Posts by itamarst@hachyderm.io
 (DIR) Post #AQXNdrCYPWaQ6bww3U by itamarst@hachyderm.io
       2022-12-12T13:58:59Z
       
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       If you're building new technologies, the automobile is a cautionary tale: 16% of annual greenhouse emissions, vast number of deaths and injuries, inhumane and unsustainable suburbs, a massive privatized tax levied on the poorest workers, millions of annual cases of asthma in children, on and on and on.What will be the side-effects of the technology you're building?
       
 (DIR) Post #ASU2OMXD5Kza5T3ndo by itamarst@hachyderm.io
       2023-02-08T22:20:37Z
       
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       OMG.1. Google has some bad summarization telling people that throwing batteries into the ocean is good.2. News articles were written about this.3. Bing's "AI" interprets these articles as advice to ... throw batteries in the ocean!🤦
       
 (DIR) Post #ATX4Qg4Z3LrQnfR7U8 by itamarst@hachyderm.io
       2023-03-11T15:52:14Z
       
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       Libertarians are the antivaxxers of economic regulation: having never lived in a world without it, they've deluded themselves into thinking stability is naturally occurring.
       
 (DIR) Post #Abf4nS08o41SBw4luK by itamarst@hachyderm.io
       2023-11-10T03:11:32Z
       
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       Thinking about it some more, the fundamental flaw with CoPilot is that the goal is to make it faster and easier to generate code.As a programmer, you don't want to generate code. You want to solve problems, and the less code involved the better. I don't want tools that will generate repetitive code, I want less repetition.https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-copilots-impact-on-developer-productivity-and-happiness/ shows the problem. "Less mental effort on repetitive tasks", sure, but you should be trying to _prevent_ the repetition, not do more of it.
       
 (DIR) Post #Abf4nV0Fe6tRV99Ozo by itamarst@hachyderm.io
       2023-11-10T03:22:55Z
       
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       Like, they do an experiment, and it's faster to write an HTTP server with JavaScript with CoPilot. Great, but why would you do that? Why not using an existing server?(To be fair, when I was writing  Go I would have been happier if I had a tool like CoPilot. But that feels like a flaw in Go; consider how Rust does the exact same kind of error handling, just vastly better.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AdQQYWcwFaFCFCITBI by itamarst@hachyderm.io
       2023-09-07T10:50:49Z
       
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       Considering buying a giant billboard in the middle of the US saying "AMIGA DIED FOR YOUR SINS" with a large rainbow checkmark, who is with me
       
 (DIR) Post #AjnwG5mNYRC8xuAyPo by itamarst@hachyderm.io
       2024-07-11T00:30:16Z
       
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       I am about to run cmake send help