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by _verandaguy 6d ago
Which is itself a side effect of the US media treating most news as a spectacle, combined with the US (historically, but especially currently) being a phenomenally good place to be incredibly rich because much of the government will in a wa
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by _verandaguy 7d ago
I'll disagree, I think AI meaningfully changes the definition of a bad coworker because its main interface emulates talking to another human being closely enough that some people value its conversational input equally or more highly th
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by _verandaguy 23d ago
Speaking on a handful of these that I'm familiar enough with to opine on: - Photography hasn't erased other visual arts. Both require a separate skillset; both have their uses and their enthusiasts. Photography benefits from havin
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by _verandaguy 27d ago
I mean, it's just shifting the value conversion in the other direction, isn't it? Pi is a naturally-emerging concept: it's the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It just so happens that a lot of useful st
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by _verandaguy 1mo ago
I'll qualify this from my POV (which may be different than GP's). Go's historic maintainability strong suit has been its simplicity and consistency. The syntax is, relatively speaking, lightweight, the language invites comple
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by _verandaguy 1mo ago
LLM-driven writing's been a big part of this trend, unfortunately.
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by _verandaguy 1mo ago
That's correct. What I meant was that if my bot writes defective code for whatever reason, I am responsible for that (though conversely, if I get more done because of the bot, anthropic gets the praise).
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by _verandaguy 1mo ago
I think this is a logical extension of the workplace rule of "you own what your bot writes;" it's hypocritical not to hold corporations to the same standards as individuals (I say, with terminal naiveness)
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by _verandaguy 1mo ago
Fun related fact, many dates -- for example, birth dates on headstones -- of people born in countries observing Eastern Orthodox Christianity will have the prefix O.S. (old style) to disambiguate dates using the original Julian and either
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by _verandaguy 2mo ago
It's also a false equivalence fallacy to compare people to stocks. Historical precedent is a strong predictor of human behaviour. The wealthy have been using their wealth to consolidate power for essentially as long as the concept of m
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by _verandaguy 2mo ago
Historical precedent (both recent and not) shows that concentrating wealth and then giving those wealthy few an inordinate amount of political power does not end well for those disenfranchised by this system. It is not reasonable to give
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by _verandaguy 2mo ago
I really wish mitchellh wouldn't take funding from some of these people. Tobias Lutke in particular has chronically been on the wrong side of fundamental issues, and has most recently advocated for a pay-to-play version of democracy wh
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by _verandaguy 2mo ago
You're technically right on your first point, but I think this is missing a broader issue... this entire technology incentivises its users to put as little effort (and cognitive effort, at that -- so, thought) as possible to go from a
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by _verandaguy 2mo ago
10-20% efficiency is enormous considering fuel is by far the dominant lifetime cost of operating an aircraft. New fuels (SAF) and the technology to use them have been developed for less. This is all to say nothing of the continuous work don
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by _verandaguy 2mo ago
I think this is missing my implied point. Is this desire for AI integration actually coming from most people? Or is it a handful of decision makers who aren't thinking about the technology critically for one reason or another (either d
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by _verandaguy 2mo ago
Why is it Slack's responsibility to help agents flourish? I ask about Slack here because it's pertinent, but I've both seen and experienced firsthand this inversion across the industry where we must adapt our workflows for
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by _verandaguy 2mo ago
Last time I read about this, this was due to the well-known pitfall of UID mapping across container boundaries. It's a common misconfiguration and one of the footguns available through containers, which I don't say a wholesale con
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by _verandaguy 2mo ago
Generally, I agree! But it doesn't matter how good a best practice is if the industry doesn't adopt them wholesale; and even then, if your container or VM is configured with inappropriately-permissive passthrough (which, from expe
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by _verandaguy 2mo ago
ACLs, nothing, we've known about in-band signalling since forever and still this whole segment of the industry seems to either not know about it, or forgets about it at a cadence so regular it may as well not know about it. System-leve
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by _verandaguy 2mo ago
I will keep banging this drum until people listen: Trying to use markdown files to limit access should never be treated as a security guarantee at all. This is a form of in-band signalling that goes into a machine that, among other thin
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by _verandaguy 2mo ago
I know public opinion polling supports that, but the parts of my social circle which are outside of tech seem to be, at worst, apathetic (and at best enthusiastic, though that's not a big fraction). That said, I think it's a good
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by _verandaguy 2mo ago
I'm perfectly happy with Apple not becoming an "everything we do is AI-centric" business. I'm fatigued by it all at this point. It's streamlining the interesting and fun parts out of my job (by practical necessity o
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by _verandaguy 2mo ago
At some point you end up hitting the law of diminishing returns. I think this is a case of that.
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by _verandaguy 2mo ago
> 150M at 5B revenue is not great Considered as a raw percentage in a vacuum, sure, I guess, but we're talking about... - A company which has undertaken a concerted, long-term effort to consolidate the industry under its u
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by _verandaguy 3mo ago
But why?
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by _verandaguy 3mo ago
I imagine it's not the first time, It must've at least been proofread at the time of writing :) But really impressive stuff! Between this and (a particularly optimistic outlook on) the Linear-A news from the other week this is an
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by _verandaguy 3mo ago
I'm still trying to figure that out. Something diplomacy-adjacent would be interesting to me; maybe conflict studies, or international relations. Based on word from my friends who work in the field, a lot of it is people who have a lot
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by _verandaguy 3mo ago
> I am contemplating whether I want to stay inside this rat race. I'm in the same boat. I'm hoping to go back to school in 2027 and be out of work that revolves around programming in 5 years. I'm not enthusiastic
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by _verandaguy 3mo ago
My issue with this is that it's a form of "soft" reproducibility, where it'll work for many (maybe even most!) people, but that depends on the way the original prompt was formulated (read on) and the state of the random
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by _verandaguy 3mo ago
All things aside, I think this misses the forest for the trees on the halting problem. It's not about being able to throw claude or codex at a loop and having it evaluate it for halting, it's about being able to do this for arbitr

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