rdiddly

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by rdiddly 10mo ago
Apparently school didn't already suck enough, and needed to suck more. With each passing year it's more and more like prison.
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
Yes, that's how I solve all problems. I can't do anything now, because I didn't do anything before. It's my rule of thumb. Never start doing things!
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
The point is that it's an ad. No company spends money on a joke just to make a joke. Not the end of the world, although it's interesting that all the end of the world stuff comes directly out of that joke and its universe as it we
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
None of those figures are what the engineer makes, they're costs. And they're illustrative, not literal. You won't pay everyone at the same rate either for example, and not all will be engineers either, and I totally left bot
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
There are about 800 unique weekly committers to the Chromium project, so that's a start at gauging the number for that project. A little harder to find that same figure for Firefox, but Wikipedia says Mozilla Corp had about 750 employe
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
Are LLMs intelligent? The question is far from settled, despite widespread discussion to the point of tedium. But this post freely equates the two without any reflection or qualification, not even a footnote. Omitting it avoids the tedium,
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
Yeeessss! Microservices!
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
All true except the fact that it's not virtue that they're signaling.
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
Obsequious is my adjective of choice for this
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
It's not obvious to me what you expect from this hypothetical 0.01% post, or in other words, what about it makes it a one-in-ten-thousand post?
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
¿Por qué no los dos?
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
So papers and citations are created with AI, and here they're being reviewed with AI. When they're published they'll be read by AI, and used to write more papers with AI. Pretty soon, humans won't need to be involved at
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
> So the corporation can and will keep its secrets, even though what it is dealing in is information, even when its business is making knowledge accessible, open, free — the very opposite of keeping secrets. Oh yeah, I had forgotten Go
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
Haven't read Stallman on it, but it's funny how vague & generic the term is, and how it requires the existence of a container. Content is simply "that which is contained." Seems to me it's a word you use when yo
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
I realize this is about money, and it's 2025 right now, and I'm probably just old, but what will happen to quality? I actually laughed, twice, because they did this, twice: > Beloved franchises, shows and movies such as [list
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
Everything you've said about comfort and complacency is equally if not more true of scarcity though. Scarcity leads directly to short-term thinking because there's no future to plan for or maintain. Erosion of social bonds happens
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
Everything seemed to be Pascal case back then.
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
To the author's brief list of areas where AI can't be used because it's too risky, I would add "driving on the public roads," but like everything else on the list, it's currently being done anyway.
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
Ironically this manages to break all four of Apple's famous UI principles from Bruce Tognazzini: discoverability, transparency, feedback and recovery
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by rdiddly 11mo ago
Control is the whole point. One person being in charge, enacting their little whims, is what you get in an uncontrolled situation and what we have now. The assumption is that you live in a democratic society and "the regulator" is
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by rdiddly 11mo ago
Couldn't brashness or naive certainty (whether correlated with youth or not) also lead to... this article? Where a founder is _so sure_ his startup is so amazing and virtuous that it uniquely deserves to bypass the regulations that wer
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by rdiddly 11mo ago
Is it me or was that somewhat incoherent?
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by rdiddly 11mo ago
I get the thrust of this; it's to help Virgos[0] stop procrastinating by over-preparing. But you do need some minimal level of preparation. So declaring that preparing to do a thing isn't doing the thing becomes almost a tautology
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by rdiddly 11mo ago
The complaint is that there's no actionable information whatsoever. Alarm bells are just noise.
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by rdiddly 11mo ago
You know what, maybe I should consider it! It's the Microsoft stack, I'm embarrassed
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by rdiddly 11mo ago
1) You projected that anticipated focus into the title. Not wrongly. But I for example did not. My slant was more about innovation. The title doesn't inherently imply or contain either one. 2) The small, practical thing the post is act
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by rdiddly 11mo ago
I'm working on an unremarkable line-of-business CRUD app, but how are you?
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by rdiddly 11mo ago
And yet, what you are calling "the past" exists now in the present. It may be that some of those sites resemble "the past" simply because they value certain things, and those values just happen to have been prevalent the
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by rdiddly 11mo ago
Safety is not the only parameter that can be engineered (obviously), nor is it the only one subject to regulation. Efficiency for example is regulated, like when the EPA states what an appliance must accomplish while using some amount of en
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by rdiddly 11mo ago
Any place money is changing hands needs at least enough engineering, enough "application of scientific principles," to do it securely. Observably failing at that task means it ends up not being a pet food store. (It ceases to exis

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