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by twelve40 7mo ago
yeah weird. Same goes for the "ATMs increased demand for tellers" strange idea suggested earlier in the article, which was automatically disproven right there by actually attributing the growth in tellers to deregulation. Which on
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by twelve40 7mo ago
that's kind of an ad hominem, but also beside the point: most bank apps (and websites) are actually absolute garbage, especially the top ones, just one example: the Citi app (on different phones) for a very long time refused to allow m
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by twelve40 7mo ago
With so much hype it's a valid question: "is this useful/practical, or just a fun rabbit hole/productivity porn". Money is the most obvious metric, feel free to inquire the parent about other possible metrics that m
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by twelve40 7mo ago
the obvious problem with replacing the algorithm is that people actually crave that shit, after all there have been tens of thousands of highly trained engineers making it as addictive as possible. So, no chance.
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by twelve40 8mo ago
> It’s not anymore (actually google is awful now) and people are still using it if people are still using it, then it's really one of the few things, right? * you are wrong and it's not awful * it _is_ awful but good enough for
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by twelve40 8mo ago
do they use facebook or instagram? meta jammed their LLM into the search box there. Do they use google at all? the AI summary produced by Gemini leads you to click on "more details" with gemini. so while this is technically true:
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by twelve40 8mo ago
lol you can call it crap if it makes you feel better, but McDonalds was replaced by the same vendors, making the same stuff sourced mostly locally as before, using the same processes that McDonalds used, they just don't send their reve
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by twelve40 8mo ago
yeah that was weird, it was like a cult and some coworkers of mine were religiously hunting down every comment in other people's MR's, just kinda assumed that "no comments" is a hard rule. Very strange, i had to fight ma
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by twelve40 8mo ago
I found my love for programming in high school, dreaming of helping the world with my beautiful craftsmanship, but now i really really need the fokken money. Both are true! So if my corporate overlords will have me talk to the soul-less Cla
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by twelve40 8mo ago
> many went into this field for money I went into this field for both ! what do i do now, i'm screwed
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by twelve40 9mo ago
mostly if the founders are dickheads. That happens often, but may not be the case here.
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by twelve40 9mo ago
yeah, and Zuckerberg said that everyone on planet Earth will buy his VR helmet, and renamed his whole company after a stupid game which i don't think even exists anymore. Being a contrarian doesn't mean you are right, and sometime
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by twelve40 1y ago
don't get the hate, cheap tix to Vegas were great, now it's less competition, if their plane config was not to your liking you can pay whatever you want for any other airline, don't get the schadenfreude.
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by twelve40 1y ago
pretty fucked up if it runs into an asteroid or a comet!
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by twelve40 1y ago
Is this is a joke? Of course it's not going to kill ad-funded anything, ads will still be there 100% in some form, except now all the ad money will go to 1-2 companies instead of the whole world of web publishers. Very smart cheering t
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by twelve40 1y ago
> Handing your codebase to an AI company is not nothing. it's a battle that's already lost a long time ago. Every crappy little service by now indexes everything. If you ever touch Github, Jira, Datadog, Glean (god forbid), Upw
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by twelve40 1y ago
backend has many traps but no one totally dominating "load the slow bundle once, near-native subsequent page loads" narrative which is (for whatever the reason!!) a non-existent illusion on most average daily websites.
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by twelve40 1y ago
> When it is worth the pain to load a large bundle in exchange for having really small network requests after the load ...and yet, i keep running into web (and even mobile apps) that load the bundle, and subsequent navigation is just as
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by twelve40 1y ago
> I'm able to quickly stop it and fix any mistake it makes I would think that's the process too, but according to the article the dude is almost completely hands off: > You come back to ten thousand lines of code. You spend
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by twelve40 1y ago
why is this so surprising? every place i worked at, going back probably 6 jobs, was using an ORM (django, hibernate, or even a self-built one), they went on to get acquired by Twitter, Microsoft, Uber etc, so not completely stupid or obscur
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by twelve40 1y ago
what do you mean remember? it didn't go anywhere. I try to understand how to make this useful for my daily programming, and every credible-looking advice begins with "tell LLM to program in style ABC and avoid antipatterns like XY
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by twelve40 1y ago
> “AI will not replace humans, but those who use AI will replace those who don’t.” – Ginni Rometty wait, i thought it was Watson that was supposed to replace me
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by twelve40 1y ago
> it is like having a team of 20 Junior Engineers lol sounds like a true nightmare. Code is a liability. Faster junior coding = more crap code = more liability.
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by twelve40 1y ago
well, unlike say linux it's not just the code, but training data which of course never has been and never will be shared, and compute. So keeping the whole thing (training data, compute, and the code) private seems quite doable, even i
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by twelve40 1y ago
> Current policy lead directly to that one fellow to lock the cockpit door and slam the plane into a hillside While obviously the incidents are terrible, do you really think he would self-report, voluntarily endure 6+ months of therapy a
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by twelve40 1y ago
> peoples' complaints about javascript type coercion is that they simply never bothered to learn how it works soo.... if the pesky people keep complaining, maybe it really doesn't make any sense? i for the life of me could ne
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by twelve40 1y ago
this is what he's going to push on all of us... terrifying
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by twelve40 1y ago
the parent asked for moronity OR fraud, kind of a low bar lol
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by twelve40 1y ago
> a special order, 350 gallons, and had it shipped from Los Angeles. A few days after the order arrived, Hughes announced he was tired of banana nut and wanted only French vanilla ice cream yes, there are plenty more recent example, ever
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by twelve40 1y ago
past performance does not guarantee future results also, great for the Wall Street, mixed bag for us the people

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