rpdillon

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by rpdillon 4mo ago
> This was for a Google Workspace Business Plus account and workspace, from an up to date browser and OS.
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
It's crazy man, you can get full text search for any concept you want. Here goes: C-h r (open Emacs manual) C-s "line numbers" That's it. Just keep pressing C-s and it will search through every section of th
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
Emacs guy since '97, strongly agree. If you build your own config, the Ikea effect takes hold and you feel like you've made something that's "yours", even if it's mostly cutting and pasting (or using AI) to cob
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
The user is someone I've followed for more than a decade: > I’m a reporter who has written about technology, economics, and public policy for more than a decade. Before I launched Understanding AI, I wrote for the Washington Post, V
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
I've bought several houses in the U.S., and the last one I sold, I didn't have a realtor. I'm not sure what point you're making here.
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Hang on; You said financially and technically illiterate. You didn't just say the predictions were inaccurate. GP is asking for evidence of illiteracy.
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I feel like this is an example of Sturgeon's Law - almost every thread can be filled with complaints, because most everything is crap. What's more interesting is the cases where it isn't. Those prove that the idea can be good
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
Right after I posted, I realized this hole in what I was saying. Reflecting a bit more, I agree with you, but only in cases where the author of the open source project doesn't aggressively shun the use of AI in their own work. Folks th
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
The premise of this argument is that using AI takes no skill, and experience using AI doesn't matter, and that domain expertise in software development won't help you build better software with AI. I don't think any of thos
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> fake email Its a real address that I can use to monitor your behavior, since businesses send so much damn spam. Been using them for 25 years, not gonna stop any time soon.
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
Speaking only for myself: worked in tech for 2+ decades. Teen kids. Don't support any kind of ban whatsoever. My job is to teach my kids about the world and innoculate them against the evil. They are going to be adults before long, and
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
This is very true. I'm not a huge fan of social media, but all the discussions seem to cherry pick stats and lack nuance. Politics is the new religion.
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I think maintaining the MV2 paths would be a huge maintenance burden, but this approach, being scoped to only four plugins that are widely used, seems to be much more tractable. I'd put on about the same level of effort as maintaining
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
I mentioned this above, but Brave both includes its own ad blocking engine and has also added support for the MV2 version of UBo to the core engine. https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
Brave has an interesting approach where they have added core support for four key MV2 extensions to the core of the browser engine, bypassing MV3 entirely. > Update: As of v1.81, we host the following Manifest V2 (MV2) extensions on Brav
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
Verifying is harder than building for some problems, but not all. I think part of the trick of using AI is applying it where verification is easy.
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wdired is still magic to me. Use it almost every day.
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Kill chain is a military term relating to the sequence of events that lead up to the actual attack. You're probably thinking of kill ring, which I always thought was a neat term.
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My favorite has always been: > 31. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. Kind of close to "build the first one to throw away".
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These were published in the Communications of the ACM in the 1980s, I discovered them in the early 2000s, and have been reading them annually since. Every year, one of the ones that didn't make sense to me the previous year suddenly do
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
> But ironically, I used AI to build it This is a pattern I encourage - the AI might not be reliable, but with coaching, it can produce reliable tools. `colordiff` was causing issues with `less` when I was looking at diffs (character enc
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
> effective Depends on the task.
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Using a harness to build something should clear that barrier, by the same logic that a photographer pointing on camera at something and pressing a button clears the barrier.
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It's mostly that how much you decide to involve AI as a spectrum. To extend to the pizza analogy, I feel like you're telling me that because I used dough that I bought at the store, I shouldn't be proud of the pizza I made, e
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
But you're acting like everything that you use AI to build is easy to achieve, and that doesn't seem to be true.
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You're assuming that everybody will be equally skilled in using an LLM to create software. I don't think anything in my experience indicates that this is true.
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I think there's a spectrum between simply writing a prompt and generating slop and using AI in a loop over many hours/days/weeks to produce something that works the way you want it to. I get a great sense of accomplishment fr
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
There's some truth here. But in carefully orchestrated scenarios (the minority, to be sure), it can work surprisingly well, I think.
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Except the article doesn't say that, only the comment here does.
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by rpdillon 4mo ago
This is really insightful, but I think it also extends to making the project either low stakes or low complexity. I have this lurking feeling that the preferable architecture for software will change as a result of LLMs because they're

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