doug_durham

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Languages are never the answer. Lisp isn't superior to Visual Basic. They are both Turing complete. Humans can express good ideas in each. It's better to think of languages as tools. An impact drill is not superior to a simple rotary drill. You will have better luck building a deck with an impact drill, but both will do the job.

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In commercial practice DSLs are an anti-pattern. Someone will create an under-documented DSL that only they understand and move on. The following programmers have to try to decipher this strange language. It is almost always a better idea to use standard language structures and features. Code is read more than it is written.

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Nice rant with no evidence. I'll choose to ignore it.

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My Hyundai Ioniq 5 has Car Play and knobs and buttons. It's not either or.

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People engage with music in different ways. Some people focus on lyrics and the connection they make. Other people largely ignore lyrics and focus on the rhythms and patterns. Both are valid and both are very human. We do not need gatekeepers coming in and judging what is music and what is not music.

House music can bring me as much joy as listening to Bach performed by a skilled ensemble. It depends on where I am at mentally. Both are valid forms of human expression.

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Your statement is so imprecise as to be meaningless. Is EDM made on an Abelton DAW human made? Even though the human didn't touch an instrument and used a robot drummer? What about a human who uses AI to generate snippets of music and then pastes them together in an emotionally compelling way, much like HipHop artists do for traditionally sampled music? AI is a tool. Low/no-effort work on the part of humans is the problem.

16 dni temudiscuss

The NSA is government agency. They are certainly not training any world class LLMs. They probably have some specialized fine tunings of existing models, but that's it. They don't have the capacity.

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There’s nothing new here. This is how open source software has been since its inception. It’s just the nature of reality.

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As has been pointed out elsewhere, DMA isn't a privacy regulation. It is simply about competition. You can be in 100% compliance with DMA and poor privacy protections. This is the crux of the problem. How do you preserve the privacy of your customers while complying with regulations where the simplest path is to compromise your customer's privacy?

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I have to lift up my hand and move my arm around to use it. With a trackpad all I need to do is move my hand over and flick my fingers for gestures. My wrist never moves.

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Rust, Python, Java, Ruby, Scala, Swift to start with. These are languages with very wide adoption. Objective-C is very Smalltalk-like, but it is being phased out for Swift.

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This is a truly important paper. It formalizes the intuition that many in the field have. We can stop wasting time doing formal analysis of LLMs. If you have a problem that requires formal verification, don't use an LLM. You can use an LLM to help you build such a system, but the LLM can't be the system.

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You think that LISP and Smalltalk aren't widely used is because they weren't easy to implement in the late 1980's? There have been many languages that have risen to prominence in the 40 years since, yet LISP and Smalltalk remain niche languages.

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I use a trackpad to avoid virtually all of the issues created by a mouse. The trackpad gestures in macOS are magical.

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Work has never been about "discovering the world". There have been a handful of privileged folks who had the time to "discover the world". Work has traditionally been "let's find enough food for my family". If you want to think of a future of abundance then perhaps we can discover the world.

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DSLs. Creating a language that only you know that will double the learning curve for the folks coming after you. It's fine for personal projects, but almost always an anti-pattern.

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There is nothing original in this article. This could’ve been written by an AI just scraping one month of posts to hacker news. This article is a critique of autonomously repackaging existing ideas by autonomously repackaging existing ideas. The irony is not lost on me.

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It really depends on your goal. If your goal is to spend the evening coming up with funny things to say with your friends, then you shouldn't use AI. If your goal is to finish the t-shirts so that you can move on to the next topic in organizing a very complex event like a marathon, then perhaps you should use tools. Using AI tools isn't a problem. It's lack of care and thoughtlessness. That is the problem. That's always been the problem. AI didn't create it, nor is it making it worse.

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I find these kinds of posts to be elitist and self-important. They draw a false dichotomy between tool use and lifestyle. I'm glad the poster has a lifestyle that works for them personally. This post really has nothing to do with AI. It's really just saying, spend more time talking to the people in your life. It seems to be written for the purposes of gaining clicks and engagement by using the phrase AI.

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Why is it a sacred journey? They are quitting a job at Sentry and taking one a Home Depot. As much as I value the role that Home Depot plays in society I'd never use the word "sacred" to describe the work, nor the work at any other job.