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by krupan 3mo ago
I agree with you 100% that cars are super dangerous, but that's a whole 'nother discussion
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by krupan 3mo ago
C'mon, you aren't going far enough. Catching someone after the crime was committed is not preventing the crime. You need AI to watch the cameras non stop and alert you before someone commits a crime ;-)
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by krupan 3mo ago
The structure that prevents abuse is, don't do mass surveillance
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by krupan 3mo ago
How? Whatever the system is now is clearly not preserving privacy
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by krupan 3mo ago
You make it sound so easy. Have you ever worked in QA?
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by krupan 3mo ago
You just reminded of the term Nuclear Winter. Is that still a thing?
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by krupan 3mo ago
How does the global temperature relate to El Nino temperature? Do we know without having El Nino data?
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by krupan 3mo ago
We don't, sadly
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by krupan 3mo ago
And we should have started at least 30 years ago. But better late than never?
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by krupan 3mo ago
Everyone's a prophet now
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by krupan 3mo ago
I see it. I'm with you. It does feel lonely though, doesn't it?
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by krupan 3mo ago
There's a difference between criticizing and saying, "I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to say."
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by krupan 3mo ago
This argument is so old and tired. It started long before LLMs. People thought senior engineers could write a detailed spec and then the actual coding could be outsourced to just any bunch of cheap programmers. It never worked. A detail
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by krupan 3mo ago
The end is where you said people should still learn to program, I wouldn't know that you said that without reading to the end.
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by krupan 3mo ago
I think the gist of what the author is saying is, AI is not good enough to just give one vague prompt to and let it go, but it's good enough for you to give it a "design" and then not worry about the actual code it writes. B
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by krupan 3mo ago
I didn't want to say that out loud, but you are right and it's unfortunately hard to understand some of what he's trying to say
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by krupan 3mo ago
If you have not seen Hunt for the Wilderpeople (staring Sam Neil) find it and watch it today!
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by krupan 3mo ago
No, because nobody has been coding the same way since 1999. But that has nothing to do with LLMs
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by krupan 3mo ago
I love how many people are tech prophets now
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by krupan 3mo ago
It's a big precisely because so many people are blindly trusting AI company marketing. It blows my mind how many people, especially here on once-subversive hacker news, are not just swallowing the marketing but they are doing the mark
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by krupan 3mo ago
Memory safety is a source of bugs in languages without garbage collection and/or whatever rust does, however memory safety is not THE source of bugs. If it were then we'd expect code written in JavaScript or Python (memory safe l
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by krupan 3mo ago
I started my programming career by porting code from one model of TI calculator to another. It was code I could not have written from scratch myself at the time. I learned a lot about the two different versions of TI Basic that the calcul
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by krupan 3mo ago
Why would you extrapolate to that conclusion?
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by krupan 3mo ago
Yet to be determined. The rust port isn't fully released yet. That might be why they hurried and declared victory now instead of waiting until later?
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by krupan 3mo ago
Or the systemd guys, or the OpenBSD guys, or the GNU guys, or the Open Source guys, or the Oracle guy, or the Apple guy, or the Microsoft guys, or just about any leader of a big project/corporation
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by krupan 3mo ago
I've chased down plenty of esoteric bugs in my career and memory safety ones were usually the easiest. There are tools like valgrind, address sanitizer, etc. that help with those, or, like you said, there are memory safe languages (an
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by krupan 3mo ago
But it wasn't full of praise for Zig. It specifically pointed out that his project written in zig was full of memory safety bugs, and said that there was no way to get around that if the project stayed with zig. It's ludicrous!
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by krupan 3mo ago
You got it wrong. - I think someone is stinky at this one particular thing - I spoke with people who said he was stinky at this one particular thing Those are different than personal attacks
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by krupan 3mo ago
Management style and code quality outputs are not criticisms of the person, they are judgements of the person's management skills and coding skills. Are we not allowed to do that? Or do we just need to use nicer language when doing i
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by krupan 3mo ago
There are entire businesses built on sharing "through the grapevine" what management style and working conditions are like at various employers. People want to know these things! Instead of posting on Glassdoor or whatever the la

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