aksophist

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by aksophist 2y ago
This post is angry detritus. I’m sorry someone upset you recently Grant, but seriously? Billions of people care. And if you bother looking for them, you’ll find them. Most of the problems he describes result from complex systems being chall
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by aksophist 2y ago
It’s a statement of privilege to believe (and say) that there are hundreds of good doctors per handful of bad ones? It sounds to me like a statement of fact. And that you dispute the fact. What does privilege have to do with it?
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by aksophist 2y ago
What is a false positive rate? Is it when the agent falsely passes or falsely “finds a bug”? And regardless of which: why don’t you include the other as a key metric? I’m not aware of any evals or shared metrics. But measuring a testing age
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by aksophist 2y ago
how do you evaluate your tool, and have you published your evaluation along with the metrics?
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by aksophist 2y ago
It’s only deterministic for each version of the app. Versions change: UI elements move, change their title slightly. Irrelevant promo popups appear, etc. For a deterministic solution, someone has to go and update the tests to handle all of
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by aksophist 2y ago
I read up to where he started taking questions (less than half the transcript or so?) and these were the interesting quotes that stood out to me: So imagine a non-arrogant programmer that actually does what you want and you don't have
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by aksophist 2y ago
Now I wish I had bookmarked the distributed (peer to peer?) github replacement I’ve seen trend on HN a couple of times. It seems like a good place to host something like this. Anyone remember which tool I’m talking about?
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by aksophist 3y ago
What world are you living in where asking children under 16 to share pictures of their private sexual body parts is a “nuisance”? Epstein, is that you?
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by aksophist 12y ago
Where is the line item for "prevents downgrade of HTTPS connections to vulnerable protocols"?
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by aksophist 12y ago
> how we enact change in a democracy You're either thinking of another country or have it wrong. The way change (legislation) gets enacted in the US is through lobbying.