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by timr 1y ago
> Or for a lot of libraries you can dump the ENTIRE latest version into the prompt - I do this a lot with the Google Gemini 2.5 models since those can handle up to 1m tokens of input. See, as someone who is actually receptive to the argu
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by timr 1y ago
I am using all of the models you're talking about, and I'm using agents, as I mentioned. There is no magic bullet.
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by timr 1y ago
Yeah...I've toyed with that, but there's still a productivity maximum where throwing it all away and starting from scratch is a worse idea, probabilistically, than just fixing whatever thing is clearly wrong. Just to make it concr
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by timr 1y ago
For what it's worth, I basically accept the premise of the GP comment, in the same way that I would accept a statement that "loggers who don't use a chainsaw will be put out of business". Sure, fine, whatever. I still th
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by timr 1y ago
As someone who has spent the better part of today fixing the utter garbage produced by repeated iteration with these supposedly magical coding agents, I'm neither in the camp of the "AI skeptic" (at least as defined by the au
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by timr 1y ago
> I think of skeptics who dismissed the exponential growth of covid19 cases due to their initial low numbers. Uh, not to be petty, but the growth was not exponential — neither in retrospect, nor given what was knowable at any point in
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by timr 1y ago
Computer science, the academic discipline, is to programming as mechanics is to bowling. You can very easily test CS concepts on paper, and programming is demonstrated via group projects.
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by timr 1y ago
...and yet, somehow we managed? > Show some imagination for why other people hold their positions. I say that as someone who has also graded piles of paper exams in graduate school (also not that long ago!) I don't believe the argum
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by timr 1y ago
I'm not that old, and yet my university CS courses evaluated people with group projects, and in-person paper exams. We weren't allowed to bring computers or calculators into the exam room (or at least, not any calculators with p
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by timr 1y ago
Yeah, I agree with that. I still enjoy doing the conceptual and design work that once upon a time would have been the role of an "architect", and that's still required with LLMs.
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by timr 1y ago
I was just thinking about this the other day (after spending an extended session talking to an LLM about bugs in its code), and I realized that when I was just starting out, I enjoyed writing code, but now the fun part is actually fixing
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by timr 1y ago
Effectively the same in terms of distribution of outcome, perhaps, but it's a bit like saying that it's really unfortunate that poor people can't afford their own manicured gardens, peacock collection and garage full of antiq
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by timr 1y ago
> This comment is asinine on too many levels to fully rebut. Thanks. I mean, it's not like I have direct experience with this stuff or anything, as one of those 9,999,999 who spent years of my life doing science, only to end up in
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by timr 1y ago
Meh. While I think the broad theme is fine (more access to education is generally good -- particularly when it comes to scientific literacy amongst the general public!), I think trying to encourage "research" in this way is largel
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by timr 1y ago
They aren't doing it on their own. Most of these kids are working with established researchers who give them the shape of the project, as well as the tools and the expertise to accomplish it. More recently the US scientific funding bod
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by timr 1y ago
Anyone who looked at demographic trends 10+ years ago knew that this was coming. As far back as the late 90s, it was clear that universities were overinvesting into the one of the last echos of the baby boom.
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by timr 1y ago
Yeah, it varies. I think fundamentally you're paying for square footage, so bigger rooms will always be "mid-market", to some extent. The ones in tourist spots are fancier than the ones by Exit 5A of a freeway interchange in
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by timr 1y ago
No, I just was typing fast and grouped everything together I could think of. Embassy Suites is one of the OG "suite" chains that I'd characterize as "formerly high end, maybe mid-level right now", but YMMV.
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by timr 1y ago
> My experience is that e.g. it used to be a lot easier in the USA to find hotels that even just had a kitchenette or even a pay to wash “laundromat” (which is what I assume you are referring to), but maybe that is also just my personal
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by timr 1y ago
Mischaracterizing my argument, and then attacking that mischaracterization is called a straw man. My argument is not about dishwashers. It's not about specific buttons. It's that removal of this particular government bureaucracy
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by timr 1y ago
> Canada, Japan and Switzerland still join the US's EnergyStar program. I can't speak for Europe, but I know Japan well. It may have "joined", but there is literally no awareness of the program. You don't see the
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by timr 1y ago
Maybe not, but they replaced dishwashers that used to take 1 hour to clean a load with ones that take 4+ hours.
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by timr 1y ago
When you insert a giant labeling bureaucracy in the middle of it, then point to consumers doing what they would have done anyway , then no, it’s not “the market at work”. It’s a bit like making a Department of Deliciousness, and “voluntari
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by timr 1y ago
It’s “voluntary” except for all of the different ways it’s been written into regulations, from federal procurement all the way down to local government. But if the market prefers it, great! Do it without the need for a government bureaucrac
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by timr 1y ago
I’m neither a libertarian, nor am I a snowflake…and the argument I am making has absolutely nothing to do with the presence or absence of a specific button. When there is a huge government bureaucracy that is devoted to writing and implemen
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by timr 1y ago
> The idea that manufacturers wouldn’t just make energy and water hogging dishwashers now is naive at best. Making something run well using less resources costs more money up front, even though the total cost of ownership is lower. Reall
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by timr 1y ago
> Energy star forces that disclosure and that's it. Incorrect. The far bigger part of the program is certification: https://www.energystar.gov/about/how-energy-star-works/energ... (There's also the sc
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by timr 1y ago
> Do you have any examples where that has been the case? I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but the department of education comes to mind as a bureaucracy that has no net influence on the amount of education occurring. (n
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by timr 1y ago
I actually sort of agree. If you're going to put the regulations in place, at least do it where it matters!
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by timr 1y ago
EnergyStar has nothing to do with "modernizing the grid". It is, however, why any new dishwasher in the US takes like 4 hours to finish a load, unless you put it into non-bureaucratic mode. Meanwhile, we're driving energy con

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