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amildie··on Internet Story (2011) [video]
That page's source has MS Word 9 metadata embedded in it. Part of this metadata is an <author> attribute. The name of that author is the same as the director for this film on imdb.
amildie··on Deepmind’s AlphaCode conquers coding, performing as well as humans
>ChatGPT can't enter the equation then.

In a few years, ChatGPT will be conducting these interviews.

amildie··on I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
I don't think we'll see this in our lifetimes.

For that scenario to be possible, general AI needs to be developed first.

A huge (and awful) part of software engineering is figuring out what exactly the stakeholders want you to build or fix. Sometimes, they themselves don't even know.

Dealing with ambiguos jira tickets, poorly reported bugs, non-existent requirements, missing or outdated documentation; these are the "common problems" in building software. Current AI technology isn't even close to being able to sort these types of problems today, and it won't be until a monumental breakthrough in the field is achieved.

Generating art is "easy" in the sense that art can't be wrong or right, it just is.

Generating the backend of a streaming platform? I'd like to live long enough to see it.

amildie··on 25-Dec. Shout-out to everyone else at work
Thank you, and your team, for your amazing work.
amildie··on Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week
Encouraging why?

A month from now a new vaccine-escaping variant could emerge from some squirrel in Haiti that's a billion times more transmissible than Omicron and a thousand times more lethal than Delta.

The fact that this particular variant isn't an absolute catastrophe doesn't mean that a new devastating variant isn't around the corner.

amildie··on Rockstar: a language for programs that are also hair metal power ballads
Thanks, OP, I can finally become that 'Rockstar Developer' that companies are always looking for.
amildie··on Moon’s top layer has enough oxygen to sustain 8B people for 100k years
Unless they're mining straight up bitcoin there is absolutely no way that maintaining a prison facility on the moon would be profitable for the state.
amildie··on GitHub Copilot
>Whereas when you're reading code for correctness, you're just following the logic that's already there. If it works, it works. How could it possibly take longer than the whole creative process of coming up with it...?

That's exactly the problem. If you "just follow the logic" you can miss important details or edge cases that you would be forced to deal with by coding it yourself.

I wouldn't mind using something like this for mundane tasks, but I would be very careful with these tools while developing high performance code intended to run on specific hardware.

amildie··on How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?
Making the uppers look stupid is a dangerous move in the corporate world.
amildie··on Windows disk space requirements (log-log scale)
That X-axis is obnoxiously useless.
amildie··on Boeing Pilot Warned of ‘Egregious’ Issue with 737 Max in 2016
> the chief technical pilot for the plane

> "I suck at flying"

amildie··on Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle
Nice work man
amildie··on What technical recruiters want from engineering candidates
Knowing that java and javascript are two different things would be a nice, although utopic, start.
amildie··on macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password
Asking for stuff requires no talent, vision, discipline or effort whatsoever. Pretty much anyone can do it. If you don't actually deliver, you don't actually matter.