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by scubbo 1y ago
It's a classic "annoyingly-misleading wise-sounding statement", because there's an interpretation - which I think is the intended one - which _is_ correct; "every day [that you do it] it gets easier [than it would h
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by scubbo 1y ago
I first got hold of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas early in the summer holidays during my school years, which meant I was able to play nearly-uninterrupted (save for pesky things like sleep and food) for several days straight. When I finally
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by scubbo 1y ago
> i think you might be picking up on a level of disdain from others based on your attitude that might not be related to your profession. Bravo
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by scubbo 1y ago
No - that was implicitly in response to the sentence: > The problem is executives want to completely remove humans from the loop, which almost universally leads to disastrous results.
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by scubbo 1y ago
It _is_ a gaming term - it is also a military term (from which the gaming term arose).
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by scubbo 1y ago
I'm still on the AI-skeptic side of the spectrum (though shifting more towards "it has some useful applications"), but, I think the easy answer is - if different models/prompts are used in generation than in quality-&#x2
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by scubbo 1y ago
If you don't expect people to read commit messages, why would you expect that they'd read notes?
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by scubbo 1y ago
It's not much of a reach to go from "discussion about impact on human-verification dialogs" to 'discussion about human-verification dialog policy". This isn't an incident-management channel, it's a discuss
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by scubbo 1y ago
But she does shape the culture of her company.
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by scubbo 1y ago
> The title is a bit overly dramatic. I call it "The Charity Majors effect".
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by scubbo 1y ago
That was implied :)
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by scubbo 1y ago
Thank you, TI(2)L!
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by scubbo 1y ago
The article lists the many ways in which the bar for success - the minimum "table stakes" that you have to achieve in order to be considered success - have drastically risen, and then concludes with: > we believe there’s never
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by scubbo 1y ago
> Yellow bus syndrome in action for me today There's a certain irony to being able to introduce you to the term "Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon" (which is the more-common name for what I assume you're referring to, as Goog
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by scubbo 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44172285 > [I] was apparently so desensitized to the latter construct that it actually took me ages to debug, because my brain simply did not consider that `if err != nil` was not sup
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by scubbo 1y ago
I just wanted to note that the discussion spawned from this thread convinced me to go read the story in its entirety. Thank you!
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by scubbo 1y ago
> then you have _that_ "littering" your code, instead of the syntax. Yes, exactly. The unusual thing _should_ look unusual.
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by scubbo 1y ago
One of my partners' favourite schooltime memories is of a teacher boldly proclaiming: > "Me" can never be the first word of a sentence
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by scubbo 1y ago
GNU Terry Pratchett
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by scubbo 1y ago
Leaving aside the fact that anthropomorphization is a perfectly valid discursive shorthand - yes, exactly. LLMs have an insanely-high risk profile to be granted access to anything without a human-in-the-loop. > any sane engineer won&#x27
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by scubbo 1y ago
I keep waiting for someone to break character and admit that this is all an extended trolling campaign. People are actually connecting these autocompletes to APIs and giving credentials to take impactful external actions? Y'all are _in
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by scubbo 1y ago
> this is a feature users will soon want everywhere Some users - the less privacy-conscious. Many others (who probably frequent this site) actively do (and will) not.
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by scubbo 1y ago
> Again, a little bit odd considering that the author is technically savvy enough to write an entire PKMS but didn't seem to consider that you can just check your markdown notes into a git repository and sync with the native android
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by scubbo 1y ago
It is true to say that "a bad thing with an extra bad thing is worse than just the original bad thing", yes. If there exists a market for imaginary trading cards whose value is loosely predicated on how well a company markets itse
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by scubbo 1y ago
You can't positively polarize me into thinking there's a social good to placing a simple buy order. That's precisely my point.
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by scubbo 1y ago
Amen. It's been my experience that, for any innovation in financial technology, if you keep asking "and why is that beneficial?" for long enough, you will finally arrive (via tangents into "liquidity" and suchlike)
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by scubbo 1y ago
Would you share those extensions so that other people can join you in this good situation?
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by scubbo 1y ago
Garbage data is still data, and data (garbage or not) is still more valuable than a single anecdote. Insights can only be distilled from data, by first applying those controls you mentioned.
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by scubbo 1y ago
I'm really confused by products like this and Warp Drive[0]. What does this add over a shell script? There is a response elsewhere in comments[1] which claims that this is trying to fix the problem of bad documentation, but this has th
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by scubbo 1y ago
Very few of these are "disadvantages of the change". They are, instead, complaints that the improvement is not to-perfection.

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