kentm

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by kentm 5d ago
No, because the issue is navigating legal agreements with your vendors, not the ease of deploying. With AWS Marketplace you are making a new legal agreement with the vendor of the product, not with Amazon.
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by kentm 5d ago
> But I won't follow you as far as "expecting developers to have expertise in how and where their software runs is unreasonable". In my professional experience, management tends to treat this as a dichotomy rather than a r
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by kentm 5d ago
> Just pretending that AI doesn't exist or doesn't matter is one way to go. I don't think thats a common position on this site. It'd be more accurate to say that people want balanced content. I use AI quite a lot in
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by kentm 5d ago
This is where I’m at. I find AI to be useful but there’s a tendency for it to suck the oxygen out of the room. Other things still matter. Edit: I'll also note that while its nice to see real novel AI news I find a lot of it is extremel
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by kentm 6d ago
> React can render at more than 60fps if necessary, and if the code isn't shit. Sorry, that doesn't really come across as a ringing endorsement. React apps are typically not doing anything complex so rendering at less than 60f
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by kentm 6d ago
> A badly made native app is worse than a well built react-native app. There are plenty of anti-patterns that will ruin your native app. Sure, but thats not an interesting observation unless there is something about react-native that mak
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by kentm 29d ago
In many cases, no.
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by kentm 1mo ago
> I don't understand why a police cruiser can sit in a public space (or even a private one) and write down licence plates and descriptions of passers-by with pen and paper, or record everything around them with dashcams and bodycams
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by kentm 1mo ago
They did not present it “as if they don’t have a choice”. I think your personal biases are impacting your reading here.
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by kentm 1mo ago
No, I'm sorry but I think thats a cop out. The fact that LLM are stochastic and can give incorrect answers is not particularly difficult to comprehend, and the risks that fall out of that are reasonably understandable. The issue is e
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by kentm 1mo ago
Yes but the key here is doing proper risk assessment. "What is the consequence if the LLM gets this wrong?" "How do we verify the output?" "What are the legal ramifications for using the LLM in this way?" &
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by kentm 2mo ago
Audit logs are only useful if they are used to action abuses. The issue is that police departments protect abusers due to the “thin blue line” mentality.
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by kentm 2mo ago
I don't believe that deportation is inherently morally wrong, but there are certainly ways to deport people that are less moral than others.
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by kentm 2mo ago
Thats not an accurate framing. There are some disagreements that are red lines and others that are not. I think Chrono Trigger is one of the greatest games of all time, and someone disagreeing with me on that point is not a big deal. A h
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by kentm 2mo ago
The bill does come due. I've seen it happen over and over. But management fails to connect current problems to past mistakes, especially when they happen over the course of years. Thats setting aside when they insist that the correc
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by kentm 2mo ago
I'd also argue whether ORMs actually save that much time in practice. In Java, for example, the main time sink is the JDBC plumbing and its easy to use something like JDBI that handles that plumbing without abstracting away the underl
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by kentm 2mo ago
Agreed. Usually an updated-on timestamp is sufficient to cover your bases without over-complicating the table. And your PII redaction is probably going to be shredding or nulling the fields instead of hard record-level deletes.
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by kentm 2mo ago
For #4 I always tell people to assume 99% append only, but do consider the need for updates/deletes in edge cases. If any of the data is PII and you will be subject to GDPR (you probably want to be at some point) then you will need a w
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by kentm 2mo ago
Yeah I hate infinite scroll. I have no idea what actual common sentiment is because you’d have to do broad polling to find that out. I always wonder if UI designers fall into the “everyone i talked loved it” where everyone consists of “othe
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by kentm 2mo ago
You have to get licensed to drive a car and there are rules. If you are caught breaking the rules you can be fined (or jailed if your rule breaking harms others enough). In extreme cases of rule breaking you can lose permission to drive the
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by kentm 2mo ago
In 1978 loans were made non dischargeable for the first 5 years and extended to 7 years in 1990. In 1998 the waiting period was eliminated making them non dischargeable in perpetuity. Private loans were made non dischargeable in 2005. So wh
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by kentm 2mo ago
They do not. This is nonsense.
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by kentm 3mo ago
Not that I want my kids looking at porn or violent content, but I’m far more concerned about man-o-sphere influencers than that other stuff.
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by kentm 3mo ago
I don't think anyone is expecting to seriously "derail AI" just by preventing data centers from being built in their neighborhood. But they can at least inconvenience the people they see as the perpetrators. If you can&#x27
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by kentm 3mo ago
I'm not sure why this is relevant: > This doesn't make sense. The reason Congress is difficult is because of those same powerful people. Its much easier to put someone who is aligned with your values into a local political posi
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by kentm 3mo ago
> This is fair but I mean as long as people are agitating politically it seems like going after the data center is going after the wrong end of the equation, with similarly difficult odds of success. I don't see why you think that.
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by kentm 3mo ago
> if there is UBI? At least in the US, the public simply does not trust that the United States government will consider such a thing. They won't even consider universal healthcare. No-one is going to go "OK we trust you, you
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by kentm 3mo ago
This has an incorrect baked-in assumption that arguments should be equally weighed based on political leaning. But sometimes arguments are just wrong -- the right wing argument on climate change was that it was a hoax or not human-made for
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by kentm 3mo ago
Thats a double-edged sword in some scenarios. If you're trying to keep info private then feeding it into a shared agent basically means that you can't guarantee that privacy. I'd imagine the approach here would be to have s
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by kentm 3mo ago
Yes. It’s very easy actually. People think it’s hard only because they’ve built revenue streams on unethical behavior.

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