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by rafaelmn 3y ago
LLM quality drops aren't disillusionment either - it's scale/cost optimization. And those are subscription models - Siri/Google assistant is bundled with device/services.
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
Site doesn't include code snippet with font as showcase :( Looks quite wide from the font preview.
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
Probably more about getting known cut/fresh meat. Easier to see what you're buying before it's ground. Also they don't can't sterilize the grinder between customers so doubt it does much for hygiene. This is very co
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
You think these robots are good for pest control ?
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
It's decent fun even if you're younger (in my experience :))
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
I thought this fad of building identity on labels was dying down ? I have no idea if her diagnosis is right - doesn't sound pathological/needing a diagnosis. Reading trough the article I don't feel I've gained any practi
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
> There's no point boycotting one company playing by the system rules This is a bad attitude - every system can be gamed - social/market pressure is an important mechanism for shaping outcomes.
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
Does Java even have custom value types ? Looks like author is attributing FP features to Rust ?
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
New Prius comes in very close to Model 3 with subsidies around here. Price isn't the issue for me - charging is. Hybrids let me take road trips without worrying about that nonsense while letting me commute on a charge.
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
Except when inflation eats your savings at faster than 1 unit per year. Even in low inflation/normal interest rates you need a lot of savings to live off of interest alone.
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
Also sounds like you could create a human clone embryo and harvest the stem cells. There are already surrogate pregnancy outsourcing places in poor parts of the world - if this is viable I expect this to become the new blood boy fad for the
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
People tend to use CI as a synonym for automated build pipeline.
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
code generator that isn't LLM based - how quaint :)
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
> and that doesn’t feel really weird. Seeing people step on a treadmill for the first time I'd say it definitely does. You get used to it but the feeling is very different from regular walking/running.
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
> I really can't grasp how people think that a system that doesn't have a need to preserve itself will somehow start thinking for itself. Society exists because cooperation outperforms the alternatives. If you have human level
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
Plastic surgery only gets you so far. Likewise for AI generated content.
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
Use international contractors ? Or is the deduction for local devs only ?
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
Hydrogen is one thing that comes to mind. I guess if your not concerned about efficiency there could be a lot of ways to do this.
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
Passkeys ?
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
> hopefully that will allow Apple to untie the iPad and allow it to run iOS, macOS and Linux VMs. Why would they do that ? They want their 30% on everything you install on iOS.
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
How often does an average X developer delve down to compiler details and contribute to static analysis tooling ? Metaprogramming and compilers/language analysis tooling is a jump above your run of the mill frontend code or CRUD backend
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
> Akin to having a Scrum standup with the kids each morning before school Why should I be the only one to suffer through these ceremonies, might as well indoctrinate the family.
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
This feels like hearing all the talk about AI replacing developers and then actually building stuff with the best models available and seeing them fail to generate JSON function calls according to a simple JSON schema and just make shit up
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
> I think that AI will rapidly slot into this niche of “indirect programming” however. As soon as token sizes allow large codebases to be be parsed and modified, it’s all over. Context size is the least of an issue - current models suck
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
From what I've heard they aren't offering competitive salaries, so introducing people at insane comps would probably destroy existing teams(if there was no salary bumps to match)/budgets (if there was). Doubt you can do much
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
Isn't US using prisoners for (effectively) forced labor ? US and EU are abusing (often illegal) immigrants and turning a blind eye to their terrible working conditions (eg. the slaughter house scandals in the EU that broke out during C
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
> Postgres's JSONB uses native numbers, which is faster but coerces values. You would probably be string quoting your numbers in your data/model if this matters to you so sounds like the right call from PG implementation.
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
Because of it's lisp nature with special braces I find it to be nicer for creating DOM than HTML : [:div [:p "I am a component!"] [:p.someclass "I have " [:strong "bold"] [:spa
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
Haha if there's one role I steer clear then it's anything OPs/admin related - no shortage of ass clenching situations where your job/product/the entire company might not be there tomorrow.
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
Because you lose the ability to fix/update it if you don't exercise it ? Depends on how much you value the ability to change the software.

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