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by sfink 6mo ago
Ouch. I guess this came across as "my approach". I haven't done enough agentic coding to feel like I know enough to have a worthwhile, but at the moment I'm squarely in your camp. I don't believe it's going to
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by sfink 6mo ago
I just said someone's gonna build it, not that it's a good idea! To be fair [to myself], this is scale-dependent. I work on a product with hundreds of millions of users. We're not going to be reading and pondering every bit o
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by sfink 6mo ago
It's like those ridiculous people who try to make a PBJ without knowing anything about glycemic indexes, peanut smut, or the historical origins of breadmaking. Kids these days just want to use prefab libraries and frameworks with a mil
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by sfink 6mo ago
Living where? If it's in the GPU, then it's still taking up precious space that could be used for serving other sessions. If it's not in the GPU, then it doesn't help.
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by sfink 6mo ago
> Why does it take the company that is probably the best at agentic coding more than a month to find and solve such large regressions, even with customers complaining about them? My unfounded suspicion: because this is the tradeoff we&#x
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by sfink 6mo ago
You've already made a pretty big leap from surveillance to storing surveillance data persistently, and another to the tools. I'm not going to argue that mass surveillance is morally neutral.[1] Tolkien's Palantirs let you see
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by sfink 6mo ago
That depends on the definition of "surveillance". Should a foreman not pay close attention to his workers? Should a hospital not track its patients' locations and vital stats while within the hospital? Are cameras in a jewelr
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by sfink 6mo ago
It was, which is why it makes such a perfect analogy. Surveillance has lots of good and bad uses, and is morally neutral itself. Powerful but neutral. The problem comes when the users use it for bad purposes, and in fact it is so tempting t
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by sfink 6mo ago
> Corn subsidies are a few billions of dollars a year, that’s pretty cheap for food security. A few billions a year to destroy farming capacity in the rest of the world, and even within our country for growing anything non-corn (because
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by sfink 6mo ago
That can explain a little. Not the 40% of all corn grown that is used for ethanol. Which would be better for the nation's security? Having all this ethanol, or having 31x the energy provided by that ethanol via solar production? We cou
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by sfink 6mo ago
Nope, that's the cover story. The US subsidizes production , not capacity, which results in lots of excess crop that gets dumped on the market and depresses prices and impoverishes competitors. The ethanol mandates were created partly
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by sfink 6mo ago
Alternatively, you can have a fully safe language, and then to get certain things done you add fundamentally unsafe FFI[1]. Or you use IPC to a process written in an unsafe language. Again, you're "back in C++ land". It seems
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by sfink 6mo ago
I agree that GC code can be and usually is slower. But as a counterpoint: allocation can be very slow. Bump allocation is fast. If you know your lifetimes and can free all of your bump-allocated memory in one go, that's pretty much the
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by sfink 6mo ago
Oh, it definitely can, in a way very similar to the way you can dramatically increase doctor's success rates by being selective about who you treat. Specifically: take the most disruptive students and eat them. (Be stealthy about it, t
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by sfink 6mo ago
Of course there's a natural reason: conflict of interest. If someone bets on a release date or a product being cancelled, then they can gain for reasons contrary to the good of their employer. Corporations depend on controlling the com
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by sfink 6mo ago
Heh, sorry, I guess you triggered my defensive "book-length response" reaction. Here's the next book: As you say, jj uses git primives so the core data model is the same. I say "core" because jj subtracts out the st
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by sfink 6mo ago
Yes, and? I wasn't trying to demonstrate jj superiority. I was responding to a post about a normal messy workflow and showing how to handle it in jj. If I'm writing a description of how to use jj, I could take several different ap
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by sfink 6mo ago
I'm about the same. jj is kind of perfect for that. Example: # I've finished something significant! Carve it out from the working "change" as its own commit. `jj commit --interactive` # aka `jj commit -i` or `jj sp
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by sfink 6mo ago
That's a good question, and although I think I have a good answer, I fear it would be too much of a tangent to speculate on here.
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by sfink 6mo ago
> That’s probably because we know consciously or subconsciously that in order to get and maintain a position of power at a multibillion dollar firm the person either never had a moral compass or quickly had to find ways to justify ignori
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by sfink 6mo ago
I kind of feel like people know how to human, and how the humans around them human, but someone they've never met but only heard about or seen on TV or in meme posts? No clue at all. Sure, we know the hotshot CEO of COMPANY_NAME_HERE h
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by sfink 6mo ago
Aw shucks, we never thought of that. Here we were, dedicating every one of our developers to speeding up the build, and we never thought to increase our user share instead. In retrospect, that was pretty dumb! Ok, sorry, we'll get righ
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by sfink 6mo ago
Yes, and in this case they pointed at the function, so a 1-bit model ("yes") would be correct. But it's not that bad. First, they included a test with a false positive. The small models got it right, Opus got it wrong. Second
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by sfink 6mo ago
Speak for yourself. The bitter taste is what I like. When I don't like a cup of coffee, it's always going to be for being too sour. (Which can be masked pretty well with milk or a substitute, mind.) I agree with your main point, t
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by sfink 6mo ago
If I were to invent something like bitcoin, I would use your exact logic to decide to burn the keys. I couldn't trust myself, so I would remove the possibility of agonizing over it. Obviously, I still might feel regret, but I'd ch
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by sfink 6mo ago
CO2 is going to be neutral for the peels. You're just transporting it from where the oranges grew to where they were dumped. The CO2 benefit is purely from the trees and other biomass that grow where they wouldn't be growing befor
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by sfink 6mo ago
It's not public, it's just accessible to the student body. The directory has restrictions on how it is to be used. Those restrictions are presumably not going to permit a user script that adds a "harass this student" but
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by sfink 6mo ago
Why is your intention relevant here? Sure: in the US if you kill somebody accidentally then you'll be convicted of manslaughter instead of murder. In your situation, intention is relevant to whether the school decides to throw you out
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by sfink 6mo ago
English is diarrhea mouth language. Which is worse?
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by sfink 6mo ago
Heh, I'm usually on the ideas "side", but since I've publicly shot down the data centers in space idea, the shoe is on the other foot. I'll just say that if there are some obvious enormous drawbacks to an idea, then

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