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by teeray 4mo ago
> Some might argue that mobile phones can also be used to make secret recordings Not to mention that doing so is a felony in a two-party consent state.
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by teeray 4mo ago
I think the parent is speculating that there may be an order of magnitude improvement in the cheap / OSS model space such that one running on a piddling desktop cluster could match or exceed the capabilities of the current SOTA on bill
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by teeray 4mo ago
I’m a fan of looking at the new modules during releases, since I frequently find cool projects that I haven’t been aware of, but that are mature enough to warrant a NixOS module: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stab
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by teeray 5mo ago
Yes, but if version number go up, so do all other number
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by teeray 5mo ago
I like it. Reminds me a bit of the table format on Cooking for Engineers (scroll to the bottom of the recipe): https://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/19/Erics-Chocolat...
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by teeray 5mo ago
> There will be businesses no human can comprehend or manage. This may not be productive but will be profitable for someone. Which also means that it will probably outstrip our ability to comprehend whether or not such things are actuall
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by teeray 5mo ago
It helps if the land is currently an eyesore and you’re the first to do something with it.
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by teeray 5mo ago
> Who actually thinks that Allbirds will see much higher returns because they "have an AI graphics division?" Perhaps the investment is more on the “greater fool” theory. “I think this is complete nonsense, but there’s probably
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by teeray 5mo ago
> what they're voting for. If citizens had granular voting power (i.e. liquid democracy), this would make more sense. As it stands you get to vote for team red or team blue once in a while and hope that their votes impact that line
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by teeray 5mo ago
“You’re absolutely right, I shouldn’t have jettisoned the RTG”
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by teeray 5mo ago
> In reality they like LLMs because they're the highest user of them It is possible to be a user of LLMs and to despise them.
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by teeray 5mo ago
> "no no, it has full test coverage" There’s this delusion that if we somehow write enough tests that we’ll expunge every defect from software. It’s like everyone forgets that the halting problem exists.
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by teeray 5mo ago
My prediction is that in the next year, we’ll start to see some dismantling of code review at some companies. It might take the form of “AI-only review,” or something similar, but many companies are getting frustrated with developers saying
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by teeray 5mo ago
Can’t #1 be solved with the stroke of a pen? “Legal queries to LLMs shall be subject to the same attorney-client privilege”
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by teeray 5mo ago
> Legally speaking the health plan employee isn't practicing medicine in that circumstance Feels like convenient lawcraft to wash the health plan employee’s hands of liability. I’m sure the prevailing popular opinion would be that t
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by teeray 5mo ago
> I often send out the LLM version The problem is that you lose your voice and adopt one that your audience knows all too well (and knows it isn’t yours). It makes your audience feel like you aren’t listening to them (even though you are
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by teeray 5mo ago
TI-BASIC was also the gateway drug to writing assembly for TI-83.
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by teeray 5mo ago
“…and let the deals, wrap their arms around me” —Death Cab for Cutie
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by teeray 5mo ago
Can’t wait for the next stage of escalation when teams start to feel code review is keeping them from vibe coding utopia. It’ll probably be “AI review only, keep your human opinions to yourself” just so they can continue to check the “all c
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by teeray 5mo ago
It’s hilarious when adults forget how smart a motivated group of children with an ocean of free time can be.
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by teeray 5mo ago
> A quarter-century ago, conventional wisdom held that ebooks, read on electronic devices, would replace books made of paper. Until publishers thought “huh, we can increase our margins AND increase our prices too for ebooks?!”
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by teeray 6mo ago
What if no meaningful thought was put into the code (entirely vibe-coded slop), but it’s made for your employer? Shouldn’t the work be uncopyrightable?
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by teeray 6mo ago
Because Blender is a tool for making art and Anthropic makes tools for stealing art
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by teeray 6mo ago
Does anyone know if there’s a pithy German word for “those against letting machines do their thinking”?
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by teeray 6mo ago
Reminds me of the “Wallfacers” in Cixin Liu’s “The Dark Forest.” I believe the term was derived from that meditative practice you refer to.
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by teeray 6mo ago
That's why you save local copies of records (statements, etc.). "Computer says no" can be fought with "judge says yes".
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by teeray 6mo ago
I'm beginning to think that the only reason code reviews still exist is that "all changes are reviewed before going into production" is probably a checkbox on some security certification checklist.
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by teeray 6mo ago
It would be abhorrent to let humans change the prices of goods and services based on the color of your skin, age, gender, religion, etc. However, if a computer does it, that’s apparently just fine.
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by teeray 6mo ago
Because dashboard need to show number go up
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by teeray 6mo ago
It definitely varies by jurisdiction, but the register price always loses to any printed price in the US states I’ve lived in. This is a protection since retailers have used pricing mistakes to unfairly profit. Watch your receipt like a haw

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