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by viccis 1mo ago
Honestly pretty funny that you gave a (fairly useless) metaethical answer instead of responding to the actual meaning, which was clearly soliciting ethical judgments about it.
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by viccis 1mo ago
It's falling apart at the seams for me. Half the time I click somewhere on a page, the whole thing freezes and I have to reload the page. Took forever to install neovim on a new machine today because all the plugins installed via Githu
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by viccis 1mo ago
Same. Almost every time I would use its streaming interfaces in Python, it would STILL materialize everything into memory. That was like 6 months ago. Maybe streaming interfaces actually work, but I found them to be leaky abstractions that
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by viccis 1mo ago
The AI moderation is completely out of control. They'll permaban 15 year old accounts for chatting about WW2 history because they used phrases like "<person> should have killed <person> when they had a chance, and we p
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by viccis 1mo ago
Tbh the extreme discrepancies between very confidently made statements about "X is better than Y" a sign a to me this is something where peoples' biases are out of control. Not saying you are wrong. Just that these things are
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by viccis 1mo ago
I've seen many people point out that, despite AI being heralded as increasing engineering productivity by 10x or more, we don't seem to have gotten a decade worth of new disruptive sites and apps like we got multiple times a year
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by viccis 1mo ago
Literally why I started to come here. r/programming because a derelict wasteland. What commentary you got was frivolous and unhelpful. Posts about CockroachDB there would all be jokes or other commentary on its name, while you'd h
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by viccis 1mo ago
I had a coworker catch Codex (using 5.5 I think, not sure) AI generating screenshots to prove it had shipped a feature that it was blocked from shipping due to permissions issues. They will lie relentlessly lol My recent problem wasn't
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by viccis 1mo ago
Are these real findings, or a situation in which fixes have been backported? At one place I worked, the corpsec guys were wildly incompetent and would try to bury me in "CVEs" in my systems that were nothing but "vulnerable&q
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by viccis 1mo ago
>With AI, "bad" engineers can now amplify their "bad" engineering x10 across the organization. I would expand this even further and say that the worst problem for people in the trenches isn't even just that this
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by viccis 2mo ago
A good way to accomplish this is to ask the AI to give you some good names for the project. It tends to regurgitate those, and a quick search of existing apps will flush it out.
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by viccis 2mo ago
Part of the problem here is that this college has <5% acceptance rate. Very hard to get into and prestigious. The students who get in have been minmaxing and exploiting every advantage they can for their entire life.
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by viccis 2mo ago
Banning existing billboards isn't a first amendment problem if it's not contingent on the contents of the billboard. Much like some radio frequencies are reserved, other media are forced to obey regulations. >Doing it without c
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by viccis 2mo ago
I agree, I work on an "airgapped" BYOC system as well, that runs on data lake providers mostly, and it's a bit of a nightmare because each customer has their own labyrinthine network setup, their own way of ingesting data (as
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by viccis 2mo ago
>Of course, woe betide those with social phobias I can see this being a problem in the US when it comes to "accommodations" in general. Students with an ADHD diagnosis can claim it causes just about any difficulty and get accom
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by viccis 2mo ago
I've actually thought about creating (maybe ironically with AI) a browser extension that just filters every submission about or clearly created with AI out. I spend all day being asked to review AI PR slop by coworkers who I suspect to
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by viccis 2mo ago
You can actually just eliminate existing ones. The government can just do things and absolutely already does whenever politicians really want something to happen (data centers, etc.). There's no law of nature that billboards must be al
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by viccis 2mo ago
Oh it's the AI billboards, and not the crowds of like 20 people shooting up at 7am as I'm walking from my hotel to Moscone for my work conference? I guess the AI billboards do create a bitterly ironic feeling in that context, but
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by viccis 2mo ago
Seems like an almost irresponsibly misleading headline.
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by viccis 2mo ago
Back in my pen testing days, the best way to get someone to do something stupid and click Accept on something like a Java Applet permission check was to annoy them. Pop up a few annoying modals and eventually they just click yes on everythi
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by viccis 2mo ago
False equivalence fallacy
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by viccis 2mo ago
Yeah one of the worst offenders of this are the leetcode problems that have a clever but extremely elegantly simple greedy algorithm (such as "return True" lol). Great example is Majority Element [1] The answer seems pretty clear
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by viccis 2mo ago
>The coding questions that require an "aha!" moment are very similar to brain teasers, and should also be avoided. The problem with these is that their solutions always seem trivial when you are shown them (or spend time solvin
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by viccis 2mo ago
>Will we develop new ways to let people express their own values in democracies, or will we just get much better at manipulation? Is there even the tiniest reason to suspect that the people steering this progress will use it for the de
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by viccis 2mo ago
The ability of an LLM to produce something not in its training data set.
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by viccis 2mo ago
"Engineer" is a floating signifier and there's no reason to pretend it's anything otherwise in the US.
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by viccis 2mo ago
If anyone wants more discussion on weird fiction, I'd recommend Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie . It's a fairly short but interesting read and not particularly political like most of his writing is.
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by viccis 2mo ago
It's good to avoid anthropomorphizing them when evaluating their capabilities (all the AGI nonsense) However, it can be ironically be helpful to antropomorphize them when it comes to analyzing behavior. They won't feel anything, b
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by viccis 2mo ago
Historically, owning them meant when one person upgrades, other family members could get their old ones. I use my old iPhone as a dev phone for iOS coding. I can also just enjoy having a working device that I'm not still paying for onc
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by viccis 2mo ago
They're switching to a lease model. Almost certainly because of the cost of components, but also in their interests to continue the "you'll own nothing" trend. They're even using Klarna as the leasing provider.

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