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by twodave 10mo ago
Ostensibly not all known oil fields are actively being extracted. This fact alone makes it unlikely that discovering a new source would affect the price of oil, unless it can be retrieved using cheaper than the existing methods. It’s also w
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by twodave 10mo ago
This stuff is worse than drywall for a lot of reasons due to its brittleness. I’m not even sure paint would adhere to it as well as drywall.
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by twodave 10mo ago
Propane also has to be pressurized, which complicates its use. Gasoline being liquid at rest is advantageous. That said, when I was in Rio in 2007 I saw plenty of cars running on pressurized natural gas. They were considered pretty crappy,
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by twodave 10mo ago
Eh, don’t let other people define what is acceptable for production. Tests are nice but for most boilerplate type things nobody (and I mean NOBODY) writes unit or even integration tests. If you are deploying with the tolerance that you need
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by twodave 10mo ago
Next is an ok choice (IMO), but there are definitely some things Next does that you want to be aware of up front. * It wants to be your back-end. If you have a separate back-end, get ready to write back-end auth code twice, and probably in
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by twodave 10mo ago
They could have better constrained the purchasing/selling API to avoid subterfuge like this having real monetary consequences. But the article about that would probably have been boring.
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by twodave 10mo ago
Thanks, this is what I was looking for. Puts the original point into focus.
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by twodave 10mo ago
> zuck saying he laid off poor performers (effectively screwing those people for no reason) Were they not actually performing poorly, then? Maybe I'm missing some context, but laying off poor performers is a good thing last I checke
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by twodave 10mo ago
AI may replace some workers, but it won't replace the worker. Rather it will augment the worker. Even in software, where people are acting like recent graduates are having the ladder pulled up from them, I think this is just a lack
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by twodave 10mo ago
People keep trying to tie these two things together, forgetting the fact that ZIRP also ended 3 years ago, and that combined with the end of the COVID-era employer credits are when the layoffs really began. I won't say LLMs are having
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by twodave 10mo ago
Yes, being able to pay wages that amount to slavery opens a lot of doors. There is a lot of positive Chinese sentiment on this website, much of it exaggerated, and all of their accomplishments pretty much hinge on being able to exploit thei
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by twodave 10mo ago
I wouldn’t say I am anti-LLM, but I am definitely anti-AGI. And I think this comment is nudging me into a better understanding of why that is. I much prefer to be the “owner” of my devices and not just the “operator”. In fact, I think any m
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by twodave 10mo ago
This is not the intended workflow. It is meant to be dynamic in nature.
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by twodave 10mo ago
I’ve been doing a rewrite of some file import type stuff, using a new common data model for storage, and I’ve taken to basically pasting in the old code, commented out and telling it to fill the new object using the commented out content as
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by twodave 10mo ago
Interesting, though not really a replacement for server-side sanitization. But as another layer of defense? Sure. I could see it useful especially in RTEs.
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by twodave 10mo ago
Edit: thanks for the gracious reply. I was probably overly defensive myself. I didn’t read all of that, but what I gathered is that it’s relying on survey response about future expectation? And probably being conflated a bit with the end of
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by twodave 10mo ago
I agree mostly, though personally I expect LLMs to basically give me whitewashing. They don't innovate. They don't push back enough or take a step back to reset the conversation. They can't even remember something I told them
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by twodave 10mo ago
Not low-value or it just wouldn't be on the board. Lower value? Maybe, but there are many, many reasons things get pushed down the backlog. As many reasons as there are kinds of companies. Most people don't work at one of the big
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by twodave 10mo ago
Well, I would just say to take into account the fact that we're starting to see LLMs be responsible for substantial electricity use, to the point that AI companies are lobbying for (significant) added capacity. And remember that we&#x2
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by twodave 10mo ago
You’re assuming a lot about me that isn’t true, but let’s just say we can’t really know, can we? And I think it’s a bit reductionist to attribute the current job market to LLMs. The market started to suck long before LLMs became useful.
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by twodave 10mo ago
I’m not anti-AI; I use it every day. But I also think all this hand-wringing is overblown and unbalanced. LLMs, because of what they are, will never replace a thoughtful engineer. If you’re writing code for a living at the level of an LLM t
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by twodave 10mo ago
No, because they’d be waiting in the lengthy queues that would be necessary for anyone to use it. There are hard constraints to this tech that make what you’re talking about infeasible.
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by twodave 10mo ago
Horses eat feed. Cars eat gasoline. LLMs eat electricity, and progress may even now be finding its limits in that arena. Besides the fact that just more compute and context size aren’t the right kind of progress. LLMs aren’t coming for your
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by twodave 10mo ago
It’s only 15 pages without the ads ;)
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by twodave 10mo ago
That assumes two things: 1. That such a tool couldn’t be limited to the big players (it could) and 2. That “small sites trying to run ads to get by,” aren’t part of the problem. I can understand why someone would believe this, but I believe
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by twodave 10mo ago
Oh awesome, thanks for linking.
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by twodave 10mo ago
For sure, it would be technically challenging. Especially if the click requires use of a secure cookie. But it doesn’t have to be perfect to be effective, either, at least at first.
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by twodave 10mo ago
I actually wonder if the whole anti-ad movement is moving in the wrong direction. And I’m right there with the author running a pi-hole, but I wonder if it would be better to have an extension that will click all of the ads in a way that
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by twodave 10mo ago
It’s likely a better roasting process and fresher beans. Large scale coffee roasters produce burnt, more acidic beans with chemicals added during the process.
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by twodave 10mo ago
This is typically true of coffee produced at scale. Large batches are often overcooked, chemically cooled and then left longer on the shelf. The result of these things is increased acidity. I have found that I can tolerate the small-batch l

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