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by kator 1mo ago
I learned BASIC in 1981 on the TRS-80 Model I with 4k RAM (later upgraded to a massive 16k), and it wasn't long before someone showed me EDTASM [1], and I was hooked. My parents couldn't believe me when I asked them to buy "H
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by kator 1mo ago
I met my wife playing Star Wars Galaxies, online. She was member #4 in the guild I ran, The Trade Federation on Flurry, one of a whole crew of people I'd never met in my life. It was a very interesting way to meet, to get to know a per
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by kator 2mo ago
I learned BASIC in 1981 on the TRS-80 Model I with 4k RAM (later upgraded to a massive 16k), and it wasn't long before someone showed me EDTASM [1], and I was hooked. My parents couldn't believe me when I asked them to buy "H
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by kator 2mo ago
That was 2001 today Joel seems to think this is the future: https://hash.ai/
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Will machines replace humans? A chess grandmaster has thoughts(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by kator 3mo ago|1 comments
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by kator 3mo ago
https://archive.is/zDhfv
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by kator 3mo ago
Years of practice and “This won’t kill me” thinking have helped a lot. Also I watch every single talk I’ve given which is brutal but it lets me improve but also re-affirm I didn’t die… [1] https://www.karlbunch.com/random&#x
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by kator 3mo ago
> Professional public speakers... Maybe some do, but I've never needed it. Often I actually find public speaking easier than small groups. In a small group my brain is trying to "model" what each person is thinking about m
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by kator 3mo ago
True, that said, I downloaded and compiled Perl in 1987 from comp.sources.misc, even back then, things moved at light speed compared to health and medical.
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by kator 3mo ago
I think the most interesting thing is that it took 15 years for people to apparently take this seriously. And another 40 to recognize its impact. The original paper[1] was from 1982... Having been in software development for 45 years, I fin
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Frontier teams are reinventing AI-native development(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by kator 3mo ago|0 comments
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by kator 3mo ago
Reading your link IMHO in today's world I would set a basic rule, if you're touching >20% of a Java codebase you should refactor to Rust. With AI-Native development practices it's worth the SDE time to refactor, replace th
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by kator 3mo ago
Might keep this in mind if you go to tindie: > URGENT > Tindie has not paid me for the last month. They take your money for your order and then require me to ship product to you, but they do not pay me. Temporarily, please place your
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by kator 3mo ago
Next up, you must login to ID.me to use AI and providers will be required to retain every session for analysis.
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by kator 3mo ago
Most security code scanning I am aware of does AST parsing of actual code before analysis; the comments won't even make it to the LLM. That said, embedded strings could cause this type of false denial, but even so, the errors would be
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by kator 3mo ago
Oh, and while you're at it, 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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by kator 4mo ago
oh good point got that backwards… OMG my fax brain didn’t even think about it.
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by kator 4mo ago
The sad thing is I feel trapped on all sides of the debate, I wrote a book about LLMs and human creativity (spoiler Humans win for a long time) but I was going to do it as a blog series, instead I published https://www.amazon.com
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by kator 4mo ago
> Yet, this shift made me re-evaluate the open source code publishing. Prior to that, I have been positive about free and open software, and considered this to be the default mode for work such as kefir. I did not require any justificati
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by kator 4mo ago
All this said I'm more concerned about Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) on smartTV you buy in the store and never even realize it's phoning home with everything you watch...
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by kator 4mo ago
I recently had my donation-driven site ruined by bots, it's a constant battle. I (jokingly) proposed we should amend the fax spam law to take this into consideration: https://www.karlbunch.com/random/website-protec
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by kator 4mo ago
I wonder whether the author deliberately avoided ontology? That's what comes to mind when I read this. The age-old debate between taxonomy and ontology.
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Proposed Amendment to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991(karlbunch.com)
2 points by kator 4mo ago|1 comments
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by kator 5mo ago
I don't think the mirror is a warning. It could be the most valuable thing LLMs can do for us. I recently dug very deep into my own use of LLMs and why I was getting different results than a lot of my peers. I think the primary differe
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by kator 5mo ago
> models that aren't over-optimized for it. But how do you know the model was over-optimized for it or just really good?
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by kator 5mo ago
Those who fail to study history (or live through it) are doomed to repeat it. SPECint and SPECfp went through this exact movie: benchmark, saturate, retire, replace, repeat. The treadmill is the product. I don't have the solution just
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by kator 5mo ago
I tried tmux so many times, could not commit the sequences to memory, but then zellij was just out of the gate, easy to "discover," and then I started writing plugins (rust wasm), and I even submitted a PR which got accepted to su
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by kator 5mo ago
Interesting, I just did this on some stuff I have personally handwritten, but the writing is about LLMs, and it says 25% AI generated, but because I used terms that are "x% likely AI" generated. This is not a very useful test; it
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by kator 5mo ago
I think it's a bit sad that we often say people "Sold out". Sometimes, I agree, but often, I point out that until the lady at the grocery store stops asking me for money when I walk up to check out, I need to pay my bills to
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by kator 5mo ago
I put together a quick audit to check for "early landing" messages[1] using jq, ripgrep, and the messages[2] flagged in the stop guard script. I have noticed a trend in these sessions asking more and more about calling it a day, &

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