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by lucianbr 2y ago
Recently I was working on a 12-year old project where the product people kept asking for "quick wins" and "leave the refactorings and in-depth analysis and difficult problems for later". When will they get to the "l
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Believe what you will, just don't confuse me by stating your beliefs in question form. "I refuse to believe you cannot run without sweating". Ahh... fine, I guess.
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> have transformed robotics > about to transform Apparently even english tenses are too hard, let alone anything else. Bald faced lie, to claim what you think might happen in the future has already happened in the past. No matter &quo
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by lucianbr 2y ago
"It would be against our fiduciary duty to not build the torment nexus."
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Training is in some measure a black box. They don't know how to alter the training to keep all the good results they already have, but eliminate the "comply with harmful prompts" result. It's like saying "why don&#x
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> have transformed robotics When questioned: > believing robotics is fundamentally about to transform These are not even remotely the same thing. Something that has happened already and is verifiable fact is not the same thing as your
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> Those are technical not ethical issues. They can be football issues, they're still issues. > you can prove you were driving and acting correctly Unless there's a technical issue that makes you either unable to prove it, or
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> More recently, light snowfalls occurred on 9 February 2015, 6 January 2017 and 5 January 2019, but the last heavy snowfall dates back to 17 December 1988. Says wikipedia. Yeah, I don't know what I expected. Of course there's
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Will the data collection and interpretation be perfect? What if the map with the speed limits is inaccurate and my commute goes through a road where the limit is 70, traffic drives at 70, but the system thinks the limit is 30? My car displa
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What's the place?
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by lucianbr 2y ago
There must be some LLM based trading bot, no? Must be. There's AI toothbrushes for Christ's sake.
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It's a perfectly good measure except it does not help us at all. The whole reason for this discussion is situations like Microsoft having 200k employees and making $240B in a year. Which employees, teams, or even departments are more p
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Long-term maintenance is a confounding factor of course. People sometimes write software faster with the downside that it wil be harder to maintain. So remove the confounding factor (at the same time removing most projects we would like to
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Is it carefully minified by hand, or by another program? Because I really, really don't see how calling a minifier is "the struggle of life itself upward".
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Is battery manufacturing that bad for the environment? I mean, ICE cars still have wheels, drivetrains, chassis, doors, windows, chairs, electronics, paint and many other things, same as the EVs. The electric motor I can't imagine it
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by lucianbr 2y ago
I mean if you do whatever you want and call it TDD, of course it doesn't restrict you in any way. But then any discussions about the properties of TDD are pointless. Anything you do is "just the right amount of TDD". Anyone w
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> does TDD force you to comply with a target coverage metric? Of course it does. You only write production code to make tests pass. Hence 100% coverage. When would any not-covered code be written in TDD?
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by lucianbr 2y ago
I mean, the USA has enjoyed more than 40 years of prosperity, so if that's the cutoff, the winner is already decided for some time. I wanted to give China a chance, but if you don't... :)
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Looks like China is attempting a hybrid approach. Free market with the government intervening whenever and wherever it feels like. They still get some optimization and some otherwise-impossible-projects. I'd say the jury is still out
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That's definitely a problem. And the "let whoever is upset try to murder the respective CEO" analysis has no problems? I think it has more .
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I thought the point was to prosecute them and condemn them to death. Do you think random murder by whoever is upset enough will work out to be fair in the real world, not a fantastical one?
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by lucianbr 2y ago
How do you imagine murdering the guilty would be possible when sending them to jail is not? Do you think courts are corrupted, but if random people just took justice into their own hands that would work out to be fair and just? I know nothi
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Motivated individuals will make for an even less fair system. Current CEOs and politicians and rich businessmen are by far the most motivated individuals, with lots of resources at their disposal. Courts and laws have become corrupted, but
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by lucianbr 2y ago
I thought the original argument was that they should be prosecuted and condemned to death. And against this, I say if you are able to prosecute and condemn the right people, sending them to jail is enough to get a useful result. What's
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by lucianbr 2y ago
If you can fairly and correctly evaluate which CEOs are especially blood sucking, simply taking their money and sending them to prison for a while will have the same effect and be far less ethically dubious. If the evaluation is flawed... d
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Did you actually bring some counterarguments to "other countries are real"?
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Textbook strawman.
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> you need to reflect on what inside you is broken Well people's opinions might be different if this CEO had reflected on what inside him was broken. So a kind of symmetry.
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"Not in this country" is some reevaluation from "outside of Hollywood movies". Other countries are real.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal Granted, it may be extremely, extremely rare. But it does exist. Plus I have to wonder if you really think all the people in Russia who "fell out of a window" a

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