benfortuna

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by benfortuna 4d ago
At this point models are advancing way faster than we can figure out how to use them effectively. So having a generational advantage is not nearly as important as knowing how to use that advantage.
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by benfortuna 12d ago
Even cutting back on meat can have an impact. Halving quantities in cooking etc. really is hardly noticeable.
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by benfortuna 12d ago
> We can build resilience to the effects Oh yeah, would love to see the resilience that would have prevented the Nepalese disaster
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by benfortuna 16d ago
>I am still learning how to use it I find it interesting that we are still talking in terms of modifying our behaviour to accommodate the tools. Surely the point of LLMs is not to "learn how to use it" but as an extension of ou
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by benfortuna 26d ago
That just sounds like greed. It's not enough to be winning, I need to be winning as much if not more than everyone else.
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by benfortuna 28d ago
Academia is not a waste of time just because it doesn't translate into "productivity" and wealth. Some people enjoy the pursuit of knowledge, and find great meaning in it. Increasingly the arts are being defunded based on a s
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by benfortuna 1mo ago
Everything is opinion. A shared reality is just where opinions coincide.
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by benfortuna 1mo ago
> [..] developers that simultaneously care deeply about the craft of software development and really empathize with the customer. I do believe they might want to see a professional about a split personality disorder [..] lol, I hope most
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by benfortuna 1mo ago
Speaking of flexing..
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by benfortuna 2mo ago
I think it's fair to say that AI amplifies our abilities, but it needs to be in the hands of people that know what they are doing. If developers are producing garbage to begin with, chances are they still produce garbage just at an acc
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by benfortuna 3mo ago
Isn't that a bit elistist to say everything changed when more people joined? The point is not the consumers of the Internet but the producers are what changed it - primarily with advertising and walled gardens.
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by benfortuna 3mo ago
The real answer is you should never build your business on ANY specific model. As usual avoid lock-in and switch when you need to.
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by benfortuna 3mo ago
It's a commodity in the same way that making music is a commodity (i.e. using production tools to make it sound good). But music today is so much more generic and boring than it used to be.
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by benfortuna 4mo ago
Requiring parents to police their child's every move is not going to end well.
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by benfortuna 4mo ago
Who is this "they" you speak of? We have age verification for all kinds of things that can harm minors. Most of them have adequate penalties for breach such that operators of said harms ensure they comply (checks for ID when selli
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by benfortuna 4mo ago
an age ban for meat would be interesting.. :-) all the rest have them so why not social media which clearly does harm to minors.
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by benfortuna 4mo ago
httpd
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by benfortuna 4mo ago
I think that's a lack of gravity. According to wikipedia antigravity is in fact impossible (under known laws of physics).
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by benfortuna 5mo ago
You can make your own touch id pad if so inclined.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzB6m2VTxAg
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by benfortuna 5mo ago
Why arbitrarily invent new meanings (for microservices) and new words (microlibraries) when there are already many adequate ways to describe modular, componentized architecures? A totally valid and important point but it has been diluted by
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by benfortuna 11mo ago
This is exactly what he is proposing, because it is more "useful". But it hardly gives you agency to be someone you are inherently not. Authenticity is what we lack in the modern world and he is totally fine with that.
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by benfortuna 1y ago
But you aren't just asking for edits to your code, right? Copilot will actively suggest code completion as you type. This is the real benefit over chat as it's like pair programming. That, and the way it generates commit comments,
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by benfortuna 1y ago
They went all-in on Teams just before the start of COVID, and MS don't typically support multiple overlapping products like Google do (although the number of task management products may be a counter-argument to that).
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by benfortuna 1y ago
I tend to think standards are more about interoperability at the interface level - which doesn't specifically exclude innovation in non-interfacing aspects. So in that sense I don't think standards are synonymous with LCD.
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by benfortuna 1y ago
And standard sizing so they are both stackable and nestable with other tubs.
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by benfortuna 1y ago
You left me hanging - what salient debate?
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by benfortuna 1y ago
Regardless of the implementation challenges, the theory is sound and that is the point of the article I believe.
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by benfortuna 1y ago
>The other challenge is finding people, especially as you get older. I've posted this before, but as you get older you really need to seek out established communities. Sports, trivia nights, things of that nature. Something where yo
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by benfortuna 1y ago
>The modern internet feels so genuinely terrible The enshitification is real, but I would attribute that to being hijacked by advertising platforms. Social media algorithms are literally derived from algorithms for showing relevant ads,
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by benfortuna 1y ago
if you stick with it the cycle will introduce new stuff. I have been using for months and still get new music (with occasional repeats)

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