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by onion2k 5mo ago
The only annoyance is web browsers like chrome do not render the markdown. I imagine Claude could zero-shot a Chrome plugin for that.
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Given these large-cap companies currently represent ~5% of the U.S. stock market capitalization, it's difficult to justify why these companies are excluded from a large-cap index. It's not outside the realms of possibility that
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by onion2k 5mo ago
this benchmark has to follow the market and reflect current market conditions Sure, but right now they don't know how the market will react, so changing the index rules before there's any data would be a measure of their heurist
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by onion2k 5mo ago
The ideal is finding all the problems without getting any false positives, but the reality is that you can't often have that. An org's engineering culture should be designed to fix problems with systems. If you're seeing an
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Finding problems is optimizing for the customer. Avoiding false positives is optimizing for the developer. Which is right depends on your org's culture.
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by onion2k 5mo ago
If a significant percentage of the market is excluded from the index because they don't meet index inclusion criteria, then then index stops being a useful benchmark. If you change a benchmark whenever you think it'll be 'w
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The hardware specs improved, but the software ate all the gains, so really things stayed pretty much the same for years. The primary advantage of faster CPUs, more RAM, and better GPUs in PCs has been to make it less developer-intensive to
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by onion2k 5mo ago
Claude is already available as both a pass-through to Anthropic's servers from AWS and in Bedrock. https://aws.amazon.com/claude-platform/ I imagine they're not thrilled that their first mover advantage has g
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by onion2k 5mo ago
I see a lot of garbage being shipped. One of the second order effects of AI collapsing the cost of building things is that product management is much more important now. A Product Owner/Manager who lacks the taste and insight (or dat
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by onion2k 5mo ago
Today you open any website. Everything is a fucking component. We were doing the same things back then but with some nasty hacks to get things to work across different browsers. There's a reason why jQuery (released 2006) blew up, an
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by onion2k 5mo ago
You make a fair and valid point about prompts, but you're ignoring the fact that writing code that's truly secure is also virtually impossible. The stack of layers that an attacker can target range from your own code, to library
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You don't remember the discussion around Narrative Science ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_Science ) then. They were a university spin-out that could write plausible-sounding baseball news articles (and la
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by onion2k 5mo ago
Well, I have bad news for camp 1.. It's bad if they work in a part of the industry where code quality or efficiency matters. That's maybe 10% of the total though.
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"Make a React app to run my coffee shop" requires knowing React but also knowing what a coffee shop is.
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Key word there being 'option'. If you choose to use push as your mechanism then enabling it is obvious. If you choose not to the app should still work. You don't need push notifications enabled on an MFA app.
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Curious to see if this will apply to music. I imagine it'll apply to anything with a SynthID watermark. https://deepmind.google/models/synthid/
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by onion2k 5mo ago
People should use something that keeps a local copy of their code and just copies it to Github and to other contributors with a sync process to push and pull changes. Some sort of 'distributed source control system' maybe. Then pe
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The company I work for uses Vue. I think the non-backwards-compatible move from Vue 2 to Vue 3 burned a lot of the current devs, so now they're stuck working on Vue 2 apps that are in maintenance mode with no viable case to clean up th
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wouldn't the most obvious thing to do be to build a good training dataset and make the dataset widely available? Only if you believe other people will value that enough to expend the effort necessary to use it. If you believe other p
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by onion2k 5mo ago
Jira has an AI feature called Rovo. It's terrible. Giving an API key to Claude however gets you exactly what you need. Albeit in quite a risky way though.
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This is true because Trello uses simplicity as a constraint, so users can't make quite as big a mess. They can still make a mess though and as a source of truth it still requires people to move things properly, so it isn't really
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by onion2k 5mo ago
Is that even possible with the current food supply chain though?
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[Colossal Biosciences] has raised over $600 million and carries a valuation exceeding $10 billion. You're not making a return on that from selling velocirator skeletons. Nor is that sort of money in dodos and maos. Human cloning on t
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Early versions of some things, MS Basic being one example I think, were baked into ROM. One of the best innovations that Paul Allen came up with was adding software hooks to the code so bugs that were found later could still be patched.
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But it was instantly a maintenance dead end. It doesn't really make sense to suggest AI can work on something any make it now and work correctly, and at the same time say it's unmaintainable. It is maintainable with AI . The re
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Will the incentive really be gone? The incentive will remain, but doing it at scale will be much harder. That automatically reduces the scale of the problem to what individuals (or small groups) can do. Essentially the law is stopping the
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Perfect is the enemy of good. If a law can end the easier parts of the problem then the overwhelming majority of the issues go away. For example, the UK banned the private ownership of 'short guns' in 1997 and there hasn't be
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Two sorts of people become billionaires from share price increases. The founders and the early investors. Neither are thousands of times more impactful than the other early hires, but they get to keep billions of dollars while the early h
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People are billionaires because they “share with society”. I appreciate that this is a flippant remark, but there are crypto billionaires proving that there are exceptions to this assertion.
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Fuck Google for ranking some copycat website higher than mine, even though they copied my article. This has been happening since Google launched in 1998. It was probably happening when we all used Hotbot and Altavista. It isn't reall

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