britch

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by britch 3mo ago
> Why would a company warn that their technology is dangerous if it wasn't? Because it makes their technology seem more important and powerful? Do you usually believe 100% what a company says about itself? > Mythos export control
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by britch 10mo ago
That's fair I appreciate you taking the time to respond, that's a helpful example
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by britch 10mo ago
What do you mean by basic level of quality? What are you being pressured to do to meet a deadline that's on the level of building collapse? "skimp on the tests" or "do this hard to maintain fix as the solution" is m
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by britch 10mo ago
I think we're both arguing for balance here When I started programming I wanted everything I wrote to be museum-ready. I was slow as shit and waaay too precious about code. As I've matured I realize that's not a good way to w
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by britch 10mo ago
I'm not sure I follow the point you're making My example is we want to skip the div if empty or undefined. We can't throw on assignment so we leave it as as string|undefined. When we go to display, we have to check if the str
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by britch 10mo ago
I think about this a lot. My belief is professional programmers should not be artists. I think about other professions. A cook cannot spend time making every dish perfect. A bricklayer isn't perfectly aligning every brick. Even in mov
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by britch 10mo ago
Early errors are good, but I think the author overstates the importance of filtering out empty strings --- I disagree that erroring out when the app doesn't have ALL the data is the best course of action. I imagine it depends a bit on
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by britch 1y ago
I was confused by why "use of AI" was a top-level requirement of this, but I see now that weave is AI-driven "engineering output measurement" company, down to the individual contributor level. I can understand why you wo
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by britch 1y ago
I mean the answer is in the question--why are the self-driving cars (largely funded by billion-dollar private companies and VC) available in the same city as this anarchic public transit system (funded by largely by regional taxes and rider
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by britch 1y ago
Someone raises safety concerns about LLM's interactions with people with delusions and your takeaway is maybe the field of therapy is actually net harmful?
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by britch 1y ago
Is it clear the charity approach is more efficient? My sense is many non-profits prioritize fundraising and have the bloat of executives who's main function is to schmooze donors. I'm sure there are good nonprofits/charities.
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by britch 1y ago
Yeah the company has to give a timebox. It's true that candidates could abuse that, but open ended "impress us" is asking for trouble for both parties. And honestly you should be able to tell of someone spends 20h or somethin
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by britch 2y ago
I am not surprised by the result of this article, but LLMs are marketed to be used to get factual information on non-verifiable domains. Ads shows kids asking for answers to homework on things like "when did xyz battle take place"
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by britch 2y ago
I mean, they are ending support for windows 10 in a few months. Win 10 is pushing users to upgrade pretty hard. It's not surprising to me more people are on it now than before People who are jumping ship won't show in the numbers
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by britch 2y ago
This is some nonsense. I think this funimendimentally misunderstands what a strike is and how it works. When collective bargaining works, it's because you can force a negotiation with an owner or boss. A group can prevent the business
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by britch 2y ago
Interesting perspective. I appreciate that it tests the models at different "layers" of understanding. I have always felt that LLMs would fall apart beyond the summarization. Maybe they would be able to regurgitate someone else&#x
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by britch 2y ago
It's not a paywall, just a sign-in wall. They were having trouble with getting scraped. The email sign-in is enough of a barrier to stop most scrapers. https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-addre...
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by britch 3y ago
an ai book is surely more work than an ai blog
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by britch 4y ago
I find it funny that article argues SPA frameworks were pushed with cargo-cultism without evidence, while making proclamations of doom and being fairly light on substance. I think the author has some valid points. I agree vanilla JS and SSR
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by britch 4y ago
This is a joke, right? Indulging in a Superbowl party or birthday dinner will not make you obese. Overeating or eating poorly over a long period of time will. Cooking can be a great way to have healthy tasty food affordably
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by britch 4y ago
A "fake" (as opposed to a mock) is a pretty well understood concept. Is there a difference between a fake and a "nullable"? As far as I can tell this is a pattern for merging your fakes and reals which seems cumbersome a
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by britch 4y ago
One of the best Twitter features was the "ad dislike" It can be done
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by britch 4y ago
I mean this as a genuine question-- what new successful projects have Amazon or Apple produced since 2015? I'm not a defender of Google, but my sense has always been that tech generally slowed around that time. Would like to know if I&
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by britch 4y ago
It's a fair point. My concern is with the limitations in the creation of new styles. I guess my view is that you send 100 people to art school and you get 100 different styles out of it (ok maybe 80). With AI you've got a handful
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by britch 4y ago
The problem with LLM in my view is that they're capped at what already exists. Using them for "creative" things, is that they can parrot things back in the statistically average way, or maybe attempt to echo it in an existing
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by britch 4y ago
I agree approve with comment and trust is the way to go. I will say if I submit a change and my reviewer immediately opens a change to make minor edits I'm going to be annoyed. Either it's important enough to bring up in review, o
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by britch 4y ago
Notably these do not currently apply to raters
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by britch 4y ago
On my team at least there's a grey area between managers responsibilities and Tech lead responsibilities. Managers are ultimately responsible for getting tasks that stretch employees abilities, but also in my experience don't have
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by britch 4y ago
Oh I totally agree haha, what the seniors are doing is a bit sad. I hope they can figure out a better way of meeting someone
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by britch 4y ago
The post describes students "teaching" labs as though they are TA's. How is that not an attempt to take a position of power?

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