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holbrad··on Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella
A very reputable source...
holbrad··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
I know Andrej Karpathy mentions it in his youtube series so there's a good chance of it being true.
holbrad··on IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act
I this is exactly how you should respond to outrageous demands.

The UK should pound sand.

holbrad··on Vibe engineering
I'm genuinely baffled by the assertion that there isn't objective reality.
holbrad··on Vibe engineering
You can 100% use dogs as tools as we've done for thousands of years.
holbrad··on What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers
Certainly wouldn't recommend MAUI. Even using it as a simple shell with for Blazor Hybrid was noticeably harder than WPF.

If Microsoft aren't using it themselves in any real capacity, then it's not good bet IMO.

holbrad··on I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone
Very strange comment.

Literally hundreds of millions of people have set up an Iphone, it's trivial if your aren't cognitively impaired and/or very elderly.

I don't understand how you could have trouble finding the volume down button.

It's quite obviously placed, and is one google search away if not...

holbrad··on Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100
"Blue zones" are debunked bullshit.
holbrad··on Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
So you've completely misunderstood what the discussion is about...

Maybe rtft ? Read the fucking thread.

holbrad··on I Am An AI Hater
>Critics have already written thoroughly about the environmental harms, the reinforcement of bias and generation of racist output, the cognitive harms and AI supported suicides, the problems with consent and copyright,

I just can't take anything the author has to say seriously after the intro.

holbrad··on A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in
>“we just have to accept that these systems will occasionally kill children”

I think this a generally a good mindset to have.

I just see the hyper obsessive "safety" culture corrupting things. We as a society are so so afraid of any risk that we're paralysing ourselves.

holbrad··on Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature
This comment clears things up. As setting up Google/Discord with Better Auth wasn't particularly hard for one of my home projects.
holbrad··on IQ tests results for AI
>has no genetic justification

That is comically retarded. Like do you have any understanding of the words you are using ?

If there's no genetic justification, how would it be possible to trivially determine someone's race just from their DNA ?

holbrad··on IQ tests results for AI
Surely this is completely logicalal if IQ is largely heritable.

The smarter richer parents are more likely (But not guaranteed) to have smarter children.

So it would be completely expected for the smarted person you know to come from a rich family even if their environment had no effect. (Though it likely does)

holbrad··on IQ tests results for AI
People who say there's no such thing as race are complete charlatans playing semantic word games.
holbrad··on IQ tests results for AI
> has been completely and undeniably refuted by science in the thirty years since it's publication.

This is literally the exact opposite.

holbrad··on IQ tests results for AI
How can you possibly explain the world getting massively materially richer then ?

Are the new drugs we create immertial ? The better faster processor abstract ? The energy we produce unreal ?

holbrad··on Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president
It is a defence against it. Just not a perfect one.
holbrad··on Trump wins presidency for second time
Do we not see the obvious cyclical death spiral such a policy could cause ?
holbrad··on Using LLMs to enhance our testing practices
I also subscribe to a testing pyramid but I think it's commonly upside down IMO.

You should have a few very granular unit tests for where they make the most sense (Known dangerous areas, or where they are very easy to write eg. analysis)

More library/service tests. I read in an old config file and it has the values I expect.

Integration/system tests should be the most common, I spin up the entire app in a container and use the public API to test the application as a whole.

Then most importantly automated UI tests, I do the standard normal customer workflows and either it works or it doesn't.

The nice thing is that when you strongly rely on UI and public API tests you can have very strong confidence that your core features actually work. And when there are bugs they are far more niche. And this doesn't require many tests at all.

(We've all been in the situation where the 50,000 unit tests pass and the application is critically broken)

holbrad··on Grok-2 Beta Release
Cisgender is banned on twitter ? That's hilarious.
holbrad··on Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning
>climate-change induced typhoons

Tell me your uninformed, without telling me.

holbrad··on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
>Fervent capitalist

That isn't the own you think it is. It's the position of every single successful modern state.

>genocide supporter

Sigh...

>suddenly turn into Jeremy Corbyn is, frankly, delusional.

Brillant, people voted for him for exactly this reason.

holbrad··on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
I really hate this line of thinking. Your blatently encorauging politicians to lie to voters.

Campaign on a platform of comprimise and sensible polices to attract moderate voters... And then just completely ignore everything you said you would do...

This is the exact opposite of what we should encourage from politics.

holbrad··on Garbage Collectors Are Scary
I honestly thought the title was about bin men for a second...
holbrad··on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
I mean I've routeninly seen estimates be 3-5x longer that projected. It's up to you if you thing that's an accurate enough estimate or not.
holbrad··on The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)
I'm sure hysterics like saying humanity is "doomed" are great for mental health. /s
holbrad··on Cummins Fined $1.6B for Diesel Defeat Devices in 630K RAM Trucks
That's pretty extreme. Surely fines seem far more appropriate.
holbrad··on Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims
"to some, some lives are worth 100 times more than others."

I feel like that's true for most people/all most everyone ? You've got the thought experiment of: How many strangers lives would you trade for a family members well being ?

holbrad··on Massachusetts becomes fifth state to make prison calls free
I'm sure there are examples of abuse.

But I honestly don't see the problem in principle.

If a court issues you a fine and you simply ignore it, that's not a situation society can just ignore. If you are truly unable to pay, that's more complicated, but should not just simply magically resolve you of responsibility.

There has to be other measures to ensure that money is paid or an equivalent cost is beared. Garnishing wages being an obvious first step.

(This is especially true if fines were to scale with income/wealth)

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