So instead of a $10M municipal contract to upgrade the sewer lines, it was easier to just get the republicans to add a specific waver and force the neighbouring town to take their sewage.

I’m pretty sure Bezos can find that in his couch, and the whole island is billionaires.

You know, this, and the using wifi to see through walls stuff to me just immediately seemed to fall into “don’t research this, it can only be used for evil”.

I don’t get why we bother studying these types of things.

These took 5 minutes to make

Honestly we should just move on to device based attestation and if parents want to protect their kids they set up child mode.

I’m not responsible for lazy parenting.

I would never admit this happened to me

I’m sure the number is higher than 2

Before the second Trump era, it would’ve been seen as a ridiculous violation of the First Amendment to have some kind of monitor making sure the media was being nice to the president.

No. No, it is ridiculous. Don’t pretend it’s fine.

I hope Matt Stone and Trey Parker create no end of shit for Paramount/CBS.

RIP America.

All I’ve got is a nubby yubikey nano

This is 100% going to be used against trans people, especially the mental illness and danger parts (remember all the cross dressing is pedophilia stuff that republicans were pushing)

I hope for the safety of all LGBTQ people in the US right now, especially the trans people. You all deserve to live unbothered, I wish it were that easy.

To be fair, I’m not sure why firebase even has a public access option. That’s a recipe for issues.

Though if it’s anything like Google Cloud Store, they hopefully make it very clear that your bucket is public.

They all got $200M last week

But anything the US feds contracted them for, like building data centres, they have to comply or they face penalties and have to pay all the costs back.

10 days ago, a week before this was announced, they awarded $200M contracts each to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI

This doesn’t doom the public versions, but they now have a pretty strong incentive to save money and make them comply with the US governments new definition of truth.

What do they do with the daddy computers? All of mine only have female ports.

The first few iterations were good, when they went mass market they let quality go.

Yeah, sadly SpaceX and Tesla are both very promising companies primarily held back by Elon Musk.

Totally disagree. Your position is way too overly simplistic and naive.

An engineer only builds a bridge as strong as it needs to be, and likewise I “vibe code” things based on how few fucks I need to give.

I’m experienced and can review the output for sanity and completion. I can test it, I can rewrite it, etc.

Stop looking at vibe coding as doing the whole thing, it’s more valuable as the glue between things, or to create scripts tools that make you more efficient.

And you can vibe code entire apps that basically just work these days. You probably don’t want to maintain those apps but thats a question of lifecycle planning.

It is so much faster to vibe code an API integration and a suite of tests than I can write. It’s faster to write a functional jq or bash script.

But it’s also much much much worse at doing data viz or writing pandas code because it’s trained on 10,000 shitty medium blogs.

You really have to know what you’re doing and what the model is doing, but it is not universally trash.

And if you don’t believe me, put $20 into the Claude API and install Claude Code and ask it to build something.

Well it is owned by Oracle now

I don’t know rust, but for example in Swift the type system can make things way more difficult.

Before they added macros if you wanted to write ORM code on a SQL database it was brutal, and if you need to go into raw buffers it’s generally easier to just write C/objc code and a bridging header. The type system can make it harder to reason about performance too because you lose some visibility in what actually gets compiled.

The Swift type system has improved, but I’ve spent a lot of time fighting with it. I just try to avoid generics and type erasure now.

I’ve had similar experiences with Java and Scala.

That’s what I mean about it being nice to drop out of setting up some type hierarchy and interfaces and just working with a raw buffers or function pointers.

I actually do like that C/C++ let you do this stuff.

Sometimes it’s nice to acknowledge that I’m writing software for a computer and it’s all just bytes. Sometimes I don’t really want to wrestle with the ivory tower of abstract type theory mixed with vague compiler errors, I just want to allocate a block of memory and apply a minimal set rules on top.

Reminds me of java

I have Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(); seared into my brain. Then there were the bean factories…

Now do Epstein!

Batch process turning unstructured free form text data into structured outputs.

As a crappy example imagine if you wanted to download metadata about your albums but they’re all labelled “Various Artists”. You can use an LLM call to read the album description and fix the track artists for the tracks, now you can properly organize your collection.

I’m using the same idea, different domain and a complex set of inputs.

It can be much more cost effective than manually spending days tagging data and writing custom importers.

You can definitely go lighter than LLMs. You can use gensim to do category matching, you can use sentence transformers and nearest neighbours (this is basically what Semantle does), but LLM performed the best on more complex document input.