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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
Given that they aren’t meeting their sales targets at all, I guess that’s a little bit of encouraging about the discernment of their customers. I’m not sure how Microsoft has managed to escape market discipline for so long.
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
Most enterprise software I use has serious defects. Professional CAD software for infrastructure is awful. Many are just incremental improvements piled upon software from the 1990s. Bugs last for decades because nobody can understand how th
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
I’m pretty sure propaganda is a thing.
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
Hit me up, normie
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
The value of an NFT is the speculation that a bigger fool than you is in the market (and if you’re average, there is). The value of AI coding is that it can eliminate some of the labor of programming, which is the overwhelming majority of c
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
Early stages of Barbarossa were very successful and much of the Soviet Air Force, which had been forward positioned for invasion, was destroyed. Given the Red Army’s attitude toward consent, I would keep the praise carefully measured. TV ha
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
All real things, so can I put you down on team: David Icke?
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
My beliefs on aliens: There are almost certainly slime-mold level lifeforms outside of the earth. They are too far away to interact with ever. Plot device physics, like warp drives, are impossible. If smart aliens show up, they’re probably
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
I really thought this was going to be the Dewey Decimal system. Exclude sources from this century. It’s the only way to be sure.
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
I’m pretty sure the USSR, Cuba, and the like never succeeded doing this sort of thing, but maybe if we hit ourselves in the head with the same hammer (and sickle) just one more time it will work?
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
Actually it is necessary. That’s why your bridge engineer has to satisfy a licensing board that he or she knows what they’re doing before they seal a set of plans. Clients can’t distinguish good from bad engineering. They shouldn’t have to
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
Is that not also true of human written software that costs more per hour than the monthly cost of a coding agent? Developers are expected to ship enterprise software with defects that would land you in court if you made equivalent mistakes
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
Not defending him, but we were already doing this with electron apps, frameworks, libraries, and scripting languages. The only meaningful cost in most software development is labor and that’s what makes sense to optimize. I’d rather have go
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
I don’t think this is uncommon. At one point Lemmy was a project with thousands of stars and literally no working code until finally someone other than the owner adopted it and merged in a usable product.
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
The attorneys said so. This is why progress happens in startups and gets bought by the big boys. They’re constitutionally incapable of innovation.
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
There seems to be a surprising theme that programmers wages are some kind of sunk cost and that their work was free of defects before. I can get bad code written for the cost of electricity now
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
I’m a garage coder and the kind of engineer that has a license. I had the capacity with my kids to make a usable application for my work about once every 6 months. Now it’s once a weekend or so. You don’t have to believe it.
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
How about licensure and liability instead? That’s the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of the rest of the engineering world. Sure it’s a guild system with a new name, but if the bridge collapses, somebody is going to be in a courtro
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
Has union labor resulted in measurable improvement in production outcomes in any industry they’re found in? I don’t think going from “managers are unaccountable for failure” to “nobody is accountable for failure” is a good thing. I think in
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
These are your father’s parentheses. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
Family law judges, in my small experience, are so uninterested in the basic facts of a case that I would actually trust an LLM to do a better job. Not quite what you mean, but maybe there is a silver lining. We are already (in the US) livin
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
I would have thought poisoning someone, even with a sedative, would already be a serious crime. This makes me wonder if this is addressing a weakness in the force of law or if it’s political pandering to look tough on a class of crime witho
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
It’s not pork because I like it?
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
I’m glad that I’m not the only one who saw the profound irony in this. I don’t think anybody of their own free will would pay someone to inject processed agricultural waste into the ground. And honestly, I’m not that upset that bureaucratic
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
We can’t all be Mennonites. I wasn’t much older than that when my family got dial up Internet, and somehow I made it.
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
There are parental controls that don’t seem to do much good at all. I set a filter so that my 6-year-old son would only see content that was rated for kids. The next thing I know I see he’s playing a prison riot simulator and having a shoot
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
If there were a lawsuit it’s possible that the original communications could be obtained by court order. I wouldn’t be surprised if that happened eventually. The FBI and friends can also use their means of unlawful surveillance and leak the
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
Or maybe the type of labor desired will be more comple, interesting, and valuable as it was when we gave up hunting and gathering for farms and as we mechanized farming and left for factories and factories and offices.
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
That thing was too big to be called a library. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of code.
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by stocksinsmocks 11mo ago
Maybe that date is a rule of thumb for when AI generated content became so widespread that it is likely to have contaminated future data. Given that people have spoofed authentic Reddit users with Markov chains, it probably doesn’t go back

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