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by twodave 10mo ago
I usually make coffee at home, but the baristas are remarkably stable in my area. When I do go to a coffee shop (there are 2-3 that I might go to) there’s a good chance I’ll recognize the barista and that they’ll also remember me. In one su
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by twodave 10mo ago
I argue that the intent of an engineer is contained coherently across the code of a project. I have yet to get an LLM to pick up on the deeper idioms present in a codebase that help constrain the overall solution towards these more particul
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by twodave 11mo ago
> Semicolons are for when you really can't break two clauses into two sentences with a full stop; a full stop is better most of the time. IIRC (it's been a while) there are 2 cases where a semi-colon is acceptable. One is when
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by twodave 11mo ago
Even with ChatGPT in play it’s not very good.
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by twodave 11mo ago
I think the main issue I have with Apple Intelligence via Siri is that it’s not very predictable anymore which things it can handle. Sometimes it will answer nuanced questions helpfully, and other times I’ll ask for it to play the only podc
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by twodave 11mo ago
I came here to say the same. If you’re arguing either for or against microservices you’re probably not thinking about the problem correctly. Running one big service may make sense if your resource needs are pretty uniform. Even if they’re n
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by twodave 11mo ago
Write it, then, and post it up here!
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by twodave 11mo ago
I’ve considered some form of grad school a few times, but I always came to the conclusion there just wasn’t enough value in it for a software engineer like me. I don’t plan on teaching, and I’m not really interested in the “science” of comp
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by twodave 11mo ago
I guess my point is regulating “algorithmic price discrimination” is orthogonal to “regulating AI”. Why do something indirectly that could more easily be done directly?
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by twodave 11mo ago
None of this is inherent to the functions of AI, though. Trying to regulate it from that angle will just cause battle lines to form in weird places for the sake of not being considered AI. Or else extension of regulation beyond AI, which so
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by twodave 11mo ago
Because then it’s not distinguishable from price differences that already exist. Where are the damages? Who is being harmed? As a consumer you can always overpay for stuff. Amazon could start using its knowledge of spending habits TODAY to
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by twodave 11mo ago
It was a genuine question. Do you have anything besides ridicule to offer the discussion?
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by twodave 11mo ago
This fundamentally doesn’t work unless there is collusion involved, which we already have laws against.
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by twodave 11mo ago
What is so novel about LLMs (I assume this is the form of AI being discussed) that they require regulation? It’s a dataset, an algorithm and some UI. Almost all the problems brought on by the scale-up are just supply/demand type things
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by twodave 11mo ago
The harsh reality is that the world as it is depends on what amounts to slave labor, and that is priced into (or out of, rather) the goods that are imported. The mental and economic gymnastics involved in justifying it or pretending otherwi
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by twodave 11mo ago
I’d settle for the “age of being able to point the LLM at the entire codebase, describe a new feature, and see it implemented based on the patterns and idioms already present in that codebase”. My impression is the only thing between here a
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by twodave 11mo ago
Anecdotally, our family would not survive without homeschooling. I wouldn’t say we are a common situation, 4 kids who each have different learning challenges. I don’t think public education or their peers in those institutions would have be
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by twodave 11mo ago
I agree. I’ve used LLMs to aid in writing out copy and other things, but as a learning tool and not as a way to remove myself from the process. I especially don’t like where businesses are taking this. At least with the old chat bots and su
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by twodave 11mo ago
I LOVE LLMs as a learning tool. I HATE LLMs as a communication tool. I know, there are people with serious handicaps who benefit from LLMs in this area. If only I could talk to those people and not wade through all this other garbage. Espec
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by twodave 11mo ago
I don't understand what point you're trying to make. Are you suggesting that if I can't feel empathy for everybody at once, or in every one of their circumstances, that I should not feel anything at all for anyone? That'
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by twodave 11mo ago
Can’t speak for GP but ultimately I’d rather it be my fault or my company’s fault so I have something I can directly do for my customers who can’t use our software. The sense of dread isn’t about failure but feeling empathy for others who m
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by twodave 11mo ago
It IS pedantic, because we are talking not of pop stars in general, but Britney Spears specifically.
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by twodave 11mo ago
You are being pedantic, but I’ll play along. Absurd has multiple meanings. It can mean nonsensical, but it can also mean utterly ridiculous or silly. Under those other meanings I believe the pop-star-physics-professor still qualifies.
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by twodave 11mo ago
It’s called absurdity. It’s funny because it’s obviously not true, and also funny because of the undertones that it’s a clever way to get horny teenagers to study physics who really just want to see the photos.
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by twodave 11mo ago
Sounds like either someone with very young kids or else someone with a dismissive/naive parenting style. For kids born since the mid-80s “hiding the porn” has been a lot harder than locking magazines in a closet. It’s not a matter of i
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by twodave 11mo ago
At least this will clear up the confusion between nginx-ingress and ingress-nginx in all the online docs. Unless it doesn’t.
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by twodave 11mo ago
You say that now, but if your family member were hit by a drunk driver who was only in your city for work, and the employer knew the employee had a couple of DUIs but had them rent a car for travel anyway, you'd probably want them to b
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by twodave 11mo ago
There is probably some nuance that I am just not aware of. As the adoptive parents it is difficult to get the full account, since we weren't present until a few hours later. From what I was told, he was born with the umbilical cord wra
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by twodave 11mo ago
I feel this, but in reverse. My son could be dead, but he’s not. He was born on the floor of a trailer park apartment, not breathing. His birth mother’s partner called 911, who dispatched an ambulance. All rescue units for his zone were alr
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by twodave 11mo ago
I think if you build modules expecting the dependencies to not eventually include most other modules then you either have a trivial application or you’re one PM monkey wrench away from a bad time.

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