xantronix

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by xantronix 5mo ago
What's your monthly token spend?
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by xantronix 5mo ago
I hear you, but many in the tech industry will likely use this moment as a bellwether of what else they can do to extract every last drop of value from their employees. This is going to get really fucking ugly really quickly if, say, Micro
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by xantronix 5mo ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893... If that's not colonialism, I don't know what is.
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by xantronix 5mo ago
Just how much boilerplate have people been putting up with for this to be an oft cited advantage of LLM usage? I know boilerplate has to exist somewhere, but I've been labouring these past couple decades under the assumption that boil
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by xantronix 5mo ago
If they are doing all the jobs, who is going to receive economic opportunities? Will we no longer be able to participate in the economy?
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by xantronix 5mo ago
Fair, I was only looking at the page linked in the HN submission. I guess at this point, I think it's fair to say: 1. They're not the central authority on permacomputing. You can implement the principles however you like. 2. If
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by xantronix 5mo ago
I don't think the two are particularly incompatible. This seems more like a foundational statement than a demonstration of what permacomputing in current practice might look like. Sure, things like https://solar.lowtechmag
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by xantronix 5mo ago
I might be biased, but, I'm curious to know if there is any specific part of the Permacomputing Principles page that stands out to you as particularly political above the rest. I don't think the intent is polarisation by any mean
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by xantronix 5mo ago
There is an absolute embarrassment of modern tooling in other categories I have no problem whatsoever embracing. I'm not a holdout for being stuck in my ways. Maybe I value things other than expediency at massive cost. Maybe I speak
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by xantronix 5mo ago
The thing is, I don't care any longer. I sincerely believe velocity without direction is not a good strategy for delivering quality in the long term. And that's the thing about it: How sustainable is this velocity, in terms of s
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by xantronix 5mo ago
I know there are good uses of LLMs out there. I do. But. The current fever pitch mandates from above seem to want it applied liberally, and pushing back against that is so discouraging and often career-limiting as to wear the fabric of on
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by xantronix 5mo ago
The market is hardly as rational as people would like to hope it is, though it does at least have its own twisted sort of internal consistency.
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by xantronix 5mo ago
> the drudgery of programming Is programming supposed to suck all the time? Am I doing it wrong? I mean yeah, sure, it sucks sometimes, but overcoming that "suck" is where I feel progress and growth. If we decide to optimise
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by xantronix 5mo ago
I can't tell if this is the Piss Christ of the software (I hesitate to call it "development") world, or if we are watching a GG Allin show. It's sobering to watch people uncritically take cues from these Steve Yegge art
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by xantronix 5mo ago
Given the way the guy who "ported" Notepad++ to macOS is behaving, it's hard to think of any actual altruistic reasons to do any of this. If Don Ho wanted to port Notepad++ to macOS with LLMs, he could have just as easily do
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by xantronix 5mo ago
At face value, CoCs are a way for open source project leaders to decide who gets to interact with the project. You can't have freedom of association while also demanding to participate in someone else's project on your terms when
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by xantronix 5mo ago
If you want less petty crime, bring back social safety nets. Pay people better. I'm dead serious. - Addendum: People generally don't resort to petty crime for no good reason. They do it because some need is not being met, or the
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by xantronix 5mo ago
I don't care.
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by xantronix 5mo ago
We can't just place sole blame on "the internet". Who made "the internet" the way it is today? By and large, it's the same people who are pushing age restriction and verification: Meta. They do not have your
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by xantronix 6mo ago
You know full well that LLMs don't simply spawn from nothingness. These things don't exist in a vacuum, technically nor politically.
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by xantronix 6mo ago
I felt like the coolest fucking kid on the block for having that icon on my desktop.
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by xantronix 6mo ago
It's scary just how quickly the past has been buried: Decades of accumulated insight on best practices, all discarded in service of the new electric Christ.
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by xantronix 6mo ago
It is if you never cared about technical correctness nor owning consequences.
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by xantronix 6mo ago
Seems like a weird thing to want.
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by xantronix 6mo ago
The one thing people seem to agree upon is that AI is a lever of control. What's surprising to me, in all my naïeveté, is how eagerly people will enforce this at the behest of billionaires.
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by xantronix 6mo ago
It's interesting to see which articles garner the notice of FAANG mercenaries and which escape such levels of scrutiny and rancor. This article fell well off the front page by the time of my reply and yet somebody took the time to dow
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by xantronix 6mo ago
Do the people in this thread dunking on this article think that moving and delivering as quickly as humanly possible, just because it can physically be done now, is going to lead to positive results in the long term? There is a vast gulf o
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by xantronix 6mo ago
The advantage of Bored Ape NFTs is that one could very quickly visually identify one and block or scroll past without much thought. On the other hand, reading AI slop takes a few extra cycles to parse out and categorise appropriately, with
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by xantronix 6mo ago
No matter what happens to the viability of software development as a career, I will always care about the craft as I have done the past twenty years and change. The imperatives to adopt LLMs in situations where they do not benefit me nor m
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by xantronix 6mo ago
Please tell your tales. We beseech thee of thine humble wisdom.

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