ruraljuror

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by ruraljuror 23d ago
That it’s illegal for employees to use copyrighted work that they dont have permission to use to build a product seems much more obvious at face value than comparing an llm to a human artist.
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by ruraljuror 5mo ago
No days off for the agents.
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by ruraljuror 5mo ago
He talks about TI-83 programming in the Pragmatic Engineer Podcast interview.
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by ruraljuror 5mo ago
Right! I am very open about the sleep challenges I face with my children, but I also believe that the problem is due to lack of a rigid schedule. Routine is key not only for sleep, but general development. Unfortunately, I haven’t figured o
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by ruraljuror 5mo ago
Cry? Scream? Many kids can climb out of cribs earlier than 24m.
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by ruraljuror 5mo ago
> kept trying to design a contraption I could wear on my shoulders that worked like a laptop desk Nathan Fielder wears something like this in The Rehearsal . Google tells me it is called Connect-A-Desk.
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by ruraljuror 6mo ago
Of course git is great! Check out Mitchell Hashimoto’s podcast episode on the pragmatic engineer. He starts talking about AI at 1:16:41. At some point after that he discusses git specifically, and how in some cases it becomes impossible to
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by ruraljuror 6mo ago
+1. If we’re at an early stage in the agentic curve where we think reading commit messages is going to matter, I don’t want those cluttered with meaningless boilerplate (“co-authored by my tools!”). But at this point i am more curious if gi
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by ruraljuror 7mo ago
Hm, no, in F1 they don’t have the same car. Each season, each team builds their own (adhering to the Formula) and put massive amounts of efforts to gaining efficiency through engineering.
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by ruraljuror 7mo ago
Link to Friedman's piece on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/trump-tariffs-chi... Also he talks about this on The Ezra Klein Show.
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by ruraljuror 7mo ago
Sorry to cause fatigue. The US government absolutely does not do what China does in this case. But the reason for my paranthesis and question mark was that I was not sure what call it.
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by ruraljuror 7mo ago
Good point about the supply chain; and it seems like most responses mistakenly disagree with you. Thomas Friedman talks about this after his most recent visit to China. Where China excels is through rapid supply chain development by fierce
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by ruraljuror 9mo ago
Is that what happened? In Nexus , Harari looks at this exact same situation: the invention of the printing press, and shows how clergy used it to stoke witch hunts (ahem, misinformation) for decades--if not centuries. It was not for hundre
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by ruraljuror 9mo ago
I think they meant the result— not the content—would be the same.
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by ruraljuror 10mo ago
The book Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann covers exactly the topics you are asking about and references many blog posts.
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by ruraljuror 10mo ago
https://github.com/johnousterhout/aposd-vs-clean-code is a great find from that list. Thanks!
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by ruraljuror 10mo ago
Woah, what an unexpected surprise!
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by ruraljuror 10mo ago
Yeah how would you know? j/k Love ghostty!
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by ruraljuror 10mo ago
I frequently manage to do this writing bash scripts.
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by ruraljuror 11mo ago
I have a bad habit of not fully drying my hands when retrieving pods. The pods all clump together if they get wet. This is one of the many reasons I prefer powder.
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by ruraljuror 1y ago
Software developers don’t arrive fully formed. Rob Pike benefitted from reading a book or two.
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by ruraljuror 1y ago
If you confine agency to something only humans can have, which is “human agency,” then yes of course LLMs don’t have it. But there is a large body of philosophical work studying non-human agency, and it is from this characteristic of agency
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by ruraljuror 1y ago
I agree with your larger point, but I don't understand what you mean the LLM doesn’t do anything? LLMs do do things and they can absolutely have agency (hence all the agents being released by AI companies). I don’t think this agency ab
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by ruraljuror 1y ago
Where? In the U.S.? Whenever I have paid for gas with cash or from the cashier, I pay for it in advance, “Give me $10 of regular unleaded!”
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by ruraljuror 1y ago
Looks right to me. Are you referring to the capitalization?
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by ruraljuror 1y ago
The other half of the title is significant; it puts the article into the context of criticizing business leaders for how they think about AI given its current capabilities, which is what you suggested.
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by ruraljuror 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) This is not my idea. Yuval Noah Harari discusses it in Nexus . Gemini (partially) summarizes it like this: Harari argues that AI is fundamentally different from pr
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by ruraljuror 1y ago
I didn't mean to imply AI was sentient or approaching sentience. Agency seems to be the key distinction between it and other technologies. You can have agency, apparently, without the traits you claim I imply.
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by ruraljuror 1y ago
You missed half of the title.
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by ruraljuror 1y ago
> Okay, so write an article about how the hammer companies are dumb This is exactly how I interpreted the OP blog post: it is a great example of how companies are (mis)using AI given it's current abilities.

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