DaiPlusPlus

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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> but I can't deny the wonderful downstream effect of their open source. ReactJS has been a very mixed-bag...
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> if your purpose is truly to learn or to teach, the process of describing that image will do wonders for retention. If you're wanting to learn then you won't have the expertise to craft a prompt that has the correct details or
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
…but the illustrative diagrams are a simulacrum; if you ask Qwen, or any image-generator, for an “accurate” poster-design featuring a representation of a model of an atom and explaining its constituent parts I expect you’ll get an imitation
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
With a GPU ban, then the PRC will accelerate domestic "AI chip" R&D and production, while still getting-away with grey-market imports for their AI/LLM R&D. Without a GPU ban, then the PRC will accelerate domestic AI&#
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> how many current persons working on Minecraft are also Modders? Probably less than you'd think: lots of people recognise they need to leave their work behind at work and not get too emotionally invested in something they love, bec
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> Why hasn't this been an industry standard for 100 years? Because the US heavy rail system is a duopoly with no incentive to innovate.
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> “When people first saw it, they said, ‘Why haven’t we been doing this for a hundred years?’” Doerr said. “That’s the kind of question I love to hear, because it means the culture of safety innovation is alive and well.” Union Pacific h
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> I don't want people to lose jobs. I don't want the advantages to accrue to a few hyperscalers. Versus: > It is now possible for dedicated, hard-working ICs in several domains to produce extremely good products in a short a
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
Yes, and it has me genuinely concerned.
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
That's already known as "rapid unscheduled disassembly" - and happens so-often in spaceflight that it's hardly anomalous at this point.
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> RedAI I suppose that could be a generic term for any AI used as an mock adversarial or sparring-partner role, like how "red team" is today. > BlueAI Would refer to an LLM/agent rained to simulate clinical depression..
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
“Anchor + Offset” is stable because the anchor param should uniquely identify a specific record from which the offset is applied; a sort-order, direction, and page-size may also be optimally specified.
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
I think they meant how you can’t get a permalink to your feed/timeline view-state[1], so other people can see exactly what you see (not just what’s in the viewport but also the surrounding/offscreen content and broader context). [
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
May I ask what you end-up doing for the rest of the day?
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
There's no conspiracy here; the UK government is not wanting to censor Wikipedia (honestly!) - what this really is is the consequence of poorly written legislation introduced at the behest of tabloid-newspaper-supported children's
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
My first clue was when he libelled the diver during the Thailand thing in 2018; it was all downhill from there. ...it was quite the sting because I bought a Tesla car only 2 weeks prior to that.
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> I just work with systems on the level of features and architecture instead of flow control statements. That's kinda at the level I enjoy though - where I get to think-through things when figuring out exhaustiveness and correctness
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
I'm not anxious about my codebase; I'm anxious about all the fun parts being sucked out of my job as though I'm being promoted from IC to management - and given the inevitability of progress I can see how my new role as an ag
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> Still baffles me how these tools became so accepted when tossing out a `curl -o example.com/script.sh | bash` would be met with (rightful) skepticism until that script was examined. I've heard it said that piping curl into yo
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> is a non-siloed experience where the entire community is exposed to the same feed Slashdot is still around
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> many who notice don't care, or are willing to overlook it if the premise is interesting enough I imagine the set of articles that are somehow both interesting-enough-to-read but not interesting-enough-to-write is smaller than you&
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> then why will it be impossible say in a year or two to vibe code something at the level of most sophisticated apps and services today? Replace "vibe coding" with "outsource to India" and it's the same situation
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
I followed the footer links to the site's author and his other work and I'll dare say my impression is that the whole thing is engagement bait to draw attention to his VC investment firm from other people who also think bollocks l
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
Less "extremely negative" - but there's at least a few "net-negative" things here: for example, the Ethereum and Web3 papers. Smart-contracts and NFTs failed to create any meaningful value or have any lasting econom
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
I agree with you - but I’m the one with an anxiety disorder here.
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> I'm probably behind on using AI and need to get more up to speed Same. My difficulty is that for the past 8 years I've been working for (tiiiiny) SaaS business where I don't have anyone I can simply ask in-person "h
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> How is the token-cost-be-damned part in the latter example? It's there, but... 1. The project owner figured out a way to minimize token usage for agent claim verification tasks. 2. Verification agents used older and much cheaper m
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> it’s that we may stop producing people who know enough to notice when AI is confidently wrong. The running-joke is that a LinkedIn-lunatic AI booster, with a Nano Banana-generated profile-pic, will immediately slide into the chat to te
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> encoding information as optical tokens Educate me: what is an "optical token" when dealing with LLMs?
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
Bobson Dugnutt all over again

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