chairmansteve

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by chairmansteve 3d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_schemes_in_Albania
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by chairmansteve 5d ago
Started well. But then I had to log in to read more. I didn't.
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by chairmansteve 7d ago
Yeah. Where's the "well designed UI"? The only thing left is my Roku box, and it seems to be starting on the road to crappification.
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by chairmansteve 8d ago
The problem is that the airlines don't let you know what is happening. They deliberately keep you in the dark.
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by chairmansteve 14d ago
The answer is to aim for a much smaller audience. Solve a problem for one other person/company.
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by chairmansteve 14d ago
Missed out a crucial word: there's nothing - wrong - with spending most of your time in the cave. I agree 100%.
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by chairmansteve 27d ago
Solar panels still doing ok though. Maybe nuclear isn't the climate change silver bullet being pushed by certain people on HN,
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by chairmansteve 28d ago
I'm not sure that's true. LLMs seem too unreliable for accounting.
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by chairmansteve 2mo ago
I am very impressed with LLMs, but..... I don't think we are seeing productivity gains due to LLMs in the general economy yet. Even in software development, are we seeing an increase in the number of products or features shipped?
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by chairmansteve 2mo ago
Good links. To make it easier, here are the first paragraphs; "SQLite is not directly comparable to client/server SQL database engines such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server since SQLite is trying to solve a different pr
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by chairmansteve 2mo ago
The USA could block Chinese ships. Or maybe disable the loading jetties.
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by chairmansteve 2mo ago
Pencil with soft lead works perfectly for me.
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by chairmansteve 2mo ago
Maybe GAAP should be changed? Professional investors have the time to comb through the small print. These off balance sheet activities seem designed to bamboozle the small investor.
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by chairmansteve 2mo ago
Drones are already vibe targeting in Ukraine/Russia.
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by chairmansteve 2mo ago
From the article His job was to be the AI's "accountability sink" (in the memorable phrasing of Dan Davies): he was being paid to take the blame for the AI's mistakes.
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by chairmansteve 2mo ago
He spends most of his time trolling us. What do you expect?
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by chairmansteve 2mo ago
Works for me.
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by chairmansteve 2mo ago
Exactly, the LLM itself can do the migration, surely?
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by chairmansteve 2mo ago
If AI is so great, these price rises will pay for themselves many times over..... Have any HNer's experienced or observed any productivity increases, or even any utility increases from co pilot?
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by chairmansteve 2mo ago
"Should domestic workers not be surveilled while doing their job?" Depends on whether you want to contribute to the creation of a dystopia. You could maybe make the effort to hire someone you trust. And put any true valuables in a
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by chairmansteve 2mo ago
D. Richard Hipp is up there for me. I love the minimalism of his programs, SQLLite and Fossil. Also involved in Tcl, my favourite language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Richard_Hipp
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by chairmansteve 3mo ago
I quite frequently just rinse my plate or cup under the tap and put it on the drying rack. Instant!
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by chairmansteve 3mo ago
Yes, there is a sort of blindness in science. The idea that if something hasn't been proven it's not true.
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by chairmansteve 3mo ago
This just demonstrates that there is something wrong with the statistics.
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by chairmansteve 3mo ago
The smart move would have been to get lower level managers to assign specific employees to experiment with applying LLMs to their processes and report back. Then incorpoate the findings into their processes. Instead there was FOMO mass hyst
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by chairmansteve 3mo ago
Rodent populations are notoriously hard to control. But it seems that a deer cull would be easy. I am surprisec that they are not done.
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by chairmansteve 3mo ago
If there was more diversity in predators and prey, the population cycles would have smaller amplitudes. The large swings are often symptoms of a collapsing ecosystem.
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by chairmansteve 3mo ago
Interesting. A web form completed by the sales people would not have sufficed? I guess it's the backend interfaces to multiple systems that's the difficult part?
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by chairmansteve 3mo ago
> I tend to get very good results How do you define the good result? Does the definition of success include clean, maintainable code? I am finding I need to be in the loop. My code ships to thousands of users, so any issues get amplified
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by chairmansteve 3mo ago
"It’s hard to find a good balance and it depends on the kind of business and scale of project". Exactly. The abstraction purists are not working in the messy, dead line driven real world.

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