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by pilgrim0 2y ago
Software is a mean to an end. So programming is a mean to a mean to an end. LLMs are also means to an end. Why would we want to use LLMs as a mean to a mean to a mean to an end, when it can be transparently specialized to get users directly
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
Exactly. But for the managers who don’t have skin in the game and only care about cost and deadlines, once someone denounce your diligence efforts as perfectionism they will be biased against your steering proposals. That’s the real problem
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
Articles in this spirit pisses me off so much, and they’re increasingly becoming trendy. I hate it because they promote the wrong ideas. Downscaling and re-scoping a project is NOT the same as corner cutting. You can almost always come up w
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
IME, even the word “perfectionism” is weaponized against us who actually mind risks, results and sustainability of work, beyond of just doing it for the sake of completion and compensation, like the other group. Why is it safe to “denounce”
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
Having a design background, I agree completely. To explain why design matters in this case, we simply need to look at ergonomic factors: literally the “economy of work.” That’s why I pointed out the "end to end" claim as a lie bec
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
So, in the report, the statement "the power of AI to perform complete _end-to-end_ scientific research" is a blatant lie. Given that your comment seems to be the most reasonable one, and considering that I've seen, over and o
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
Can anyone here argue with confidence (read: evidence) that this AI boom is, in fact, yielding real-life, non-superfluous evolutionary advantages to mankind in general? Judging from a primitive metric, I see no one around me benefiting from
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by pilgrim0 2y ago
Errors happen when one or more of a function’s assumed dependencies are missing or invalidated. So in a PL like you’re imagining, every function would need to run an assertion prologue validating all of its static dependencies. As for dynam
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
I would, by routine, advise that publicly available boxes are configured to accept connections only from whitelisted sources, doing that at the lowest possible level on the stack. That’s usually how secure environments such as those used in
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
Coordinating that would be a nightmare. Interesting idea, though
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
I feel exactly the same. The history of computing is full of really simple alternative models that didn’t make it into mainstream. So, the easiest way to imagine what future tech could look like is by looking at the past. The state we are i
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
It seems like the Tuple Space [1] model for distributed computing, put forth by Linda, lends itself perfectly for this use case. I very much appreciate the ratio of simplicity to power offered by tuple spaces. At it’s original form maybe it
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
IMO simply striving to gain power or money is easier than to achieve greatness and mastery, in general. Mainly because one can lie their way into power and money, countless examples of that both at a local level and global level. Now, maste
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
I agree. I think one way to achieve that is to first acknowledge the important distinction between modes of programming and levels of abstraction. See, even in programming, we’re still restricted to a given domain. A web dev does not progr
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
Interesting how such large scale outages can ONLY happen because of human errors, in this case by a poorly thought out heuristics. Like, a literal explosion could hardly achieve this level of disruption when there’s physical failover protec
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Unit is a self-similar higher-order notation for hypermedia(jon.work)
4 points by pilgrim0 3y ago|0 comments
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
Yep. I think they had enough peer validation from their own bubble and got too comfortable and biased with their marketing. I see this happening a lot in tech circles. The world at large has definitely not seen muse and what it can do. I th
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
Just giving my own perspective. It was hard for me to come across muse within my search for tools in that space, something about SEO was not working. Never had a single ad or organic content hit my timeline in social networks. I actively sc
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Directory as a website(jon.work)
1 points by pilgrim0 3y ago|0 comments
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
Honestly? I dislike every single one and I avoid it when possible. It’s a matter of aligning the UX with the client’s preferences and expertise. Last project I used contentful, it has a lot of features, so it’s a good choice for a project w
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
solid and tauri for apps, astro for content sites (with a headless cms if it’s big)
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
That sounds totally doable by using off the shelf tech, could even be versioned. A couple developers (front and backend) can deliver a MVP for this product in a matter of weeks.
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
Note that I’m commenting in the spirit of “being ok to dream”, as the article promoted. There’s only so much creativity available for software engineers to work around the fundamental constraints imposed by the lower levels. Software Engine
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
Hard to give advice with so little information regarding both the goals and the availability of resources. But I guess I would first ask if the MVP is even necessary? If the goal is to get funding for a startup and you have a good track rec
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
The other commenter already outlined the main trade-offs, which boils down to increased latency and storage overhead for the file-per-object model. As for papers, I like the design of Haystack. https://www.usenix.org/legacy
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
I was quite surprised to discover that minio is one file per object. Having read some papers about object stores, this is definitely not what I expected.
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
I keep my notebooks around. But I get your point about the paper making industry. I think it’s mostly water waste than by-products pollution, though, since most sources nowadays employ reforestation. Those industries evolved a lot. Unbleach
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
Honestly? Install classic software and use it! I needed exactly those sort of references to design a project and knowing I wouldn’t find them on the web, I booted a win95 vm and studied it. My designs improved dramatically.
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
I’ll give my perspective as a designer turned developer. People have always conflated design with “desenho” (drawing). But design is supposed to be more about information architecture. It just so happens that what’s usually trusted to be ar
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by pilgrim0 3y ago
This nails it! It’s essentially equivalent to a Boolean property, muted = true|false.

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