mrsilencedogood

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by mrsilencedogood 25d ago
I'm not sure if everyone in this thread is familiar with what their business model was. It wasn't "selling tailwind premium" or selling "tailing enterprise support". They sold a library of react components that
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by mrsilencedogood 2mo ago
I absolutely detest this framing of remote vs onsite. What it really is is accommodated vs not-accommodated. Accommodated employees perform better. Non-accommodated employees perform worse. For some people, an office is an accommodation - t
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by mrsilencedogood 2mo ago
To combine both TFA with this comment: I find that LLMs are ~fine at generating/editing gocode, or at least as ~fine as they generate most mainstream languages. But good god, the second it gets to anything concurrency-related, it just
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by mrsilencedogood 3mo ago
Browsers can fill out forms. Many forms are (unfortunately) PDFs, especially for orgs that are struggling to digitize (govts...). PDFs which then need to be filled out. So this seems to make a lot of sense to me and I'll be glad to hav
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by mrsilencedogood 3mo ago
"For most of the last 20 years, the software industry sold more than jobs. It sold a story." This "It's not (just) X, it's Y." pattern is so LLM-y it's almost hard to read it now.
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by mrsilencedogood 3mo ago
Brexit does seem to have been a general loss for Britain. But I'm very distracted by Germany - what happened/is happening there that they're faring so much worse than, say, France? (And in several of the cited measures, worse
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by mrsilencedogood 4mo ago
As other comments have indicated, this is basically solved for all servers. All Poweredges and supermicros have come with increasingly sophisticated integrated remote management systems for the past 20+ years. I have some R610s and their dr
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by mrsilencedogood 4mo ago
Once you hit a certain processing threshold, stripe underwrites you. The benefit is some people get better deals or get to skirt by rules just by being immaterial. Separately: Once you hit a certain threshold, you get an account rep and can
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by mrsilencedogood 4mo ago
It's also a very lame definition. Intelligence - and humans - are more than just labor. (You'll forgive me for conflating humanity and intelligence - we are homo spaiens, after all. Thinking man.) I'm not _confused_ why these
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by mrsilencedogood 5mo ago
Ah good job, you fixed it. I suggest you let Stripe and Visa know, I'm sure they'll be keen.
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by mrsilencedogood 5mo ago
I don't think we understand consciousness, thought, and what we generally consider to be "intelligence" even nearly well enough that we can start getting hopeful that what works for us is going to work for a computer. Philoso
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by mrsilencedogood 5mo ago
What happens if the merchant folds or disappears? Stripe (or Visa or whoever) then are the bagholder. And if someone has a ton of chargebacks, it's not uncommon they're then difficult to collect from.
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by mrsilencedogood 5mo ago
For specifically sexually explicit stuff, it's because chargebacks are __significantly__ higher for these types of purchases. High enough that it messes with the credit and counterparty risk modeling that processors use. You can use yo
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by mrsilencedogood 5mo ago
I think at its root, the general idea of shrinkflation is that some desirable attribute of a product - quantity or quality - is slowly eroded while keeping the price the same. As a way to either increase margins, or preserve the price point
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by mrsilencedogood 6mo ago
See that's the thing people are upset about though - the fact that the documents you need are either an original certified copy of a thin sheet of paper from whatever random backwater you were born in's local government (birth cer
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by mrsilencedogood 6mo ago
And sometimes it can't even handle it then. I was recently porting ruby web code to python. Agents were simultaneously surprisingly good (converting ActiveRecord to sqlalchemy ORM) and shockingly, incapably bad. For example, ruby uses
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by mrsilencedogood 6mo ago
While I think a lot of the AI hype is just hype - everyone saying most of these things have _hitherto untold riches_ levels of financial incentives to say them - I think it's also undeniable that LLMs speed up many aspects of coding. I
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by mrsilencedogood 6mo ago
Quantization is important for me because it's the only way out I can see for a future of programming that doesn't involve going through a giant bigco who can run, as the article says, a machine with 2TB of memory. And not just mem
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by mrsilencedogood 7mo ago
I don't think anyone was at risk of misunderstanding their intent...
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by mrsilencedogood 8mo ago
Software will ALWAYS be an attractive VC target. The economics are just too good. The profit margins are just inherently fat as fuck compared to literally anything else. Your main expense is headcount and the incremental cost of your widge
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by mrsilencedogood 10mo ago
But how do you actually bootstrap that process? Look at bandcamp. They unionized successfully. Then the company got sold (again), and everyone but the union leaders (and prominent members) got job offers from the new parent company. Basical
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by mrsilencedogood 10mo ago
"Software engineers don't even need to be around for the programs to keep running." Can you tell me where you work, and are you hiring???
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by mrsilencedogood 11mo ago
All I can say is, - the insane frothing hype behind AI is showing me a new kind of market failure - where resources can be massively misallocated just because some small class of individuals THINK or HOPE it will result in massive returns.
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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
Yeah I really will give people a pass here. The state of email is one of the worst collective mistakes I think we've made. You can literally be an expert in everything relevant - and your mail will still not get delivered just because
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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
fortunately it is now easier than ever to do small-scale scraping, the kind yt-dlp does. I can literally just go write a script that uses headless firefox + mitmproxy in about an hour or two of fiddling, and as long as I then don't go
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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
Damn, still not structured concurrency full release. Really looking forward to that one. Happy to see Scoped Values here though. That'll be big for writing what I'll call "rails-like" things in Java without it just being
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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
Do people think this debate is new? We've literally been working on this problem for millennia and we're not really any closer even despite the huge ramp up in technological progress over the last couple hundred years. Your remark
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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
I mean NAND circuit primitives. Jokingly referring to the fact that NAND operations are all you need to build a complete logic system, but it's not very fun/ergonomic. And I'm joking that js is basically doing that but with w
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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
I think part of the problem is that browsers don't really serve their original purpose anymore. Google functionally controls just enough of a monopoly via chrome that they can generally do whatever they want (and not do whatever they d
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by mrsilencedogood 1y ago
"This is the best argument on the page imo, and even that is highly debated. I agree with "AI is performing copyright infringement" and see constant "AI ignores my robots.txt". I also grew up being told that ANYTHIN

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