brandonmenc

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by brandonmenc 3d ago
I recently tried to encourage my smart, technical, but not-programmer friend to build an app using LLMs and he was just like, "I still have no idea where to even start." People talk a lot about how "real programmers" use
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by brandonmenc 1mo ago
Hilarious, because accounting for this stuff is drilled into your head when you study the softer sciences (like psychology) even as an undergrad.
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by brandonmenc 1mo ago
Science fiction is entertainment. There's no way to like, "misread" it.
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by brandonmenc 2mo ago
Sorry, but you need to have at least some info about the humans involved before I would even consider using this.
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by brandonmenc 2mo ago
https://youtu.be/ur296s3wIv4 ITM, RIP
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by brandonmenc 2mo ago
The point is that I pay for the NYT - in part, because they do so many "digital" things right compared to other newspapers - and yet so often they refuse to do the absolute bare minimum of hyperlinking. Like, yeah, no duh - I can
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by brandonmenc 2mo ago
Not a single hyperlink in that article. Infuriating.
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by brandonmenc 2mo ago
Call me when "infinite scroll" causes cancer.
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by brandonmenc 3mo ago
How do you know they're not learning by using an LLM? You think just because they built something with an LLM they won't ever "view source" on the output? Very presumptuous.
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by brandonmenc 3mo ago
re: "taste" - whatever that even means here - you could say the same thing about any of the thousands of Bootstrap or Tailwind or whatever CRUD apps made over the years.
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by brandonmenc 3mo ago
They're 13. When we were using Hypercard or BASIC to make dumb little programs, we weren't learning any of that stuff either, really. Making apps is so complicated now that without a little bit of help from LLMs, most kids would p
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by brandonmenc 3mo ago
Yeah, and I'm certainly not paying $20 a month - indefinitely - for it.
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by brandonmenc 3mo ago
Too bad they had a falling out when Dvorak questioned the logic of hiring Vivek Kundra (remember him? of course not!) as the nation's first CIO.
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by brandonmenc 3mo ago
Not really. My parents married in 1972 at age 18. Rust belt. Both worked. While comfortable, we were always worried about money and layoffs. Friends whose parents didn't do as well as mine or who were single income households fared far
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by brandonmenc 4mo ago
This level of filtering is so granular and bespoke that I'm not surprised no one offers it.
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by brandonmenc 4mo ago
Have an upvote, you old chunk of coal!
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by brandonmenc 4mo ago
Maybe schools should be self-hosting something like Sakai instead.
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by brandonmenc 5mo ago
There is a reasonable middle ground between tossing everyone in the hole and letting petty crime run rampant.
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by brandonmenc 5mo ago
Then we need to make it work their time by bringing back broken windows policing.
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by brandonmenc 5mo ago
After reading these comments, I don't want to hear any of you suggest that kids shouldn't be allowed to have unrestricted access to smartphones or social media ever again. How did you think this was going to be enforced?
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by brandonmenc 5mo ago
Blanking out is afaik the exact opposite of "mindfulness". This is almost exactly like Transcendental Meditation, even down the to the length of time of ~20 minutes.
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by brandonmenc 5mo ago
Why do anything?
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by brandonmenc 5mo ago
Yes, the military have fewer rights than civilians. That's a feature.
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by brandonmenc 5mo ago
They scan my ID when I buy wine at the grocery store so, who knows?
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by brandonmenc 5mo ago
Thank you for saying this. I've been similarly baffled. The call to ban children from social media seemed like it was coming loudest from tech people - like HN users. How did they think this was going to work?
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by brandonmenc 6mo ago
This is true in my experience. I waited until it seemed good enough to use without having to spend most of my time keeping up with the latest magical incantations. Now I have multiple Claude instances running and producing almost all of my
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by brandonmenc 7mo ago
Literally hundreds. In the DOS days, I would have whipped them up in BASIC. This was standard practice for PC users who were not "software engineers" by trade. The complication of PCs over the past 30+ years have robbed regular us
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by brandonmenc 7mo ago
It’s an elite position. I’ve never seen a MAGA hat arguing for more (or any) H1Bs - quite the opposite.
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by brandonmenc 7mo ago
I held out. Then I upgraded my work laptop to test it out. Then my phone. Now my personal laptop. I actually like it. Everything is snappier. The glass effects are not nearly as annoying as I expected. ymmv
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by brandonmenc 7mo ago
Yes, it is difficult to take out the leader of a world nuclear world power. Especially one as shrewd as Putin. Especially when you're expecting the EU to do it. Not sure why this is a surprise. The world is not an action film.

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