deltaburnt

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by deltaburnt 4mo ago
LLMs aren't nearly mature or deterministic enough to earn that distinction. I've had an agent tell me it read a link I gave it, when actually it lied. I don't see how you could possibly compare that to a compiler where thinki
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by deltaburnt 6mo ago
I think the kind of surface level rewrites that people rag on are pretty rare, at least in my experience. Realistically code that's impossible to understand, underdocumented, and lacking in proper abstractions is also deficient code. I
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by deltaburnt 7mo ago
I don't think we should use webdev as an example of why lossy copy and paste works for the industry.
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by deltaburnt 7mo ago
For pretty much every single person you or I personally know, that would be the equivalent of the end of humanity. Let’s not nitpick here. Worldwide human suffering and tragedy is equivalent to the end of humanity for most. We can sit here
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by deltaburnt 8mo ago
This is a pretty discriminatory comment that I’ve honestly seen zero hint of in reality. And this is coming from someone who didn't go to a particularly prestigious school. I honestly rarely even find out what school my colleagues went
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by deltaburnt 9mo ago
Much less money lost, but Amazon is notorious for not providing free game codes that are supposed to be included with GPU purchases. The customer rep at first apologized and offered a small refund (less than the cost of the game). A later r
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by deltaburnt 9mo ago
Basically locks you out of HDR, high frame rates, VRR, or (more importantly) new panel technology like OLED.
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by deltaburnt 10mo ago
I don't really buy your premise. What you're suggesting is that all code has bugs, and those bugs have equal severity and distribution regardless of any forethought or rigor put into the code. You're right, human review and t
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by deltaburnt 10mo ago
In this context I meant throwaway as "low stakes" not "meaningless". Again, evaluating the output of a database import like that could be existensial for your company given the context. Not to mention there's many c
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by deltaburnt 10mo ago
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone seriously argue that personal throwaway projects need thorough code reviews of their vibe code. The problem comes in when I’m maintaining a 20 year old code base used by anywhere from 1M to 1B users. In
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by deltaburnt 10mo ago
Does Taiwan not have healthcare? Verbatim from Wikipedia: > According to the Numbeo Health Care Index in 2025, Taiwan has the best healthcare system in the world, scoring 86.5 out of 100,[6] a slight increase from 86 the previous year.[7
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by deltaburnt 11mo ago
Literally everything will say AI generated to avoid potential liability. You'll have a "known to the state of California to cause cancer" situation.
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by deltaburnt 11mo ago
Thank you for sharing this holy crap. I have this exact monitor and that popup drives me absolutely insane.
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by deltaburnt 11mo ago
It really depends on the engineer. I've seen some engineers in that exact position you describe, their job description says they influence the org broadly so that's what they set out to do. They struggle against a political and te
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by deltaburnt 11mo ago
Aren't you effectively saying that no one will understand the code they're actually deploying? That's always true to an extent, but at least today you mostly understand the code in your sub area. If we're saying the futu
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by deltaburnt 11mo ago
This isn't really porn adopting ChatGPT, it's OpenAI allowing porn. There was nothing stopping Pornhub from releasing their own LLM. If porn became a feature gated behind YouTube Premium I would probably say "wow they really
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by deltaburnt 1y ago
I mean, there's very specific reasons either color gets support from their voters. I wouldn't say all of those reasons warrant the same amount of fervor, passion, and loyalty that they do. But "blind support" is a bit re
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by deltaburnt 1y ago
I think most people aren't leaving their house each day with the same worries people in the 20th century had. It is certainly much nicer to be alive now than then, especially in places like Europe. What personally has me worried is the
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by deltaburnt 1y ago
Honestly this is one of the undersold advantages of public transit. It can be fun to optimize your path and switch things up both on a macro and micro timescale. In a car since I'm constantly aware of what I'm doing, taking a less
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by deltaburnt 1y ago
The restrictions are initially limited to those countries.
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by deltaburnt 1y ago
When I started, I was told that one of the easier ways to get promo at L5 was to become a manager. I don't know how true that was at the time, but I think this could be a consequence of that sort of local optimizing. I think now they d
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by deltaburnt 1y ago
This is a JAX article, a parallel computation library that's meant to abstract away vendor specific details. Obviously if you want the most performance you need to know specifics of your hardware, but learning the high level of how a G
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by deltaburnt 1y ago
Same here. Part of me wonders if primary school trains your brain to learn via writing things down on paper.
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by deltaburnt 1y ago
Thinking more cynically: political corruption and connections I'm guessing? Just a couple months ago Musk was treating the US government like his personal playground.
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by deltaburnt 1y ago
I don't understand this? The comment is next to the code it's mentioning. If the comment doesn't have enough context then the comment isn't long enough. Worst case you should be able to find necessary context in the blam
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by deltaburnt 1y ago
I'm not sure I see the logic in what you're describing. By the time you run into this "users using AI on my engine" problem, the models will be different from the ones you used to make the design. Design how you like, I
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by deltaburnt 1y ago
Our friend group's social contract is to sit in a discord channel (even if empty) if you're open to chatting. Unfortunately we have no real equivalent for text.
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by deltaburnt 1y ago
It's deeply ironic how awfully designed the NYT games app is for offline use given many people use it on the subway. Some puzzles will cache, others won't. They only cache after you manually open them.
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by deltaburnt 1y ago
I think we will end up with significantly more developer B and significantly less developer A. I can't see the future, I don't know how that would play out long term, maybe it will all even out. But I think in the medium term it w
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by deltaburnt 1y ago
In my experience, senior engineers without the curiosity to occasionally dig deeper into their frameworks are significantly worse engineers. No framework, library, or language is perfect. A big part of your job is understanding how your cod

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