BeetleB

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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> and put the US under time currently observed between March and November - known as permanent standard time. Was that a typo?
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Studies also show that permanent standard time is better than permanent daylight time. But for some reason, the US wants to go against the rest of the world on this.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> Basically, if Raymond Chen writes a blog post detailing how Windows 95 recognized software installers to ward off unwanted modifications to files [1], I'll 100% trust what he writes to be true. OK, now what if tomorrow Raymond Che
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Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans(arstechnica.com)
10 points by BeetleB 3mo ago|5 comments
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
"“Meta did not assemble the termination list through the considered judgment of managers who knew the work. Instead, Meta used a constellation of internal artificial-intelligence systems—including a system referred to internally as ‘Me
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
With Microsoft, you can control it - they have to let you control - at least for enterprise use. I assume Apple give you control as well. Sane people like me use Linux, though. > Best make those offline bsckups. I have that too! A separa
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
This is why I always ensure I have a big enough HD. I've used my current cloud backup for almost 15 years, and am really happy with it. But I never rely on them exclusively. If they go out of business tomorrow, I still have all the d
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
My Sonicare worked for almost 15 years. I don't worry about the reliable brands dying on me.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> As someone who had early PUTs against the obvious industries (travel, hospitality) - what I didn't foresee was the insane amounts of government liquidity poured into the markets. They did it in 2008 as well. Although the amount in
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Not true. This is a common LLM hallucination. See https://www.britannica.com/story/do-toilets-in-different-hem...
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
My point is that whether there will be a crash or not is incredibly hard to predict. COVID did not come with a stock market crash, but it affected employment much more than a possible AI crash will. > The AI crash is about stock market i
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Honest question: Do you expect the AI crash to have a bigger impact on the economy than a global pandemic that shut everything down did?
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
I dunno. Claude recently burned a lot of tokens trying to test an expensive task for idempotency. While the task I was working on should incidentally be idempotent, it wasn't that critical. I never asked, or even suggested, idempot
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> The entire point was that replacing AI with Human makes the statement true That point is under contention.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> AI text is just a quick heuristic for garbage. Thank you for being honest, and saying that the problem is not with the other party, but with your lack of resources/time to read and judge. And, BTW, just replace "AI" in y
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> But there's a creative element that gets missed with LLM output. You mean there's a human creative element that is lost. LLMs are creative just as humans are. I had an LLM write something fairly creative, and people on HN l
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Do you not have to second guess/verify stuff humans write...? Of all the reasons to dislike AI writing, this is an odd one. > Using AI for anything (including to "polish" grammar and spelling) is mentally taxing for everyo
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Yes, but not a particularly good story.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
jj undo You can't get simpler than that.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
I loved Mercurial, but once I learned jj, I never looked back.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> If you expect everything to be as easy as pie without needing to make a little effort to read a bit of documentation Classic strawman.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Thunderbird has as many as 10 users?! (I jest!)
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Catchy phrase, but having lived in places outside the US, it isn't really true.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
How many of the Whisper competitors will work at a reasonable speed using only CPU (on Linux, not Apple)? (Genuine question - I'm a happy Whisper user but am always looking for improvements).
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Sure, and 99% of engineering jobs aren't like Boeing's.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> Once you acclimate to the narrator it doesn't matter whether it's fiction or not, there's no timing like there is in movies. Depending on the novel, there definitely can be timing in the movies. Furthermore, there's
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Audiobooks for me as well. I read voraciously when I was young, but never seemed to be able to when much older. Simply listening to an audiobook while driving to work let me "read" a lot more than I thought it would. At the time
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> I'm all for informed consent - publish the data - but leave the choice to the individual. The choice is not being taken away - the Federal government is merely telling the universities to find some other way to fund those programs
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> I've known many engineers who practiced math avoidance. None of them were worth much as engineers. I have an engineering degree and did "real" engineering (electronics/semiconductors) before switching to SW. Almost
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> Making art and humanities programs demonstrate some kind of pecuniary benefit is disgusting and myopic. My wife pursued English because she loves writing. She's earned about 0 dollars from that degree because she's home with

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