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by wrs 7mo ago
It depends on the door. Norms are one thing, but these folks went beyond norm violations quite a while ago. If someone is going to ignore the actual law and do whatever they want until the Supreme Court calls them on it, changing the law do
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by wrs 7mo ago
Off topic, but… “For the oldest amongst us this kind of lessons came from 37Signals…books Rework and Getting Real”. So the “oldest among us” are what, 40?
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by wrs 8mo ago
No it doesn't. As with so many other things this administration does, this door was not open . They bashed through it anyway.
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by wrs 8mo ago
Everything is negotiable, and the Negotiator in Chief clearly likes to pull all the levers he can find, legal or not. (Well, the Supreme Court ruled that it's all legal if he does it, right?)
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by wrs 8mo ago
Once again our leadership is "playing government" like a bunch of 12-year-olds, lashing out impulsively without thinking of the consequences. And no doubt once again it'll take a year for this to wind its way through the lega
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by wrs 8mo ago
Indeed, as I used to tell my ops colleagues when they pointed to RAM utilization graphs, "we paid for all of that RAM, why aren't we using it?"
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by wrs 8mo ago
My startup used Google Sheets as a CRM until we discovered there’s a 3 million row limit (by running into it) and had to build something else. Sheets is amazing. Don’t forget to lock that first header row, though.
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by wrs 8mo ago
Here's a reminder that before you cancel you can go to Settings -> Data Controls -> Export Data to keep your chats.
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by wrs 8mo ago
It's such an odd little subcultural quirk that Fortran (really HPC) people call programs and libraries "codes". Most software folks refer to "code", as if it was a substance like sand or water, and use other words f
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by wrs 8mo ago
I have some success with this method: I try to write an explanation of something, then ask the LLM to find problems with the explanation. Sometimes its response leads me to shore up my understanding. Other times its answer doesn’t make sens
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by wrs 8mo ago
And for anything at all complicated, what’s even better than a CLI is a JS or Python library so the thing can just write code.
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by wrs 8mo ago
The assumption behind the discussion is that they will be able to produce viable programs. And if you’re letting the LLM own the code, that’s what your job function will be: product manager.
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by wrs 8mo ago
Well, only if the increased speed doesn't result in a quality or staffing time bomb. Which none of us really knows at this point. You could always write code faster if you don't care if it works or is maintainable (and indeed many
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by wrs 8mo ago
> As Supreme Leader, he holds ultimate authority over all branches of government, the military and the judiciary in the Shi'ite Islamic republic. Hmm, just substitute another religion and that's pretty much the publicly express
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by wrs 8mo ago
Claude Code has a “learning mode” that makes it explain what it’s doing and leave “TODO(human)” placeholders in the code where you have to do part of it.
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by wrs 8mo ago
When you let the LLM do the programming, you’re a product manager, not a programmer.
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by wrs 8mo ago
This is a starker tradeoff, but still the same logic that engineering leaders have used for years to eliminate time for exploration, learning, mentoring, role-switching, and every other activity that makes a better engineer but doesn’t move
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by wrs 8mo ago
“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." — Harold Abelson The purpose of high level languages is to make the structure of the code and data structures more explicit so it better ca
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by wrs 8mo ago
Because the current government wants unquestioning obedience, not a discussion (assuming they were capable of that level of nuanced thought in the first place). The position of this government is "just do what I say or I will hit you w
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by wrs 8mo ago
I wonder (outside HN) what percentage of people who need to reverse engineer a PCB are also people who insist on Firefox. Probably smaller than the percentage of those people who want to save results to their local filesystem.
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by wrs 8mo ago
It's just so great to have a president whose public statements sound like a 3-year-old having a tantrum. Every agency must immediately cease all use of Anthropic's technology, except the agencies that are using Anthropic's pr
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by wrs 8mo ago
I thought this was ambiguously worded in a beautiful way. At the moment, one could say that some autocratic adversaries of the United States and other democracies currently lead the government of the United States .
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by wrs 8mo ago
“Watch for”? That has been actively happening, at an accelerating pace. (Especially if you count “lying about someone else lying about the results”.)
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by wrs 8mo ago
Well, it’s a programmable calculator, so…how does the law define “applications”?
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by wrs 8mo ago
"Conflict of interest" isn't exactly the right term. "Conflict of value proposition" perhaps? E.g., you're using Google search based on the proposition it will effectively find things for you, but that turns ou
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by wrs 8mo ago
There wouldn't be an "ad" anywhere, though. You'll just ask the LLM for alternative implementations in plan mode, and it will be selling you one of them during the conversation rather than giving you an unbiased comparis
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by wrs 8mo ago
This is where LLM advertising will inevitably end up: completely invisible. It's the ultimate "influencer". Or not even advertising, just conflict of interest. A canary for this would be whether Gemini skews toward building s
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by wrs 8mo ago
It seems like a safe assumption that the big commercial models will have negotiated their own private GitHub terms of service, especially considering their many-digit annual contracts with Azure.
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by wrs 8mo ago
This argument was viable 20 years ago, but we are way, way beyond “both options suck” at this point. It’s more like “one option sucks and the other option is absolutely catastrophic — also, the second option may be the last choice you ever
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The app that fixes itself(steveinflow.github.io)
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