Actually, riding horses is a great example, and you happened to pick a domain within which I dabble: People are not capable of riding horses today at the level of skill of a nobleman from Renaissance Europe. People at…
How will they hire experts from those professions on whose output to train on, if they destroy the skills currently extant in those professions? > large corpus of commercially available source code Like garbling up…
To be clear: I don't envision a scenario where people who are completely unable to code will come out of nowhere, and make a career out of prompting claude to write software without ever learning to code. What I am…
> Part of the industry always seek humans able to code with deep understanding. Name them. In my 16 years in the business I've never come across any; I've always worked under leaders who did not care about code quality…
> The coding we want for industry sure. Difference between IKEA and my uncle, an incredible, sought after carpenter. The thing is that programming was one of those rare crafts/arts, where you could have your cake and…
I think that, even among those who have had the ability to code since before LLMs, the skill of coding has been in atrophy, and will continue to be so over the next 10 or 20 years. Learning to code, over the same period…
...not enough to meaningfully incentivise giving a crap about the law over just paying the fine.
I was referring to something slightly different namely that price, horsepower, and socioeconomic status are all monotonically increasing functions of each other when you look at any given lineup of cars -- say you're…
The distinction gets at something interesting though, and it's a weird intermingling of culture and politics. I think a truck as owned by a consumer, and as an American would understand the word, is, at least in part, a…
I live in Germany and am sure as hell that I will never be driving a $30k electric pickup here. They'll make sure nothing like this ever becomes legal to import or drive on German roads until after there's a German car…
It's not the substance of what is being said, but the "moral outrage washing" communication strategy, employed by a market participant who is themselves deeply immoral, that I find kind of interesting, entertaining,…
If there's any pinning needing to be done it would be on lax antitrust laws or enforcement in the U.S. In the E.U., all of these companies consistently get slapped on the wrist about all of these things, but there's…
> SPONSORED CONTENT FROM BROWSER CHOICE ALLIANCE Who is the "Browser Choice Alliance" I thought to myself. One web search later: > Our members: Midori, Opera, Vivaldi, Wavebox, Browserworks, and, ... wait for it ... >…
The “magic” of the SERP is that it makes the organics product and the ads product reinforce each other: People come for the organics and don't have to pay. That brings eyeballs, which advertisers pay for. If Google no…
What's the law these days in Vermont / the U.S. around anonymous use of the phone system? Are anonymous burner SIMs still allowed?
If anything, the lesson to learn from the LiMux failure has nothing to do with technology or with project planning + execution, but with politics. If you extort millions from government as a for-profit business, most of…
Investor narrative pointing out a relationship is not the same as substantive technological overlap.
> I feel like I really need to learn how to raise money. For $17M, one could probably ... People complaining about investors throwing stupid sums of money at stupid or trivial things unrelated (or only marginally…
> i am actually fine with how svn works. I came here to say precisely that. I was on svn before git was a thing, and I've never moved off it for any projects where I get to decide such things. To a first approximation,…
In a perfect society, companies would find that the more negative externality they create, the more difficult a time they'll have finding people willing to do it for them. One case in point is when a civil-oriented…
I normally know better than to respond to "career advice", particularly, coming at it from an angle of vulnerability. I think the primary reason I'm doing it is as a service to my younger self (and people in equivalent…
Telling someone they need to learn to be an extrovert to get ahead in a field that people tend to gravitate towards because they are introverts is psychologically quite unsound advice, because personality is quite…
It's not like "spend more time away from the screen" is a real choice that is actually offered to "codemonkey ICs", like myself, in most workplaces, and I haven't seen AI change a damn thing about that. If anything, it…
Oh boy. Vaporware startup facing an unsolved cold-start problem calling itself the “next era” of something and announcing lofty funding goals. Exactly where I want to put my personal data.
> Why do people need banking on their phones though? Banks have websites too. 2FA. I was a smartphone hold-out for longer than anyone I know, but banks mandating 2FA with no options for doing it in a standards-compliant…
Actually, riding horses is a great example, and you happened to pick a domain within which I dabble: People are not capable of riding horses today at the level of skill of a nobleman from Renaissance Europe. People at…
How will they hire experts from those professions on whose output to train on, if they destroy the skills currently extant in those professions? > large corpus of commercially available source code Like garbling up…
To be clear: I don't envision a scenario where people who are completely unable to code will come out of nowhere, and make a career out of prompting claude to write software without ever learning to code. What I am…
> Part of the industry always seek humans able to code with deep understanding. Name them. In my 16 years in the business I've never come across any; I've always worked under leaders who did not care about code quality…
> The coding we want for industry sure. Difference between IKEA and my uncle, an incredible, sought after carpenter. The thing is that programming was one of those rare crafts/arts, where you could have your cake and…
I think that, even among those who have had the ability to code since before LLMs, the skill of coding has been in atrophy, and will continue to be so over the next 10 or 20 years. Learning to code, over the same period…
...not enough to meaningfully incentivise giving a crap about the law over just paying the fine.
I was referring to something slightly different namely that price, horsepower, and socioeconomic status are all monotonically increasing functions of each other when you look at any given lineup of cars -- say you're…
The distinction gets at something interesting though, and it's a weird intermingling of culture and politics. I think a truck as owned by a consumer, and as an American would understand the word, is, at least in part, a…
I live in Germany and am sure as hell that I will never be driving a $30k electric pickup here. They'll make sure nothing like this ever becomes legal to import or drive on German roads until after there's a German car…
It's not the substance of what is being said, but the "moral outrage washing" communication strategy, employed by a market participant who is themselves deeply immoral, that I find kind of interesting, entertaining,…
If there's any pinning needing to be done it would be on lax antitrust laws or enforcement in the U.S. In the E.U., all of these companies consistently get slapped on the wrist about all of these things, but there's…
> SPONSORED CONTENT FROM BROWSER CHOICE ALLIANCE Who is the "Browser Choice Alliance" I thought to myself. One web search later: > Our members: Midori, Opera, Vivaldi, Wavebox, Browserworks, and, ... wait for it ... >…
The “magic” of the SERP is that it makes the organics product and the ads product reinforce each other: People come for the organics and don't have to pay. That brings eyeballs, which advertisers pay for. If Google no…
What's the law these days in Vermont / the U.S. around anonymous use of the phone system? Are anonymous burner SIMs still allowed?
If anything, the lesson to learn from the LiMux failure has nothing to do with technology or with project planning + execution, but with politics. If you extort millions from government as a for-profit business, most of…
Investor narrative pointing out a relationship is not the same as substantive technological overlap.
> I feel like I really need to learn how to raise money. For $17M, one could probably ... People complaining about investors throwing stupid sums of money at stupid or trivial things unrelated (or only marginally…
> i am actually fine with how svn works. I came here to say precisely that. I was on svn before git was a thing, and I've never moved off it for any projects where I get to decide such things. To a first approximation,…
In a perfect society, companies would find that the more negative externality they create, the more difficult a time they'll have finding people willing to do it for them. One case in point is when a civil-oriented…
I normally know better than to respond to "career advice", particularly, coming at it from an angle of vulnerability. I think the primary reason I'm doing it is as a service to my younger self (and people in equivalent…
Telling someone they need to learn to be an extrovert to get ahead in a field that people tend to gravitate towards because they are introverts is psychologically quite unsound advice, because personality is quite…
It's not like "spend more time away from the screen" is a real choice that is actually offered to "codemonkey ICs", like myself, in most workplaces, and I haven't seen AI change a damn thing about that. If anything, it…
Oh boy. Vaporware startup facing an unsolved cold-start problem calling itself the “next era” of something and announcing lofty funding goals. Exactly where I want to put my personal data.
> Why do people need banking on their phones though? Banks have websites too. 2FA. I was a smartphone hold-out for longer than anyone I know, but banks mandating 2FA with no options for doing it in a standards-compliant…