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by teiferer 7mo ago
Funny that they speak so negatively about "fast fashion". If anything I would expect on-demand clothes production contribute to an _increase_ in that phenomenon, rather than the opposite.
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by teiferer 7mo ago
Sure. The original post is a blog post that somebody put into their blog. Its purpose isn't (necesaarily) to engage into a discussion or even interact with anybody. It's the root of a discussion tree, if you will, a place to make
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by teiferer 7mo ago
I'm sure people used analogies before the invention of LLMs. After all, the very concept of an analogy must have made it into the training data.
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by teiferer 7mo ago
I did. The three quotes clearly express a shared sentiment for enjoyment of building and learning while doing so. That's certainly something one can engage with by providing a counterpoint. But just saying "that's not what I
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by teiferer 7mo ago
> But I often find that with jobs I want to give to other people, so maybe I over specify? The difference is that with other people, you are training somebody else in your team who will eventually internalize what you taught them and the
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by teiferer 7mo ago
Sorry, good for you, but how is this relevant? Imagine somebody writes a blog post "why I bike to work". They detail that they love it, the fresh air, nature experience biking through a forest, yes sometimes it's raining but
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by teiferer 7mo ago
All these approaches are fundamentally flawed. If there is a possibility for a jailbreak/escape, it will be found and used. Are we really back to the virus scanner days with the continuous arms race between guard tools and rogue code?
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by teiferer 7mo ago
I wonder how many people change how they express themselves just to sound less like AI.
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by teiferer 7mo ago
I understand the appeal of this tech to techies. It's so cool to automate knitting! Though it totally misses the point of actually knitting something, with your own hands. The time it takes, the details you need to think about, the ski
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by teiferer 7mo ago
I don't know which cinemas you frequent, but the movie world is much richer than the n-th instance of a MCU film or Star Wars. Of the 20 or so movies I watch on big screen every year, only 2 or 3 are of that type.
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by teiferer 7mo ago
The two scenarios come in a package though. If you make one possible, the other one comes for free.
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by teiferer 7mo ago
I live in 10115. No, not New York. It's Berlin, Germany. I used to live in M6C1B5. By forcing "numeric" on the zip code field, you'd immediately loose all Canadians. This article is so US centric it's not even funny
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by teiferer 8mo ago
> I think a lot of voters didn't know what they were getting the country into You were not around for the 2017-2021 preview? Thisis the second term! Everybody cpuld see exactly what the country would be getting into!
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by teiferer 8mo ago
I expected formal verification to be part of this. That could not be fooled and is rock-solid, unless you cheat in your specification. Swap your AI "verifier" out for that and I'm on board.
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by teiferer 8mo ago
I expected the comments to mention Scott Galloway. Haven't found his name here, so I am doing that now. Context is his https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/ campaign.
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by teiferer 8mo ago
> enthusiastically stood with Trump I think "enthusiastically" looks different. They had to choose between kissing Trumps butt to make good business for 4 years or see their companies at a severe disadvantage. I'm not sayi
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by teiferer 8mo ago
Well, clarity would be achieved with a name like u64. Is num signed? What's the range? Is it integers or floating point? All these things are hidden. With u64 there would be no questions open. (Well a few maybe, like overflow behavior,
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by teiferer 8mo ago
> This is such a well written story, [...] you should also get credit for how you've woven this narrative together, it's a lovely read. Don't forget to give credit to the LLM too which wrote the story for him.
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by teiferer 8mo ago
> out of all the fascinating and awful things to care about with the advent of ai people pick co2 emissions? really? like really? Yes. Because climate change is real. If you don't believe that then let your LLM of choice explain it
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by teiferer 8mo ago
> till the poor colleague ran out of arguments I hope your colleague was agreeing to partake in this experiment. Not even to mention management.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
What's your advice then, if it's not investing in your hireability?
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by teiferer 9mo ago
Thanks for your responses! A follow-up: > I care more about the code than the tests. Why is that? Your (product) code has tests. Your test (code) doesn't. So I often find that I need to pay at least as much attention to my tests to
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by teiferer 9mo ago
6-7 years of experience make you prime material for employment in the sw industry. Experience but not too expensive/entitled yet. Have you considered applying?
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by teiferer 9mo ago
Buy high, sell low. Excellent result when you follow the masses, especially when being a little late.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
Skill. Knowledge. At your age, your biggest assert is your future earnings potential. The more employable you are, the better you will make iduring and after a downturn. In fact, the highest skill folks tend to even profit from hiccups in t
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by teiferer 9mo ago
> We'd rather lose the source code than the knowledge of our workers, so to speak. Isn't large amounts of required institutional knowledge typically a problem?
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by teiferer 9mo ago
> I automate nearly all my tests with AI How exactly? Do you tell the agent "please write a test for this" or do you also feed it some form of spec to describe what the tested thing is expected to do? And do these tests ever fa
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by teiferer 9mo ago
> Hopefully they're able to track down who did this. Why? Was anybody harmed? Hopefully they don't find out who did this. There was never any danger, and without this kind of joke, the world would be less fun. (Obviously it sho
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by teiferer 9mo ago
In your mind, what is the difference between a mathematical abstraction and a natural construct? Asking because to me, any mathematical abstraction is a natural construct. Math isn't invented, it's discovered.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
There are isolated islands of reliable, high quality, low bug, well maintained software. The rest is crap.

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