manoDev

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by manoDev 1y ago
Not a joke. Proofreaders still exist, despite spell checker. Art assistants still exist, despite Photoshop. There's always more work to do, you just incorporate the new tools and bump the productivity, until it gets so commoditized it
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by manoDev 1y ago
I'm tired of the anthropomorphization marketing behind AI driving this kind of discussion. In a few years, all this talk will sound as dumb as stating "MS Word spell checker will replace writers" or "Photoshop will repla
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by manoDev 1y ago
China's population is 4.2x larger than the US. If they concentrate in developing their own country and creating an internal market, they'll do well. Meanwhile, US development strategy post-WW has been 100% based on projecting mili
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by manoDev 1y ago
The artificial energy supply shortage caused by this prohibition will be a great excuse to invade another oil-rich country. The current administration has already demonstrated Venezuela is next in line.
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by manoDev 1y ago
Right now, we just did the equivalent of a tech demo of Broca's area. AGI would take making at least one full brain, and then putting many of those working together, efficiently. I don't believe we can engineer our way out of that
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by manoDev 1y ago
This graph isn’t telling the history you think it does… China’s population is 4x times the US, and still, total emissions are a little over 2x — and that’s ignoring the outsized impact from exported goods.
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by manoDev 1y ago
“Horse and buggy”. How dramatic. If at least the US got in line with the rest of the world, we would be half-way there. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita The problem is not the 8 billion people
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by manoDev 1y ago
AI makes it quicker and cheaper to ship something. The problem with most companies is shipping the wrong thing. VCs hope that with AI they can have a larger portfolio, shipping more things, so that by sheer luck, one is a success. That&#x27
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by manoDev 1y ago
That was the golden era of Mac. The OS was fast, and Apple software didn’t suck (I still miss Aperture).
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by manoDev 1y ago
Yes – but when people say "AI", most often they are talking about the latest OpenAI/Claude development.
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by manoDev 1y ago
> The cost to build is so low now. The cost seems deceivingly low right now because those AI companies are fighting for monopoly, but in reality the cost is huge – not only capital, but also trust, privacy, and environmental.
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by manoDev 1y ago
That’s not how I read “Don't ever implement good-enough-for-now APIs”. Requirements _may_ change, but it’s much harder to have consumers move to a new API. Once it’s published, it’s a contract you don’t want to break. That doesn’t mean
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by manoDev 1y ago
I don't find the ADT and matching part weird, but rather everything else (as mentioned).
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by manoDev 1y ago
I'm sure there's merit to the language, but the syntax seems absolutely alien to me. Some attempt to look like verbose imperative code, a bunch of semicolons, and for some strange reason, hate of parenthesis. Real life sample:
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by manoDev 1y ago
OP: You might want to check, a bunch of examples after "maybe monad" are broken.
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by manoDev 1y ago
This isn't an example of them not knowing what tariffs are. This is an example of the rhetoric they're using to convince the voter.
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by manoDev 1y ago
> In any nontrivial codebase, this inevitably leads to bugs when, for example, a string representing a user ID gets used as an account ID Inevitably is a strong word. I can't recall the last time I've seen such bug in
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by manoDev 1y ago
That’s a very naive reading, pretending all that is happening is because of Twitter flame wars. It may appear so, because that’s how the actors involved use social media, but it’s not caused by it.
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by manoDev 1y ago
These seem to be made by artists trained on traditional drawing. All drawings show knowledge of cross-hatching or pointillism, correct use of values, perspective, and so on. That’s why it looks great today, these qualities are independent
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by manoDev 1y ago
The "bean counters" always win in the current state of affairs. The pressure of the financial capitalism on the industrial capitalism is too high. Any company that produces anything is eventually forced into rent-seeking to keep
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by manoDev 1y ago
LLMs can’t do anything for my work besides being an alternative to Google, and even then I need to double check on another source. You get a lot of positive reinforcement from positive opinions online, but the people who don’t depend on t
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by manoDev 1y ago
> LLMs are one of the biggest advances in technology in human history. See, that’s what the article is about. Saying LLM is on the same level of steam power, the computer, the internet, airplanes, etc. when the technology hasn’t even bee
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by manoDev 2y ago
Argentina has an economy that is strongly indexed on USD due to hyperinflation of the Peso and parallel exchanges everywhere ("cambio negro"). What Milei is doing: he's giving up on Argentinian Peso and adopting the USD as de
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by manoDev 2y ago
Working with the promise of a future promotion is, effectively, giving credit to your employer. "In every country in which the capitalist mode of production reigns, it is the custom not to pay for labour-power before it has been exerci
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by manoDev 2y ago
I love how any criticism of capitalism automatically invites the “but things sucked more at a particular place in a particular period” argument. I grew up in a capitalist country. Being poor doesn’t give you access to things just the same.
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by manoDev 2y ago
Go read the story… the east german manufacturer tried exporting it, but resellers thought selling virtually unbreakable glassware was a bad business. Same thing happened with the GE/Osram cartel for pushing shorter lived incandescent l
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by manoDev 3y ago
It seems this is mainframe (a complete, supported, vertically integrated solution), just not from IBM.
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by manoDev 3y ago
The problem is thinking in terms of optimization at all. There’s no optimum, only trade-offs. But under capitalism, the problems all reduce to “make more X with less”. If GDP is increasing, we’re doing great - doesn’t matter if life sucks.
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by manoDev 3y ago
> came up with an economic setup that did not allow you to join an organization, unless you got hard equity in it, and the amount of equity you could have had a minimum of 1%. Wow… we’re so deep into capitalism that worker cooperatives i
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by manoDev 3y ago
Since you invited comments: Rules #1, #2, #3: I don't feel these are rules as much as aesthetic opinions. The only thing that matters is for URLs to be unique, and no client should rely on parsing slashes on URLs to derive how data is

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