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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I am so confused, in the video didn't the senator just say that military service members are allowed to disobey illegal orders? Is that sedition?
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Maybe a silly question, but do any science-y people know if studies like this make sure the inverse relationship isn't actually what's at play? Basically how do we know the actual relationship isn't that unhealthy people are
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Cool project, will you actually maintain it?(pcloadletter.dev)
4 points by ronbenton 9mo ago|1 comments
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I agree with others, this doesn't sound too bad. The biggest things to come out of this was finding out system prompts and being able to self-XSS. I am guessing the tester tried to push further (e.g., extract user or privileged data da
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I thought the title meant the AWS UI was “terminal”, which I would be on board with
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
They're trying to ship AI features. Which is the issue. They shouldn't be shipping AI features, they should be solving problems. If AI features are in service of solving those problems then great. But starting from a fad solution
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
It appears people are now using the term "Microslop" which I find funny. I'm not in any way an anti-AI absolutist but I do get annoyed by how Microsoft has jammed it into every nook and cranny of their product suite.
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
That one makes me uncomfortable, which is a bad sign...
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
>Abstractions don’t remove complexity. They move it to the day you’re on call. Damn that's a real one. Nothing like struggling through a bunch of indirection to figure out what the heck a clever abstraction was supposed to do
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I have worked mostly in larger enterprises where there are no "clients" but rather customers. I enjoy talking to customers and seeing how they use the software and hearing about their challenges. But that is much much different th
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
>Karpathy has a great intuitive style, but sometimes it's too dumbed down As someone who has tried some teaching in the past, it's basically impossible to teach to an audience with a wide array of experience and knowledge. I th
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I miss requirements!
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I must say I do not have high hopes. 20 years in the business and it feels like a constant downward slope.
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Software Craftsmanship Is Dead(pcloadletter.dev)
44 points by ronbenton 9mo ago|24 comments
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Well, we see how they're doing now https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#g... Not that this was the wrong call. I think SO just had its time and now it's done
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Very neat that a bunch of people mentioned in the list are actively participating on this very thread!
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
>The more I think about it, the happier I am that AI is transforming the world of writing. In a way, I think it’ll make it even easier to stand out—because the more people take shortcuts, the less quality will remain for readers to flock
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Couldn’t have happened to a meaner community
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Trump pardoned a drug kingpin exactly one month ago. Of course this isn't about drugs.
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Determining the goodness of a blatantly illegal action by its ultimate success is a very Machiavellian view. Why have laws if all that matters is the final result?
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Marketed as "for doing" and not "for doomscrolling" but if it can host any Android app then what's really the distinction? Seems like at the end of the day it's a discipline thing regardless of the device, unle
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
RSS is my preferred way to consume blog posts. I also find blogs that have an RSS feed to be more interested in actually writing interesting content rather than just trying to get views/advertise. I guess this makes sense—hard to monet
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I still feel RSS was the pinnacle. Of course it’s a personal preference, but I much prefer letting people pull my content than pushing it onto them.
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Not a coincidence if you saw the recent monty hall problem post here (maybe a couple days ago). That gave me an itch to code up a side-by-side simulation with some controls to watch the results converge on the expected probabilities.
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The Monty Hall Problem, a side-by-side simulation(pcloadletter.dev)
7 points by ronbenton 9mo ago|1 comments
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
A good saying I heard recently is that the first amendment doesn’t exist to protect the speech you like, it exists to protect the speech you hate.
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
That’s a good call out, I should be more careful with my words. Practically, I haven’t seen age verification implemented online without some kind of identify credential furnished. But I didn’t mean to imply some kind of IAL2 compliant ident
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
This identity verification business for porn sites is a nightmare for privacy. Will just result in more personal info being hacked and blackmail given the subject matter.
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
>You can buy a bigger and bigger house car tv stereo whatever, but it will not make you happy. Well that seems like an assumption! Plenty of people are happier with nicer things. I don't think we need to tell people what should make
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
At my first job using Grafana right now. Really enjoying it! I found it to be a steep learning curve having been used to all the plug-and-play SaaS products. But you get such great power out of Grafana and, if you're willing to self-ho

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