throwawayoldie

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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Except if you're waiting for your turn to come up so you can vibe code, you're combining mindless trial-and-error hacking with a deranged sleep schedule. It's the worst of both worlds.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
He did not, and for that matter, he never said if he was counting in base 10.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
How old are you, 14?
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Got to disagree. If there's one situation where a public breakdown is generally understood to be appropriate, it's a funeral. And if you're saying you don't want to because it's uncomfortable for you to be seen that
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I wouldn't worry about it. Within two generations, the remaining humans will be mainly concerned with surviving in a wrecked ecosystem as best they can.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
> Gawdat says we'll have AGI by 2026 at the absolute latest ...has he looked at a calendar lately? I just did, and it turns out that 2026 is less than five months away. I'm not even going to touch the "alive in every possi
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Well yes, because getting nerd sniped is fun, and 99.99% of ideas for software are boring bullshit.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Another Onion article come true: "Report: Nation's Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization" ( https://theonion.com/report-nations-gentrified-neighborhoods... )
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Cool. Now do the idea that says AI will somehow fix the climate, while simultaneously doubling or tripling humanity's energy use.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
_tumbleweeds roll past_
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
They also disrupted the coaster industry by constantly mailing out free ones.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
> Isn't Andrew Tate wanted for rape in some country? Several of them, if I remember correctly.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Yeah my plan was to come in _after_ the vibe coders have done their damage, fix their mess for a somewhat extortionate amount of money, then tell them not to do it again.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I think that's a little too cynical of a view: in years past, I did in fact teach non-specialists to use SQL (against a read-only replica, I'm not crazy) so I didn't have to run all their ad hoc queries for them, and many of
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Sure not what it smells like though.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
That was fast.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
...right, I see where you're going with this, then we eat those five savants and everyone else is happy.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Same, it's like solving puzzles, except with practical benefits including getting paid for it.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
> Maybe another industry of cleaning up vibe coded messes will be a thing? I have seriously considered hanging out my shingle to do this freelance, I don't think the time is quite ripe yet but maybe in a few months.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
> SQL is basically already natural language This was actually the whole point of SQL in the first place: to be a query language close enough to natural language that non-specialists could easily learn to use it.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
He didn't live in Germany.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
We're not talking about said hypothetical technology. We're talking about LLMs.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Boston?
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I only ever do. But I rephrased my post to make my meaning clearer. Nice discernment there.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
People reading Hacker News are the target audience, and here we are, discerning.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Considering the only Finnish I think I know is "sauna" and "perkele", it'd be hard to know less.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I vote 1000 billionaires and family. Then the rest of us can get to work repairing the damage they've done.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Although I don't think the comparison is 100% fair: at least you can get some tasty beef off of a bull.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
This is a shitty timeline and I would like to transfer to a better one. Hey, maybe these AIs can tell me how to do that.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
And there were no "passengers", legally speaking, just "mission specialists".

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