tluyben2

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by tluyben2 4y ago
When I used to use PayPal and read forums with 1000s of complaints about them, it almost exclusively sided with the buyer, even in obvious scams. That changed?
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It will just get normal.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I am that donkey banging it's head on the same post; when I see dates stored without TZ, I assume it's UTC and have done so for decades. It's turned out to almost never be true.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Is anyone aware of a 'modern wget'? Something that has a more modern spider (wget misses a lot of deeplinks because the are not standard conform or js) with a smart switch to a browser based headless spider if it detects a fronten
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Trying to follow the right people on this topic: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1617421345121353733 Many people are doing really great and innovative work in the space. They are just mostly researchers and hard to fi
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by tluyben2 4y ago
It does in some cases, but modern software dev (in larger teams) is generally way too verbose (for my taste). The 'easier to do' you speak off will be heavily AI augmented, so it'll be the same thing. The verbosity; people wa
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I still would pay for good search without ads. Definitely google should make more than me clicking ads, which, in the past 20 years (or however long it is that google has apps), happened 0 times. I know why, but there must be a model that
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Sure, but I do that with code or text written by others anyway.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
What type of work do you do? I use it for web/app stuff; for embedded, proofs, pl r&d etc it doesn’t really work so that’s still manual. That’s just not what I make most money with.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
> Because I wish it worked as good as you said it did so I wasn't working right now. It's all in the prompting; I use [0] and a version of [1] with some other tooling to instruct it, add my style and other context in the sessio
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by tluyben2 4y ago
> you're the first person I know of who has actually been replaced by an AI (although you don't know it yet) I think there are many; I know I will be, and always known that (my father always told me from when I saw my first com
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by tluyben2 4y ago
> You would've had to have spent quite a lot fo time just writing up the requirements that it would've been as easy to do some other way. I have to do that with human team members as well. People have to either listen or read w
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by tluyben2 4y ago
See it as augmentation and not a threat. People who went ‘into programming’ and learned the basics and then stood still will have issues, but chatgpt still needs senior or talented developers to do anything useful for now (like juniors, you
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by tluyben2 4y ago
The few people that do the same thing now writing code from client specs or who explain and cut up client specs to their team of programmers. Not many people are good at that, and that won’t be AI for a while yet.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
It was never to that extend though; chatgpt can change/augment existing code. Nocode/low code solutions cannot do that (in a meaningful way).
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by tluyben2 4y ago
It solves real world problems for me on a daily basis; things I hired people for before. There are things like helping with white papers, emails and blog posts. But, to your point, I can give it a little bit of context, let’s say some old D
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Sure, but that won’t be that impressive, at least to me, after this step. It’s just incremental improvements.
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It was the reason I went to study AI (at possibly the worst time, in the 90s winter); I was very young when I first played it and obsessed with the large amounts of text it came up with under different circumstances. I found out how it all
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I didn’t believe to see chatgpt in my lifetime, all that comes after has to be disappointing as it will never be this much of a revolution to me personally. But the press and the influencers are making a real show shouting things they have
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by tluyben2 4y ago
> There are not two systems of justice — one for the wealthy and one for the poor Would be nice if they would say this when a poor person, because they cannot afford a team of lawyers, gets a completely over the top punishment on shoddy
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Some of my best child memories are playing space invaders (beating my father at highscores; later rounds you have to very fast especially when you have the one crack-infused alien left) and castle adventure on a luggable [0]. I still have t
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by tluyben2 4y ago
- type theory forall - arraycast - Eric Normand podcast
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I am close to 50 and I get invited to parties a few times a week; in and around the summer and December, that becomes daily. The past 30+ years there are very few weeks I haven’t been to at least one. Of course the term ‘party’ can mean man
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by tluyben2 4y ago
Ah yes, I had my finger above the buy button yesterday but I need to get a new phone to use it on the go which I am holding off on. Please write down your experience; it really looks pretty great from the reviews. No batteries in the glasse
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by tluyben2 4y ago
> I just decided for my own sanity that some things just aren't worth arguing about. Yep, I was raised to question and then argue everything with passion. It’s a waste of time. Mostly people will say they agree just to make you stop
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I tried, they don’t. Seems when they were ranking #1 on HN yesterday, someone made a summary (top comment) of what they are for that isn’t quite correct.
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I saw this behaviour from MS/Azure IP space about 3 weeks ago; there were so many requests that some dynamic pages started to get slower because of it, so I gave in and added Cloudflare in front. It stopped minutes later as per the log
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by tluyben2 4y ago
I didn't try, but it seems GPT-Index and LangChain use techniques to get around prompting length limits?
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by tluyben2 4y ago
On page 8 of magazine [0] (from 1977) they are talking about computers taking over the world. The same things people are still talking about still. There are also stories about no-code being the end of programmer jobs etc. The only thing th
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by tluyben2 4y ago
But usually it doesn’t really work like that, at least not for the cases I use it for. And chatgpt is even worse: it’s a conversational AI, so I burn 1000s of tokens fine tuning a response which will be slightly different than the previous

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