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It, was to me, surprisingly good for an AI slop project. Though Fable not suggesting the Doctor from Red October or Homolka from Congo in its initial roster is the biggest indication to me that we're far from general AI.
Just thought it was appropriate given the news.
Why not just specify all contributions must be written with a steady hand and a strong magnet.
The speed we can move at is astounding. We're going to finish our backlog next quarter. We're conservatively planning on launching 3x as many features next quarter.
Claude is far from perfect: it's made us reassess our coding standards since code is primarily for Claude now, not for humans. So much of what we did was to make code easier for the next dev, and that just doesn't matter anymore.
The developers should have never tried to boil the ocean: simple Kotlin or Scala style interpolation with overloading `+` for concatenation is the 80% use case here. Yes it doesn’t do everything. But it makes life a lot more ergonomic. And they rejected this solution out of hand! So instead of something useful but not perfect we get nothing.
[1] https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0743471598/0743471598___2.htm
What are you talking about? Laptops aren't even round.</literal>
Apple first-gen products are often half-assed. But they iterate and improve on a regular cadence. The current Apple Vision Pro is a dev kit, it will get better.
Doesn't really prevent a strike though: it just makes it cost more. Here in Massachusetts it's illegal for public school teachers to strike, yet it has happened a couple times in the last year. In one case the teacher's union was fined: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/02/08/woburn-teachers-turn...
My ideal phone camera would be a single APS-C sized sensor replacing all three current iPhone cameras. The lens should be a f1.2, 50mm equivalent pancake. Yes that’s hard to do, but using fancy fresnel lenses and a pile of CPU to correct things I bet you could make it work. Make the sensor ~30 megapixels so you can digital zoom.
Add a mount that includes communication so if you want you can add fancy lenses and they can be active parts of the autofocus system.
This design actually competes with low-end mirrorless and is probably even possible to build (the lens might be pushing what’s possible, but I bet we can get close).
Even worse, this phone looks to use the same small sensors and small lenses all smartphones are saddled with. A bulkier form factor and slapping Leica’s logo doesn’t make a “real” camera. Big sensors and big lenses do.
What about AI is going to change how programming languages climb the abstraction ladder?
My BMW has a neat adaptive driving mode: because the motors don’t use permanent magnets, lifting off would normally result in coasting. When adaptive driving is on, the car uses its radar to figure out how much regeneration (and if necessary friction) braking to apply so you stop just short of the car in front of you, all without applying the brake. The same system is also used to dampen acceleration when there are cars in front of you. It sounds like madness, and is very strange the first few times you use it, but ends up making driving more pleasant.
This is something Rails gets very right. Bundler and Rake make Rails one of the nicest development environments there is.
But we can and should do better. Why is DLL-hell still a thing? Imports should specify versions, defaulting to a default if none is specified. Languages barely even consider versions today, they are almost always hacked on via magic text strings in filenames.
Why do tools like Dependabot and Renovate need to parse a million dependency formats to figure out versions? The language runtime or build system should produce that as a first class output.
Deployment and documentation are other places most languages ignore and delegate to a variety of crappy external tools.
Build Server Protocol is a good step in the right direction, but it barely scratches the surface. It would be great to see a language that prioritizes the parts of the developer experience that aren't writing code.
However Wegmans has a weird inventory. Many things you could find in any New England grocery store like steak tips, salt-top rolls, or brown bread are simply missing.
It wasn't until I was perusing Wegmans' extensive cured meat department that I realized I was thinking of Wegmans the wrong way: it's not a grocery store, it's an ethnic food store, like a Super 88. But instead of being Chinese, Wegmans is a midwest ethnic food store.
It doesn’t matter if 1% of cryptocurrency useful and not a scam: because 99% of it is, if you use crypto you’re going to get scammed.
There is no Szilard patent for AGI: no one has any theory on how to make it work other then “make it bigger,” which as this article points out hasn’t paid off like we’d hoped.
I’d have a lot more faith that AGI is possible if we had any kind of theory or roadmap on how to get there. Counting on a black box inventing it for us seems like waiting for a million monkeys to finish King Lear 2.
Let's be clear: the reason the Chinese government wants to forget and move on from Tiananmen Square is because it threatens their power. The scariest thing for an autocrat is the people realizing that people hold the real power, and that all systems of government only exist because of the consent of the governed (implied in China's case, explicit in a democracies).
With every manufacturer accelerating their EV rollouts, there will soon be more CCS EVSEs than superchargers. This move isn't about giving non-Teslas access to superchargers, it's about giving Teslas access to what very soon will be the majority of EVSEs.
It also about tax incentives: the government isn't going to support a proprietary standard.