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by overfeed 9mo ago
> In theory you can write something else than a giant over-complicated, over-abstracted pile of OOP nonsense in C#, but every team I've seen has. C# syntax is fine, but has a rotten[1] culture/conventions. I suppose it makes se
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by overfeed 9mo ago
This is textbook retaliation. Your statement is akin to a manager firing their underling after their romantic advances are rejected, and quoting at-will employment laws. Sure, you can be fired for "any" reason - except retaliati
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> That needs extraordinary evidence. Waymo studied this back when it was a Google moonshot, and concluded that going full automation is safer than human supervision. A driving system that mostly works lulls the driver into complacency.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
They still look like luxury, though. Here's a 2011 entry-level Mercedes https://www.edmunds.com/assets/m/for-sale/38-wddgf8bb5br1533...
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Your filthy Earth laws don't apply on Mars.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
That'd be an interesting attitude towards governance for a VC-funded startup with -- I presume -- VC-controlled board seats.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> China is capitalist on a state level, that's where they are winning. The US lets things get mired in red tape and special interests because nobody wants to take responsibility for growth. i.e. in China, the government controls cap
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by overfeed 9mo ago
If you think of Musk companies as vehicles to extract money from state and federal governments, then everything falls into focus. Carbon credits, government launches and the Quixotic quest for Mars, and soon Tesla robots sold to the DoD and
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> Lastly, even if they succeed, competition will catch up and the market will be saturated. Waymo is already in the lead, and OEMs will be beating down Waymo's door to license a simplified Driver stack if L3 autonomy becomes a sales
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> I suppose that is "in the tech field" too, as non-tech people would be happy with an $80K job where a lot are under $50K Indeed. The median salary in America for full time employment is a little over $63K. Edit: if the messag
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by overfeed 9mo ago
I'm yet to encounter an AI-bull who admits the LLM tendency towards creating tech debt- outside of footnotes stating it can be fixed by better prompting (with no examples), or solved by whatever tool they are selling
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> Eventually it was easier just to quit fighting it and let it do things the way it wanted. I wouldn't have believed it a few tears ago if you told me the industry would one day, in lockstep, decide that shipping more tech-debt is a
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> Since a set is a minimum of 1hour, you don't care for song search, album art etc. I do care for song search in sets; has the use of .cue files fallen out of fashion as a solution[1]? Amarok supported .cue files since forever, it
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Cost is not a barrier. Entry-level kit aircraft are cheap in the US, as in cheaper than some of the fancier trucks. The very basic micro-lites are cheaper than any new car. Conversely, Europeans workers get to enjoy some hobbies more than A
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> Try to understand why the US has high tech salaries though. It is because the last 40 years have made it pretty easy and convenient to start companies. I thought this was because US trade and foreign policy coerced most of the world to
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> The effort to review this stuff is now massively more than the effort to "create" it I don't doubt the AI companies will soon announce products that will claim to solve this very problem, generating turnkey submission re
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> What amazes me is why would someone spend millions to train this model and give it away for free. What is the business here? How many millions did Google spend on Android (acquisition and salaries), only to give it away for free? Usual
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Yes, but they have their own weaknesses. For instance, Briar exposes your Bluetooth MAC, and there's a bunch of nasty Bluetooth vulns waiting to be exploited. You can't ever perfectly solve for both security and usability, you can
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by overfeed 9mo ago
A core tenet of the "dark enlightenment" mind-virus that has taken hold of the valley is the idea that civilizational decline/collapse is not only inevitable but imminent, so they don't really mind getting a bigger slice
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by overfeed 9mo ago
As I said earlier - both subjects present legal jeopardy in the respective jurisdictions, and both result in unexplained errors to the users.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Go ahead and ask ChatGPT who Jonathan Turley is, you'll get a similar error "Unable to process response". It turns out "AI company avoids legal jeopardy" is universal behavior.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> In a fresh project that is well documented and set up it might work better. I guess this may be dependent on domain, language, codebase, or soke combination of the 3. The biggest issues I've had with agents is when they go down th
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by overfeed 9mo ago
"Change this sentence, change the date and resubmit" is rubber-stamping - they just require a big-enough fig-leaf and are bold enough to publicly hint at the parameters of the fig-leaf they will accept.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> [...]coding agents only get the information they actually need and nothing more Extrapolating from this concept led me to a hot-take I haven't had time to blog about: Agentic AI will revive the popularity of microservices. Mostly
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by overfeed 9mo ago
In an accident, culpability cannot transfer to a computer ostensibly running under your supervision. As a driver, you likely sign away all claims to blaming CommaAI when you accept the EULA & ToS updates.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
I wasn't shitting on Radicle - I think centralized Git is antithetical to the D in DVCS.
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Nintendo can't shutdown your git server if it's running on a Raspberry Pi in your pantry, or a NAS appliance in your home office/basement. As a matter of fact, Forgejo/Gitea are excellent choices for automatic mirroring
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by overfeed 9mo ago
> Your 'cope' accusation has no place here I will rephrase my statement and continue to stand by it: "Denying the volume of original AI research being done by China - a falsifiable metric - betrays some level of cope.&quot
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Perhaps you should pay attention to where the puck is going to be, rather than where it is currently. Lots of original ideas are coming out of Chinese AI research[1], denying this betrays some level of cope. 1. e.g. select any DeepSeek rele
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by overfeed 9mo ago
Care to explain how the volume of AI research papers authored by Chinese researchers[1] has exceeded US-published ones? Time-traveling plagiarism perhaps, since you believe the US is destined to lead always. 1. Chinese researcher in China

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