leptons

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by leptons 2mo ago
It was aliens...
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by leptons 2mo ago
This isn't just about HIV, it's about finding new ways to approach viruses. HIV wasn't the first and won't be the last virus we don't have a way to stop. This research adds to our knowledge about ways to attack some
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by leptons 3mo ago
Got news for you... California now has its own laws around similar things, and the trolling lawyers are out there sending threatening letters to our clients. I manage a few thousand websites that operate across the US, and things are gettin
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by leptons 3mo ago
>The fact that 90% of Fortune 500 companies rely on COBOL[1] doesn’t make other languages a niche. Well that's some cherry picking. And really off-topic, because nobody here mentioned COBOL. If someone were shitting on COBOL here,
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by leptons 3mo ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=Has+anyone+made+a+similar+re...
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by leptons 3mo ago
jQuery is still used by approximately 7.78 million of the top 10 million websites. The people touting "modern frameworks" are in a niche and they don't even realize it.
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by leptons 3mo ago
jQuery is still used by approximately 7.78 million of the top 10 million websites. That's 77%. React has about 3 to 4% of the top 10 million.
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by leptons 3mo ago
We still pay our software developers the same amount, but now an AI is the middleman taking more and more money (in the form of tokens) every day. With every new model, more tokens are consumed so the new model can "think" more. N
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by leptons 3mo ago
>It turns out writing actually was the bottleneck. You can understand perfectly well what you want, but writing it is long and tedious to the point where you find excuses not to do it. Speak for yourself. Writing code has never been a bo
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by leptons 3mo ago
Mods are the death of reddit like I've been saying for at least 10 years. Shadow ban after shadow ban, the dopamine rush a bad mod gets from shadow banning someone must be amazing. It's way too easy for them.
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by leptons 3mo ago
VPN blocking is a thing now. It's always a game of whackamole, but the whacker is getting a lot better lately thanks to states and countries having new laws against accessing age restricted content.
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by leptons 3mo ago
Quite a lot easier than they would in space. Orders of magnitude easier.
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by leptons 3mo ago
No, not really.
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by leptons 3mo ago
The only way it makes sense is if you think the massive job losses due to AI will lead to people burning down datacenters on earth. An older spec'd and unmaintainable datacenter is worth way more than one in ashes.
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by leptons 3mo ago
Any AI service that people (and to some extent companies) can afford to pay for today is being heavily subsidized. Will that last forever? I really don't know how those economics work, but I know that bubbles do burst having lived thro
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by leptons 3mo ago
It's in the best interest for AI companies to gobble up tokens. I feel like every new release - Fable, etc - is just a way to extract more tokens/money.
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by leptons 3mo ago
>architecture design and LLM just exposes how bad people are at designing dynamic architectures Speak for yourself. A lot of people have great abilities at designing "dynamic architectures" and anything else an LLM is used for.
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by leptons 3mo ago
There are likely way more smaller boats with starlink than there are massive cruise ships with starlink.
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by leptons 3mo ago
I quit reddit because of all of this nonsense. After 15 years on reddit, my life has been much better for quitting it. Reddit is a cesspool.
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by leptons 3mo ago
>I notice another trend were a lot of AI naysayers haven't really spent a ton of time getting intimately familiar with AI. I don't think that's really true, it's more your feels than anything. I've noticed this t
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by leptons 3mo ago
Not just cruise ships, but practically every boat with a bed in it. People sailing on small boats all around the world have starlink now. It's kind of a game changer in a lot of ways for small boats.
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by leptons 3mo ago
Most people hyping their AI use mention the short-term gains without taking into account how it affects overall long-term success. We are creatures of convenience.
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by leptons 3mo ago
>Sometimes I race AI i give it a prompt /bug to fix and at the sametime im greping/symboling through the codebase and tryto fix it myself. AI isn’t always faster. +1 - this is also my experience. I also "race" the AI
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by leptons 3mo ago
Got it, so all those advances in medicine we were promised in exchange for higher electricity costs, global warming, and other pitfalls of AI were bunk?
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by leptons 3mo ago
They are trying to make it as unpleasant to drive as possible, and I don't really blame them - cars are a big factor in climate change, smog, etc. I gave up driving in the 90's because it was pretty obvious even back then.
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by leptons 3mo ago
Or like Meta spending $90 billion on "the metaverse" only to see 300,000 users at its peak. That comes out to spending $300,000 per user.
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by leptons 3mo ago
You're right, but you'd be lucky if a real human actually reviews any code. At my company, merging a PR still requires 2 humans to press "Approve" but I've been instructed that I don't need to read the PR, I on
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by leptons 4mo ago
If some people want to make their own gun, then some people will also make their own 3D printer. This joke of a law isn't going to stop any 3D printed handguns from getting made, it will only add one more relatively easy step. Then wha
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by leptons 4mo ago
I heard about vitamin D during covid, and that and hand sanitizer are the only 2 things we still do. I haven't been sick for a few years. Before covid (and vitamin D supplements), it was at least 25 days sick every year, if not more.
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by leptons 4mo ago
Apple is also on the W3C committee that approves new specs, where they abuse that power to prevent any spec that might cut into their app business from moving forward.

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