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by viccis 4mo ago
My company has some products that are SaaS-like, insofar as you are basically just paying us for the ability to use our services, and then some that are less SaaS-like insofar as they consist of paying for ongoing work produced by people wi
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by viccis 5mo ago
Funny to read this while I'm at the Snowflake summit, where every single vendor booth, keynote talk, and about 95% of tech talks are exclusively about agentic AI. Sometimes I wonder if everyone here is just pretending to like it becaus
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by viccis 5mo ago
>On the Biology of a Large Language Model Biology? Anthropic really needs to stop anthropomorphizing these things so much. I'm with Dijkstra on this one. I know they do it as a sort of marketing but still...
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by viccis 5mo ago
>exploring AI as a lens in Marshall McLuhan-like thinking I would be wary of using McLuhan-like media analysis of AI. His central argument is that media are tools that extend man's ability. A calculator or a spell checker extend our
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by viccis 5mo ago
Hume already went down this epistemological track in the 18th century. It is a complete dead end, resulting in philosophical skepticism. And even he handwaved it (with his famous billiards quote) and left it unresolved until Kant took a swi
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by viccis 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect They absolutely are
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by viccis 5mo ago
I actually am the person who decides it. Because I just did. What are you gonna do, stop me? Too late. I decided it.
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by viccis 5mo ago
Black's default, which I like, has it keep any vertical spacing of comma separated things like function arguments or list contents if they end with a trailing comma. I'm not sure there's an easy way to make a "don't
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by viccis 5mo ago
One Python one I hate is that it adds crazy amounts of newlines for no real readability gains. Instead of this: def add_three_ints(x: int, y: int, z: int) -> int: return x + y + z it will write: def add_three_ints(
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by viccis 5mo ago
This reads like the paper from the Sokal affair.
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by viccis 5mo ago
>What is the problem if somebody doesn’t seek the deep meaning or anything and enjoys whatever she enjoys If you need it to be explained to you why it's a tragedy that a person's curiosity can atrophy (or fail to develop) to th
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by viccis 5mo ago
Every talented pianist in a major conservatory can play like Lang Lang and are trying their best not to lmao
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by viccis 5mo ago
It's not that I cannot see them; it's that I don't care. And I certainly don't entertain sanctimonious "le China bad" nonsense like that. You live in a country where every 5 years has been substantially better
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by viccis 5mo ago
Why would I, as an American engineer and user of tech hardware from China for quite some time now, need to immerse myself in the Chinese factories as if they are somehow worse than other ones throughout the world? Thanks, please give my reg
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by viccis 5mo ago
How do you justify your salary given that you're just using a tool that any of us could use for $20 an hour in your role?
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by viccis 5mo ago
Makes sense because it's similar to one of the ones from Dogme95 which explicitly excluded genre files.
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by viccis 5mo ago
Yeah that's my point. You can get a ton of value for a few bucks so I'm not sure what these people are doing to torch hundreds of dollars. It's possible they haven't figured out patterns to make AI work on large codebase
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by viccis 5mo ago
Mostly, no. They will explain things to you and you'll feel like you understand them. When you have to do it, though, you'll find you're not any better off than when you started. I used to see this with students in calculus w
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by viccis 5mo ago
Exactly. The whole point of CTFs is that you could start on a simple one (CSAW was usually my go to one to recommend) as a complete novice who'd never done a second of computer security work and, after a few days of 8+ hours of runni
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by viccis 5mo ago
This is already addressed in the blog post about the fast that frontier LLMs have moved to being able to solve the kind of problem you'd expect a talented amateur or mid-level pro to do (aka top level CTF problems)
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by viccis 5mo ago
>You're using psychosis wrong Also "reactionary" haha
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by viccis 5mo ago
This is a very common pattern with AI psychosis victims (and with crypto and NFT evangelists before). Comments whose haughtiness is matched only by their lack of content.
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by viccis 5mo ago
I find it very useful for debugging tasks like that but it always ends up costing me like $3 despite doing incredible work. And then one of the other engineers at my company will rack up like $200 in tokens in one day producing tens of thou
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by viccis 5mo ago
>While I lean on VSCode remote SSH pretty heavily so you could argue I'm using it as more of a thin client I plan on getting one for this use case. I do most dev work on servers via either something like VSCode remote or just throug
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by viccis 5mo ago
People are allowed to attempt to live a life of dignity even while the entity and its defenders on HN are trying to wipe their people out.
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by viccis 5mo ago
I agree. Web service hosted on Lambda that, for long running async tasks, uses FIFO SQS (optionally by way of FIFO SNS) connected to the task runner Lambda. Easy. It's not hard to deploy like OP claims. Build a Docker image, toss it in
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by viccis 5mo ago
And god help you if you want to use one of their many competing data engineering tools, all of which will be duct taped onto Glue and require not just IAM but also another layer of RBAC on top of IAM. Like you said with IAM, I think it just
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by viccis 5mo ago
These kind of things (internal tools created out of band of normal engineering practices by non-engineers) were amazing back when I did pentesting because the security was always the last consideration. That got harder when SaaS became pref
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by viccis 5mo ago
>or N/Ax if you prefer It's not a matter of preference
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by viccis 5mo ago
"Ah you textile workers are so whiny. If you're mad at your jobs being obsoleted by massive machine factories, why not just buy a few dozen such factories? Strike out on your own." Yeah man I don't know if mommy and dadd

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