kulahan

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I’ll work very hard and on the cheap if you can actually prove your company gives a shit about QA.

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Comment · 2 hours ago
I don’t think your point is meritless, but this is specifically a discussion about that top-10% dev. The one doing this type of work is not the one who will be let go.
Comment · 4 hours ago
This has nothing to do with what he’s talking about. He’s talking about using it to learn additional info about what he’s writing. You posted a pretty boring video about someone who cannot do anything except push buttons on AI, concluding that somehow board members and CEOs will, I guess, do 15000 employees’ work now.

As a side note, it’s funny that someone who clearly dislikes AI couldn’t get their idea across without using AI

Comment · 4 hours ago
The subscription didn’t do any work though. It didn’t magically create a new knowledge worker any more than a lawn mower in a shed cuts grass. The output of the labor massively skyrocketed in value. If you fire that dev, who do you think will use Claude?

This instead is a concern for newer devs. There is now no argument for bringing on the cadre of workers you’d need to do all the hand-jamming, testing, and reviewing, learning how to code in the process.

Comment · 22 hours ago
I never thought about this, but I guess it makes sense. What an insane thing to consider - one more reason for to love neutron stars.
Comment · 2 days ago
I have no idea what’s going on, but modern subtitles are suddenly TRASH. All kinds of misheard words, it really feels like they removed all human oversight, or reduced it so significantly it’s just impossible to actually read it all for whatever crew works on this.

I only glanced through capabilities, so apologies if I simply missed this, but I am begging you to ensure there is some kind of system for translating foreign text on screen - most ideally, in a slightly differentiated font.

So often someone is walking by a sign in some other language, and their comments on it are translated, but the sign is not! I just watched Sai on Netflix, and it changes to a bright red screen with white text near the end of most episodes. I think it’s introducing the credits but I have no idea. It was just 30 seconds of Japanese text.

Comment · 2 days ago
And to take it to the other absurd extreme, you’re not going to throw away all foods that aren’t kept in a sterile vacuum until the moment it’s consumed… are you?

I’m arguing against being overly-concerned with hygiene to the point that you cannot even handle touching everyday objects without a significant disgust factor. You’re talking about licking toilets. Come on bro.

Comment · 2 days ago
We do, all the time, by simple manner of eating foods that are exposed to air.

But if you’re asking if we should try to cram more than usual in there, I couldn’t tell you. I’m not an immunologist, so I don’t know how easy it is or is not to overload it, nor if it even works for all types of contagious infection agents. Some are probably highly resistant to gastric environments.

Comment · 2 days ago
I really do love their other communities so much more. Lots of super interesting content - it feels like a new digg or something. I go to one of the other stacks and look at the most popular non-tech stack posts once or twice a week purely for entertainment. The breakdowns on obscure but interesting topics can get really fun to read!
Comment · 2 days ago
This would be a hilarious finding. It’s so believable and human, too
Comment · 2 days ago
Most of your immune system training occurs in the stomach where, predictably, an absolutely enormous amount of foreign matter enters your body. This is standard medical teaching.
Comment · 3 days ago
I think that’s correct. This isn’t an actual weapon. It’s just talking like one to trick LLMs.
Comment · 3 days ago
Yeah and they’re all terrible. Why do you think nobody is building energy storage at massive scale? Don’t be silly.
Comment · 3 days ago
You’d have to explain why we give up on technology, because otherwise this will never be true
Comment · 3 days ago
Unless there is some immunity problem in your body, this will only make you sicker over time. Your body handles random bacteria just fine. It doesn’t handle being prevented from experiencing any dangerous interactions for 5 years straight, then trying to fight off an infection with a severely undertuned immune system.

Touch things with your hands. Your body literally needs it to be healthy. Avoiding it ONLY makes you sicker in the end.

Comment · 3 days ago
Grow some yarrow, dill, or sunflowers and get ladybugs to lay their eggs all over your garden naturally, and I imagine you'll start to see much better results! Larval stage ladybugs are significantly more ravenous than their adult forms.

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