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by pmg101 3mo ago
> AI-generated code has about 1.7 times as many major issues as code written by humans That's a very specific number I'd love to know the source of (and investigate further.)
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by pmg101 3mo ago
The smartphone free childhood movement is explicitly saying children shouldn't have phones (until 14). I'm broadly with them although with nuance.
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by pmg101 3mo ago
This style of prose sets my teeth on edge and practically gives me PTSD I see so much of it. I prefer code but I get paid to read this shit instead now. I want to say "ok, and now say that in a way that doesn't sound totally bizar
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by pmg101 3mo ago
A massive amount of human natural intelligence goes into war, economic competition and gaining dominance over others though?
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by pmg101 3mo ago
I just don't see that borne out in the real world though. My mother worked in an office in London as a shorthand typist in the 60s, along with thousands of other young women. At some point computers began to enter offices, bosses typed
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by pmg101 3mo ago
If you wanna travel faster you can build muscle, or you can just get in a car.
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by pmg101 3mo ago
I've also wondered about it. I think the answer is, "you don't really need 10,000 engineers". You can do a lot with small teams of engineers. This was true before AI. Macintosh was designed and built from scratch with a
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by pmg101 3mo ago
Isn't that basically a one sentence description of the feudal system that operated for five centuries in Europe?
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by pmg101 3mo ago
Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, novels were regarded as the video games or TikTok of their age — shallow, addictive, and dangerous [0] You can interpret that as either "there's always a moral panic about anything new" or
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by pmg101 3mo ago
If iPhone user may I suggest Apple Configurator or Assistive Access to strictly limit the things you can do with your phone? Not sure what solutions exist on Android but I'd be amazed if there are none.
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The Software Engineering War(manager.dev)
1 points by pmg101 3mo ago|0 comments
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by pmg101 3mo ago
My back button is actually a triangle at the bottom left of my Android screen so I don't think that works, but it's a great hack to know for desktop and I'll remember it! Much obliged
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by pmg101 3mo ago
I had to press the Back button a LOT of times to get back to HN!
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by pmg101 3mo ago
Have you seen the original bicycles. Boneshakers and so on. No pneumatic tires. They were just enough more efficient than walking to sell but other than that pretty dreadful. Penny farthings where your feet directly drove the wheel. So many
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by pmg101 4mo ago
Of course it's accurate to say a lot of people aren't smart. A lot of people also may or may not be smart but have limited knowledge of this area and limited time/effort to expend thinking about it. I don't think you sho
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by pmg101 4mo ago
I am so tired of everyone assuming the worst possible implementation of age verification. Whatever happened to steel manning? It's supposed to be in the fabric of HN. Curious enquiry. Is it nice children are exposed to dreadful things?
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by pmg101 4mo ago
I love the computer too. Never more than while writing 6502 assembler for a decades-defunct home computer for literally no purpose at all. Meanwhile, the economy needs software to be written and I need employment, and I'm lucky enough
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by pmg101 4mo ago
It certainly seems similar. Except China is just humans in a different location so it shouldn't be surprising they can do things humans in the US can do. LLMs are a totally distinct type of thing. It's possible they'll be abl
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by pmg101 4mo ago
I have a 10yo. I know loads of parents too. I don't think I've ever heard the "freedom" position taken apart from on HN. To non-techies it just seems self evident we should block kids from seeing beheadings and donkey po
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by pmg101 4mo ago
A deeper dive would go into why this seems to be such a quintessentially American pursuit. I'd speculate perhaps something to do with capitalism, and also maybe a culture made out of people coming together from other cultures was more
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by pmg101 4mo ago
Because god forbid that childhood, the one time in your life when you don't have any responsibilities, should be fun.
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Will technology put an end to jobs? (1980)(youtube.com)
3 points by pmg101 4mo ago|1 comments
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by pmg101 4mo ago
Will we all be automated out of our jobs? Will it create an economic boom, or a crash? How will it affect education? Will we all work from home? The microprocessor revolution.
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by pmg101 4mo ago
I think the right comparison is the invention of the microprocessor. At that time people were grappling with a lot of the same things we are today - would it automate jobs away, would it transform education and the work place, etc.
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by pmg101 4mo ago
It seems to me that the supply of friends is more or less unlimited, such that it's pretty reasonable to apply filters when choosing who to befriend. "Also not using tiktok" could be one such filter.
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by pmg101 5mo ago
I wouldn't describe it as malice. If your job is to make the line go up, you make the line go up, and are rewarded for doing so, then you have done your job.
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by pmg101 5mo ago
This is one explanation, sure. Isn't it more likely that they simply don't in fact care about the "thing they care about", only the metric? They can plot the metric on a chart and receive praise, so that's what they
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by pmg101 5mo ago
Are you saying that the proposals will not protect children? Or that they may protect children, and that is being presented as the rationale behind such proposals, but that is not the real underlying reason?
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by pmg101 5mo ago
> If you're the kind of engineer who reads the implementation instead of trusting the function name, we'd like to talk. Functional decomposition, combined with good naming, is what allows engineers to raise the level of abstrac
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Knowledge Graphs for AI Coding Assistants(graphify.net)
1 points by pmg101 5mo ago|0 comments

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