rdevilla

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by rdevilla 3mo ago
I'd love to respond, but I am shadowbanned.
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by rdevilla 4mo ago
The only programming language I know of that is obsessed with trumpeting its own moral virtue. "Matz is nice so we are nice," "Ruby for good," dragging DHH, etc. Meanwhile the Ruby Central and whytheluckystiff debacles s
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by rdevilla 4mo ago
This is great. I sort of feel a lack of fora for discussing technical books over a longer lifetime than merely say, the HN front page. While there is a very good selection of readings, it's unfortunate that both LinkedIn and Google are
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by rdevilla 4mo ago
Isn't it obvious? They aren't using AI to automate their business. That's why GM is doing this.
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by rdevilla 4mo ago
Rem acu tango.
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by rdevilla 4mo ago
> A better counter argument to "catch the pedo" is to bring up cases of creeps who were insiders - law officers Certainly. You mean like that time an Israeli Cyber Directorate division chief fled Nevada for Israel after being i
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by rdevilla 4mo ago
> Everything people have figured out needs to be in living form to carried on. It would appear that LLMs are invalidating this claim. Things can live in synthetic form and carry on just fine. Instead of cultivating a population of learne
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by rdevilla 4mo ago
The point is the death of the celebration of excellence and technical mastery. Once insurmountable challenges are now trivial to implement with, as you say, "low effort." For those who were attracted to computing by the grind and
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by rdevilla 4mo ago
Ten years ago, I would have kowtowed to someone elite enough to build something like this. Today, I just think, "how long would LLMs have taken to write this?" I mourn the death of a human artform.
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by rdevilla 4mo ago
> often on the other side of the goddamn world and have usually a lot lot less tie-in to the company (if they even work directly for it) than when you get someone local on the line. What the fuck does this have to do with accents? Are yo
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by rdevilla 4mo ago
Very naive for you to say that.
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
As the article states, it's an older practice so this maybe goes without saying - canary traps are also useful for tracking the flow of information throughout a population. A well crafted, bespoke whisper passed into one ear that retur
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
> I've come to the conclusion in the last couple years that being the guy who understands how the abstraction works under the hood is treated by companies is more of a liability than a virtue. This is one of the most alienating thin
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
> I do sometimes wonder though with all my weird experiences if I am merely the "doer in the body" whereas I have a higher self who is the real "thinker" running things in the background and who has access to the big
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
> I suspect the mistake here is imagining a past era in which humanity formed "consensus reality" out of evidence and reason. It can certainly appear that way to us today due to some super-strong publication bias effects since
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
> There's a lot going on upstairs, higher mind stuff. I am older now, and I no longer experience this phenomena. Have I lost it to age, or have I integrated it somehow into my conscious mind? It's similar to what Jaynes describ
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
> The reality in the way information is used, I believe, is the opposite from what we think of. We believe that if there is sufficient information, we can use it to form an accurate model of reality. You should read Yuval Noah Harari&#x2
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
Not modern enough. Unix is too low level, antiquated, and discriminates against those who just want to get shit done instead of reading manpages or documentation by hand.
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
The joke's on you all for willingly posting this content online for it to later be harvested by AI. Nobody is forcing you to use these systems. The hackers have always said this moment, or something like it, would come, from beneath
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
> every time you can't refute something, you bring in gender or race. I learned from the highly effective rhetoric of the 2010s.
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
The purpose was to illustrate how even basic commerce is going to be monitored to a much greater degree in highly electronic socities like those in North America. Go ask the fucking corner store in the deep Philippine provinces, where the p
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
> let's keep our history constrained by fact. I live in Toronto too This is hilarious. Toronto has no respect for facts, it has shown it will just fabricate histories out of whole cloth. Nevertheless I'm tired of people citing
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
Congratulations, you are the 1 in 10. This is why we don't use anecdata. > Even a report commissioned by the Bank of Canada suggests it's time to protect access to money. > That report, titled "Social policy implication
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
You weren't transacting at all in Toronto during COVID then. This is the endgame of surveillance capitalism: submission, or opting out. Few can, or care enough to, do the latter.
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
Overseas, cash is king. In Canada, and also in San Francisco, you can only tap your credit card because cash carries COVID [0]. [0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cash-coronavirus-questions-an...
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
Entire generations of people who were never alive to remember a world where their every movement and utterance was not being tracked by the advertising/surveillance industrial complex. It's just considered normal now. The west i
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
> Experiencing time, sound, or visual motion as continuous, rather than discrete signal inputs is so much simpler. Some practice with Mahasi Sayadaw style "noting" can train you into seeing your phenomenological experience as a
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
My old memories of Guava in Java 6 have been triggered.
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
No? I don't agree. The domain can be strongly modelled in the types; for instance, declaring kilometers, seconds, etc. instead of using primitive floats/reals everywhere, to statically prevent dimensional analysis issues.
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
> However, it working as a lateral join is critical as you need the function to fire for every row. Right, what I mean is, for functions in the standard expression position, e.g. `SELECT COALESCE(..., 0)`, those functions will also fire

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