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by throwyawayyyy 10mo ago
If I recall, in the novel Solaris, set largely on a spaceship orbiting a distant, sentient planet, one of the characters uses a slide rule. Idea for a sci fi novel: total reliance on chatbots that predict what you want to hear based on the
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by throwyawayyyy 1y ago
Pretty sure you can thank the FCC for that :)
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by throwyawayyyy 2y ago
` August and September: * Improving Volume responsiveness ... ` On the one hand: I'm a software engineer, I know none of the engineers involved wanted to put out a bad product or are happy about the situation. On the other hand, my Son
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by throwyawayyyy 3y ago
Agreed. And a point that keeps getting missed whenever this discussion comes up is there's a big difference between junior and senior programmers. What should a junior programmer do? Write as much code as possible! KLOC is a pretty goo
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by throwyawayyyy 3y ago
That's one ideal, sure. I don't see it though -- who's going to keep all these individual driving pods clean? How is access going to be gated to them? SF is a dense city, only New York has higher population density. Its BART
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by throwyawayyyy 3y ago
Oh my goodness the lights! Am I misremembering or is it really only the past few years that it's felt like half the cars on the road have their highbeams on constantly? Not even a big car thing, though big cars make it worse; it's
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by throwyawayyyy 3y ago
How much was it the advent of better technology that didn't require those supply chains? Iron. In which case the lesson is: have more and more complex supply chains, tie us all together, don't allow us to be independent because ci
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by throwyawayyyy 3y ago
That's what I got from this too. Copywriting is about the only thing ChatGTP _is_ good for.
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by throwyawayyyy 3y ago
Pretty sure the commenter is referring to what, in London, are called Chelsea Tractors.
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Who knows! Maybe? The email that's written by ChatGTP, but no human actually reads it because at the other end it's summarised by ChatGTP too: maybe that'll be it. LLMs almost but not quite cancelling out the meaningless guff
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Right? I'd have been entirely unsurprised if Bing saw a 100% increase, given how buzzy all this has been. (Finally, an actual reason to use Bing!) 15% seems like a failure.
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“as an AI language model, I am not capable of infringing copyright”
4 points by throwyawayyyy 4y ago|1 comments
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
...And no one can write anything without profanity. It's so ugly! Why make the world an uglier place? Somewhat sarcastic, but I'm making a point too...
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
A nice read. Slightly off-topic, but Stargate is one of those movies, like the 90s Mummy, like Tremors, that's really much better than it needed to be, and remains greatly entertaining today. The care they put into the Egyptology reall
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Agree! An example I like: the Fargo TV series. Each season is self-contained and none outstays its welcome.
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
It's a... weird list. Why is number 2 the UK rejoining the EU? Even if Labour get into power tomorrow, that's not going to happen. (Even if the _Lib Dems_ somehow get into power tomorrow, it's not going to happen.) That boat
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
I was in Westminster Abbey a few weeks ago. It's arranged, in so far as it's planned at all, to lead you to the tomb of Henry Tudor, who (in sharp distinction to the other kings) is locked away in what resembles a giant iron cage
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Yup. And so we get: https://area120.google.com/
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
This is a very good point. An overworked, under resourced team is running just to stand still. There's no time to take a step back, consider what might be done differently. It just has to be done right now. It's a recipe for stagn
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Indeed. And let's say you made the cut, you're staying, phew. What about next year, when there's the next cut? And the year after that? You've every incentive to hire _bad_ people, to protect your good ones. It's in
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Sure, you can cut 80% of anything and things will run just fine for a while. You could even stop paying your bills, and nothing bad would happen for a month or two, as invoices pile up. In fact I'd guess that you could cut 100% of UX a
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
It's a crisis of productivity that Brexit has made worse. Question for software engineers in the UK: how good are companies these days at training up junior engineers? One of the starkest differences I saw on leaving London for Silicon
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Yup. There _is_ a bottom line. I remember a few years ago taking Ubers and thinking: "so cheap! But, well, this can't possibly last". And it didn't.
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
This was the Wes Anderson movie that would (in my very humble opinion) have benefited most from being a limited TV series instead. Have five or six episodes, one per story. As a film, like every anthology film I can bring to mind, it's
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
I'll give you the pork-markets speech, yes. No, please, take it! :) Maybe the word is bathos. She wants to be Thatcher but is cursed with a modicum of humanity.
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
In fairness, the set of lunatics currently in charge are anything but banal. Banal and insipid would be lovely. Banal and insipid wouldn't e.g. blow up our relationship with Europe, or attempt to out-Thatcher Thatcher. I'd love ba
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
"[FAANG] jobs tend to be quite demanding and require developers to put in a lot of extra hours when compared to smaller businesses." They're more demanding to _get_, I wouldn't say they're more demanding to do. At
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Fair, and we do use A LOT of macros in general.
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
I think I had the same reaction. How useful is the word "happiness" here? "Pleasure" seems a better term for the author's first sort of happiness. So, sure, pleasure is important in life but cannot be the only thing
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
The story of the past 10 years at my FAANG has been one of making our key-value databases look as much like relational databases as possible, complete with SQL query engines (at least two of them, because what would a FAANG be without multi

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