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by VBprogrammer 10mo ago
Just replaced a £500 IKEA combi microwave because the main circuit board is just behind the grating at the top of the door which had gotten dirty and had been slightly more enthusiastically cleaned by my partner than it was designed for. It
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by VBprogrammer 10mo ago
Yeah, I wrote an essay on STM in Haskell for a class back in 2005 I think.
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by VBprogrammer 10mo ago
Honestly, I wasn't to say this is ridiculous but I've got a i7 13" laptop which I bought to do practically everything (personal coding projects, a bit of gaming, video editing, 3d modeling etc). I do find the heat of it is qu
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by VBprogrammer 10mo ago
We seen a good dozen or more in a couple of weeks in Orlando. To be clear, I agree with you on them being statistically insignificant.
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by VBprogrammer 10mo ago
Nothing to see here. Just your average 2.5 year old start-up worth nearly as much as Ford or VW.
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by VBprogrammer 10mo ago
I'm just not convinced that privatisation of natural monopolies is ever sensible. Especially when failure isn't option, you can't just stop the trains running because some operator spent all of their budget on executive bonus
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by VBprogrammer 10mo ago
Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of railway operations knows that this isn't at all true. For example, I've been on a Glasgow bound train where the driver was instructed to pass the signal at danger following a lengthy
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by VBprogrammer 10mo ago
It's obviously written in a "hot take" fashion, to be deliberately provocative. Taking it literally would be foolish but there is certainly some degree of truth in there. Any meeting with more than 3-4 people (and maybe even
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by VBprogrammer 10mo ago
I think the gulf between what an entity does and what an entity says should at least form part of a measured response to that.
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
You are failing to recognise all of the hard work which goes into "prompt engineering" to get AI to magically work!
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
When I worked at State Street everything was done in IBM/370 terminal emulators and a COM component which made is easy to scrape information into Excel. I wasn't really supposed to know about that but found enough code examples wh
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
This is just hubris. These vans are used hard every day by people all over Europe. It's not unusual for one to be caught loaded to double it's GVWR. Mechanics like what they know. The fact that the US manufacturers are building va
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
And yet you couldn't even capture and hold a shitty backwater like Afghanistan. The last US military action widely regarded as a success was the first Gulf war but, I didn't know about you, but I like my successful military action
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
I wouldn't be surprised if that was closer to the truth. A heck of a lot of boring software runs on the JVM. That said, it's a slightly different niche from command line tools.
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
I think Rust has hit critical mass. It's now basically the default choice for something you want to perform well but want to be reasonably secure. For example, uv in the python ecosystem.
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
If someone hasn't written a blog titled "Should we be worried about Cloudflare?" yet, I think it would be a good subject to explore. I find the idea that they could decide one day to ban you from all of their network pretty w
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
I'm not really sure how this fits with Amazon's corporate culture. I thought all of the dead wood good pip'ed out of there on an ongoing basis. If people are surviving that then who are are the people being ejected? Unprofita
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
I honestly wonder if there is safety in the herd here. If you have a dedicated server in a rack somewhere that goes down and takes your site with it. Or even the whole data center has connectivity issues. As far as the customer is concerned
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
Yeah, but not just that. I don't expect my mum to go find some high end consumer GPU and install it on a home server in order to run her own local LLM. I expect that people will be throwing chat interfaces running remixed versions of o
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
I don't think that AGI is necessary for LLMs to be revolutionary. I personally use various AI products more than I use Google search these days. Google became the biggest company in the world based on selling advertising on its search
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
I vaguely remember someone winning a noble prize for economics for coming up with ways to apply cut/choose in financial transactions but I couldn't find it in a quick Google. It may have been nearly 20 years ago though.
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
Yeah, the incentives there are obviously misaligned. I wonder if there is a potential way of making advertising click through tracking following the "I cut the cake, you chose the slice" model. Some countries have property taxes w
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
I've had good results with doing similar. My spelling and grammar have always been a challenge and, even when I put the effort into checking something, I get blind to things like repeating words or phases when I try to restructure sent
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
I think, if you take jacquesm's posting history here, into consideration it was probably a joke. Maybe not his best work but I don't think he was serious.
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
I'll do that! Although I have to say you've made me chuckle. I can totally imagine some pithy arcade game poking fun at how our industry is quickly moving from writing code to middle management of a group of AI agents.
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
It's right behind our office in Holborn. I walk past it often but somehow haven't quite built up the bravery to walk in. Despite having seen most of Tim's work on YouTube...
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
We used to use it for coding interviews during COVID. It never struck me as anything special and I'm not convinced saddling it with AI improvements it's prospects. In fact it might make them worse given it's general applicabi
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
Something which I only realised by watching a London Underground driver who was vlogging for a while (before he was asked to stop) is that, yes, the frequency of the trains is the main metric for customers. However, once things go off sched
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
"Have you heard the phrase "You're not Google, you're not Facebook, and you're not Netflix"? The TL;DR; is those tech giants that have 1M+ concurrent users. They have a hard requirement for no downtime." A
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by VBprogrammer 11mo ago
I really hope you are right here, and to be honest it does reflect my limited experience with where I've used AI so far. But I'm also not ready to bet the farm on it. Seriously considering taking our savings and equity out of our

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