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MajorHavoc

@ MajorHavoc @programming.dev

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  • Thanksgiving Dinner

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  • They think we're ignorant of how the world works, condescending, and irrationally judgemental.

    Lol. Yep Though in fairness, I am genuinely judging them so fucking hard.

  • Thanksgiving Dinner

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  • Yeah, seems like "woke" is anything we're not supposed to approve of this month.

    I do find the word "woke" incredibly useful.

    The moment the word exits someone's mouth (as a complaint), I save a ton of energy on how to handle any further information they share (highly suspect).

    Edit: I've actually discovered some great art and culture by being warned away from it's "wokeness", too.

  • YAS QUEEN

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  • Also the first half of "Tribute", of course.

  • Writing Composable SQL using Knex and Pipelines

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  • That's a great write-up. Thank you.

  • Likecoholic

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  • Nice. Lol.

    It's weird that they're all in sleeves, though. He's not exercising our "right to bare arms".

  • Where Y.A.G.N.I. falls short

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  • Ooh. I like this a lot.

    YAGNI is for what you code, not how you code.

    With how you code, you are gonna need it:

    • Quality – You are gonna need quality.
    • Maintainability – You are gonna maintain it.
    • Replaceability – You are gonna replace it.
    • Testability – You are gonna test it
    • Security – You are gonna need security.

  • OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

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  • The bubble was when we were being sold block chain as the solution to every problem. I feel like that bubble ended in 2019 or 2020.

    Things that actually benefitted from block chain are still around, of course.

    Unrelated side rant: I'm pissed about pogs going away, though. Pogs were fun. I should still be able to buy pogs.

  • I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!

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  • Yeah. Virtually anything with an exception for the first million dollars will both lose almost no tax revenue (as a percentage), and never ever touch the rest of us temporarily embarrassed not-quite-yet-billionaires.

  • I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!

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  • I think people would be okay with taxing them away, as well. It could be fine to give an either-or option to each billionaire, even.

  • The crocs and beard complete this

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  • "Father, I saw Tenant, this weekend."

  • A funeral for voicemail - The Oatmeal

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  • Yeah. I'm very thankful that my work operates by the same expectations.

    Anyone calling unscheduled is urgent enough that I probably shouldn't waste time listening to the voicemail. Every other call is scheduled, anyway.

    It leaves my work voicemail delightfully empty.

  • OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

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  • I think you're agreeing, just in a rude and condescending way.

    There's a lot of ways left to improve, but they're not as simple as just throwing more data and CPU at the problem, anymore.

  • A funeral for voicemail - The Oatmeal

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  • I think it's early to declare voicemail dead. It was alive and kicking when I checked mine last Christmas...or was that Christmas 2019? Maybe I should check on it again.

    And I've been assured that my work voicemail is definitely setup and functional. I trust the team that sets those things up, and I'm confident that it's doing it's job... whatever it's for.

  • Bunnicula fans rise up! [My Dad is Dracula]

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  • The core premise of "my Dad is Dracula" is profoundly mind-bogglingly dumb.

    So yeah, you've got my upvote. I enjoy it every time.

    Edit: the thing is the "wait we're still doing these?!" humor hits kind of at random. I hope they stick with it and hit some numbers of comics made that are as mind boggling as the core idea.

  • Space Suit

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  • This is really on him. It was clearly labeled.

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  • Well yeah, thankfully.

  • OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

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  • Unlikely, but there's some percedent.

    We've seen this pattern play out in video games a bunch of times.

    Revolutionary new way to do things. It's cool, but not... You know...fun.

    So we give up on it as a dead and and go back to the old ways for awhile.

    Then somebody figures out how to (usually hard code) bumpers on the new revolutionary new way, such that it stays fun.

    Now the revolutionary new way is the new gold stand and default approach.

    For other industries, replace "fun" above with the correct goal for than industry. "Profitable" is one that the AI hucksters are being careful not to say...but "honest", "correct" and "safe" also come to mind.

    We are right before the bit where we all decide it was a bad idea.

    Which comes before we figure out hard-coding the bumpers can get us where we wanted, after a lot of work by really smart well paid humans.

    I've seen industries skip the "all decide it was a bad idea" phase, and go straight to the "hard work by humans to make this fulfill the available promise" phase, but we don't actually look on track to, today.

    Many current investors are convicned that their clever talking puppet is going to do the hard work of engineering the next generation of talking puppet.

    I have some faith that we can reach that milestone. I'm familiar enough with the current generation of talking puppet to confidently declare that this won't be the time it happens.

    My incentive in sharing all this is that I like over half of you reading there, and so figure I can give some of you a shot at not falling for this particular "investment phase" which is essentially, in practical terms, a con.

  • OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

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  • Are you asserting that chatbots are so fundamentally different from LLMs that "oh shit we can't just throw more CPU and data at this anymore" doesn't apply to roughly the same degree?

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  • Everyone ignore this comment please. I'm quite human. I have the normal 7 fingers (edit: on each of my three hands!) and everything.