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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
It's merely a ToS violation.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
> Can there be bugs? Sure. That's the price of not reading or understanding every line. I've yet to come across a human developer who's output would meet this standard, despite writing every line. In fact, having an LLM re
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
I have a vague memory of there being some case law or interpretation here. But certainly doesn't bare much resemblance to what the original law makers had in mind.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
I've often wondered what basis companies are using for the "opt-in to tracking or pay to opt out model". It has spread now to even fairly reputable organisations. This, at least to my understanding, runs contrary to the spiri
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
In general humans don't have perfect recall. Even people with what we might call a photographic memory don't have the ability to memorise millions of lines of code and output them with little effort. It hinges somewhat on the conc
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
I wondered how long it would be until someone took the obvious step of wiring a voice assistant up to a full blown LLM model. Seems like the thing I failed to consider was whether that was actually a good idea.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
> They'll just be far fewer than they used to be. I do tend to agree. Though at the current pace of change I don't know if we can take it for granted. As a recent example, I was on a chat with the two most experienced technical
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
Honestly, with the caliber of people who currently comprise the US administration; leaving the whole thing to Openclaw and some new fancy model might not be the worst idea.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
I think there is going to be a long time before all of the obscure knowledge of a decent software developer can be completely replaced by AI. Though the job is going to change beyond recognition. It already has in many ways.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
Technical debt is a indefinable quantity which makes it very prone to be abused to mean "I wish I could rewrite this in [insert some fashionable language, framework or coding style]". AI slop is an easier concept to quantify. It&#
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
The crocodile tears of companies who've hoovered up everything possible, regardless of permissions or legality, now crying that someone else is stealing their hard work is comical. I don't even think they can believe it themselves
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
I have my use covered by my employer but we also have budgets and limits.
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
I think we're all past the "bet-money-can-buy" stage. The most expensive models are an order of magnitude more expensive than the middle ground ones, so you need to be selective about what you run where. And with a bit of car
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
I'd think for most companies the pace of change is too high at the moment. Give it a few years, a bit of a plateau in the improvements in frontier models and I can't see how many of these companies don't implode under the wei
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
Or, in the real world, running a limited liability company could come with some sensible reporting requirements?
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
What are the arguments against public reporting? As a consumer you are often sending deposits or even the full cost of goods to companies some time before you receive those goods (in effect you become a creditor). You are also dependent upo
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
Not if the Cessna is a King Katmai 182...that would have room to spare.
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
I don't know if you can claim one is more straightforward. Sure a Cessna flies slower and has relatively simple aerodynamics. However, you could also be operating it out of a 400m sloping grass strip with a mountain off one end. An A32
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
In a world where everything is shit, could I at least take away some solace in this helping to reduce Cloudflares hegemony?
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
People say shit about Muslims and our country being full all the time and nothing happens. The law does make it illegal to insight violence though so if you publicly suggest buring down a hotel you might find yourself in trouble. It makes a
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by VBprogrammer 4mo ago
You did a good job of walking the line here. A tiny bit less over the top and I'd have not been convinced it was satire.
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by VBprogrammer 5mo ago
Yeah, for some reason the knot broke on the inside rather than at that connector.
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by VBprogrammer 5mo ago
My son recently broke the string on the light cord in the bathroom. I opened it up in perhaps the naive expectation that someone would have designed that in such a way that the string can be reattached. Sadly it wasn't. In fact when yo
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by VBprogrammer 6mo ago
A little bit off topic but our company recently enforced Microsoft Authenticator for account login. Which I was mildly annoyed about but now I'm super pissed off because they have started abusing the notification permission granted to
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by VBprogrammer 6mo ago
I feel uncomfortable about the idea of controlling children, even my own. Certainly there is a requirement to protect children from others but I feel like putting in guard rails to prevent children from themselves only leads to making thing
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by VBprogrammer 6mo ago
Or Blockbuster being a massive real-estate company. Or McDonald's for that matter.
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by VBprogrammer 6mo ago
We're not even a decade beyond some poorly conceived software crashing two otherwise functional aircraft into the ground and now it's going to save us all...
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by VBprogrammer 7mo ago
I'm not sure it was a brain fart, more I was expecting an area of industry rather than geography.
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by VBprogrammer 7mo ago
Not being obtuse, I even googled it, but I have no idea what SFBA is in this context. I'm assuming it's not to do with windsurfing in the San Francisco Bay Area or some kind of insulation. Could you elaborate?
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by VBprogrammer 7mo ago
I live in the UK. Most of our farmland is divided into relatively small parcels owing to geography and history (they were divided long before mechanisation). However, when you come across a field of wheat, rape or corn it's notable how

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