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by spaceywilly 1y ago
Yeah it’s kind of like we have invented a car that drives around wildly in any direction, and we are trying to steer it by putting up guard rails to get it to go where we want. What we need is to invent the steering wheel and brake pedals,
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by spaceywilly 1y ago
> and I struggle to think of what would lead one to the urge to implement a key=value config file parser in 2025 That could be a symptom of LLM coding. I have found at times they will go down a rabbit hole of coding up a complicated solu
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by spaceywilly 1y ago
From that tweet: > I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it That sums up vibe coding, imo. The article talks about code quality with vibe coding, but
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by spaceywilly 1y ago
They have 500M weekly users now. I would say that counts as doing something.
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by spaceywilly 1y ago
To play devils advocate, software engineering is currently proving to be a hugely valuable use case for AI, and will almost certainly grow over time. I’m not sure what the market cap for software engineering tooling is, but I assume $5B or
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by spaceywilly 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory - sent from a human
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by spaceywilly 1y ago
I agree. I think of it like a car engine. You can push it up to a certain RPM and it will keep making more and more power. Above that RPM, the engine starts to produce less power and eventually blows a gasket. I think the performance-based
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by spaceywilly 1y ago
“What if we made advertising illegal?” Many small companies would go out of business, that’s what. Yes we definitely need advertising reform, but advertising is a very important part of any business if they want to be successful. Making it
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by spaceywilly 1y ago
“In the end most systems will work somehow” The older I get the more I feel like this is a feature, not a bug. I have spent too much time over engineering systems that end up being canned because leadership decides to go in a different dire
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
This does not bode well for genetic AI
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
I actually think the AI is going to end up creating its own sort of machine code. Programming will be done entirely in natural language, the AI will translate to machine code and we tiny brained humans won’t even know or care what it’s doin
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
Yes. In my day job I work mainly on containers running entirely in data centers we own, they are fully ipv6, it’s very nice to work with. Then there is this one customer, they are colocated in other ISP owned datacenters, and some of their
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
We need decentralized services that are not subject to the whims of whichever power hungry billionaire is in charge this week
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
I think a lot about how differentiating facts and quality content is like differentiating signal from noise in electronics. The signal to noise ratio on many online platforms was already quite low. Tools like this will absolutely add more n
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
I resisted RTO as much as anyone but eventually I took a job that required me to be in office 3 days a week because, well, didn’t have much of a choice. I have to say being in the office has been better than I expected. I recently got toget
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
This is known as the Cocktail Party Problem. It turns out or brains do an incredible amount of processing to allow us to understand a person talking to us in a noisy room. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_ef
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
To me the difference is that in 2012, you had companies focusing on delivering a quality product, whether it made money or not. Today, the economic environment has shifted a lot and companies are trying to increase profits while cutting cos
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
I take the train every day in NYC. Around half the time the train is brand new and has nice displays that even show you where the stairs are located in each station as you pull up. The other half the train is from the 1960s and has no infor
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
I use the “maximize video” chrome extension which may work for you. You can click on any video player and it will make that take up the whole browser window size. So then the video size == the browser window size. I use it to panel multiple
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
Amazon has had serverless functions for a long time now. I built an iOS app with a backend in AWS and it was as you say, “here’s my code, you make sure it’s running somewhere.” I uploaded my Typescript code, set up an API gateway to call th
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
Can you check if there is another USB port exposed via a pin header? That is probably the easiest way if it is available. Otherwise, I think your best best is to solder wires onto the same pads used by the existing USB port. I wouldn’t try
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
BRZ has electric power steering assist. If he puts the wheels on alignment pads he should be able to move the wheel easily. I’d still be worried about wear and tear on the components (you really don’t want your tie rods to give out at speed
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
I think battery electric planes will make this less of an issues, once they arrive. The motors are quieter, vibrate less, don’t generate smelly fumes, and there are more mounting options. The eVTOLs from Joby are supposedly very quiet in op
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
I worked for a company doing something similar and they used servos that were strong enough to control the plane, but no so strong that the safety pilot couldn’t overpower them if needed. I think it’s the same for any autopilot really. And
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
You will also need to account for the time to pre-flight the plane, and fuel it up, possibly wait on the taxiway, and possibly divert around weather (including to an entirely different airport if necessary).
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
“And so that’s why we recommend using phased rollouts” -Every DevOps engineer from now on
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
So there was apparently an Azure outage prior to this big one. One thing that is a pretty common pattern in my company when there are big outages is something like this: 1. Problem A happens, it’s pretty bad 2. A fix is rushed out very quic
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
The best uses of AI I’ve come across are one that are integrated well into a tool I’m already using and just make my job a little bit easier. So look for something where you could add a little box that says “summarize the messages in this t
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
As a matter of fact, yes! This YouTube video is probably one of the most amazing things I have ever seen, he measured the change in voltage traveling along a Y circuit, where one end is open and one is closed. You can see the voltage “rippl
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by spaceywilly 2y ago
Maybe it’s just me, but I would much rather watch a higher bitrate 1080p copy of a movie than a horribly encoded 4k copy. I also wish that we had made 1080p60 commonplace for sports before trying to make the jump to 4k. Seems like the indus

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