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by tarsinge 8mo ago
To me it is simply good writing, the kind that is found in literature, but feels a bit out of place in discussions on the internet. What makes it stand out is that real English speaker on the internet are way more casual in their writing. I
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by tarsinge 9mo ago
I did a road trip across the US 7 years ago and I barely touched the pedals and the wheel on highway drive, it was a 2018 Subaru Outback.
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by tarsinge 9mo ago
This kind of warrior ethos outside of fantasy books or games is a huge turn off to me, it feels so anachronistic. I don’t understand why it seems so prevalent in the US, especially as a country built on Christianity that has Jesus coming as
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by tarsinge 9mo ago
To me there is an even more important point than economics and geopolitics: the Chinese government is thinking about the long term sustainability of its population, and given how large it is it makes quite aligned with the rest of the world
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by tarsinge 9mo ago
I don’t think the main issue is that this type of person has been put in charge, it’s that the system can fail because of the will of one person. It kind of reveals that the guardrails were decorum and at its core Americans elects dictators
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by tarsinge 9mo ago
Conversely I have very little interest in the process of programming by itself, all the magic is about the end result and the business value for me (which fortunately has served me quite well professionally). As young as I remember I was fa
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by tarsinge 9mo ago
The analogy with evolution breaks down because currently the fitness function is broken. It would work in a world where anti trust would be still enforced, where customers could vote with their money instead of having to deal with enshitiff
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by tarsinge 9mo ago
A CEO can be valuable while still doing nothing with a simple explanation: they are cult figures whose purpose is to increase the stock value. This is obvious in the case of a drug addict like Elon like you describe, but others are increasi
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by tarsinge 9mo ago
I don’t understand the urgency to replace human work with AI. Why is every organization so eager about skipping the AI as an assistant step? Here there are already massive productivity gains in using the AI to create the draft of the report
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by tarsinge 9mo ago
This is off topic, I’m talking about the environmental footprint of data centers. In the 2010s I remember when responding to RFPs I had to specify the carbon footprint of our servers. ESG was all the rage and every big tech company was tryi
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
> that effort is completely abandoned directly because of AI That effort is completely abandoned because of the current US administration and POTUS a situation that big tech largely contributed to. It’s not AI that is responsible for the
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
It’s still wild because it’s mostly useless. Rewriting a few core components might improve security a bit, but otherwise it’ll not change anything for end users. This is the typical attractive but useless project for bored programmer with n
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
Professionally programming is just a means to an end that is solving a business problem. Just like hammering nails or turning screws is not a job in itself. The craft is important, but ultimately what people pay for is a final product (a ho
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
> The private sector can fund projects which are opportunities with an economic basis The private sector can only fund easy low hanging fruit productization projects (Tesla, Apple, SpaceX, …) once the hard public fundamental research and
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
I don’t have much time to evaluate tools every months and I have settled on Cursor. I’m curious on what I’m missing when using the same models?
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
> it is just plain bad for all Americans for China to advance its geopolitical ambitions And what says has China on the advances of Americans geopolitical ambitions? I’m not saying they are the good guys obviously, but at this point as a
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
Actually many US companies tend group them ridiculously as EMEA
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
Yes the problem is not whether LLM have value, but whether they will add enough value in the next two three years to pay for the hundred of billions of trillions needed to match the expectations. OpenAI has to find more than a trillion by t
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
To me AI might have tilted the economic on doing in house a bit but it has been at least a decade or more that I find most enterprise SaaS, in the way they are used 80% of the time, could be recreated with a few developers in house. Instead
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
> “The work must be something the child feels is worth doing.” Schools forgot and flipped that. That’s a nice premise, but it seems the author imply the school has to come up with some idealized activity that would magically kids teach k
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
> WCII ToD is absolutely one of the most insane games to ever be birthed unto the world. It was so brain breaking compared to everything else we were playing at the. time. Just a real quantum leap in terms of dopeness. I was 10 a the tim
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
The website is live and renders correctly on my Safari mobile: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ I may have missed something but where are we saying the website should be recreated with 1996 tech or specs? The model is fr
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
In what year was it meaningful to have pelicans riding bicycles?
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
What you list are common characteristics encountered in legacy systems, but what makes it legacy is a business decision of declaring it obsolete and in maintenance mode, and so that no money or time to be invested in it. Old systems that co
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
On the contrary, recently I encountered many cases where ChatGPT randomly switched to a very familiar style for a few sentences. It has a strong Reddit vibe when it does it, which I guess is not surprising.
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
I am both, I own a small agency when I have to be practical, and have fun crafting code on the hobby side. I think what craftsmen miss is the different goals. Projects fall on a spectrum from long lived app that constantly evolve with a hug
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
I have only a high level understanding of LLMs but to me it doesn’t seem surprising: they are trying to come up with a textual output of your prompt aggregated to their result that scores high (i.e. is consistent) with their training set. T
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
What are the chances the deal doesn’t go through because OpenAI fails to find enough money? Between Google, other labs and China the risk of commoditization is climbing and so why would investors continue to throw money at them? Kind of the
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
That’s your opinion, but like I said it’s not valid to imply that it is the normal view and those not agreeing are biased. Instead of trying to hear understand and challenge what historians have to say you flee intellectually, which is iron
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by tarsinge 10mo ago
I’m not sure what you mean. I don’t see a bias here, the point is plainly stated: the notion of weak men is dubious. You might not agree, but then engage with something substantial.

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