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gxs

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    Comment #49241260

    You can just use hooks to physically (so to speak) prevent it from running the most sensitive commands. I find that peace of mind enough for me. E.G. no deletes, no deploying to , …

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    Comment #49225109

    What a grounded take on this and wished more people saw it this way Just yet another case of people seeing only the extremes and not the entire spectrum You nailed it: in a corpora…

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    Comment #49218033

    The difference is he’s not passing judgement on it or jumping to conclusions, fyi

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    Comment #49218028

    Haha it’s so comical how predictable downvotes are - which is a proxy for knowing what developers sensibilities are Wild to me that we see this even in what is a relatively more “s…

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    Comment #49217389

    100% A novice writing code by hand could also write spaghetti code If you've worked in enterprise software, you might have seen that even competent professionals can write spaghett…

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    Comment #49217364

    One thing that popped into my head is that this shows how committed they are to building something that scales across the world China has zero energy concerns in terms of energy pr…

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    Comment #49217353

    Yes but it’s far better than anything anyone, let alone a small child, could make in 15 minutes On the other hand an engineer might take a couple hours and build this in a clean wa…

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    Comment #49165122

    > after confusing two Asian last names What a fucking a joke - throw some cheap shots in there trying to stir things up by pointing out they were Asian Everything I read about Open…

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    Comment #49164359

    I don’t know it feels like some og programmers would say the same thing about people who can’t program machine language Code quality is only going to get better and to be perfectly…

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    Comment #49114271

    No mention of Roku I use one but only when traveling at hotels - it’s one of the only sticks that can connect to captive WiFi networks at hotels I’ve got barely anything on it so p…

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    Comment #49039392

    Especially these days there’s really no excuse Add a skill to your repo that does some basic checks at least, not that hard

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    Comment #49011975

    Yes exactly Math isn’t necessarily hard, but it’s incredibly dense A simple statement like let f(x) be a continuous function can carry a lot of definitions In that statement, if yo…

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    Comment #49000301

    How unfortunate - I’d rather work with a lesser model than put up with bullshit ads I finally freed myself from Google using Kagi instead I don’t currently use OpenAI but if Claude…

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    Comment #48966634

    The open weights vs frontier models is reminding me more and more of the Linux vs Windows I grew up with (slashdot randomly popped into my head saying that) I have a feeling this i…

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    Comment #48919246

    Or just shitty developers that never give things a second - just sayin

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    Comment #48899245

    Can you explain here without an LLM? Really curious to hear more about this Unless all of congress is included in that 100k, I’d love to hear a plausible scenario where this is act…

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    Comment #48896182

    I didn’t know this but it’s the kind of stuff our tax dollars pay for and ultimately why I’m so disgruntled about the high taxes we pay - especially in the middle class No problem …

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    Comment #48896081

    Because this kind of stuff is used for way beyond this It’s used for surveillance in the truest sense Heaven forbid you are on someone’s watchlist, they will just track your moveme…

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    Comment #48750677

    The sad thing is that the knee jerk reaction here is going to be “omg just vote with your wallet, don’t buy” But the truth is it’s bullshit and this attitude that companies should …

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    Comment #48689363

    What a terrible take First of all, who said this is a disaster? Second of all, OP never even said anything about no regulation - they specifically said they wanted transparency whi…

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    Comment #48563219

    iCloud itself does this for you if you bring your own domain fyi

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    Comment #48550836

    This sucks On the one hand - you’re happy for the entrepreneurs On the other, every single thing I hate as a consumer happens because of lack of competition and these acquisitions …

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    Comment #48441632

    If you like this I highly recommend you read Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations if you haven’t An easy read that dives into stoicism, a similar mindset, within the context of running th…

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    Comment #48436081

    > And then I started realizing: all the knowledge I have accumulated over the years: the trade-offs between implementations, how acquiring works, how to structure idempotency to pr…

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    Comment #48429329

    He tweeted this a while ago