marcus_holmes

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by marcus_holmes 1mo ago
upvoted for an interesting and informative response. This is why I come to HN. Thanks :)
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by marcus_holmes 1mo ago
You're basically replacing the label "procrastination" with the label "laziness" without understanding anything. Are all people who postpone a task lazy? What constitutes laziness? Can we define laziness? Why are pe
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by marcus_holmes 1mo ago
I'm a little hazy on how this gets enforced. I thought the EU made rules, but then those rules had to be ratified and implemented by the national governments of the member nations (and historically, some of them have been very lax abou
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by marcus_holmes 1mo ago
The far right are picking wedge issues not from principle, but from political expediency. In the UK they've switched from attacking immigrants to attacking disability benefits, because the clampdown on immigration was effective (though
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by marcus_holmes 1mo ago
100%, and I go further to "don't buy hardware until it hits version 3" - version 1 is full of bugs, version 2 tries to include all the stuff they couldn't fit into the original version 1, so it's not until version 3
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by marcus_holmes 1mo ago
yeah, they were heroes and I don't think I could have done that in the face of those odds.
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by marcus_holmes 1mo ago
fair points, but it still doesn't add up to "the USA beat Germany" or even "the anglosphere beat Germany". The Soviets beat Germany and we helped.
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by marcus_holmes 1mo ago
For being egotistical psychopaths
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by marcus_holmes 1mo ago
What if there are no more "jobs"? What if he's right, and AI+Robots can do everything? We still need to provide for all the humans. We will need to come up with a new system of distributing the world's resources that doe
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by marcus_holmes 1mo ago
This is Gates' point, isn't it? We need to be more proactive, and he has suggestions for what to do now, before the bad times.
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by marcus_holmes 1mo ago
This breaks down if there is less competition for labour, and we enter a new Depression era. Under your logic, capitalists will pay nearly nothing for labour because there is so much of it. Then "society" has to step in and not-so
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by marcus_holmes 1mo ago
> don’t forget, the US alongside anglosphere allies liberated Western Europe at the same time Japan was being fought Let's not forget the Soviet Union, who did most of the actual heavy lifting of liberating Western Europe. If D-Day
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by marcus_holmes 1mo ago
Depends on the language, obviously. Some languages are more verbose than others, and relatedly, some languages force simple code structures that are less likely to become unmanageable.
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by marcus_holmes 1mo ago
Yeah, but it was a lot of questioning and refining to get it to understand the wrinkles and edge cases. I think we're on about version 5 of the doc now
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
This is the way, but it's not the viber's fault. It's a tool. It does what you tell it to. If it's doing the wrong thing, tell it to do something different.
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
I did this with our team: I created a schema.md document with an LLM-friendly explanation of the schema, and walked the whole team through how to create a Grafana query using an LLM and this document. Within a couple of weeks we have totall
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
I would almost certainly delete that as spam, since I receive approximately 34987349873964 emails per minute with that exact subject, all of which are intended to do me harm
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
> I see companies adding more sloppily written features with AI I think this is a side-effect of the old product management process adapting to AI. We (as an industry) were never very good at defining features rigorously, because there w
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
I think there's a huge difference between someone using AI to help them build something, and a large organisation attempting to become "AI Native", whatever that means. We saw the same during the dot com boom - lots of compan
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
Well, in this case, sketching a vase of flowers. This is classic Streetlight Effect [0]. Just because it's easy to test leetcode, and it appears to have something vaguely to do with coding, it gets used. Like I said in other posts, I w
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
this. Is the judge really going to be "oh wow, thank you so much for helping us find this bug"? I suspect not. I suspect it'll be "you get 5 years banged up in solitary for attempting to pervert the course of justice&quo
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
So if I make $0.10 of profit, all my decisions are validated? What if we knew that Maccas could have made $20 billion, but ignoring qualitative data reduced their profits to $8.563 billion. Do those decisions still look smart?
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
ICE use will drop slowly, and then all at once. Because gas stations will go out of business and it'll get harder and harder to refuel them.
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
"badly". There, fixed it for you. Seriously, the best blog post on this subject has to be Ludicity: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-glo...
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
Yeah, I've only seen it work for the last few applicants, but it did work really well. The "pick a bug and fix it" scales better, though still not to 100 applicants. Though I'd say putting 100 people through leetcode int
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
Let's assume that instead of leetcode, the company had decided that the qualifying test for programmers would be sketching a vase of flowers (about as relevant as leetcode for commercial programming). Your friend would have spent three
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
Agree 100%. The problem is that leetcode problems are nothing like the actual practice of writing commercial code. Writing good commercial code is about keeping things as simple as possible, as clean as possible, as readable as possible. Us
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
This is why we pirate movies (and books, which have the same problem on proprietary e-readers). It's not about getting things for free, it's about actually owning the thing we bought.
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
My experience with Fable is that it eats all my tokens and returns something I didn't ask for. I realise this might be a skill issue. I prefer models that are less "smart" but faster. Do the thing I asked you to do, immediate
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by marcus_holmes 2mo ago
So... A: not trivial. And B: not part of the language. > mean this isn't true, formatting is the most trivial part. And so many languages have an opinionated formatter these days (e.g. Black) I don't think this is correct

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