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It makes me think of many industries in the past that take natural resources on public land without paying for those resources. Mining, logging, water, etc. Or they don't pay for cleanup or land maintenance after they're gone. Their business model depends on the resources being free to them.
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No pros that aren't cynical and self-serving.
- You pay developers' salaries at a lower standard of living, while you live in a wealthy area
- Easy startup, easy shutdown because the 3rd party has invested in the capital assets
- You can blame the 3rd party for product failures
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We saw a similar pattern 25 years ago during the first dot-com tech boom. Investors were throwing money at startups with no real business plan. Eventually the investors got burned and demanded a lot more diligence and less risk. The tolerance for kooky startups vanished overnight.
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There's no way to know if that LLM has produced an accurate natural-language summary of the code, unless one already understands the code and can verify the LLM response.
So a human needs to understand the code independently of the LLM.
Someone has to work those 280k hours anyway.
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A reminder that ChatGPT regularly lies when asked to read some content. It makes up a response without reading the content. If called out, it apologizes, but continues to do it.
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To be clear, I'm not saying this is a good thing! I re-read my comment and I realize that it almost sounds like I believe that. I want to be clear I'm horrified by the current events as well.
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But anyone who is not a psychopath has developed a sense of prudence, justice, and temperance.
They know from experience and also literally every myth, story, and historical lesson that they should not take that much power.
So it's only natural that pyschopaths take all the power.
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Only in that if he had stayed, it would only lead to more deaths.
By the way, special govt employees can work for 130 days *per year* — so in theory he could come back in January.
But probably not if he continues to disparage the administration's bills.
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So to recap now ICE and vampires need to be invited in before they attack you.
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But Superman has a dog now.
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I also cringed at their pay structure change in Feb.
Get Top Tier perf reviews for 4 years consecutively, and you get 110% of pay range. Otherwise, you get 70% of pay range.
I'd bet the track resets if you take a leave, are promoted, or change roles.
Or if they change the pay structure again.
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Are you referring to Jamie Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment?
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"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD9r...
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Elizabeth Holmes was just a few years ahead of her time. If Theranos were running today, no one would care that the blood tests were bogus.
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LLM-generated docs inevitably contain hallucinations. If they're not committed, you won't know which errors the users are reading, nor will you be able to edit to correct them.
How will you respond to irate customers who complain "the docs are wrong"? They don't know which docs are official.
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LLM-generated docs can best be used as "Cunningham's Law as a service."
Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
Use the LLM, then immediately feel shame to motivate you to write proper docs.
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So you're suggesting that users run an LLM query to auto-generate a new, *different* set of docs every time any user wants to read them?
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I was also impressed by the Catkind in Doctor Who. Must be the muzzle.
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I realize I'm not focusing on the worst part of this, but I keep thinking, was this guy saying asteroid when he meant meteor?
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Another problem is that it's not just about freedom to use one's favorite tool. Other people using an LLM affects me, because I have to cope with the internet turning to slop. As a content creator, my posts and my published book have been pirated and used to train their LLM without my permission.
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One problem with LLM conversations is that many advocates are shouting at everyone that "LLMs are the future, so you must use them."
And LLM skeptics are saying, "LLMs don't work, so you must NOT use them."
Both are telling others what to do, which is the thing I don't like.
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For as long as I can remember, I've been annoyed when advocates of X tool tell me I *must* use their favorite tool. I've made an effort to avoid doing that.
I say, "I like using vim as my text editor."
I never say, "YOU must use vim as your text editor because I like it."
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The Platonic ideals only apply if your project uses object-oriented SOLID principles.
Get it? Platonic solids? Ehh... I'll let myself out.
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At an airport luggage claim, I saw the conveyor belt get stuck for 30 minutes because someone had checked their luggage in a burlap sack, and the burlap got caught in the gap where the belt met the carousel. An employee tore the bag to get it free. The owner had to buy a new bag.
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This is why I keep saying the tech industry is not about building tech anymore. Not tech that works. They don't really care about that, as long as the investment money keeps coming in, and their stock price keeps going up. If they can sustain that, then they think they have succeeded.
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My wife Jan contributes “Ford Econoline” by Nanci Griffith. It’s about leaving Utah for California.
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Ideally, AI could do for software eng what pneumatic nailguns did for home construction.
Do a well-known, repetitive task exactly the same way every time, faster and cheaper.
But you're right — it won't help with any innovation.
My fear is that employers don't know the difference.
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I saw the same trend for years with the emergence of cloud services. AWS/Google/Azure announces some new service, and everyone says, "we should use this brand new service immediately for the most business-critical function in our company!"
No one seems to think, "it's in beta—I'll wait a year."
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To be honest, I'm continually surprised that people assume after these announcements or demos that the product actually *works*.
I mean, have you tried it? In production? For more than one actual incident that would have generated an oncall alert?
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Actually I've also read "Don't Think of an Elephant" and I get the idea he recycles his ideas in each book. You may have gotten the gist by reading the book you did. I only reference Moral Politics because I think it's the book he's best known for.
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In a worldview where self-reliance is seen as the highest moral achievement, helping others becomes looked down upon. And a society that coerces any individual to help everyone else is actually immoral.
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Have you heard of George Lakoff's 1996 book Moral Politics? He makes a similar description.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_P...
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"Carolina on My Mind" is pretty close to your criteria. It's about someone who has at some time in the past left the state, and is feeling homesick about it.
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The polar opposite of "Hotel California" which describes *not* leaving?
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COLLINS: You testified that the bouncy castle in Milwaukee was fully inflated.
RFK Jr: The bouncy castle has the inflation needed.
COLLINS: They just said one child inside the bouncy castle was on the ground
RFK Jr: I can't tell you how many are on the ground
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Did you have this book?
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The authoritarian regime will shut down clinics and food banks. Anything that could increase support for their political rivals will be destroyed.
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I use folders as a way of mistake-proofing when files need to be the unique source of information. If a file exists in a given folder, it is the source. If it becomes obsolete, it is moved to an archive folder.
You can't get the same level of reliability by tagging files.
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The average was skewed by the high rate of infant and child mortality. Once a person lived past age 5, they often lived into their 60s. Life expectancy was of course higher for more affluent people as well.
The average age of death for the first 10 US presidents was 74.2.
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I still remember how to use troff, so I have a plan in case all word processors integrate LLM features.
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You can change your Office365 license to one that does not include Copilot. It also costs less. See info in the link below.
That said, I'm still writing my books in Vim. 😎
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
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Great! They could call it the Exchange, which is what the stores on military bases are called.
But Cheeto would never do something like take responsibility, when he can bully someone else into taking that responsibility (and the losses).
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In the "Google it" era, you could at least treat Google like a tertiary source to some actual information. LLM's aren't even that.
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Trivia is that producer Kevin McClory had an interest in diving. 25% of the film's runtime is underwater sequences.
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Yes. Part of the reason is that the US is a large country. There are still large areas that are sparsely populated, and it doesn't make sense for multiple utility providers to split the small market of consumers.