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by prmph 3mo ago
Better as one word "vibecounterexamplemaxxing"
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by prmph 3mo ago
It may not be a lot of dying at once, but some modern wars are rivaling these catastrophic wars of old in casualties. By some counts there have already been at least a million casualties in the Ukraine war, and in Gaza there is probably 100
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by prmph 3mo ago
It's not over-engineering if you are committed to what you are building for the long term, and know you'd very likely need stronger architecture at a certain time. No one starts a project for perfectly objective reasons. Your choi
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Two U.S. Troops Killed in Iranian Barrage on Base in Jordan(twz.com)
3 points by prmph 3mo ago|0 comments
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by prmph 3mo ago
Isn't Anthropic anti software engineering? This state of affairs is exactly what you should expect.
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by prmph 3mo ago
I don't know, this is a company that is pushing the narrative of software engineers becoming obsolete. Why do you think they would have respect for Software Engineering processes. As few as they are concerned, a few coders working in i
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by prmph 3mo ago
The vendor of a piece of software decides how best they'd like to be paid. A subscriptions approach allows them to avoid demanding a big payment upfront, and allows them to continue improving the software without you having to pay subs
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by prmph 3mo ago
As it should be. You'd prefer they get nothing for the effort they put into developing the software?
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Collapse of romantic infrastructure an engineering fail, not GenZ character flaw(slowboring.com)
3 points by prmph 3mo ago|1 comments
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by prmph 3mo ago
I could not disagree more. I can't even fathom how someone can say this with a straight face. Judging by the absolute garbage (architecture-wise) that the frontier models put out, I pity anyone taken in by this sort of thinking. They r
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Is there any reason to think dolphins and humans have a special relationship?(aeon.co)
2 points by prmph 3mo ago|0 comments
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by prmph 3mo ago
Quality is the ratio of the value you derive from the software to the cost to you of using it. Most typical quality attributes can be subsumed under this schema. If the software costs too much to change because the architecture is poor, tha
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by prmph 3mo ago
> The RxScanner is a handheld spectrometer that scans a pill with infrared light, then sends the item’s molecular profile to an AI model equipped with a pharmaceutical database. In seconds, the AI identifies the medication from its molec
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by prmph 3mo ago
End-to-end encryption is about protecting data at rest on the vendor's servers. TLS only secures data in transit. The article's argument is a bit like saying TLS protects plain-text passwords in transit, so there is no need to sto
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by prmph 3mo ago
But we are talking about protecting data at rest on the vendor's servers. Unless the vendor stores no user data at, how does TLS protect that data? Your argument is a bit like saying TLS protects plain-text passwords in transit, so the
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by prmph 3mo ago
Two problems I see with the authors argument. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can chip in to correct me if I'm wrong: 1. Aren't E2EE systems designed to prevent decryption of content already created in the past sitting on the ven
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by prmph 3mo ago
I'm not sure why people have not hit on the following hybrid architecture that works so well for me. I make use of table-valued db functions (IMO the most underrated feature of relational DBs) to define virtual relations/tables. I
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by prmph 3mo ago
Way to miss the point. I said I can be sure of what I am recollecting, not whether the my recollection actually matches what happened.
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by prmph 3mo ago
My internal reality I hope tracks external reality. And what I can be certain about is what my internal reality is. And if you think I cannot be sure of that, I think I can be certain about I think my internal reality is. And if you think
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by prmph 3mo ago
> a bunch of narratives our brains thread into a cohesive story ex post facto That is exactly the reality I am asserting, whether or not they actually describe an "external" reality
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by prmph 3mo ago
I can be absolutely certain of my perception and recollection of what my consciousness is experiencing and has experienced. Note that the truth of this statement does not depend on any certainty about external reality, nor does it depend on
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by prmph 3mo ago
So many things to think about regarding these "benchmarks": - Do the ever increasing scores on the mean we will soon have models that approach 100%? And what would that even mean? That there is no more room for improvement? - Woul
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by prmph 3mo ago
So that hopefully we can go further in the discussion without it having to repeatedly bring up those (discredited) objections. But it does forget, and I'd have to prime it again for another session.
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by prmph 3mo ago
I've also noticed the opposite problem: Sometimes the LLM, when asked a detailed question (probably with some lead-in), pushes back in a way that betrays that they fell back to general tropes without really considering the nuances of y
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Goalkeepers beware: Trionda World Cup ball hits 'crisis' point at certain speed(theguardian.com)
2 points by prmph 3mo ago|1 comments
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by prmph 3mo ago
Some notable excerpts: > Researchers took the ball and fired it through a wind tunnel to measure the effect of aerodynamic forces upon it. They did so from six angles and found a consistent outcome. Regardless of where the ball was struc
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by prmph 4mo ago
The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them..."
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by prmph 4mo ago
You misunderstand the article. His point is that if you want to be properly compensated for your writing, then you need to take the capitalist bull by the horns, so to speak. His objection is this middle place where "buy me a coffee&qu
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by prmph 4mo ago
Do you think "aid" is meant to actually help these countries??
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by prmph 4mo ago
Are you on the latest version?

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