noduerme

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by noduerme 10mo ago
Sorry, even though I agree with your piece, the incredible irony of writing about bad design decisions while having fucking snow flying past the text I'm trying to read is just too much... [edit] I just discovered the snow icon, wh
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by noduerme 10mo ago
For the 18th Amendment, we can probably mostly agree on what happened. But it only works because the wrong answers are very obviously wrong (and virtually impossible). But that forces you into answering along the path which is clearly not a
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by noduerme 10mo ago
>>Starting a new project once felt insurmountable. Now, it feels realistic again. Honestly, this does not give me confidence in anything else you said. If you can't spin up a new project on your own in a few minutes, you may not
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by noduerme 10mo ago
I was making a point elsewhere in this thread that the best way to learn is to teach; and that's why Stack Overflow was valuable for contributors, as a way of honing their skills. Not necessarily for points. What you need to do, in you
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by noduerme 10mo ago
I would say that going onto Stack Overflow to answer questions made me a better coder - yeah, even with the cacophony of bullshit and repeats. It's almost more offensive for that job to be taken by "AI" than the job of writ
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by noduerme 10mo ago
Hah, even the concept of putting your name behind something is so great. It's kind of the ultimate protest against LLMs and social media, isn't it?
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by noduerme 10mo ago
mm. I did see this when I was figuring it out. The sorting first was the specific thing I wanted to avoid, because it would've been by far the most expensive part of the operation when looking at a million poker hands and trying to tar
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by noduerme 10mo ago
At the time, at least, there was no way to index it for all 8 players involved in a hand. Each action taken would be indexed to the player that took it, and I'd need to sweep up adjacent actions for other players in each hand, but onl
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by noduerme 10mo ago
Can you explain what you're saying in greater depth? Are you saying that the reason there is no human expertise on the internet anymore is that everyone with knowledge is now under contract to train AIs?
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by noduerme 10mo ago
I've used it for minor shit like that, but then I go back and look at the code it wrote with all its stupid meandering comments and I realize half the code is like this: const somecolor='#ff2222'; /* oh wait, the user as
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by noduerme 10mo ago
You're absolutely correct, but the scary thing is this: What happens when a whole generation grows up not knowing how to answer another person's question without consulting AI? [edit] It seems to me that this is a lot like the
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by noduerme 10mo ago
The moderation definitely got kind of nasty in the last 5 years or so. To the point where you would feel unwelcome for asking a question you had already researched, and felt was perfectly sound to ask. However, that didn't stop millio
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by noduerme 10mo ago
>>what happens now? I'll tell you what happens now: LLMs continue to regurgitate and iterate and hallucinate on the questions and answers they ingested from S.O. - 90% of which are incorrect. LLM output continues to poison itse
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by noduerme 10mo ago
Hhhhmm. Ok. So I invented this solution in 2009 at what you might call a "peak mental moment", by a pool in Palm Springs, CA, after about 6 hours of writing on napkins. I'm not a mathematician. I don't think I'm e
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by noduerme 10mo ago
The $300/hr rate is, to be honest, quite cheap when you don't charge all the time that went into meetings and preparing to write the code. It's probably more like $60/hr if you included all that. However, I don't ne
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by noduerme 10mo ago
LOL. As a top 10% contributor on Stack Overflow, and on FlashKit before that, I can assure you that any real world value attached to that status was always imaginary, or at least highly overrated. Mainly, it was good at making you feel usef
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by noduerme 10mo ago
I mean, I'm curious what kind of code it's saving you time on. For me, it's worse than useless, because no prompt I could write would really account for the downwind effects in systems that have (1) multiple databases with cu
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by noduerme 10mo ago
The entire purpose of answering questions as an "expert" on S.O. is/was to help educate people who were trying to learn how to solve problems mostly on their own. The goal isn't to solve the immediate problem, it'
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by noduerme 10mo ago
That's pretty nice ;) I once wrote this humdinger, that's still on my mostly dead personal website from 2010... one of my proudest bits of code besides my poker hand evaluator ;) The question was, how do you generate a unique num
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by noduerme 10mo ago
Oh, so it wasn't bad enough to spot bad human answers as an expert on Stack Overflow... now humans should spend their time spotting bad AI answers? How about a model where you ask a human and no AI input is allowed, to make sure that e
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by noduerme 10mo ago
This is horrifying. Given the fact that when I need a question answered I usually refer to S.O. , but more recently have taken suggestions from LLM models that were obviously trained on S.O. data... And given the fact that all other web re
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by noduerme 10mo ago
That's very typically American. Being so focused on America without understanding that the choices of the American government have huge consequences for the rest of the world. You keep saying that this is all about the Trump regime kee
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by noduerme 10mo ago
I've used Claude to write code, and it is much harder to test that code than it is to test code "haphazardly" as I write it myself. Reason being, I can test mine after each new line I write and make sure that line is doin
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by noduerme 10mo ago
It's not the typing, obviously, you're right. I think the parent is talking about it being an "intellectual exercise" to organize their thoughts about what they wanted to see as a result , whereas we who enjoy programmi
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by noduerme 10mo ago
>> AI coding allows me to build tools that solve real world problems for me much faster. If you can't / won't / don't read and write the code yourself, can I ask how you know that the code written for you is
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by noduerme 10mo ago
You're not crazy at all. I engineer pretty-big full stack systems for a living, as a lone coder. I relish when I actually sit down and write the code . To turn a customer concept into animated UI functionality. To write a cron task
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by noduerme 10mo ago
Yeah, sadly few people write or make art or music in order to fulfill their inner need to communicate. It's not like 99% of people who churn out "creative" work do so just to earn likes and followers and make money, but it&#x
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by noduerme 10mo ago
I mean, that is a US problem - or the problem of any country which chooses to destroy its own tourism sector. And searching social media is ancillary to that, as you say, if the main goal is simply to exclude people. I'm talking about
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by noduerme 10mo ago
I understand that, but that's not really my point. Yes, they have an isolationist and xenophobic bent. But while it's understandable that having a social media presence full of sketchy / terrorist / trafficking / wh
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by noduerme 10mo ago
Something that scares the shit out of me is the new American tourist visa requirement that you disclose your social media accounts over the last 5 years. This seems an ultimate example of the exclusion or people who refuse to participate in

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