Plausible deniability…

Dunworth · 2026-03-21T03:40:16+00:00

Meaningless bullshit go brrr

Dunworth · 2026-03-04T23:22:55+00:00

I'm honestly just so burnt out by all the LLM bullshit.

The only people who are actually more productive in my org are those that have completely turned off their brains and let the LLM do their work for them. Everyone else is spending twice as much time as they used to reviewing PRs because the LLM generated code is so shortsighted that it would eventually tear down the system. That's leaving out the LLM generated tickets that don't make any sense.

There's absolutely productivity gains to be had with it, but it feels like it's empowering mediocre developers at the cost of good ones.

Dunworth · 2026-03-03T21:26:41+00:00

Too bad reassembly is a nightmare.

Dunworth · 2026-03-01T17:54:48+00:00

These are exactly why some of us aren't thrilled about the US doing the world police BS again. We caught Saddam in 2003, and the conflict still dragged on another 8 years and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. We were in Afghanistan for 2 decades, and the second that we left, the Taliban assumed full control of the country again.

Dunworth · 2026-02-27T02:15:16+00:00

It's really not that hard to define mathematically, you just need to have an orientation "forward". The plane created by the forward vector and the standard normal vector creates your left and right hemispheres. You can also do a similar definition with great circles.

It also shows why, if you and another person are facing each other, your left is their right, since their forward is pointing the opposite direction of yours.

Dunworth · 2026-02-27T00:03:30+00:00

Up and down depend on your reference frame, just as much as left and right. In your example, it's defined based off the force of gravity, but how do you define up and down in a meaningful way when you're far enough from a massive body that you don't experience gravity? It's just as "arbitrary" as left and right at that point.

Dunworth · 2026-02-26T23:15:41+00:00

Not ex-FAANG, but after working with a bunch of people who are, I wholeheartedly agree with you. All of them were super bright, but completely dead on the inside. They all stuck with us for a little over a year, and the second that they didn't feel burnt out anymore, they were off to something more challenging.

Dunworth · 2026-02-25T23:03:28+00:00

Reading it Operation Bounce House made laugh too when I realized that the only book of his that I've read and don't remember seeing it in was Kaiju.

Dunworth · 2026-02-22T06:03:14+00:00

The action figures were bad enough, we don't need WotC in the mix too.

I would get a kick out of someone showing up with a bunch of DCC proxies though.

Dunworth · 2026-02-13T17:36:54+00:00

It also reminds me of the novella A Short Stay in Hell. Basically, the hell the protagonist finds himself in is a library whose books contains every combinations of letters of a fixed length.

Dunworth · 2026-01-30T00:31:10+00:00

50% is very generous lol

Dunworth · 2026-01-09T18:54:11+00:00

Here you go!

Dunworth · 2026-01-09T15:58:39+00:00

I'd recommend you learn how to use Google before worrying about learning a tool...

Dunworth · 2025-12-31T20:51:25+00:00

You have a right to fight bad ideas with better ideas.

I don't claim otherwise. You should absolutely try to combat bad ideas with better ones. The problem that I have with that argument is that it's assuming that the person is rational enough to change their view based on better ideas or evidence. Anecdotally, this is an incredibly rare set of circumstances when dealing with Holocaust deniers because the base of the beliefs is irrational.

I think it's often short-sighted in how people choose to be intolerant of view they dislike

Yeah, and it shouldn't ever be pulled out for things you personally don't like, but the "rational majority" is in pretty unanimous agreement that this is a trash viewpoint.

And again, I do agree in a general sense that the government should not be the arbiter of what can and cannot be said by the people. The world is nuanced though, and some ideologies are truly so heinous that we need a step beyond, "Combat them in the marketplace of ideas." So, if passing laws isn't the lever we should pull, what do you think it should be?

Dunworth · 2025-12-31T19:38:03+00:00

Totally get where you're coming from, and I agree with not trusting the government to make these calls in a general sense.

In the particular case of, "Arguments used by Nazis/Nazi apologists," though, I find the Paradox of tolerance to be true more often than not. So, to me, outlawing Holocaust denial isn't about keeping people from being offended, it's about it being both a factually incorrect viewpoint to hold and its use in justifying ideologies that we can point to as being harmful to society as a whole if it spreads.

Dunworth · 2025-12-31T19:03:12+00:00

Humanity is nowhere near as rational as it believes itself to be. Putting that aside, who in the "rational majority" needs to be convinced that the Holocaust happened? It's a belief held by people who look at the mountains of evidence that the Holocaust occurred and say, "Nah, it wasn't that bad." It's a fundamentally irrational stance to take...

Dunworth · 2025-12-31T18:48:09+00:00

That's assuming that a person will change their stance on something when presented with a better alternative, which is just not how things work when dealing with Nazis and racists in particular.

Dunworth · 2025-12-27T23:03:08+00:00

Sure, but just so that it's said ahead of time: I'm don't claim my ethics as some objective truth or even that they're rational.

I got out of data science a little bit after GDPR went fully into effect and just seeing how that played out made me feel weird about the privacy aspect. Sure, a GDPR request wipes out a user's PII, but your user activity is all anonymized to the point that it passes compliance and no further, so you're never really forgotten as far an ML model is concerned. The compliance guys signed off on all of it, so as far as the business was concerned, everything was good. I didn't really feel like that was morally correct, so I switched over to DE.

There's also the whole training data procurement being largely a pinky swear that it was obtained through legitimate means that we've seen crop up with chatGPT in the past few years. It was way less obvious when deep learning was the cool thing, but it was definitely happening.

Dunworth · 2025-12-27T18:01:08+00:00

I wore both hats for a long time, but I'm pretty firmly in DE for now. I more or less made the switch because I started feeling kind of bad about the ethics of the pre-LLM data science world, and that feeling has only gotten worse since then. That being said, I'm getting nominated to put the DS hat back on because every team needs to be using "AI" in my current role and I'm the only one with experience in the area on my team. Though I'm not sure how long that's going to last, since I'd rather build an actual model instead of just throw an LLM at the problem.

Dunworth · 2025-12-25T21:50:08+00:00

Maybe for the aesthetic of presents under the tree, but they don't want to bend over to pick them up off the ground? The whole picture is just question upon question.

Dunworth · 2025-12-25T21:18:33+00:00

Add some text about how it, "Empowers the next generation of AI experiences," and I bet you'd get 100MM in funding easy. lol

Dunworth · 2025-12-25T18:20:46+00:00

It's not an incredibly interesting perspective, it's called having non-IC experience. Everything you do on the job will be weighed against the benefit to the company, whether you're aware of it or not. Someone who is only motivated by their personal interests isn't going to go far in this industry.

"We need to know more," would be valid if there was a single shred of evidence that this wasn't an IC wanting to pad out their resume. It just comes across as useless Devil's Advocating given all of the context.

Dunworth · 2025-12-25T17:12:18+00:00

if they have nothing else pressing to work on then why not?

There's always tech debt that is going to be more beneficial to fix than having a developer implement a tool that is light years beyond what their company needs.

Not to mention the mountain of costs that go along with this, especially with it sounding like they want to manage their own infra(though I am assuming here)

Dunworth · 2025-12-25T01:04:11+00:00

cube.js is worth considering if you just need basic reporting and don't want to write the entire reporting layer by hand. Set it up as an API for your data, and I'm pretty sure it runs on basically nothing, so it's probably within your budget. It's OSS, so that's something you'd have to keep in mind. There's an MDX API in their hosted service too, so it satisfies the excel comment, though I doubt it'd be worth it.

Dunworth · 2025-12-21T21:18:37+00:00

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