Ferret7446

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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
> We don’t actually have to be moving at breakneck speeds There are a lot of bankrupt companies and fallen nations that believed this. Complacency will hurt you, but only when you realize it too late.
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
No it's not stable. You also need the query/filter, and a snapshot of the state of all posts at the exact moment you want to grab the link, since posts can be created/deleted/changed. That's also assuming that you
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
This was discussed pretty widely back when this all started. Creating a new department has a ton of overhead (government inefficiency) so they wanted to sidestep the process. The common narrative is that Trump didn't get anything don
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
Unfortunately not all programs respect an empty PAGER vs an unset PAGER. It's more reliable to use PAGER=cat
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
FSF is not political in the sense that they won't forbid you to use their software or otherwise blacklist you even if you are against free software, or if you're far left or far right. They are only political in the sense that th
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
Only insofar as political neutrality is interpreted by the modern polarized political factions as a political stance. The GPL "tolerates" conflicting political opinions, which used to be closer to the norm and thus not political.
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
I wonder how much of that is due to exclusivity. If Nintendo games were available on PC I expect Switch sales to drop significantly.
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
Agreed, I find comments whining about AI slop to be far less valuable than the supposed AI slop, and I wonder if the commenters are aware of the irony, or perhaps those comments are also AI slop themselves.
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
There is actually/obviously. It lets you identify bugs in well meaning clients. e.g. you can identify if IE v1.2.3 isn't handling form submissions correctly. It lets you serve content that works for clients with known issues or
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
Downloading a compiled module is a huge negative in the age of supply chain attacks; you're begging to get compromised.
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
What you preach makes no difference. Anyone who listens to you will go extinct to the people who don't. If preaching worked there would be no more violent crime or war.
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
Money represents a social IOU. The more money you have, the more value you have provided to society and thus you hold IOUs for which society will pay you back in the future. That's why it's silly to hold a lot of cash, it means y
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
That's the point, if you're using the weaker models, you should shift to a local model (it doesn't make sense for Google to keep providing it). SaaS is best for the SOTA models.
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
By that logic no one can make choices for themselves, because people are never in the absolute theoretical optimal mental state.
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
Gabe has been hands off managing Valve for precisely this reason, so that at least management wise nothing would change when he goes. He's been scuba diving and IIRC even discovered new species and doing marine biology. Very impressiv
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
Reality is discriminatory. Discriminating between blood containing disease vs blood that doesn't is, quite literally, discriminatory.
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
Everyone except management knows that management is a distraction, including the shareholders and board when the org is getting too bloated and the numbers aren't looking good. Which is a perfect parallel to coders who don't reali
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
As a senior eng, I use "vibe coding" as a http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html Obviously I'm not just shipping whatever it spits out, but the frontier models and harnesses
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
You're making the mistake of assuming that just because LLMs make things easy, all of the value is in the LLM and not in the prompting and glue work.
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
Not really, those games are very simple code wise. A high schooler could do it (source me). You could make a bullet hell game engine as a project in an intro CS course. The hard part is the content in the game, and ZUN was already a compos
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
I assume the new wave of apps are going to be maintained by LLMs. Maybe one day the LLMs are going to complain about the quality of the code written by previous inferior LLMs?
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
Don't index on tokens. Costs for useful unit of work had gone down in my experience, and that's what actually matters. Counting tokens is like counting lines of code.
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
What is "learn to code"? Is it learning the syntax of a programming language? Is it learning CS fundamentals? Is it learning OS fundamentals? Is it learning common tools and libraries? Is it learning programming paradigms? Is
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
All of this should be abstracted by the harness, which (ideally) should figure out which model to use for which queries.
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
And yet (almost?) all of the quirks people keep bringing up about LLMs are also quirks that human cognition share. It's almost as if artificial neural nets share emergent behavior with natural neural nets. Pop quiz, what's the dif
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
If capitalistic greed is so destructive than why are you living in the most successful and highest quality of life society in history? You can find a cave somewhere to camp in if you want, or go to North Korea, etc.
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
The irony is that the more 'forever' (non reactive) the chemical, the less effect they have on the body, generally speaking. You do not want something with a short half-life in your body
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
If only for the reason that people stop bugging you about it. Making good UX is self serving.
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
The ones with "non replaceable" batteries still has a longer battery life after a battery swap, it just requires a screwdriver and a couple of brain cells.
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by Ferret7446 3mo ago
Changed tags are not allowed in Go (though you can work around it if you really want to boil yourself). All references are hashed so any attempt to alter a published package version will get blocked. Go has a decentralized append only audi

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