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by motorest 1y ago
> How do they reject DEI? To me, "rejecting DEI" is a dog whistle for attracting firebrand supporters of discriminative racial and social practices, ranging from racism to sexism and whatever they can think of in between.
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> People are complaining they gamed the number: that's an improvement! Is it, though? There's a post in this discussion claiming that Google rolled out AI summaries on all of their search queries. This means they greatly increa
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> In code bases like this you can't just wing it without breaking a million things, so LLM agents tend to perform really poorly. This is a false premise. LLMs themselves don't force you to introduce breaking changes into your c
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> If you are writing code that is/can be "heavily borrowed" - things that have complete examples on Github, then an LLM is perfect. I agree with the general premise. There is however more to it than "heavily borrowed&
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From the article. > The past few years have been terrifying for Soares and Hendrycks, who both lead organizations dedicated to preventing AI from wiping out humanity. Just to state the obvious: there is a monumental conflict of interests
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> Stuff like giving me code that’s using a mix of different APIs and sometimes just totally non-existent methods. That has been my experience as well. We can control the surprising pick of APIs with basic prompt files that clarify what a
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> The difference I see is that in other fields, part of your design process is thinking through the logical details of the thing. Essentially, doing some math. The "some math" is used in engineering fields in things like prelim
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> I think you mean "requirements" here instead of "design". No. This is exactly what you are getting wrong. Requirements are constraints that guide the design. The design then is used to organize, structure, and alloc
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> Sam is the main one driving the hype, that's rich... It's also funny that he's been accusing those who accept better job offers as mercenaries. It does sound like the statements try to modulate competition both in the AI
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> I do not and I have explained it. You should review the sources of your confusions and personal misconceptions, as you deny design and then proceed to admit there is design. > And part of my previous comment is that this "water
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> You need a high level design up-front but it should not be cast in stone. Yes, you need a design that precedes code. > Writing code and iterating is how you learn and get to a good, working design. You are confusing waterfall-y &quo
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> Writing code is the design phase. No, it really isn't. I don't know which amateur operation you've been involved with, but that is really not how things work in the real world. In companies that are not entirely dysfunct
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> It always seems as if the code review is the only time when all stakeholders really gets involved and starts thinking about a change. That is a problem with your organization, not with Git or any version control system. PRs are orthogo
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> And your response is surely “Well of course, that would be nice, but it’s not as simple as that. Here are constraints X Y and Z that make a trivial solution infeasible.” All problems are trivial once you ignore all real-world constrain
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> Personalization could include showing the same cached content to many people. That's not the problem. The main requirement is to allow editors to preview their changes without having to wait multiple seconds due to caching refresh
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> characterizing netflix as a "read-only" website is incredibly shortsighted considering: The people talking about "read-only" didn't even bothered to read the overview of the system they are criticizing. They ar
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> Holy shit the amount of overcomplications to serve simple HTML and CSS. If you read the overview, Tudum has to support content update events that target individual users and need to be templated. How do you plan on generating said HTML
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> When those updates don't need to be reflected immediately, a CDN or similar works fine for delivering the content to a user. What leads you to believe a CDN is a solution to a problem of delivering personalized content to a specif
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> As much as this website could be very trafficked I have the feeling they are overcomplicating their infra, for little gains. This sort of personal opinion reads like a cliche in software development circles: some rando casualy does a d
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> You cannot convince me a thousand unarmed civilians attempted a military coup. I don't care about at what level of delusion you're operating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Brazilian_coup_plot
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> The only coup that took place here was perpetrated by the unelected supreme court itself. This is your very personal version of reality, and one where you don't even stop to think about all the absurdities and inconsistencies it&#
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> The sanctioned judge has been essentially permabanned from the US financial system. You're referring to the fact that the Trump administration is engaged in persecuting individual judges ruling on a coup attempt, hoping to intimid
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> What is this supposed to mean? My view points are "alternative" and therefore wrong? No. That's something you need to work out with your therapist, given that all the people reiterating that point to you in all those thr
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> Imagine all projects were similarly committed. How many projects would have anything to benefit from this focus on optimization, though? There is a reason why the first rule of optimization is "don't do it", and the seco
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> What about Trump’s actions makes anyone think that Brazil will escape this fate if only it suborns its democracy to Trump’s whims The Trump administration is persecuting Brazil for bringing the perpetrators of a coup to trial, and went
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> Do you have a point to make? I believe there is a strong point to make. Not only are engaged in obsessive compulsive behavior but you are also leaning on alternative versions of reality/accounts to form your opinions. You posted i
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> Under the pretext of protecting denocracy, the unelected, supposedly impartial brazilian supreme court waged an all out legal and political war against our "Trump equivalent". They have engaged in unconstitutional censorship
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> It’s incredible to me that AI evangelists have managed to focus the entire conversation on LLM “usefulness” without even mentioning costs. LLMs are highly useful. AI-assisted services are in general costly. There are LLMs you can run l
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> Is this seriously quicker than just writing in a language that you know? Yes. Well, it depends. Most of the prompts specifying requirements and constraints can be reused, so you don't need to reinvent the wheel each time you promp
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