jwalton

In general, when I’ve worked on projects where I’ve spent that much time planning, having a magic AI box that wrote perfect code wouldn’t have helped that much. When you spec every everything out like that, writing the code is the most trivial part of this whole process.

LLMs do a cool parlour trick; all they do is predict “what should the next word be?” But they do it so convincingly that in the right circumstances they seem intelligent. But that’s all it is; a trick. It’s a cool trick, and it has utility, but it’s still just a trick.

All these people thinking that if only we add enough billions of parameters when the LLM is learning and add enough tokens of context, then eventually it’ll actually understand the code and make sensible decisions? These same people perhaps also believe if Penn and Teller cut enough ladies in half on stage they’ll eventually be great doctors.

If you’re 2x farther away, the intensity of the sound with be 1/4, because of the inverse square law, so logically your speaker would need to be 300% louder.

Bookshop.org has a DRM free section? Where do I find such a thing?

> but if your hobby is a website where others can post content you have a responsibility that the content shouldn't be illegal or harmful to others

I’m not entirely sure I agree with this sentiment. It certainly isn’t true from a legal standpoint in America, where section 230 explicitly absolves you from any such responsibility. I also don’t think most of the objections to the OSA center around a need to remove child pornography, but instead the fact that you are forced to employ technological measures that don’t currently exist to remove child pornography. All of this is a little besides the point though because…

> If you can't deal with those responsibilities you can't run the website.

I absolutely can. If the law is unreasonable, I can block all users from the host country, and keep running my website. Which is exactly what Lobsters and a lot of other people are choosing to do.

This is why the LinkedIn app is and will always be banned from my phone.

There’s no small irony that this isn’t age doesn’t render correctly on Safari on iPhone. All the text wraps off the right edge of the phone. -_-

I just spent an afternoon recreating the custom threads on a Hayward chlorinator for my dad so I could 3D print a temporary replacement part. These don’t even use standard pipe fitting thread. -_-

Agreed. I’ve never used spring-boot, so telling me this is like spring-boot is less informative than the author might think it is.

How do you think google maps got such a good database of these things? When I last used it, Google maps used to actively ask you for this sort of information.

Well, step one to increase aerodynamics would be to switch to recumbent bikes, but they’re banned, because they’re too aerodynamic. :P

In my late teens I would frequently be late for university because I’d turn off my alarm or my gf would come wake me up and I’d go straight back to sleep. One day I decided to move my alarm clock to the other side of the room so I’d have to physically get up to turn it off. The next morning I got up, walked over to the alarm clock and turned it off, then I was startled awake as I started to fall over standing in front of the alarm clock.

I’d like to be able to blame this on some kind of medical problem, but I think mostly I just stayed up late playing Counterstrike too much. :P