benashford

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by benashford 1mo ago
The main problem is, those AI generated images are only so jarring because they're so obvious. As time goes on they'll be harder to spot. We're going to need a new way of determining quality as such obvious signals have a lim
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by benashford 3mo ago
I think most of this applies to software engineering generally, not just fintech. For example the parts talking of retries, idempotency, event ordering, etc. This applies to all systems that require any degree of accuracy, even if no money
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by benashford 3mo ago
> Any shared sense of rigour is just completely torpedoed by the LLM world, particularly the cloud LLM world it seems, and we are reduced to cargo culting. Nobody is any more right or wrong than anyone else. There was always some of this
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by benashford 5mo ago
Intuitively this feels obvious. Content generated by the model will be shaped by its training, therefore when reading it back it will resonate with that same training and have a positive view as a result. Human when preparing a CV: "Ma
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by benashford 7mo ago
This is a speculative piece that is, by the author's own admission, a scenario rather than a prediction. But it's unsettling because it somehow feels more plausible than most thought pieces on where all this is going. Not as a sin
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by benashford 8mo ago
I think I get the gist of the moral of this story. But I'm not sure I'm fully agreeing with the specifics. The nub is something I've thought about before. My contingency plan for AI turning the industry I work in upside down
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Resurrecting my old Turbo Pascal homework with AI(benashford.github.io)
5 points by benashford 9mo ago|0 comments
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by benashford 11mo ago
This is true. But, it's also true of assigning tasks to junior developers. You'll get back something which is a bit like what you asked for, but not done exactly how you would have done it. Both situations need an iterative proces
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by benashford 1y ago
Aren't these two points contradictory? Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding. > Rust’s borrow checker is a a pretty powerful tool that helps ensure memory safety during compile time. It enforces a set of rules that govern how refe
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Bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing algorithms(samwho.dev)
6 points by benashford 3y ago|2 comments
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by benashford 8y ago
> It daunts me too, and reminds me of the early-days of commercial flight. I hope we'll have a similar "we cannot continue like this moment". The first citation of the words "Software Crisis" meaning the inherent
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by benashford 8y ago
> It daunts me how much software is getting unreliable, but trying to shame people to hold them accountable is naive. > The root of the problem is the uncontrolled complexity of modern software products. I think there's a feedbac
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by benashford 8y ago
That isn't what they were saying at the time. Even level-headed forums like Hacker News had a lot of comments (gathering positive votes, although I suspect not all were organic) trying to describe with a wide-array of pseudo-science w
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by benashford 9y ago
The headline says "Bitcoin", the speech which included the anonymity claim said "cryptocurrencies".
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by benashford 9y ago
> If the government is saying the cost will be £14.5B then they must think only 1.5M people will sign up It's not a government proposal. It's not even a proposal of the opposition, or anyone who would potentially be in a posit
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by benashford 9y ago
Pretty much everything successful now was ridiculed or dismissed in the past, but that doesn't mean everything that was ridiculed or dismissed became successful. And even those things that became successful did so in a form that the co
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by benashford 9y ago
I don't think Apple ever applied throttling to devices prior to the iPhone 6. As you say, old 5Ses would shutdown at 20% (or lower), but it was with the iPhone 6 and later where devices would occasionally stop at 50%, so became a much
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by benashford 9y ago
The tone taken by the financial press towards cryptocurrencies is interesting. They give plenty of press to the sceptics, the warnings from central bankers, etc. But they also give plenty of positive press, arguably undeserved when compar
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by benashford 9y ago
It showed the "unknown developer" warning box when running the app, would that have been shown if the app was already authorised to access the keychain?
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by benashford 9y ago
There is more than one shortwave band, some are more useful than others and there are fairly large gaps between them, so it would feel sparse even if there were a lot of stations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave
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by benashford 9y ago
They absolutely would do both of those things. A world where Bitcoin was the default currency would rob nations of control over their own monetary policy, which is one of the most important tools for controlling the economy. Not to mention
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by benashford 9y ago
There's a few in the works, but none live yet that I know of. Also, since they're not yet live I can't vouch for them, but here's an example: https://freetrade.io/
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by benashford 10y ago
With one-or-two exceptions, what the paper describes is very familiar and sounds like most software teams, but most teams don't achieve Google-like performance/stability/success. The differentiation is in details that the pap
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by benashford 10y ago
Apple appears to be banking on software efficiency gains offsetting the reduction in battery capacity. They've done this with various iPhone and iPad releases several times. But the trouble with trying the same thing for the Mac is th
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by benashford 10y ago
Also an interesting Radio 4 programme on the same topic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07lhh6z
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by benashford 10y ago
I'm no expert on the streaming industry either, but I'd guess it's because Spotify has much larger numbers of casual listeners (the free tier), which provides a long-tail for popular songs that aren't new enough for &quo
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by benashford 10y ago
Go's approach requires specific code to handle errors in each and every function, and it's very easy to forget or introduce a bug in the propagation of the errors (or to ignore one altogether). So I wouldn't use that as proof
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by benashford 10y ago
There was something about that video that makes me think DRU isn't a serious proposition; and even if it were, it isn't yet being used for actual deliveries. This is a common theme with new technology. The sceptics always claim &
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by benashford 10y ago
How could that particular error (using that as an example) be improved? > error: the trait `core::fmt::Debug` is not implemented for the type `T` That pretty much is the problem. It seems the bigger pain point is as you say "they m
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by benashford 10y ago
That story had an unexpectedly happy ending. Several times in the past when I've needed to complain about external consultants cutting corners, I've found the consultants have got in first and told my own management about their un

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