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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
> Using an LLM for coding is a lot like being a carver. It’s nothing like being a carver. It’s like being a director; “Once more! With feeling!”. “Perfect, brilliant, just one more take, and I want you to consider…” A sculptor shapes wit
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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
This article triggers all my “written by an LLM” spidey senses. Which is ironic considering the subject matter. “Perfect”, but artificially constructed. “Just for me”, but algorithmic slop. I agree that you can do so much more custom tailor
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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
Not an implementer of group policy, more of a consumer. There are 2 things that I find extremely problematic about them in practice. - There does not seem to be a way to determine which machines in the fleet have successfully applied. If yo
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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
> I suspect you’re overengineering to meet an overly stringent interpretation of a requirement. Which regimes, specifically, dictated that you must have synchronous replication across fault domains, and for which set of data? As an attor
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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
> It absolutely can be. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with modern cloud block storage, or RAID backed by NVRAM? Both have durability far above and beyond a single physical disk. On AWS, for example, ec2 Block Express offers 99.999% durabili
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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
It’s about avoiding single points of failure. > In the world you describe, you don’t have any durability when the network is impaired. Yes, the real world. If you want durability, a single physical machine is never enough. This is standa
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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
> And it is! The record is either in local storage or in central storage. But it isn’t! Because there are many hardware failure modes that mean that you aren’t getting your log back. For the same reason that you need acks=all in Kafka fo
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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
> Regulators have never dictated where auditable logs must live. That’s true. They specify that logs cannot be lost, available for x years, not modifiable, accessible only in y ways, cannot cross various boundaries/borders (dependin
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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
What are we defining as “audit” here? My experience is with regulatory requirements, and “durable” on local storage isn’t enough. In practice, the audit isn’t really a log, it’s something more akin to database record. The point is that you
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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
Auditing is fundamentally different because it has different durability and consistency requirements. I can buffer my logs, but I might need to transact my audit.
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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
Had to check the article because I read that as “greater than zero regrets”. <= 0 regrets
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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
I did cite the article! My response is to that specific section quoted. Did you even read it?
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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
The puzzle referenced is why more innovation is no longer rewarded by the market. That’s relatively recent.
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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
It’s nothing to do with politics, it’s just maths. And if you think I’m a leftist, you would also be wrong! Unfortunately, educating yourself on this topic is not easy and involves differential equations. The economic models that fail to pr
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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
> This is a puzzle! Why would the market fail to reward innovative firms, or, conversely, why does it continue rewarding less innovative firms? Unfortunately, here we don’t have clear answers. Puzzle no more, the answers are obvious! The
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by lll-o-lll 10mo ago
Which would be fine for internal facing, but it doesn’t sound like it would be enough in an adversarial context?
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by lll-o-lll 11mo ago
> When I look at myself, I don't believe I have character. I want to be liked too much, and in my emotional core, I'm frightened. First of all, thank you for the honesty. It shows good character! I think you are right that good
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by lll-o-lll 11mo ago
One word. Cloud. Sharepoint, onedrive, teams. Everything is integrated and collaborating is trivial. You can’t replicate that with open source.
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by lll-o-lll 11mo ago
> You are coping. This is an amusing response. I personally have chased the TC (to an extent), climbed the ladder, and sit at the top (below the c-suite). This isn’t cope, it’s a genuine reflection based on many years of experience havin
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by lll-o-lll 11mo ago
> Microsoft has a problem that they hire the middle block of talent in the market. They do not chase the top 20% most expensive nor the bottom 20% least expensive. This is such a BS attitude. A person’s ability doesn’t map directly with
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by lll-o-lll 11mo ago
Works good in Teams. Summarises meetings, collects action items. It’s pretty great actually. I don’t know how many forests we are burning to have a digital secretary, but surely the environment can take one more for the team?
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by lll-o-lll 11mo ago
> Is there any way to distinguish between these two categories? Yes, it should be obvious. At least at the current state of LLMs. > There's the long term incentive, but is there a short term one? The short term incentive is keepi
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by lll-o-lll 11mo ago
Seeing as there are people with no internal monologue (no inner voice), language is clearly not required for thought.
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by lll-o-lll 11mo ago
There are contexts where quick and dirty and (hopefully) come back later are warranted. Far more often it is just an excuse for shoddy work. You used the word “perfection” as the contrast to “technical debt”. Granted, technical debt is not
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by lll-o-lll 11mo ago
> perfecting something that, almost by definition, could have waited a while No technical debt is not the same thing as “perfection”. Good enough doesn’t mean perfect. Would it be ok to submit an essay with only 90% of the underlined spe
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by lll-o-lll 11mo ago
Sounds good! Why not?
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by lll-o-lll 11mo ago
> My only suggestion was for her to ask the teacher to sit down with her and have a 30-60 minute oral discussion on the essay so she could demonstrate she in fact knew the material. This sounds like, a good solution? It’s the exception c
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by lll-o-lll 11mo ago
I started life as an engineer. Try reverse engineering why an electrical device your company designed (industrial setting, so big power), occasionally and I mean, really really rarely, just explodes; burying its cover housing half way thr
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by lll-o-lll 11mo ago
Yep. Non-determinism. Back in the day it was memory corruption caused by some race condition. By the time things have gone pop, you’re too far from the proximate cause to have useful logs or dumps. “Happens only once every 100k runs? Won’t
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by lll-o-lll 11mo ago
Because you doubt my comments or because you are genuinely interested? I can go get them, as there have been some great investigative journalists working on this in recent times. However, I have very little interest in providing references

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