throwawayoldie

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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
> A horse and carriage is very useful for lots of things. A horse is more specialised. You have that backwards. A horse and carriage is good for traveling on a road. If you have just the horse, however, you can travel on a road, travel o
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Speaking as an engineer coming up on 50 years old: nice.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I've been thinking about using Godot in this way recently, would you care to say more about what your experience has been like?
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
That's a problem that was solved in the 1980s with the introduction of "mail merge" functionality in word processors. Using an LLM to do this is like using a sledgehammer to swat a fly.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
"Artificial intelligence" has always been a marketing term, not a technical one. John McCarthy coined the phrase when he was applying for a DARPA grant, and he picked it because he thought it would sound cool to the grant reviewer
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I'd argue first prize for that goes to Excel (for a sufficiently broad definition of "develop software").
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"...but the proof is too large to fit in this margin."
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
And before that it was high-level programming languages, or as we call them today, programming languages.
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There's a saying to the effect that a healthy society is not one where poor people can afford cars, but one where rich people take mass transit willingly.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
This is just an educated guess, anyone who does know the law feel free to jump in and correct me, but IIRC the GDPR doesn't apply to "ad tech" per se. It applies to collection and retention of personal data. Even an organizat