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Ban is under age 18. Many states allow 16 & 17 with parents permission.

I’m only half joking that someone will come up with a LLM text to speech synthesizer that pauses and plays depending on if your mouth is closed/jaw is moving. Analysizes your voice to synthesize as well.

I did a variant of Pac Man using Claude and pointed it at a thorough blog post about the patterns and that greatly helped.

That's basically like devs being 10x with AI - they ain't getting a raise for that..

That's cool, but like with most things, I think the manager types will misunderstand:

- A lot of this is looking at an existing app and/or code for reference.

- The people doing/guiding this are skilled.

- Skilled people have thought out what to make.

Otherwise they hear "20 minutes" and think AI can spit out a logical or good product from no reference or planning.

Quite frequently, because I happen to have a carving displayed at this fair hanging in my home. (Would love to donate it to an appropriate museum, but emails go unanswered...)

You mean retire at all. I think this would cause a civil war if govt pulled this.

Yeah, I’ve never understood this - earlier in my career this was the standard to have technically skilled hiring managers look for and contact people.

Now people act like they must have this ridiculous firehose of resumes to sort through, then have non-technical HR gals sort and filter out based on whatever random criteria they use, and then by the time it gets to the hiring managers - they still have no idea if this person is a complete idiot or has any skills at all. The qualified people you actually want to hire don’t want to be treated like idiots or liars either.

I just don’t feel it has to be this way - there is zero value in a firehose unless you were looking for desperate and cheap people.

I guess the sellers and industries should have thought of this when they offloaded manufacturing to cheap countries that can and will undercut them.

I'm agreeing with you, in that yes it would be best and simple to solve "How come we cannot..." with some basic steps - but companies and industries often cut corners to the point of barely being viable long term.

To abuse an old phrase about engineers and bridges:

“Any idiot can run a business, but it takes an MBA to run a business that barely functions.”

Somewhat, but I've for sure seen new projects become grindy messes in a few weeks.

Well, not exactly. Many, many companies and managers think that they can replace skilled people or have unskilled monitoring them.

To generalize, LLMs are great at what you are not skilled at.

Maybe it’s addressed here, but LLMS will not produce better quality new code/systems/products than the persons prompting are capable of. Either by specing out in detail up front, or by a lot of interactive back and forth steering as it's built, or by having it copy some reference system.

I don't mind this, but this is not how this is being sold at all, and many folks use these tools to be lazy.

I don't disagree with your details, but I am really not sure why the alternatives (Obama, Clinton, Biden) were somehow seen as tougher on Russia? All the invasions from Crimea in 2014, and 2023 were not under Trump administrations and the response from the US then was not effective at all.

This is absolutely the reality. Previous company my first project was on team "improving reporting", and chasing all kinds of gnarly performance tuning to make queries and sorting faster, etc. Once we did all this after a few months, come to find out the PM requesting all this missed that what users wanted was one number in hundreds of rows, and sorting so it would show on top...

The team did not like that I pointed out we could have added the number to the home page in a few minutes...

> “We made meaningful structural improvements to lay the groundwork for our Sport Offense across our team culture, innovative product, brand strength, and how we serve consumers in our countries and cities,” Hill said in the report. “While we continue to face top-line headwinds, we’re encouraged by progress in performance product and are focused on consistent execution, improved profitability and scaling our wins to realize our full potential.”

Yikes this sounds like corporate bingo card nonsense.

It's been some years but when visiting Quebec there seemed to be a noticable push to have Quebec align with the EU. I remember the Quebec and EU flags hanging on buildings, etc.

> people who are non-technical can compete with those who have spent decades of time and effort to learning the crafts of their trade.

I say this often, but in 25 years I have not worked with non-technical people who can design a complete, logical product, even with AI/LLMs "unlocking" the coding part now. Maybe I'm just unlucky but quite a few companies and different domains.

I feel like this identical pitch could have been made 25 or 40 years ago talking about Internet technologies or personal computing, with very very similar warnings and suggestions. And had these been adopted then, it would have been more regulatory capture, less progress, and still have the same problems and risks that were warned about.

"Coding" is just a poor term for this, as there's so much room to weasel different meanings out of it. At every company I've worked in past 20+ years the "coders" were engineering a product from wrong or unclear requirements and specs from non-technical people. The act of coding was secondary (but an important throttling function to make us stop and think about what is even possible or makes sense.) Never did FAANGs, so YMMV.

Really doubt we are near that being solved with non-technical folks + LLMs. I'm seeing people gleefully rebuilding products with the exact same blind spots in their understanding/logic using LLMs. Claude, etc are not seemingly able to "AGI" around goofy asks. The CSS looks a little nicer than their legacy products though, lol.

Sure, but it is really interesting to think that the 50s arts and 60s youth movements as top-down "soft power" countermeasures to the USSR and communist revolutions, and that it's not so spontaneous as it's typically thought of.

The dimensions closed seems like a weird form factor. I'd be interested in a folding iPhone (horizontal or vertical), but this seems off.

It's a cultural thing, but you can do incremental PRs towards a large goal. Giant PRs that are expected to be reviewed never really seemed worth it imho.

Then if you are lucky, the telescreen is in an unusual position. By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, you might be able to remain outside the range of the telescreen.

Unfortunately he was a registered Democrat.

Finder is really limited in many ways but it's one of the only FM that supports Miller columns, which I use quite a bit.

Same here, but there’s something to be said for an advertisement that you remember clearly for 41 years ha:

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/retroscan...

Agreed, but reminds me of the unfortunate usage of English as the de facto global standard. Ironically funny to see computers chattering in this odd piecemeal of a language. (I am a native speaker of English)

Would be interesting to see LLMs talk in something more terse like Vietnamese.