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by dughnut 1y ago
The reason might be that union members give a percentage of their income to a governing body which is barely distinct from organized crime in which they have no say in. The federal government already exists. You really want more boots on yo
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by dughnut 1y ago
Do you want to work with LLMs or H1Bs and interns… choose wisely. Personally I’m thrilled that I can get trivial, one-off programs developed for a few cents and the cost of a clear written description of the problem. Engaging internal devel
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by dughnut 1y ago
Yes
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by dughnut 1y ago
This is why civil design software has not meaningfully improved in 20 years and is indistinguishable from its state 10 years ago. We’re living in a Dark Age. We just don’t realize it.
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by dughnut 1y ago
I am an engineer at an AEC firm you would probably recognize. I think there are a few competing products in this space. Owners don’t care how you do CEI or have their own absurd rituals pioneered in the 60s or 80s. DOTs are the worst offend
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by dughnut 1y ago
We probably should just stop enforcing copyright. “Stealing” my idea doesn’t deprive me of its use. Think about what the US market might look like if scaling and efficiency were rewarded rather than legal capture of markets. That large comp
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by dughnut 1y ago
My employer is tightening the screws. I get it. RTO externalizes costs and privatizes benefit. The incentives are not aligned for remote work, and it’s a publicly traded firm with an obligation to maximize shareholder value. I get it. While
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by dughnut 1y ago
“And will deliver them with far greater stability and polish” Stable and polished are not words that ever came to my mind while using any Microsoft product.
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by dughnut 1y ago
Impressive. Very nice. Now let’s see AI pastiches of Studio Ghibli’s work.
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by dughnut 1y ago
What is the model? That the US government launders them money through “ad revenue” for unlawful surveillance? OpenAI is probably already getting dark money for AI products of dubious worth.
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by dughnut 1y ago
I feel the appeal of your argument, but people just aren’t fungible, and the incentives in a public in private identity are completely different. I work at a consulting firm, and, trust me, you want state employees doing the absolute minimu
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by dughnut 1y ago
I read that headline in Danny DeVito’s voice. Always Sunny does musicals better than Broadway.
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by dughnut 1y ago
A bridge engineer would need to know how to design a structure based on first principles of physics, nationally recognized reference documents, state agency published standards, state agency unpublished standards, agency project manager pre
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by dughnut 1y ago
I think OSINT makes it sound like a serious military operation, but I think political opposition research is a much more accurate term for this sort of thing.
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by dughnut 1y ago
I don’t know about you, but my takeaway is that the author is doing damage control but inadvertently tipped a hand that OpenAI is probably running an elaborate con job on the DoD. “Yes, we have a super secret model, for your eyes only, gene
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by dughnut 1y ago
Personally, I think training someone on the client’s dime is pretty unethical.
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by dughnut 1y ago
I would be more patient with an AI that only costs me a fraction of a cent an hour.
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by dughnut 1y ago
I think what’s happening backstage in this magic show are desperate moves to recapitalize the country. Foreign and domestic investors are pledging to spend trillions, probably under duress. Stocks are being crashed to create a flight to tre
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by dughnut 1y ago
If you asked a junior developer to refactor a rust program to be more idiomatic, how long would you expect that to take? Would you expect the work to compile on the first try? I love Cline and Copilot. If you carefully specify your task, pr
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by dughnut 1y ago
- dump old weapon systems to justify procuring new ones - put a fig leaf over Victoria Nuland’s hubris and ineptitude - create a political football - make a productive peace with Russia impossible for another century Who knows. Victory is n
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by dughnut 1y ago
Copilot is the only authorized AI at my company (50K FTE). I would be cautious to make any assumptions about how well anyone is doing in the AI space without some real numbers. My cynical opinion on enterprise software sales is that procure
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by dughnut 1y ago
Can you comment on the business case here? I think there was a Blender add on that uses Solvespace under the hood to give it CAD-like functionality. I don’t know any pros using Solvespace by itself, and my own opinion is that CAD is the wro
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by dughnut 1y ago
We already have highly inflationary monetary policy that makes capital accumulation for middle class people impossible outside of high risk vehicles like stock or property. We also already have a complicated network of grants, tax breaks, s