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by pmg101 8mo ago
So are we basically saying that LLMs work most effectively on codebases that exhibit good quality coding practices, but are not themselves particularly good at creating such quality code themselves, since they were trained on all the code t
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by pmg101 8mo ago
This is a deranged take. Lots of slurs end in "er" because they describe someone who does something - for example, a wanker, one who wanks. Or a tosser, one who tosses. Or a clanker, one who clanks. The fact that the N word doesn&
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by pmg101 8mo ago
I drive a 2022 EV which has physical buttons for all the things you mention so you're good for a while
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by pmg101 8mo ago
All I can suggest is that you watch some of Adam Curtis's work.
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by pmg101 9mo ago
I for one am quite happy to outsource this kind of simply memorisation to a machine. Maybe it's the thin end of the slippery slope? It doesn't FEEL like it is but...
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by pmg101 9mo ago
Yes I remember reading that too and it resonated. As a slightly depressed person I can't believe the delusionally positive spin people seem to put on everything and nonetheless this seems to be a winning strategy for them. I never coul
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by pmg101 9mo ago
Isn't this just a rhetorical trick where by referring to a particular technology of the past which exploded rapidly into dominance you make that path seem inevitable? Probably some tech does achieve ubiquity and dominance and some does
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by pmg101 9mo ago
As a pessimist who's often right, and not rich, this resonates. But how can this be true? Surely you get rich by being right?
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by pmg101 9mo ago
Looks nice to lounge in but to read a book one needs arm rests, surely?
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by pmg101 9mo ago
Please share, I've been looking for such a chair for so long!
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by pmg101 9mo ago
This is completely true. I've spent decades, ie my whole adulthood, looking unsuccessfully for a properly comfortable reading chair.
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More than 100k people urge MPs to ban social media for under-16s in UK(theguardian.com)
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by pmg101 9mo ago
Now 200,000.
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by pmg101 9mo ago
I mean... This "realization" is what triggered the advent of agile, 2 decades ago, right? People almost never know what they want, so put SOMETHING in front of them, fast, and let's go from there
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by pmg101 9mo ago
Loneliness is bad, but other people are worse.
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by pmg101 9mo ago
I'm open and friendly to everyone I meet but get treated like a weirdo and ostracized (I am also a weirdo). You don't only have to be "open and friendly", you have to say the correct things in the correct way in the corr
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by pmg101 9mo ago
The problem is that this is unfalsifiable. I could equally say that any recent events has caused a chain of events leading to anything I dream up ... But we won't see the effects yet. It's a nonsense hypothesis since it can't
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Nvidia CEO reveals new 'reasoning' AI tech for self-driving cars(theguardian.com)
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Django Rapid Architecture(django-rapid-architecture.org)
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Tech hiring set to spike despite dire UK job market(cityam.com)
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by pmg101 10mo ago
Did they mean perhaps taking a 25 year mortgage on the median house would consume a third of the median income?
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by pmg101 10mo ago
Why hasn't this happened already? I'm willing to believe the hype on LLMs except that I don't see any tiny 1-senior-dev-plus-agents companies disrupting the market. Maybe it just hasn't happened "yet"... But I&
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by pmg101 10mo ago
"The LLM can write lines of code, sure, but can it be productive?" is, I think, the implied question.
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by pmg101 10mo ago
I always say, "it's a prediction, not a promise."
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by pmg101 10mo ago
1. Take every single function, even private ones. 2. Mock every argument and collaborator. 3. Call the function. 4. Assert the mocks were called in the expected way. These tests help you find inadvertent changes, yes, but the
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by pmg101 11mo ago
Your first three paragraphs are sound. But surely the problem with the final paragraph is the transition? Assuming the old style of vehicle remains on the road, then my lightweight one is at risk of being crushed. Only a niche minority woul
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by pmg101 11mo ago
What did the cops say?
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by pmg101 11mo ago
https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-com...
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by pmg101 1y ago
I realised this year that all the arguments I'd ever heard for shifting the hour (lighter mornings in winter help kids get to school alive and help farmers work) were arguments for GMT itself, not for BST. So why don't we just hav
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by pmg101 1y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with age but with the rate of new experiences. Take a year off work to travel the world and you'll find your subjective sense of time passing slows right down. Does it matter though? Does it mat

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