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> Why would a company warn that their technology is dangerous if it wasn't? Because it makes their technology seem more important and powerful? Do you usually believe 100% what a c…

That's fair I appreciate you taking the time to respond, that's a helpful example

What do you mean by basic level of quality? What are you being pressured to do to meet a deadline that's on the level of building collapse? "skimp on the tests" or "do this hard to…

I think we're both arguing for balance here When I started programming I wanted everything I wrote to be museum-ready. I was slow as shit and waaay too precious about code. As I've…

I'm not sure I follow the point you're making My example is we want to skip the div if empty or undefined. We can't throw on assignment so we leave it as as string|undefined. When …

I think about this a lot. My belief is professional programmers should not be artists. I think about other professions. A cook cannot spend time making every dish perfect. A brickl…

Early errors are good, but I think the author overstates the importance of filtering out empty strings --- I disagree that erroring out when the app doesn't have ALL the data is th…

I was confused by why "use of AI" was a top-level requirement of this, but I see now that weave is AI-driven "engineering output measurement" company, down to the individual contri…

I mean the answer is in the question--why are the self-driving cars (largely funded by billion-dollar private companies and VC) available in the same city as this anarchic public t…

Someone raises safety concerns about LLM's interactions with people with delusions and your takeaway is maybe the field of therapy is actually net harmful?

Is it clear the charity approach is more efficient? My sense is many non-profits prioritize fundraising and have the bloat of executives who's main function is to schmooze donors. …

Yeah the company has to give a timebox. It's true that candidates could abuse that, but open ended "impress us" is asking for trouble for both parties. And honestly you should be a…

I am not surprised by the result of this article, but LLMs are marketed to be used to get factual information on non-verifiable domains. Ads shows kids asking for answers to homewo…

I mean, they are ending support for windows 10 in a few months. Win 10 is pushing users to upgrade pretty hard. It's not surprising to me more people are on it now than before Peop…

This is some nonsense. I think this funimendimentally misunderstands what a strike is and how it works. When collective bargaining works, it's because you can force a negotiation w…

Interesting perspective. I appreciate that it tests the models at different "layers" of understanding. I have always felt that LLMs would fall apart beyond the summarization. Maybe…

It's not a paywall, just a sign-in wall. They were having trouble with getting scraped. The email sign-in is enough of a barrier to stop most scrapers. https://www.404media.co/why-…

an ai book is surely more work than an ai blog

I find it funny that article argues SPA frameworks were pushed with cargo-cultism without evidence, while making proclamations of doom and being fairly light on substance. I think …

This is a joke, right? Indulging in a Superbowl party or birthday dinner will not make you obese. Overeating or eating poorly over a long period of time will. Cooking can be a grea…

A "fake" (as opposed to a mock) is a pretty well understood concept. Is there a difference between a fake and a "nullable"? As far as I can tell this is a pattern for merging your …

One of the best Twitter features was the "ad dislike" It can be done

I mean this as a genuine question-- what new successful projects have Amazon or Apple produced since 2015? I'm not a defender of Google, but my sense has always been that tech gene…