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To combine both TFA with this comment: I find that LLMs are ~fine at generating/editing gocode, or at least as ~fine as they generate most mainstream languages. But good god, the s…

Browsers can fill out forms. Many forms are (unfortunately) PDFs, especially for orgs that are struggling to digitize (govts...). PDFs which then need to be filled out. So this see…

"For most of the last 20 years, the software industry sold more than jobs. It sold a story." This "It's not (just) X, it's Y." pattern is so LLM-y it's almost hard to read it now.

Brexit does seem to have been a general loss for Britain. But I'm very distracted by Germany - what happened/is happening there that they're faring so much worse than, say, France?…

As other comments have indicated, this is basically solved for all servers. All Poweredges and supermicros have come with increasingly sophisticated integrated remote management sy…

Once you hit a certain processing threshold, stripe underwrites you. The benefit is some people get better deals or get to skirt by rules just by being immaterial. Separately: Once…

It's also a very lame definition. Intelligence - and humans - are more than just labor. (You'll forgive me for conflating humanity and intelligence - we are homo spaiens, after all…

Ah good job, you fixed it. I suggest you let Stripe and Visa know, I'm sure they'll be keen.

I don't think we understand consciousness, thought, and what we generally consider to be "intelligence" even nearly well enough that we can start getting hopeful that what works fo…

What happens if the merchant folds or disappears? Stripe (or Visa or whoever) then are the bagholder. And if someone has a ton of chargebacks, it's not uncommon they're then diffic…

For specifically sexually explicit stuff, it's because chargebacks are __significantly__ higher for these types of purchases. High enough that it messes with the credit and counter…

I think at its root, the general idea of shrinkflation is that some desirable attribute of a product - quantity or quality - is slowly eroded while keeping the price the same. As a…

See that's the thing people are upset about though - the fact that the documents you need are either an original certified copy of a thin sheet of paper from whatever random backwa…

And sometimes it can't even handle it then. I was recently porting ruby web code to python. Agents were simultaneously surprisingly good (converting ActiveRecord to sqlalchemy ORM)…

While I think a lot of the AI hype is just hype - everyone saying most of these things have _hitherto untold riches_ levels of financial incentives to say them - I think it's also …

Quantization is important for me because it's the only way out I can see for a future of programming that doesn't involve going through a giant bigco who can run, as the article sa…

I don't think anyone was at risk of misunderstanding their intent...

Software will ALWAYS be an attractive VC target. The economics are just too good. The profit margins are just inherently fat as fuck compared to literally anything else. Your main …

But how do you actually bootstrap that process? Look at bandcamp. They unionized successfully. Then the company got sold (again), and everyone but the union leaders (and prominent …

"Software engineers don't even need to be around for the programs to keep running." Can you tell me where you work, and are you hiring???

All I can say is, - the insane frothing hype behind AI is showing me a new kind of market failure - where resources can be massively misallocated just because some small class of i…

Yeah I really will give people a pass here. The state of email is one of the worst collective mistakes I think we've made. You can literally be an expert in everything relevant - a…

fortunately it is now easier than ever to do small-scale scraping, the kind yt-dlp does. I can literally just go write a script that uses headless firefox + mitmproxy in about an h…

Damn, still not structured concurrency full release. Really looking forward to that one. Happy to see Scoped Values here though. That'll be big for writing what I'll call "rails-li…

Do people think this debate is new? We've literally been working on this problem for millennia and we're not really any closer even despite the huge ramp up in technological progre…