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They're subsidizing a world where we need ai instead of understanding or, at the very least, knowing who can help us. Eventually for us to be so dumb we are the ai slaves.

This reinforces my narrative of AI being a terrible thing for humanity. It's not only making us forget how to do the most basic things, but it's making people with not a clue about what they're doing think they are capable of anything...

I've interviewed "Front end Devs" who don't know the difference between a class and an id. We're becoming dinosaurs

If we shiver at the sight of some of those accounting-created excels, which we only learn about when they fail and they can't understand them anymore, wait for them to hand over a vibe-coded 200k loc Python codebase "which is not working anymore" and nobody had ever reviewed a single line of code.

funnily something similar exists in the UK since the post-WWII postcode change. Addresses can be "minimised" to 10 characters, or less. Obviously there's no way to change the real destination once something has been sent

https://vlad.website/most-minimal-uk-address/

It's helped me incredibly to proof-read a novel I wrote in Spanish and translated myself into English to make it sound more native. I review ever single suggestion an LLM provides (as I would do with a native proof-reader!).

I think this type of job suits LLMs perfectly... At the end of the day it's just a statistical NLP tool.

I don’t think they’ve improved much for common use since GPT-3.5, to be frank. They’re cheaper and more ubiquitous, yes, but when it comes to summarizing and generating basic text, they’re pretty much the same as they were back then

Maybe we're just getting more used to make it part of our workflow.

I used to use that trick with some arcade game that was popular in bars in 00s Spain. People were just impressed!

just found the same, has it been removed?

I think you have touch on an interesting point here... When working remotely you really need to put an effort into keeping a healthy social life balance, otherwise you end up feeling exactly as you describe. It's easy for days to go on with no "change of landscape", and that can send anyone straight to depression.

a common problem of all systems that include a way for voters to verify their vote is that it opens the possibility of parties buying votes, as you can prove your voted for them.

I wonder how many subtle errors will make their way to the new codebase (decimal rounding, a library uses where a parameter is ignores and there's no tests for it...) only to be found in production and AI will be blamed.

sure! armurth at gmail.com

I have been trying to hire someone with more than a couple years experience in frontend and event sourcing with any language in the backend for weeks and 90% of the applicants are just people right off a bootcamp where they just do Django. then a couple no-shows and people who essentially add any tech they've heard of in their CV.

In the past I've interviewed dozens of people who mention five DBMS in their resume but can't say when they'd use one over the other.

there might be less low hanging jobs, but finding competent devs beyond mid-level is getting harder and harder. it seems they stop job hopping.

Plane looks much better, despite being a ripoff of Linear

https://github.com/makeplane/plane

I can thank him for having taught me his language, the intricacies of baseball, for having shown me corners in the state of New York unheard of outside the States. For having explained what love and passion are and aren't, for having instilled dreams and hopes. And most importantly, that life can be lived to its fullest at any age.

A life worth living. Rest in peace, he will continue living while he's read.

Which happens in one of his novels

even if they released them, wouldn't it be prohibitively expensive to reproduce the weights?

Nuclear doesn't scale quickly. It already adapts from 4GW to 7GW in Spain, but it does it slowly and ahead of weather conditions. What is needed is more co-located battery storage, and more gravity (solid or water) storage.

it's easier to move power than water :-) So as long as it's rained a lot somewhere, that can be used as a battery. Most hydro power plants are not in Catalonia or Andalusia (https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1jVN1LmOoTTqg3e...)

Spain as a whole 45 million country with diverse geography and scattered population is producing 75 percent of its electricity from renewables and gas and carbon have been down to almost technical zero.

It's rained a lot over the last month's and water reservoirs are used as battery.

I made a website to track this: https://energy.antizone.online

During the day, a huge chunk of the produced energy is sold to other countries, that's why I claim that 70% of its electricity is from renewables, even though the production share only accounts for 66%.

Interestingly, it might not be a cost saving decision, but the money needed for the initial setup and ongoing support ending in local companies' and worker's pockets.

There's a correlation between the death of Flash and the rise of mobile devices browsing. Flash was pixel-based and the whole paradigm doesn't really work for responsiveness.

I came to mention the same. Diagrams have redundant information, examples are badly picked, there's sentences with little to no value... I don't know if it's lack of care, the author not writing in his native language, or excess of GPT.

> QUIC works on top of UDP. It overcomes the limitations of TCP by using UDP. It’s just a layer or wrapper on top of UDP.

Makes me want to stop reading.

This is what I used to typeset my novel. My editor and publisher tried multiple methods and they kept being impressed by how clean and "just right" the versions I sent them were... In the end, we ended up using the PDFs generated by Pandoc instead of InDesign or whatever proprietary stuff they used.

Merry Christmas, everyone!!!

Plant trees. Chop trees. Build stuff. Bury wood. Repeat.

Note: it doesn't mean keep burning gas at the same time.

Vladimir Propp already analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales, down to 31 elements, and drafter how these units formed classic Russian tales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp There's been further efforts to analyse his work https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9338-8

Pushing to buy premium version, so without ads is misleading.

How's this better than Midnight Commander? I saw a colleague using Far and we found that, as far as our usage went, both had a similar set of functionality.