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by vdupras 1y ago
This is what I mean by "organizational problem". I understand that sometimes -- in fact most of the times -- you need to onboard mediocre programmers. But on the other hand, it's really great when you don't have to.
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by vdupras 1y ago
I don't know, I'm seduced by the elitist approach: code with a high cognitive load keeps mediocre developers away. Case in point: Forth. It generally has a heavy cognitive load. However, Forth also enables a radical kind of simpli
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by vdupras 1y ago
If I try to sum up all the irrational rules I've seen in my professional life, sure, I've seen some coming from unions, but my general impression is that most of the "wtf" I've seen come from management, or, in the
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by vdupras 1y ago
I guess you could settle the question by trying it!
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by vdupras 1y ago
The amount of offline documentation required to do so is gargantuan. Try any kind of "repurposing" of any phone -- go for something trivial, not as hard as controlling an automated greenhouse circuit -- and try to do so without th
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by vdupras 1y ago
From https://nx.dev/ : > 2.5 million developers use Nx every day > Over 70% of Fortune 500 companies use Nx to ship their products To quote Fargo: Whoa, daddy... Now that's what I call a rapidly degrading situatio
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by vdupras 1y ago
It's alright, I'm not French :) But yeah, I have to be colored surprised. I was certain I was replying to arrogance, rather than (possibly misplaced) admiration. I guess that puts me on the wrong side of the moderation fence. Sorr
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by vdupras 1y ago
I have trouble understanding how that guideline applies here. The original article shows how it's possible that we're about to see an AI bubble pop, the parent comment show generic american arrogance[1], and I come up with a histo
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by vdupras 1y ago
Certainly, and they lost the other half on the way home. On the way to Moscow, there was still something to look forward to. In Moscow, with no supply, dying like flies, all they had to look forward to was a long march through the Almighty
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by vdupras 1y ago
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by vdupras 1y ago
> And the prices of these new and used are out of this world even compared to baseline inflation. How many such cases do we need to have to be able to put out the hypothesis that the baseline inflation figures we're being fed are wr
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by vdupras 1y ago
Common accepted knowledge around here is that greed is good and that capitalism works because of it. Fine, let's accept it. But here's my pet theory and here why I think we see cracks forming up in this "greed is good" m
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by vdupras 1y ago
Of course, it goes without saying. But on the other side, not many people would have what it take to not let that kind of wealth go to their head. This désinvolture has to be praised.
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by vdupras 1y ago
You mean that in the sense "is it too soon to say we'll have a 10% inflation year?". Certainly, and I don't mean that. I just want to counter the general "annualized inflation figure numbness". But this is not
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by vdupras 1y ago
News outlets have been feeding us with annualized rates, which is making this 0.9 figure sound pale, but it's pretty big because it's for July only. Times 12, it means inflation over 10%. The 3.3% annualized figure in the article
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by vdupras 1y ago
My pet theory, if we indulge in a bit of conspiracy theory about the oligarchs, is that they're in fact benevolent and that the final outcome with be a net good for humanity in relation to the climate challenge. I mean, Trump is so bla
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by vdupras 1y ago
A few new facts we'll see pop up: 1. There has always been town-destroying wildfires every summer. It's always been like that. 2. It has always been the case that AC units were necessary for a human to survive an american summer.
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by vdupras 1y ago
Pacino? De Niro maybe?
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by vdupras 1y ago
> Brazil also imagines a hyper-efficient future ... I don't think that's how I'd call it. The future in Brazil looks deeply dysfunctional to me. About as efficient as a car with no wheel revving up to its maximum capacity.
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by vdupras 1y ago
Let them eat cake, right? https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...
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by vdupras 1y ago
Opportunity also is a precious resource. Redirecting resume to /dev/null is wasting it. I have a hard time believing that LLMs, with all their sophistication, aren't ideally suited for this task.
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by vdupras 1y ago
Aren't they an AI company? Couldn't they sort it out? If Anthropic, of all companies, can't sort out incoming job applications, what exactly are their tools for?
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by vdupras 1y ago
Maybe it's a documentation problem? It seems to me that for a piece of software to be considered good, one has to be able to grok how it works internally without having written it.
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by vdupras 1y ago
> Everyone keeps saying it these days: treat your AI like a (brilliant) new junior dev. Really? You mean that person that drains senior developer time, but in which we still invest time because we're confident they're going to
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by vdupras 1y ago
It's because programing thus is akin to Asimov's tech-men, vibing with the fabric of the universe through their religious incantations.
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by vdupras 1y ago
I'm surprised that this isn't a bigger story. Geo-strategic implications of this gradual escalation seem significant to me. And do they really don't bother pretending to do it for ransom already? Seems important to me.
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by vdupras 1y ago
That's an interesting point of view. If that is actually the goal of Israel right now, what if the Hamas executed all hostages on the spot, right now? Would Israel say "we have no more military objective, time to go home" or
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by vdupras 1y ago
I have no idea, it hasn't been me for years.
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by vdupras 1y ago
What a blast from the past, I created that library, what more than a decade ago? How simpler the world was back then. This was used by nobody except us for our little shitty use case. How noisy this project has become!
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by vdupras 1y ago
It has to be something about familiarity, because for me it's the opposite. I find that nested parens in Lisp make the code pretty hard to read. It's difficult to pinpoint where the processing begins. I also find myself constantly

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