vuggamie

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by vuggamie 8d ago
I no longer care whether I am productive at work.
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by vuggamie 28d ago
Yes. I feel completely comfortable. My work has prioritized AI for office tasks, documentation, and coding. I use the tools they give me. In my personal life, I don't touch it.
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by vuggamie 28d ago
I hope I never run across any of those sketchy websites that buy user accounts. Can you give me a list so I can add them to my blocked domains? Opsec is key.
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by vuggamie 1mo ago
When do you think { compiler | http | von Neumann architecture } capability will reach its ceiling? Unless replaced by something far more capable, refinements and incremental improvements will continue to be applied to LLMs. They will becom
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by vuggamie 1mo ago
$0 personal $200 claude max through work -- pricing may be different, they don't show me the invoices
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by vuggamie 1mo ago
If you can do economics without revision, that is, find the real number of jobs lost or gained or workplace participation in real time, you could make a lot of money. Probably win some prizes, too. Economics is an imperfect science.
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by vuggamie 6mo ago
Incredible observation. Seasons begin and end on different days depending on sea level. I was under the impression that the first two thirds of March was winter at every elevation in the northern hemisphere. singleshot_ has added much to th
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by vuggamie 6mo ago
Spring starts the last week of March. lazystar out there in floral print dresses on March first looking like an absolute tool. Enjoy your train set!
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by vuggamie 7mo ago
AI is another step up the ladder of abstraction, another tool like linters, compilers, IDEs, code completion. Can Claude replace you? Have LLMs altered the software developer productivity equation? In 1987, Fred Brooks wrote [1]: "But,
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by vuggamie 7mo ago
So 5-10 years to amortize the cost. You could get 10 years of Claude Max and your $20k could stay in the bank in case the robots steal your job or you need to take an ambulance ride in the US.
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by vuggamie 8mo ago
I hope someone tells the Mozilla CEO.
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by vuggamie 8mo ago
No. My labor is transactional. The rest of my time is leisure. Same reason why I have no interest in working weekends. Is the CEO going to come by my house on Saturday and mow my lawn? Wait, HR said we were family...
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by vuggamie 8mo ago
The new CEO centered AI ("It's Time to Evolve Firefox Into an AI Browser") in his first communication to the community. Spawned at least three new forks and introduced people to LibreWolf. His first communication reduced trus
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by vuggamie 8mo ago
It's OK. Paul Graham is one of the good billionaires.
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by vuggamie 11mo ago
It is satire. You don't need to know the writer to get it. McSweeney's publishes these type of pieces from time-to-time. Laugh or don't. I found this one amusing. Wikipedia, a generation ago, was considered controversial. It
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by vuggamie 11mo ago
Why are you building projects? Why are you studying Software Engineering? If you want a career in software development, it's better to learn, which means writing code. And maybe study AI tools as well because they will probably be part
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by vuggamie 11mo ago
I'm old enough to remember Windows CE phones crashing during phone calls.
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by vuggamie 11mo ago
The best part of MacOS for me is the unix tools. The command line is a real unix command line. And the rest just works. If I need a linux environment I ssh into a VPS.
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by vuggamie 11mo ago
I truly believe we are in a bubble. I truly believe that AI will exist on the other side of that bubble, just as internet companies and banks existed on the other side of the dotcom crash and the housing crisis. I don't know how to inv
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by vuggamie 1y ago
I use vim. Very little flow. My personal journal is a single latex document, I write about 25k words per year in it. I have a macro that inserts the date and time and I write my entry after that. At the end of the year, I spend a few hours
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by vuggamie 1y ago
It's a good point. Any business can get revenue by selling Twenty dollar bills for $19. But in the history of tech, many winners have been dismissed for lack of an apparent business model. Amazon went years losing money, and when the b
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by vuggamie 1y ago
1. LLM use has made me a more productive programmer, especially when learning new technology. The ability to ask questions about documentation, code, and best practices is nice. It's like Stack Overflow without all the toxicity, outdat
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by vuggamie 1y ago
There is more than enough homogeneity of labor in this industry. All workers should organize.
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by vuggamie 1y ago
Like all other forums, public and private, HN has an ideological filter. I'm as surprised as the next person that the HN ideological filter turned out not to be permissive enough to discuss the downfall of the free society that fostere
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by vuggamie 1y ago
Maybe Paul Graham was simply protecting his station within the oligarchy all along. The turn toward appeasing fascism is nothing more than the path of least resistance. But I'm sure he'll write some blogs warning of complacency an
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by vuggamie 1y ago
The fact that HN is letting political posts stay on the front page after months of suppression shows that we are past the point of denying the authoritarian road we are on.
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by vuggamie 1y ago
dizhn is free, for example, to lick as many boots as he desires. No one can take that away.
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by vuggamie 1y ago
Lexapro made a huge difference for me. Much more than exercise, meditation, counseling, or journaling. I have tried to come off it a few times and each time it's kind of a disaster.
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by vuggamie 1y ago
These threads sure drop off the front page fast. It's almost like someone doesn't want to talk about authoritarianism.
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by vuggamie 2y ago
It's fascinating to watch the US Federal government dismantled by a tech giant while all of FAANG complies in advance. Thousands of software developers affected with Federal layoffs and DOGE defunding and yet it's not appropriate

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