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by username223 1y ago
> The web is crazy complex these days because it is an entire app platform. I'd prefer something that's not crazy complex, that's not "an entire app platform" designed and implemented by Google. Google essentiall
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by username223 1y ago
> ”By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision,..." I got serious uncanny valley vibes from that quote as well. Can anyone prove that "Alexandr Wang" is an actual human, and no
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by username223 1y ago
Interesting. I was a fairly serious amateur guitarist in a former life, and the physical skill was the hard part. Playing a Bach lute suite, or something like this ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQXvMWojs28 ), takes an inc
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by username223 1y ago
"If you’re running a local LLM for privacy and security..." What? You run a local LLM for privacy, i.e. because you don't want to share data with $BIGCORP. That has very little to do with the security of the generated code (r
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by username223 1y ago
"Naughtiness," to use the technical term ( https://paulgraham.com/founders.html ).
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by username223 1y ago
I dunno... it sounds better than giving Apple/Mozilla/etc. dump-trucks of money to make Google my default search engine.
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by username223 1y ago
"Stringly typed programming" is the phrase I was looking for. It's the equivalent of a shrug from the programming language designer: "I don't know what to do about that, so I'll just add a magic string and let
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by username223 1y ago
Go has certainly come a long ways from its initial mission to be a simple language for Rob Pike's simple coworkers. type User struct { Name string `json:"name"` Password string `json:"-"`
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by username223 1y ago
What Wikipedia are you looking at? It's one of the things that has survived the longest on the Internet without being enshittified. It could live on in Cockroach Mode forever off the money from a modest solar farm or investment in an i
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by username223 1y ago
That and how smooth the customization curve is, from tweaking settings, to recording keyboard macros, to writing small helper functions, to creating whole packages. Compare that to something like Eclipse or IntelliJ, where there's a hu
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by username223 1y ago
On the one hand, I don't understand: a reliable EV costing only a few months of the median US income would be world-changing. On the other hand, I do: high-margin EVs like the Cybertruck are an easier way for car companies to make mone
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by username223 1y ago
Do you have a practical sense of the level of mischief possible in the sandbox? It seems like a game of regexp whack-a-mole to me, which seems like a predictable recipe for decades of security problems. Allow- and deny-lists for files and d
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by username223 1y ago
Color me skeptical. We're running into the speed of light when it comes to transistor size, and the parallelism that made neural nets take off is running into power demands. Where do the exponential hardware gains come from? Optimizing
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by username223 1y ago
I don't think there's a unifying reason why programming languages languish in obscurity; it's certainly not because they're "too powerful." What does "powerful" even mean? I used to care more about co
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by username223 1y ago
Matlab/Octave is great for numerical programs that perform within an order of magnitude of Fortran. If some things aren't fast enough, you can rewrite them in C or Fortran without too much trouble. If you're doing anything ot
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by username223 1y ago
"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I m
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by username223 1y ago
> new major version release that mostly has bug fixes, some minor performance improvements and minor new features. It's sad that "bug fixes and performance improvements" has become a running joke as the explanation for sof
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by username223 1y ago
> it's hard to mentally model code you didn't write. Back when I learned to code, I was told never to copy-and-paste, even from my own code. It wasn't that it wouldn't save time, but that typing the stuff would force
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by username223 1y ago
"Programmers" exist on a (not always "the") spectrum. At one extreme, there are frontend developers changing JS/Ruby frameworks every few months. New stuff is fun to play with. At the other, there's there'
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by username223 1y ago
Was this human-generated? Clearly it's self-submitted, and the useless "hero image" looks like lazy AI slop with Pixar characters, but did a human generate the text?
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by username223 1y ago
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED!
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by username223 1y ago
Nathan Benaich, who hasn't updated his profile in awhile: https://www.twitter.com/nathanbenaich . Probably not helpful.
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by username223 1y ago
> I think they're intended to use sidewalks and bike lanes, so should address concerns about cars clogging up streets. If I walked or biked in these places, I'd be worried. Sharing the sidewalk with robotic wheelie-bins seems l
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by username223 1y ago
> developers, founders, or marketers I'm none of those things, 10x or otherwise, and would be ashamed if I were. I do run a personal website, though, and most of the traffic is bots that ignore robots.txt. I wish those developers, f
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by username223 1y ago
It sounds like AI researchers have used too much of their own bad sci-fi as training data for models they don't understand. Goodhart's law wins again!
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by username223 1y ago
Imagine if we spent a trillion dollars to turn the internet into infinite degraded copies of LinkedIn. Business influencer spam generated by robots for other robots, with occasional corrections by the cheapest English speakers in the world.
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by username223 1y ago
> The emojis at the start of each row in the table are also a dead giveaway. What's up with the green checks, red Xs, rockets, and other stupid emoji in AI slop? Is it an artifact from the cheapest place to do RLHF?
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by username223 1y ago
> AI generated prose should be labeled as such, it's the decent thing to do. The decent thing to do is to prefix the slop with the prompt, so humans don't waste their time reading it.
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by username223 1y ago
I mean this in the best possible way, but I don't think you're using "altruistic" correctly. Altruism is "showing a selfless concern for the well-being of others." I think you're looking for "naive,&q
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by username223 1y ago
I guess my abandoned/dead project might be Usenet. Sure, there were very dark places, and a lot of it was just a way to distribute porn, but that pretty much describes the Web. Usenet was like Reddit not controlled by a single company;

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