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by youknownothing 7mo ago
Containers and Kubernetes are not as standard as we'd like to think. They're standard for things of certain size, but for small-to-medium there are a good amount of serverless options. For a moderately sized website, it's eas
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
Yeah, Zuck is really being a bit of d** there. You can't spend decades hiring the best engineers in the world and give them millions of dollars worth of resources with the sole aim of creating products specifically designed to retain a
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
I understand your pain, we're just a peak hype, I think people will learn to backtrack and use the tool in a more sensible way. It always happens. I remember when MongoDB and other NoSql databases came out, people went as far as to say
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
that and the removal of the native grass, which largely kept the soil in place.
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
To me, the _real_ thing that matters isn't quite date or budget, but something that somehow acts as an umbrella to both of them: the promise. When you promise to deliver something by a day, or within a budget, it's very clear whet
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
That's because LLMs don't actually think, they pattern-match. Since all the existing estimations out there are made assuming that a human is going to perform the task, the estimation that the LLM provides has the same inherent ass
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
I'm European, in my 40 years living in Europe I have never had a garage. I don't know where you're getting that idea from.
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
I love all the downvotes, it shows that I really hit a nerve, which means I'm right :) Keep 'em coming.
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
"the western credo is to get someone else to do the work" This. One of the things that most shocked me when I moved to London was how bad English people were at hard skills, but also how easily giving orders and "projecting
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
the question is where they'll be able to sell them: Europe is going to ban the sale of ICE cars from 2035 so, unless someone finds a loophole, that's a whole market gone.
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
any port in a storm
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
> Early adopters of solar panels tend to be people who are interested in innovative technology, who find an installer they trust, and who think having solar panels will benefit them. Also, conspicuous conservation, people like to signal
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
The cost and life expectancy differences are indisputable, but the rationale may need more nuanced: that's not necessarily a problem with the healthcare industry, but with lifestyles, safety regulations, food standards, and a long et c
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
As a person who has lived in Spain, UK, and now California, I can attest to one thing: the quality of care in California (I can't speak for the whole country) is vastly superior to what I received in both Spain and UK. Sate-sponsored u
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
I guess it's no coincidence that most of then people saying "LLMs are great for doing code" are non-developers...
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
well, you still need to drive some data: say you purchased some food, was that a personal purchase or was it business-related (e.g. a meal with a client). Software can help with that decision making. But even if human interaction wasn'
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
even if it can be decided on a test, there is the point of "it works, but the code is shit". For instance, I'm doing a website with some e-commerce. Upon executing a sale, I connect to the accounting software to create an inv
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
I'm having somewhat good experiences with AI but I think that's because I'm only half-adopting it: instead of the full agentic / Ralphing / the-AI-can-do-anything way, I still do work in very small increments and re
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
Yeah, I really wonder if someone would trust to do their taxes in a vibe-coded version of Turbotax...
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
I once suggested a drinking game: shot every time someone says "X is dead". I was told to f** off because I'd kill half of humanity. COBOL is dead. Java is dead. Programming is dead. AI is dead (yes, some people are already c
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
so this is like men who use silicone implants resembling muscles to appear strong, even though they're weak AF xD https://www.bestbodyimplants.com/gallery_implants/male-impla...
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
I wonder how much of the "it sounds better" argument is just a fashionable make-believe, like the gold-plated HDMI cables that, for the most part, don't really make a difference but somehow people believed it does. Or like pe
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
And also so employees of said companies can spy on drivers and make fun of them: https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
Unless I misread, I found interesting that exposing young mice to old-mice bacteria makes them behave old, but exposing old mice to young-mice bacteria doesn't make them behave young. I wonder if there is something in old-specimen bact
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
"butt juice infusion" xD
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
It's interesting you say this, and I wonder how far it gets. I like speaking at conferences and often submit proposals to their CFPs. I sometimes have the temptation to refine my abstracts using AI; not fully generate them, just touche
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
If they manage to offer enough people a good enough product, that'll be a win. But you're right, it could be another fiasco like the HTC First.
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
I've said it for a long time: the main reason Meta wanted to created glasses or VR/AR is to circumvent the privacy rules that Google and Apple slowly introduced in their App Stores.
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The Death of Coding Is Cancelled(medium.com)
1 points by youknownothing 7mo ago|2 comments
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by youknownothing 7mo ago
Theseus ship, anyone?

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