beneficial to whom. Talk about who decides how much money to print. And you said it's beneficial t
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by krupan 9mo ago
Huh? Sorry, I don't understand any of what you are saying now.
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by krupan 9mo ago
50% of a transaction verified is a whole lot better than 0%
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by krupan 9mo ago
What does "backed" mean to you here?
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by krupan 9mo ago
Several countries do now have a stake in Bitcoin. See: https://bitbo.io/treasuries/countries/
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by krupan 9mo ago
"just hoard resources" really has nothing to do with a world currency to replace the dollar, which is what we are talking about here. In a crisis you can't eat dollars, gold, oil, or bitcoin, so yeah, you kinda have a point,
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by krupan 9mo ago
Lots of countries outlaw other country's currencies. This is nothing unique to Bitcoin when we are talking about a world currency to replace dollars.
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by krupan 9mo ago
OK, how do I know that gold is pure and real? What if you live on the other side of the world and I want to buy that gold from you? And there isn't any "hope" involved in bitcoin transactions. Connecting to the peer to peer
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by krupan 9mo ago
Bitcoin has been running since 2009 with plenty of incentive for hackers to find flaws in it and they haven't found any. It uses standard cryptography that is used by all our computer systems. If a flaw exists it's not just bitc
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by krupan 9mo ago
It's a peer to peer system that has had 100% uptime since around 2009. I think maybe you have cognitive dissonance?
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by krupan 9mo ago
So just to be clear, you have to boot up the physical machine with a kernel command-line argument to reserve some RAM for this to work? And the amount of RAM you reserve is for BAR memory? If you wanted multiple PCIem devices (can you do
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by krupan 9mo ago
This is the most important comment here. The US rebuilt nations' economies after World War II by printing dollars and buying goods from those countries. In return, the dollar became the world reserve currency and did not suffer massi
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by krupan 9mo ago
People downvote this but Bitcoin has some very nice properties: - easy to verify/impossible to forge (as opposed to gold and paper currency) - fixed supply (as opposed to paper currency, oil, and even gold) - easy to transfer from one
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by krupan 9mo ago
Or people start to realize that the expected gold isn't really there and so stop buying shovels
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by krupan 9mo ago
"I’d like to nudge you away from a discussion you’ve probably had too many times in the past 3 years. My immediate fear isn’t that I’ll be out of a job. My fear is that I’ll lose the part of my job that I love the most."
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by krupan 9mo ago
Yes, if it even becomes as useful as a good linter or LSP. It actually has very little I'm common with those, but maybe it could be as useful.
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by krupan 9mo ago
Still the same. "Hey look, I got these crappy developers (LLMs) to actually produce working code! This is a game-changer!" When the working code is a very small, limited thing.

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