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by zephen 9mo ago
No, it benefits car manufacturers and sellers, and mechanics and gas stations. Network/snowball effects are not all good. If local businesses close because everybody drives to WalMart to save a buck, now other people around those loca
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by zephen 9mo ago
To some extent, the argument against calculators is perfectly valid. The cash register says you owe $16.23, you give the cashier $21.28, and all hell breaks loose.
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by zephen 9mo ago
> If calculators returned even 99.9% correct answers, it would be impossible to reliably build even small buildings with them. I think past successes have led to a category error in the thinking of a lot of people. For example, the inter
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by zephen 9mo ago
Sure, it really depends on the use-case. If people are really technical, then a language subset is fine. If they're not really technical, then you might need a separate utility to manipulate the config file, and XML is OK if you need a
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by zephen 9mo ago
Obviously there's no holy water when it comes to go and concurrency bugs. But go is memory managed and statically typed, and, obviously, assembly language or pure binary opcodes aren't. The article certainly isn't perfect, bu
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by zephen 9mo ago
You might wonder that if you just read the headline. But, if you read the article, the reasons given for rust in particular are reasonable, and not matched by assembly or machine code.
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by zephen 9mo ago
> Obviously, I would never use it for data interchange (e.g. SOAP) anymore. Well, those comments were arguing about how it is the absolute best for data interchange. > I still use it from time to time for config files that a developer
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by zephen 9mo ago
And a recent HN article had a bunch of comments lamenting that nobody ever uses XML any more, and talking about how much better it was than things like JSON. The only thing I think I learned from some of those exchanges was that xslt adhere
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by zephen 9mo ago
An interesting technique. The problems discussed by both Simon and Paul where the browser can absolutely trash any directory you give it is perhaps the paradigmatic example where git worktree is useful. Because you can check out the branch
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by zephen 9mo ago
> because they have a product that attempts to follows it. I had no idea what linear.app was. Then I followed your link. Then I had no idea what linear.app was. Then I went to their front page. Then I had no idea what linear.app was. M
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by zephen 9mo ago
> it is shocking how often claude suggests just disabling or removing tests. Arguably, Claude is simply successfully channeling what the developers who wrote the bulk of its training data would do. We've already seen how bad behavi
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by zephen 9mo ago
Thanks!
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by zephen 10mo ago
> If you don't want to share your stuff without taxing everyone, then don't share it. Other licenses exist. You don't have to use MIT or the GPL. I agree. Yet some of my comments here have been met with downvoting and exp
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by zephen 10mo ago
The comment you responded to may have incorrectly assumed that all the problems were self-evident, but apparently they are not. > redistribute the collected tax back to the community---the money will not add to Microsoft's $3.4T-wor
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by zephen 10mo ago
Such an aggressive response to a perfectly rational response to "Corporations who use and benefit from software should be made to pay for their use of that software."
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by zephen 10mo ago
It's commendable that your organization did this. But... > the maintainer needs to have some self-restraint and accept that they don't owe them anything. Assumes (especially in cases where "maintainer == original author&qu
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by zephen 10mo ago
Doesn't work on my firefox either. Friendly fire, I suppose.
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by zephen 10mo ago
LoC is a terrible metric for comparing productivity of different developers, even before you get to Goodhart's Law. OTOH, for a given developer to implement a given feature in a given system, at the end of the day, some amount of code
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by zephen 10mo ago
Humans are tribal, which has both benefits and costs. In technology, the historical benefits of evangelizing your favorite technology might just be that it becomes more popular and better supported. Even though LLMs may or may not follow th
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by zephen 10mo ago
Crabs in a bucket. It's exactly the same mindset that says that other people shouldn't get healthcare or welfare.
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by zephen 10mo ago
If LLMs weren't sucking up all the resources, bitcoin would be. Which, yes, is partly a resource/political problem, but there are additional arguments against the use of those resources for LLMs.
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by zephen 10mo ago
> I've found that some people do argue against LLMs themselves (as in, the tech, not just the usage). Specially in humanities/arts cycles which seem to have a stronger feeling of panic towards LLMs. Maybe? The person I responde
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by zephen 10mo ago
Open source software helped to dramatically reduce the cost of paid software, because there is a now a minimum bar of functionality you have to produce in order to sell software. And, in many cases, you had to produce that value yourself.
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by zephen 10mo ago
> others who deem Tailwind valuable enough will continue to maintain it. We have seen several examples in the last couple of years where this is simply not true enough. There are multiple open source projects that do not receive enough
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by zephen 10mo ago
> LLMs are just a concept, an abstraction. A data type for storing data. C'mon. You know good and well that what is being discussed is the _use_ of LLMs, with the concomitant heavy usage of CPU, storage, and bandwidth that the aver
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by zephen 10mo ago
> In my opinion information wants to be free. Information has zero desires. > It's wild to me seeing the tech world veer into hyper-capitalism and IP protectionism. Really? Where have you been the last 50 years? > Plumbers are
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by zephen 10mo ago
Yes, it seems that way now. The first one's free. After you're hooked, and don't know how to think any more for yourself, and all the primary sources have folded, the deal will be altered.
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by zephen 10mo ago
You can even write down what you are looking at and listening to, although in some cases, dissemination of, e.g. verbatim copies in your writing could be considered copying. But it is automatically copying if you use a copier.
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by zephen 10mo ago
What about a table saw with no guard, a wobbly blade, and directions from management to follow a faint line you'd have a hard time doing with a scroll saw?
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by zephen 10mo ago
If I wanted to manage, I would have gone into management. For people like me, anything that makes the computer more human-like is a step in the wrong direction, and feels much more like wrestling.

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