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by namaria 2y ago
Dressed up dbs. That's what 90% of the saas economy is. I feel like I'm going mad. How can such a gigantic part of the software economy be just dressing up dbs and making them hard to interoperate? I can't make sense of it. A
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by namaria 2y ago
An edit amounting to "not like that" in the first 40 minutes after asking for examples. Grand.
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by namaria 2y ago
That's not what zero-sum means
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by namaria 2y ago
Hail science, but I find the idea that intelligent design = someone thought it out to be a naive misunderstanding. I think a lot about proton pumps. I know it has to have evolved naturally, but it looks so engineered. I am certain there&#
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by namaria 2y ago
This whole thing makes me think of that short story "The Machine Stops". As we keep burrowing deeper and deeper into an overly complex system that allows people to get into parts of it without understanding the whole, we are edgin
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by namaria 2y ago
The owning class wants no competitors. The only way to get there is to break the rules that those who got there before create and enforce.
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by namaria 2y ago
Yes, if people are being crooks I'd rather know about it than to believe everyone has the same ethical code as myself.
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by namaria 2y ago
Let's not conflate running one off scripts with software development. If LLMs can help people do something with Python that would be just a lot of boring clicking around or whatnot, great. The conversation in this thread was about how
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by namaria 2y ago
People keep saying that, but would you work in a team full of "mediocre" professionals or have a social circle full of "mediocre" friends if you had a choice?
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by namaria 2y ago
Abstractions are not a dichotomy between "forget everything bellow the level in which you wish to operate" and "I need to be able to follow the path of each electron". Which abstractions are used and how you traverse the
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by namaria 2y ago
Shuffling numbers in networked personal computer devices has diminishing returns and we're hitting them. LLMs are a hail mary, throwing compute at the wall to see what sticks. No, Silicon Valley, the world doesn't need more comput
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by namaria 2y ago
Between shareholders and executives there's usually a board. Corporate governance is not simple and it is designed to control large organizations with several stakeholders. Appointing executives alone, in a well functioning corporation
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by namaria 2y ago
That's the price for Mr Zuckerberg's ownership structure. On the one hand, no one can dispute him. On the other hand, no one can dispute him.
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by namaria 2y ago
There's no replacement for knowledge and sound mental models. Documentation, tests, they can help but they cannot replace having a knowledgeable person around.
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by namaria 2y ago
Youtube compression algorithm also produces lots of artifacts that were never filmed by the video producers
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by namaria 2y ago
I've argued years ago based on how LLMs are built that they would only ever amount to lossy and very memory inefficient compression algorithms. The whole 'hallucination' thing misses the mark. LLMs are not 'occasionally&
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by namaria 2y ago
Treating code as a means to an end, which is what I think you're describing, is just as bad as treating it as an end in itself. It should be neither an opaque black box nor a transparent 'bicycle of the mind'. In my opinion i
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by namaria 2y ago
It's just a nagging feeling that "aphantasia" is based more on semantics or misunderstanding than a neurological reality.
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by namaria 2y ago
People often assume that code is knowledge. They want "self explanatory" or "well documented code". Companies and managers often treat developers as interchangeable. But therein lies the mistake. Knowledge exists in ment
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by namaria 2y ago
The real trouble with LLMs is that they emulate knowledge so well. People assume they can depend on it to know things, but it is not reliable at all. A lot of traps are being laid in code by people trusting the output or behavior of LLMs.
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by namaria 2y ago
"Code expands to fill the maintenance capacity of the available team". There, Parkinson's law updated.
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by namaria 2y ago
I suspect a lot of these cases might be people believing that "others" have super vivid, holographic 3D color models of things floating in front of their eyes when they "imagine" things.
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by namaria 2y ago
It's truly fascinating how Republicans can get the working class Americans to vote against their own interests.
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by namaria 2y ago
I have found that the "ship something then iterate" approach to software development can get stuck in local optima without a clear path to get out when it gets flooded by unforeseen problems. Then it becomes a maintenance nightmar
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by namaria 2y ago
"Steel man" doesn't sound like the opposite of "straw man". It just sounds like a more resource intensive version.
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by namaria 2y ago
Governments aren't powerless to revoke corporate charters. They're powerless to implode the livelihood of large chunks of their electorate. A dynamic economy is great on paper where you don't have to worry about disrupting th
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by namaria 2y ago
In a static population sure. Over decades?
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by namaria 2y ago
How does NATO response to an invasion on a non-NATO country bears on article 5 exactly?
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by namaria 2y ago
> society won't allow me > not my fault These are bitter remarks and giant red flags personality wise. Take responsibility for your own life.
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by namaria 2y ago
Small nitpick but using 'said' as a pronoun everywhere makes your writing hard to parse.

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