williamdclt

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by williamdclt 6d ago
> I'm reminded of a quote: "the best camera is the one you have on you." Yeah, I think about that often when deciding on what to buy. It's often "what would I actually use" rather than "have on me"
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by williamdclt 6d ago
> that isn't a change to the definition of the meter How is it not? it's not a change to the actual distance (well, it is for a sufficient precision), but a change to the definition of the metre is exactly what it is. It's
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by williamdclt 7d ago
Just subjectively making it up, but my feeling is that people are not so much against AI in principle as they are against the american-capitalist approach to it: steamroll its rollout everywhere, risk the entire economy (both jobs and stock
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by williamdclt 8d ago
> Go is an amazing AI language for this reason. I'd be interested to hear more about why? because my experience with Go has been the opposite, I found it pretty bad for "making illegal states unrepresentable". In fact, its
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by williamdclt 9d ago
> To this day, I'm not convinced that hardsole shoes that haven't walked through wet messes are substantially dirtier than a damp sock that's been inside a shoe all day long. Absolutely no way. Like, it's not even com
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by williamdclt 12d ago
Not particularly an OOPer, but regardless tou're only making it less clear I'm afraid! "objects" and "methods" instead of what? I'll make an educated guess that you mean "objects and methods" ins
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by williamdclt 12d ago
I have more experience with authorization than most engineers, even engineers who have some experience with authn/authz, and I have no idea what that "subject can utter the action" or "transfer of nouns and verbs to perf
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by williamdclt 13d ago
> They almost always cycle from left to right Try searching "bike" in google image :) Most bike images are from the right side, as that's where the mechanism is (gears, chain etc), so not surprising that LLMs reproduce thi
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by williamdclt 27d ago
I'd guess that the very large majority of people don't know that americans use 12h time, no. Why would they?
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by williamdclt 27d ago
I'm skeptical. Switching between time formats when you're used to it requires 0 cognitive effort, and certainly doesn't warrant a button. Eg in France, people use 24h time for display but talk in either 12h or 24h time depend
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by williamdclt 28d ago
I've not interacted with mysql a whole lot, but when i did I was regularly surprised that it didn't have stuff I was missing from Postgres. Off the top of my mind: - Query planner is much worse (just yesterday I had to USE INDEX t
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by williamdclt 29d ago
> I have a long-held feeling with Trump that his most ardent haters don't hate his specific policies, merely that he's so gauche about it, that he has no class. A bit of an extraordinary belief to hold, to be honest
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by williamdclt 1mo ago
the vast majority of people have not taken Marketing 101, and it'd be strange to expect them to have. I know you're not literally talking about a Marketing 101 course, but the point is the same
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by williamdclt 1mo ago
habits, no. But difficult argument to make that lab-grown meat requires _less_ of a "moral value realignment" than plant-based food?
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by williamdclt 1mo ago
what a strange comment! It's totally fine, you do whatever you want, but it sounds like "I used to be an alcoholic drinking two 12-packs a day, now I don't even care about beer: I just have 6 a day and that's not because
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by williamdclt 1mo ago
Our ecosystem dying is also pretty suboptimal.
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by williamdclt 1mo ago
I think it's far from being this simple. What you're describing is productivity on a greenfield project, but what's really interesting is productivity when working on an existing large codebase, with existing conventions, arc
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by williamdclt 1mo ago
not the same as scam, but how is it not spam?
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by williamdclt 1mo ago
> its even more disheartening that most people's reactions to just about anything these days is dread about how it'll make their lives worse without fail. Maybe because most (tech) things do make most people's live worse w
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by williamdclt 1mo ago
> will produce extraordinary improvements in prosperity Who says that? Who is doing _anything_ for AI to result in (even non-extraordinary) improvements in prosperity for the average citizen? I'm hearing a lot about AI reducing need
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
I wouldn't say "magically", it's what happens with me and every other engineer I know: we're all detecting bugs and yet we're all writing them too. Not saying that LLMs work the same as humans, but saying it&#x
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
still isn't for most purposes, and most people are still more comfortable with yards than meters for day-to-day stuff (friends are often looking at me blankly when I give a distance in meters)
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
How did they appear upstream?
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
> "Is it clean and tidy right now" is a decent proxy for "Has this been properly taken care of in the past" I don't think so, esp at selling time, I definitely expect that the owner has just made it look pristine
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
It's self-consistent: those who say that a chord must have at least 3 notes also say that power chords are not technically chords
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
> "unidiomatic" rust means, 'don't use these parts of the language even though they're first-class citizens?' that is indeed a roughly accurate definition of what "unidiomatic" means
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
mosquitoes too, though it pains me to give them credit for anything
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
Well so far we've been using humans to clean up the code that humans ruined in the first place, it's hardly a logical fallacy
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
Maybe they cared, but that's always been irrelevant. "Show me the incentive and i'll show you the outcome": the only incentive for a company in our economic system is to make as much money as possible, anything in the wa
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
Intentions never win over incentives, especially as time and scale increase. And we live in an economic system where the only incentive is "make as much money as possible".

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