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by ep103 3mo ago
I'm having a hard time even grappling with how that could be true? I always assumed that intellectual property was invented in order to protect against a specific use case: If researching a new product is extremely cost intensive. But
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by ep103 3mo ago
Honestly, this is how all AI should be used, in most non-trivial scenearios
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by ep103 3mo ago
Trump released Iran's frozen assets, in return for them opening the straight and thereby dropping oil prices before the midterm elections. Reminder, the reason Trump hated the Obama deal was because he construed it as paying Iran not t
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by ep103 3mo ago
According to the NY times, its a 60 day ceasefire on all fronts, and a return to pre-war status on issues like the (blockade, tolls, nuclear program, sanctions) starting this coming Friday. Also on Friday, a new round of negotiations will
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by ep103 5mo ago
There are ways to dodge it. A friend of mine did this for a shady company that turned out to be a 1 person company, that then dodged the fine basically by not paying and disappering. I don't know the details, but apparently something
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by ep103 5mo ago
Not legally enforceable, but absolutely something that it would say in order to dissuade you from going to small claims court
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by ep103 5mo ago
yeah, and this has the advantage of both being deterministic, and only updating things that are actually linked as opposed to also accidentally updating naming collisions
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by ep103 6mo ago
Some one should let Douglas Adams know the calculation could have been so much faster if the machine just lied.
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by ep103 6mo ago
I see this sentiment repeated so often, and its so surprising to me that people have this train of thought. If our society was organized around the needs of workers, and existed to help workers compete at their crafts (somehow), then this w
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by ep103 7mo ago
Counter-point, developers that get used to not caring about function implementation, are going to culturally also not care as much about test implementation, making this proposed ideal impossible.
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by ep103 7mo ago
I have literally never seen a correct google summary. Maybe y'all are searching for different things than i am, but at this point I've started taking the viewpoint that if I don't know why the ai summary is wrong, then i als
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by ep103 7mo ago
Maybe. And then win the contracts to do this and have sufficient bankroll that they can be successfully sued and recover damages if they screw up? No. Someone like accenture might eat their lunch though
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by ep103 7mo ago
This is the first thing that occurred to me. The people above suggesting a cobol to python or go update confuse the heck out of me. Why not just convert to vanilla jacascript at that point? Bizarre
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by ep103 7mo ago
Yeah, I've been saying for years that LLMs are a technology that basically unlock three major new technologies: 1. Automatic shaping of online community discussions (social media, bots, etc) 2. Automatic datamining, manipulating and re
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by ep103 8mo ago
save it from the ai bubble collapse?
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by ep103 8mo ago
MacOs is extraordinarily opinionated about how everything should work and frequently attempt to predict your workflow. Linux/Windows (historically) were straightforawrd, each tool did exactly what it said it would do, and it was up to
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by ep103 8mo ago
Ai hype is predicated on the popular idea that it can easily automate someone else's job, because that job they know nothing about is easy, but my job is safe from ai because it is so nuanced.
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by ep103 8mo ago
Your calculator doesn't charge per use
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by ep103 8mo ago
> For example, in a situation where you can strongly benefit from the Napoleon technique, and all the potential negative outcomes are minor and unlikely to occur, you will almost always want to implement this technique. Conversely, in a
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by ep103 8mo ago
It is everywhere, but SF really brings it to another level. Its wild.
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by ep103 9mo ago
You and I see the tiktok slop. But as that functionality improves, its going to make its way into the toolchain of every digital image and video editing software in existence, the same way that its finding its way into programming IDEs. A
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by ep103 9mo ago
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think you're right, and I think the reason for it is because Google has historically had an extremely effective astroturf marketing team for Chrome
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by ep103 9mo ago
I have always been in favor of changing the definition if incorporation to ensure that over time ownership transfers slowly but increasingly to the employees of the corporate entity. How that would work, though, would require detailed thou
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by ep103 10mo ago
Its so nice to see this echo'd somewhere. This has been what I've been calling them for a while, but it doesn't seem to be the dominant view. Which is a shame, because it is a seriously accurate one.
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by ep103 10mo ago
This is my wife starting up a 20 minute conversation the moment the first actor shows up on the screen xD Don't worry, I love her anyway. But yes, we're restarting the movie because no, I don't have any idea what happened ei
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by ep103 11mo ago
The benefit of cloud has always been that it allows the company to trade capex for opex. From an engineering perspective, it trades scalability for complexity, but this is a secondary effect compared to the former tradeoff.
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by ep103 11mo ago
How are you guys spinning up vms, specifically windows vms, so quickly? I used to use virtual box back in the day, but that was a pain and required a manual windows OS install. I'm a few years out of the loop, and would love a quick p
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by ep103 1y ago
Because it markets and presents itself as deterministic and honest. That's the whole issue. AI is unethically marketed and presented to the public.
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by ep103 1y ago
Yesterday I used ChatGPT to transform a csv file. Move around a couple of columns, add a few new ones. Very large file. It got them all right. Except when I really looked through the data, for 3 of the excel cells, it clearly just made u
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by ep103 1y ago
It wouldn't be a difficult situation if these guys were ethical shops from the get-go, but they aren't, they're trying to staple minimally required ethics on afterwards, and it shows.

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