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by kypro 8mo ago
My favourite code to write used to be small clean methods perhaps containing ~20 lines of logic. And I agree, it's fun coming up with ways to test that logic and seeing it pass those tests. I'm not sure I'll ever write this k
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by kypro 8mo ago
The uncomfortable truth to most "the algorithm is biased" takes is that we humans are far more politically biased than the algorithms and we're probably 90% to blame. I'm not saying there is no algorithmic bias, and I te
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by kypro 8mo ago
I really wish these points were made in a non-political / platform-specific way because if you care about this issue it's ultimately unhelpful to frame it as if this is an issue with just X or conservatives given how politically d
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by kypro 8mo ago
Depends how you define their "core business" I suppose. You're right, but their retail business does support the bulk of their ad business which is extremely profitable. Arguably it might actually make sense for them to run t
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by kypro 8mo ago
> ai tools let you be vastly more productive as a single dev Or to reframe, AI tools allow everyone to have some base-level software engineering competency and makes everyone you're competing against vastly more productive. Generall
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by kypro 8mo ago
Imo, the base models are still kinda meh, but the tooling built around the models has matured significantly to the point that they're now decent enough for the average coder can no longer deny their utility. By early summer 2025 models
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by kypro 8mo ago
> I started programming when I was seven because a machine did exactly what I told it to, felt like something I could explore and ultimately know, and that felt like magic I'm significantly younger than OP, but this was it for me to
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by kypro 8mo ago
There is a trade-off here for sure... I don't agree so much that the goal is to limit power though, but to ensure any power given to leaders is conditional. I think ideally you want a CEO type leader of a country who has a lot of execu
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by kypro 8mo ago
Fair point. Just trying to analysis my thoughts a bit more here... ... Before when writing music I could come up with something in my head and make that thing real with significant effort. Now anyone can do that, including myself using AI i
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by kypro 8mo ago
FPTP will just guarantee that nothing meaningful can be done. Too much compromise in decision making is bad. Personally I think ideal set up is a system which grants quite a of power to a small handful of people, but makes it very easy for
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by kypro 8mo ago
I agree. It's shockingly good. It's not just good at producing complete songs though, AI has made it trivial to take garbage and make it sound good. I largely stopped making music because imo unless you're in the top 5% of mu
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by kypro 8mo ago
There's more Tesla's on the road than Waymo's by several orders of magnitude. Additionally the types of roads and conditions Tesla's drive under is completely incomparable to Waymo.
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by kypro 8mo ago
I wasn't arguing Tesla is ahead of Waymo? Nor do I think they are. All I was arguing was that it makes sense from the perspective of a consumer automobile maker to not use lidar. I don't think Tesla is that far behind Waymo though
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by kypro 8mo ago
From the perspective of viewing FSD as an engineering problem that needs solving I tend to think Elon is on to something with the camera-only approach – although I would agree the current hardware has problems with weather, etc. The issue w
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by kypro 8mo ago
No idea, but it's something I've been thinking about ever since my parents dug out an old school journal from when I was younger and they were laughing about the stuff I wrote in there... The first 50 pages or so were full of laug
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by kypro 8mo ago
Just to clarify – are we agreeing both are unreasonable, or is your point that both are reasonable and EU fines even more so? If you're arguing that DOJ fines on European banks are more unreasonable than EU fines on US tech companies t
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by kypro 8mo ago
Even then it makes little sense... 3d printers are just tools. They can be used to print dangerous items, or parts of dangerous items in the same way a saw or hammer could be used to make something dangerous. To some degree this is just a p
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by kypro 8mo ago
Maybe this is just me, but I don't miss thinking so much. I personally quite like knowing how to do things and being able to work productively. For me it's always been the effort that's fun, and I increasingly miss that. Toda
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by kypro 8mo ago
Do you genuinely not think that "Elon" (xAI) is player in the AI space? You don't have to think they have the best models of course, but they are clearly a very significant, and some might argue, leading player in the AI race
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by kypro 9mo ago
I don't strongly disagree, but also don't really see why they would keep manufacturing X and S if the design is old and the car needs a refresh to be competitive? I guess the argument is that it would have been worthwhile refreshi
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by kypro 9mo ago
Personally I think all these posts miss 50% of the issue... I agree it's not AI, but I suspect it's only partially an interest rate story. Tech changed a lot from 2010 to 2020. Prior to 2010 almost everything built required a huge
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by kypro 9mo ago
I agree, but writing code is so different to calculations that long-term benefits are less clear. It doesn't matter how good you are at calculations the answer to 2 + 2 is always 4. There are no methods of solving 2 + 2 which could res
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by kypro 9mo ago
Really depends on your engineering processes, but this is why you want to enforce good processes. - Every change beyond the most insignificant package bump should be ticketed, and specifically tickets should document the business why. - Eve
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by kypro 9mo ago
I agree with you, but also think this is only true because we as an industry have been so completely corrupted by money at this point. In the 90s and 00s people overwhelmingly built stuff in tech because they cared about what they were buil
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by kypro 9mo ago
I think this is a fair position and believe you're making it in good faith, but I can't help but disagree. I think the reasonable default here would be to not upload to MS severs without explicit consent about what that means in p
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by kypro 9mo ago
Christ. Nice work man. I clicked the link and assumed that you must have been using some JS OS UI library because of how nice it was. This is impressive!
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by kypro 9mo ago
But surely it's not an apple to apples comparison? Wind farms can only generate electricity when it's windy. While you might be able to get cheaper energy from wind when it's windy, but unlike other technologies such as gas o
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by kypro 9mo ago
I often wonder what Aaron would think of the internet today. For those here who are younger there was a very a different culture online in the mid-00s. It was very optimistic about how access to data and global communication could create a
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by kypro 9mo ago
> In this political climate, Cloudflare siding with the current administration's general line of "we're Americans, our economy is strong so we're above international law" sends a message I don't think they f
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by kypro 9mo ago
Oh nice! I might use this. I'm using Free Cad's Gear Workbench plugin at the moment. It's okay, but Free Cad kinda sucks. You thinking about adding other gear types like bevel gears and gear racks?

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