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Silicon Valley Is Turning into Its Own Worst Fear (2017)(buzzfeednews.com)
1 points by nz 6mo ago|0 comments
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by nz 6mo ago
It's good to see that they have chosen a name that has a much more obvious and less confusing spelling.
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by nz 6mo ago
I've taken to telling people, that if they see me write a long piece, that lacks em-dashes, then they should assume that I am under duress, and send help.
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by nz 6mo ago
I hate to tell you this, but by saying things like this, you are not much better than the authoritarians/totalitarians you seem to despise. I do understand where the revulsion comes from, however. My own family, on my mother's sid
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by nz 6mo ago
I think it is even simpler than you suggest. Cloning an established product is more efficient in terms of both effort (even if costs are subsidized turnaround time is still a measurable physical quantity) and politics (nobody ever got fired
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by nz 6mo ago
I mean, the entanglement between technology and politics is difficult to unsee, once one sees it. And the analogy between solar power and grid power, maps cleanly onto 3d printing and manufacturing (trad-printing?). Politics is _most freque
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by nz 6mo ago
FWIW, this comment should be immortalized, somehow. I am replying, so that I can find this in the future. This describes, to an eerie degree of detail, some of my own interactions with people in the industry, as well as interactions that my
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by nz 6mo ago
This is a long comment, but I swear it is going somewhere (new terminology). Someone once said (I think Kay), that "a change in notation is worth 20 IQ points". Historically, people struggled with presently-mundane basic concepts,
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by nz 6mo ago
Or you can just write in your native language, and let us machine-translate it? Just a thought. We are, perhaps, letting ourselves be held back by norms that no longer bear any load.
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by nz 6mo ago
The mental-model that I am using for online writing, is that it is analogous to the spectrum of `pretending <-> acting`. The worst writing (AI or otherwise), looks, sounds, feels like pretense, like a kid that tucks a towel into his s
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by nz 7mo ago
If you read history widely (across millennia and geographies), you'll note that most of the power-contests follow this pattern[0]. In the modern industrial world, the pattern becomes exponential rather than incremental. What I'm s
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by nz 7mo ago
Not really a question. Just wanted to express my gratitude for Hypothesis. I use it regularly. A few years back, I had to build a semi-formally-verified fund and account management service, and used the state-based-testing of Hypothesis to
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by nz 7mo ago
Didn't get around to reporting it (huge backlog of tasks). Luckily I am working on a project that _has_ to support SQLite, so if I run into the bug again, I'll report it. I don't believe that I can tell you the name of the co
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by nz 7mo ago
And sometimes you find errors in code that absolutely should never have errors: I found an (as of yet not-root-caused) error in sqlite (no crash or coredump, just returns the wrong data, and only when using sqlite in ram-only-mode). Had to
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by nz 7mo ago
At long last, Bruce Schneier is now the mightiest man alive. https://www.andrewhay.ca/archives/661 https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1057708-bruce-schneier-kn...
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Riau Indonesian: The Simplest Language in the World?(web.archive.org)
1 points by nz 7mo ago|0 comments
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by nz 7mo ago
As far as I can tell it is real.
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Familia Toledo: Desarrollos Tecnológicos(biyubi.com)
3 points by nz 7mo ago|3 comments
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by nz 7mo ago
This is not exactly novel. In the 2000s, someone made a fully functioning Perl 6 runtime in a very short amount of time (a month, IIRC) using Haskell. The various Lisps/Schemes have always given you the ability to implement specialized
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by nz 7mo ago
Even before LLMs, there was a _lot_ of deception and cheating in university. I -- and I do not say this with pride -- used to write essays for my classmates for money. In my own defense, I needed the money. I also know that in addition to h
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by nz 7mo ago
Not contradicting this (I am sure it's true), but why is using an LLM for this qualitatively better than using an actual fuzzer?
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by nz 7mo ago
Not all legal systems put the burden of proof on the accuser. In fact, many legal systems have indefinite detentions, in which the government effectively imprisons a suspect, sometimes for months at a time. To take it a step further, the pl
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by nz 7mo ago
That is (slightly) reassuring (but the rest of his portfolio does not inspire confidence). Nevertheless, we should be required to disclose whether the code has been (legally) tainted or not. This will help people make informed decisions, an
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by nz 7mo ago
There is no comment on whether LLMs/agents have been used. I feel like projects should explicitly say if they were _or_ were not used. There is no license file, and no copyright header either. This feels like "fauxpen-source"
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by nz 7mo ago
Your workplace has chosen to deprive you of the enjoyment that you got from the work. You have a few options: (1) ask for a raise proportional to the percentage of enjoyment that you lost, (2) find a workplace that does not do this, or (3)
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by nz 7mo ago
If a commit's job is to capture state at a particular point in time, so that it can be reproduced and understood, then it _also_ needs to include the exact model used. This is only useful if you can ensure access to the previous versio
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Larry McVoy Interview by KernelTrap(krsaborio.net)
1 points by nz 7mo ago|0 comments
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by nz 7mo ago
I am just pointing out that `program that can make other well specified and understood programs appear on my machine` is not exactly novel. In fact, not only has the entire open source ecosystem been relying on such programs, but they in fa
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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994)(localroger.com)
2 points by nz 7mo ago|0 comments
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by nz 7mo ago
And also in Turkey. It (the word, if not the stew itself) arrived to the Balkans by way of the Ottomans. (And having just now clicked through to the link, it seems to have arrived to Turkey by way of the Persians).

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