torben-friis

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by torben-friis 3mo ago
I guess that depends on the kind of project, how common the intent is, how self contained, etc.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
Absolutely! This is a point that tends to kill introverted/insecure people I think. They assume that asking for permission is making things easier for people, but there's a limit where you're not allowing others to delegate r
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
>the work of the editor does have value. it's just a different value. I mostly agree with that, with some caveats (in short, there's an uncomfortably thin line to appropriating the curated work, consciously or not). >and how
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
I should have clarified or quoted, my bad. I was talking about the work references, mainly this paragraph: >was I tempted to use AI to speed things up? No. It would be like hooking a motor to a stationary bike and calling that exercise.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
Yeah, the somelier argument. It doesn't work for me sorry, because you wouldn't accept a book by John, a friend of Hemingway, as a Hemingway book no matter how much he assisted in editing. Nor a Picasso museum exhibition is by Mar
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
I think the argument is misguided, even if I agree with the principle: it is based in the effort one puts in and how it's similar to a sport. I don't care whether my favorite author sweated for months facing a typewriter, of he ef
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
During his first term, his continuous threats to north Korea were enough to force congress to restrict presidential powers (the whole fire and fury stuff), and that's not counting Venezuela, Syria and others.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
More than you can imagine. OKRs, brag documents, quarter reviews.... Kidding aside, I would be surprised if something larger than using it as a thesaurus/corrector is slipping by. Literature is genuinely hard.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
I haven't seen any minimal sign that any of the fiction books I read lately was LLM helped. Writers seem like a particularly anti AI crowd too. Has anyone? Now I'm curious if it's just my particular bubble.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
Pretty much the whole developed world is suffering excessive housing prices. Whoever has the money to develop housing is in a position to exploit the scarcity as well.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
>Scalability, measured (the honest section) Ugh.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
If you don't care about someone else's charts, why do you expect others to care about your comment?
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
It is good to remember that the discourse is not fully real. There are fake accounts pushing AI everywhere, and people burned out by the marketing that react positioning too aggressively in the opposite direction (particularly when it'
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
>Where pylint crashes, prylint reports the same crash message. As always, three lines in you realize that the doc you're reading hasn't been written (maybe not even read) by a human. So so tired of this breach of trust.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
People don't talk enough about the effects of bright screens being cheap to keep on in urban areas. Every drug store, bus stop and storefront in my city is painful to walk around at night.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
It is particularly bad when they use their workers as human shields. "If you are satisfied with my service please leave a 5star review, my name is Samantha, we get in trouble for less than 5 stars".
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
>while consumers just want to know "what is this product going to actually do for me," and care less about whether it is implemented with the buzzword du jour. I would say that undersells the (not neutral, actively negative) im
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
Probably well run compared to the rest of meta, not to the versions of themselves pre acquisition. Whatsapp is worsening by the day.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
I think it's just one more show of how addicted to the algorithm people are. The difference here is that this particular wave of propaganda hits people whose actions have deep effects on their industries, so their unreasonable actions
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
It hides the issue a bit. But if you ask for atomic security fixes and then stare at the diffs you have your vulnerability. There is just a bit more friction involved in the vulnerability => exploit path, but the root cause is unfixed. I
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
The end result of that is that your model can't fix or acknowledge security issues for fear of disclosing them. This is the beauty the above poster mentioned: the ability to improve code is inherently coupled with the ability to recogn
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
So I think calling them out for not helping enough is going to involve a lot of glass houses.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
About 2% of Sweden's population are refugees (!). For contrast, for the US the figure is 0.1% And it's not like they are in a border with an active war zone.
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
This is an avenue I think will eventually be tried as a monetisation path: Models that are fully unavailable to company outsiders, you can just hire consultants that will be thin layers to the model. That way the costs that will come are m
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
>Is this a creative way of arguing that landlords are a net loss for the country? Not landlords as a general concept, but there are many categories that are: - Investors buying areas in bulk to monopolise available living space and manip
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
I disagree that something becoming easier is a negative, even if it sucks for the people who learned the hard way. The real issue is that the floor has been lowered, but the ceiling stays as high. It's always been a problem in this pro
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
>I feel like letting people buy their way in to visas is actually a pretty good system That depends of what you're hoping to prevent. If you want to filter out people who can't sustain themselves, petty crime or the like, it wo
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
I'm usually a hater of the personalities LLM take, but I was amazed with Fable. It was able to proactively bring up points in an educated manner when it felt they were relevant and important, and practically every time I learned someth
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by torben-friis 3mo ago
I understood the phrase as emphasizing the "deserving" implication of the word earn. As in, it is not possible for a human to take actions such that the fair reward is a billion. Or in other words, if you got a billion you got mor
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by torben-friis 4mo ago
It was literally three days ago that I was commenting the possibility of non Americans receiving worse code. There we go. This should make nations consider whether they're letting their workforces become dependent on foreign tools, but

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