xthexder

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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 13 points 1 week ago

the Weaponization of 'Administrative Error'

This describes my experience with sooo many customer support systems. Administrative errors are a feature, not a bug.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 10 points 1 week ago

$100B would put you at #19 richest person. If taken from Elon, he wouldn't even lose a spot...

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The hard problems are the only reason I like programming. If 90% of my job was repetitive boilerplate, I'd probably be looking elsewhere.

I really dislike how LLMs are flooding the internet with a seemingly infinite amount of half-broken TODO-app style programs with no care at all for improving things or doing something actually unique.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

I can't wait for hamster wheel version 12! So much more range than v1

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

somebody in the room will ask what the flight ceiling is

Sir, this is a Wendy's

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The real flaw in the diagram is that all the intermediate steps of Agile are usable products. All 5 of those are completed, sellable products. Agile pivots way before any of these become usable.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 51 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The implication and "punchline" here is that millennials only have $300/year of free spending money. It's self-deprecating/morbid humor.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm not sure how you arrived at lime the mineral being a more likely question than lime the fruit. I'd expect someone asking about kidney stones would also be asking about foods that are commonly consumed.

This kind of just goes to show there's multiple ways something can be interpreted. Maybe a smart human would ask for clarification, but for sure AIs today will just happily spit out the first answer that comes up. LLMs are extremely "good" at making up answers to leading questions, even if it's completely false.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

The tension of the strings would actually be a pretty miniscule amount of energy too, since there's very little stretch to a piano wire, the force might be high, but the potential energy/work done to tension the wire is low (done by hand with a wrench).

Compared to burning a piece of wood, which would release orders of magnitude more energy.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Usually signalling for help isn't something you leave to day 2... I think they might just be taking a vacation.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 4 weeks ago

There are a couple situations where it's annoying and I turn it off. My truck has the "steer back into lane" style assist, but it's tried to push me off the road before while I was towing a trailer on some narrow 1-lane roads. Some of the corners it's just not possible to get around without touching the center line.

The vast majority of the time it stays on though and is quite helpful.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If anything I think they would have to use a green light that turns on when accelerating/not braking. It would be way more dangerous in the future when people are trained with "No green = braking" but older cars don't have the light at all.
It's important to consider how a transition like this would even work. I personally think this is a little too drastic of a change, and is incompatible with existing vehicles and habits.

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