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by onion2k 4mo ago
That's an amusing analogy, but it's conflating university as a purely academic pursuit (learn these things in order to know the things) with university as vocational training (learn these things so you can get a job.) As people ha
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If we taught systems thinking in schools things like internet age verification would never get past being an idea on the back of a napkin. People struggle to consider the second-, third-, and nth-order effects of anything so asking them t
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by onion2k 4mo ago
The penalty for cheating should be automatic expulsion. Universities need to stay ahead of how people actually work. Framing the use of AI as 'cheating' gives a university a reputation that it isn't keeping up with industry
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The alternative to Chinese goods is not locally made goods for the majority of people. It's either Chinese goods that we pretend are locally made, or it's nothing because they can't afford the local stuff. Cheap good for deca
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by onion2k 4mo ago
I stopped thinking for myself, therefore I am not.
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React doesn't do anything unless the DOM needs to to be updated. Arguably React does have a 'disadvantage' in the sense that it doesn't do two-way data binding, and chooses to update as little of the DOM as necessary to
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by onion2k 4mo ago
React definitely didn't make frontend _great_ in a lot of cases, but jQuery, mootools, prototype, knockout, ember, angular, and a whole lot more JS frameworks that have come and gone predate React. If React hadn't been invented th
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by onion2k 4mo ago
There aren't good alternatives for Claude Design, Cowork, Claude for Excel, etc. People who are properly 'AI-pilled' have outsourced far more than coding to their artificial teams.
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Once your dependent, they can drive up the price just because. It doesn't need to be for existential reasons. This is the crisis point for vibe-coders. A developer can go back to writing code by hand, as horrible as that might soun
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by onion2k 4mo ago
In a world where the brightest minds are paid to intentionally develop tools to make people betray their values (advertising, propaganda, rolling news, etc), I'm not sure anyone should feel safe about what they teach their kids. Many i
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by onion2k 4mo ago
I guess we'll see a row of companies declaring "software bankruptcy" or something in some/many months I don't think you will, because that would require the business to recognise the problem. That might happen in
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by onion2k 4mo ago
A $100k interceptor to save a $10 million critical facility against a $10k Shahed is a bargain. You saved $9.9 million dollars. Your enemy probably isn't sending one drone.
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Most apps don't need much at run time though. There may be a big database somewhere, but the majority of SaaS apps are just some form of CRUD with a clever twist that might change the data occasionally, but doesn't use most of i
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by onion2k 4mo ago
I share my name with a famous sports star and that person comes up far more than me, which is understandable. It absolutely nails my username but I've used the same one online for almost 30 years. It'd be weird if I wasn't
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by onion2k 4mo ago
every action including scrolling roundtrips to the server As soon as you include a network roundtrip in anything you're opening up a Pandora's box of slow connections, slow DNS queries, network outages, what-if-the-user-is-on-
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by onion2k 4mo ago
This isn't "We replaced a React app with an HTML form and performance improved." It's "We replaced a bad web page with a good web page and performance improved." Attributing this to the technology driving the b
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There are a few reasons why it could be bad: Access to the tech is probably unequal if it's done privately, which leads to polarization of society where rich people get even more opportunities than poor people. If you want equality
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by onion2k 4mo ago
The point the OP is making is that given the choice parents will always choose a 100% 'perfect' child who will live a happy and long life free from things that make it difficult. Until relatively recently this hasn't actual
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by onion2k 4mo ago
People think otherwise with AI partly because Anthropic kept telling us that they didn't have to write code or review code any more for most of their work. Even if that were 100% true, it only collapses the coding effort to near ze
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by onion2k 4mo ago
"If I get the role, what will my budget for repairs be?"
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by onion2k 4mo ago
I'm building an app that uses cosign similarity across a bunch of vectors to derive team productivity metrics. To be honest the maths is trivial; the hardest part is gathering data and normalizing it in a vaguely sensible way. I'v
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by onion2k 5mo ago
Not really because nearly every adult has a phone with unlimited calling, and will allow you to make a call from their phone. This isn't very compatible with also teaching children that they can't trust the majority of adults, a
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by onion2k 5mo ago
One of the reasons cancer kills 1 in 4 people because we've eradicated lots of things that killed people before they were old enough to develop cancer. If we ever manage to cure cancer (or some cancers, because it's a taxonomy rat
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by onion2k 5mo ago
Twenty _thousand_ people had their personal data stolen, many of them relied on these accounts to run their business, many put at risk of hackers impersonating them. It only worked for accounts that didn't have 2FA switched on. If yo
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by onion2k 5mo ago
It is fairly obvious that the majority of people who buy software (>99%) don't really care how it's built. They care a lot about the outcome of using it, they care a little bit about whether there are bugs or not, and they care
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by onion2k 5mo ago
A bug is a feature that does what the code says it should do, not what the requirements say it should do (or shouldn't in the case of most bugs). When you understand that there's no difference between a bug and a feature in the c
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by onion2k 5mo ago
I was thinking more along the lines of "I'm not in a position to have children because I can't afford them, so I won't. Now I have more time to fill, what's on TV?" How can you tell that isn't what'
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by onion2k 5mo ago
How can you tell that tech is the cause of people not having children, and not just what they're doing because they don't have children to fill their time? I don't think you can point to the rise of tech as a casual just be
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by onion2k 5mo ago
Let’s face it: by the time I manually ship version 1.0 of a product, the AI-assisted version could have been deployed 10x faster. By then, enough real-world feedback would have surfaced to identify the major issues, and tools like Claude C
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by onion2k 5mo ago
Evolution did not anticipate social media and hyper addictive algorithms. People have been having children later since about the 1930s. The change has been gradual, so it's only really hitting hard now because they've not had an

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