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by wvenable 4mo ago
https://www.instagram.com/p/DOLfbRGjjcy/
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by wvenable 5mo ago
> I see the "unsafe" keyword used approximately never. The core libraries of .NET are written in C# and it's like a completely different language: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main&
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by wvenable 5mo ago
"Doctors and nurses will make mistakes in performing medicine. Making those doctors and nurses personally liable for honest mistakes is, IMO, excessive." How many other jobs can we apply this to?
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by wvenable 5mo ago
Not free trials, free versions. Certainly if the user gets a bad impression from the free version that's on the provider but if you're writing about it then you shouldn't get to be that ignorant.
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by wvenable 5mo ago
Oh they do. And I could get them to pay even more but with the changes to copilot licensing, I'm not sure we will continue with it.
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by wvenable 5mo ago
I'm using Github copilot and I ran out of requests before the end of the month; this happens from time to time. But last month was the first time I decided to try the cheap models that were still accessible to me just to see what they
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by wvenable 5mo ago
Free AI's are dumb. Extremely dumb. The Google AI result is dumb on purpose -- being smart requires more compute.
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by wvenable 5mo ago
The problem too, is that we're all using different tools with different experiences -- there isn't one "AI". And if you're not paying for it, you're getting some real bad experience.
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by wvenable 5mo ago
I don't find it nearly that bad. If I really need factual information, it will generally go off and read the data from primary sources anyway. So unless it's really misunderstanding context, you're getting the data from the
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by wvenable 5mo ago
Perhaps I've just internalized it -- I know that's unreliable and I just deal with it. LLMs are certainly capable of searching the web and finding the right answer directly so you still don't have to read the documentation.
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by wvenable 5mo ago
Precise search has been dead for a long time.
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by wvenable 5mo ago
> On the other hand, search engines should be more like "<thing>s released 1908" or "<topic> and give you results talking about what you searched. Is that useful enough to build a billion dollar advertising bus
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by wvenable 5mo ago
It's a catch-22. Without google crawling your site, you don't get any new traffic. But with google crawling your site, you also might not get any traffic. AI summarization has already causes issues for sites like rtings where pe
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by wvenable 5mo ago
What?
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by wvenable 5mo ago
What does #1 actually mean in practical terms? Collective ownership of a giant data center and all the CPUs, GPUs, and DRAM needed to do AI?
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by wvenable 5mo ago
The only way AI recoups the investment is if it replaces all our jobs. It might be literally impossible but that's what the numbers are.
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by wvenable 5mo ago
> Sure, but we don't create as many as we can, then kill them at the end of the day when the work is done. So it's a matter of scale then? We breed pigs, for example, and kill them a mere fraction into their overall lifespan.
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by wvenable 5mo ago
That's definitely one of the reasons; evidence gets worse over time. Memories fade, witnesses die or become unavailable, documents get lost or destroyed, and physical evidence degrades. In this case specifically which is centred arou
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by wvenable 5mo ago
I thought Microsoft had the market cornered on terrible product naming but "Googlebook" is extremely awful. My suggestion, if they really want to go this route, is to shorten it to "gBook".
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by wvenable 5mo ago
> Is that a supported/official API though? The Win32 API doesn't even use the "C" calling convention. C is just another language to Windows and the standard C library is a cross-platform library for C. You could als
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by wvenable 5mo ago
> Not AI generated software -- DYNAMICALLY generated software, like at run time and ongoing. They don't allow general purpose software interpreters on their platform for the purpose of distributing apps. This is not new. AI adds n
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by wvenable 5mo ago
Sudden decision? This looks completely in-line with what Apple has been doing since the launch of the iPhone. I find the article most charitable to the idea that AI generated software is a different category than human generated software.
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by wvenable 5mo ago
It's not a rule, it's just convention. Trademark law is about whether there is confusion about who made the product but not specific wording. Using "Blah For XXX" wording just makes it clearer. "Tool for Windows&q
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by wvenable 5mo ago
For trademark safety, this is the correct approach. You can say "Blah for XXX" and that's fine but if you say "XXX blah" then you can get into trouble.
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by wvenable 5mo ago
> Ok, so... why do people take it seriously as a concept? Historically, science has predicted lots of true things about the universe that could not be observed at the time.
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by wvenable 5mo ago
> What specifically did you love about VB6? I taught my daughter to program using VB6 -- long after it was already obsolete. It's very easy to get started and build a GUI application with very little ceremony. You can develop your
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by wvenable 5mo ago
Yeah I soon as I saw the price, this article fell apart completely. The Neo has a great screen and an older iPhone processor. You can take the keyboard off a Neo add a touch screen but you still have to make a device that fits the battery
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by wvenable 5mo ago
As a Github Copilot user, who mostly just uses chat in the VS Code editor but still burns through my Pro limit every month -- what's the best alternative price to performance? Claude Code?
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by wvenable 6mo ago
I've been listening to the Verge podcast and I've listened to Nillay refine this article piece by piece for weeks. He had the headline in mind for a long time and I've heard most of the points addressed in this article. It&
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by wvenable 6mo ago
It's crazy that these are done in secret. From the article: "The operator of the data center hasn't been identified" -- that's shouldn't be allowed.

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