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Did the Agile Manifesto, Scrum and open source kill the programmer?(nial.se)
2 points by nialse 7mo ago|0 comments
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Kanban TODO: a textfile based Kanban board in a single HTML file(youtube.com)
2 points by nialse 7mo ago|2 comments
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by nialse 8mo ago
That is 3% of their work force according to the article.
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by nialse 9mo ago
”I don't care deeply about this code. It's not a masterpiece. It's functional code that is very useful to me.” - AI software engineering in a nutshell. Leaving the human artisan era of code behind. Function over form. Substan
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by nialse 9mo ago
The trade off between utilization and latency is rarely understood in organizations. Little’s law should be mandatory (management) reading. Unused capacity is not waste, but buffers that absorb variability, and thus keeps latency down.
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by nialse 9mo ago
Who is responsible for the terrible decision? In the pro vs con analysis, saving 20% size occasionally vs updating ALL pdf libraries/apps/viewers ever built SHOULD be a no-brainer.
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by nialse 9mo ago
The one-time purchase version of Microsoft Office is not available worldwide. Where offered, it is reduced to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, with Outlook as a Business edition extra. Individual apps can sometimes be bought separately
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by nialse 9mo ago
Use commercial tools and services for automating cropping. Google is your friend.
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by nialse 9mo ago
Upgrade regret here. What used to be solid performance is now random hangs and unresponsiveness. Most things work but it’s Apples least polished OS in many years.
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by nialse 9mo ago
Very nice! AI detection checks out, even with heavy editing and processing.
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by nialse 9mo ago
After recently applying Codex to a gigantic old and hairy project that is as far from greenfield it can be, I can assure you this assertion is false. It’s bonkers seeing 5.2 churn though the complexity and understanding dependencies that wo
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by nialse 9mo ago
Note: At the point of writing this, the comments are largely skeptical. Reading this as an avid Codex CLI user, some things make sense and reflect lessons learned along the way. However, the patterns also get stale fast as agents improve an
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Peer-reviewed by human experts: AI failed in key steps(link.springer.com)
2 points by nialse 10mo ago|0 comments
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by nialse 10mo ago
If there is no scientific evidence for the method then it’s up to if you believe. Placebo is a hell of a drug.
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by nialse 10mo ago
That is the logical conclusion. The era of personal computers is coming to an end. It had a good run though.
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Runprompt runs LLM prompts in your shell [video](youtube.com)
1 points by nialse 10mo ago|0 comments
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by nialse 10mo ago
Versioning the cache is a poor band-aid and introduces failure modes not considered.
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by nialse 10mo ago
Maybe personal computing is entering a slow decline. Rising RAM prices over the next couple of years will make new computers and phones harder to justify, so people will keep devices longer. At the same time, Microsoft and Apple (et alia) c
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by nialse 10mo ago
You cannot pick and choose one or two variables and then claim representativeness based on a numerical match. The first step is to identify the confounding variables that are likely to influence the outcome. Only after those are specified a
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by nialse 10mo ago
Round-tripping to CSS and keeping information that may be useful to the user if they would inspect the content I would presume. A similar issue is CDATA in XML which is not retained when round-tripped. Very annoying, but in line with the sp
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by nialse 10mo ago
True. Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM/Microsoft/Oracle/Cisco/etc. Likely an effect of stakeholder (executives/MBAs) brand recognition.
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by nialse 10mo ago
Paraphrasing: We are setting aside the actual issue and looking for a different angle. To me this reads as a form of misdirection, intentional or not. A monopolist has little reason to care about downstream effects, since customers have now
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by nialse 11mo ago
The game is getting OpenAI to owe you as much money as you can. When they fail to pay back, you own OpenAI.
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by nialse 11mo ago
No one is punishing anyone. They just make an implausible claim. That is it.
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by nialse 11mo ago
Nothing points out that the benchmark is invalid like a zero false positive rate. Seemingly it is pre-2020 text vs a few models rework of texts. I can see this model fall apart in many real world scenarios. Yes, LLMs use strange language if
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Timbaland: Let's Talk about AI(instagram.com)
4 points by nialse 11mo ago|0 comments
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by nialse 11mo ago
Sounds more like an upcoming revolution than a bubble popping then. Makes me kind of happy! My fear is that AI is and will be used to keep people content and passive.
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by nialse 11mo ago
Turns out it’s the skill of the person handling the hammer that matters most. Enlightening! Appreciate the link!
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by nialse 11mo ago
Interesting. A more dystopian take is that human interaction will be limited to a privileged class. The unprivileged will ”have to do” with machine interaction. It’s not really something new. Automation lowers cost. But it the perpetual gro
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by nialse 11mo ago
Ubiquiti copies in a lawyer for what reason now? Reviewing a bought product. That is absolutely BS behavior.

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