GrinningFool

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by GrinningFool 4mo ago
Jab, jab, thrust is how I think about that pattern. Or tap tap whack, if you prefer. And it shows up for for positives too: "Smooth. Effortless. A perfect fit for your needs". In any style of informal or persuasive writing this
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
There are plenty of tells. Quotes and dashes don't even have to enter into it.
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
"considered and mindful order of presentation" -- along these lines my favorite programming book is the Commodore 64 User's Guide, coupled with the reference. I was quite young and found the programming section very approacha
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
And now we see the beginning of how even local LLMs will be turned against their users -- by persuading agents to advertise to them. I don't think that's what you're intending here, but it's the next logical step. Agent
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
I miss reading things written by humans.
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
I am starting to see so much consistency in the "it's not AI, it's overhiring" commentary that it's actually starting to feel like a narrative constructed to allay concerns about AI impacts. At this point it's
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
That's a huge gap for llama.cpp server - any idea why?
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
What chances do the vast majority of those graduates have to shape what's happening? That happens at exec level at the largest companies. Everyone else gets to produce or consume what they decide on.
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
May have been better as: "I like stawberrries, and walking to the car wash to clean my car."
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
The majority of users will see the convenient answer right in front of them and stop, because their question has been answered. We've seen it again and again across industries, an an accelerating cycle: make it easy, and the users will
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
Some percentage of developers before AI were unable to code fizzbuzz. Some significantly higher percentage of them are not able to do so now. Saying there have always been bad developers doesn't change that there's a higher ratio
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
This was nothing like investigative journalism; it's just LLM spew. It could have been written in a handful of paragraphs.
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
This isn't even well-slopped slop.
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
While subscriptions can net you ad-free content, they rarely let you have it tracking-free.
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
How is making it easier to pay (cash is not as commonly carried) a mark of a low-trust society? The important part here is that the roadside stand is still unattended - it's still up to the purchaser to purchase instead of stealing.
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
> At the end of the 90th and beginning of the 00th ("dotcom bubble") it was a common saying that if as a programmer, when you are 30 or 40, you don't have a very successful company (and thus basically set for life), you ba
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
Because you don't have to coax, trick, or guide your compiler into doing the right thing.
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
When everything is generated on-demand - each exploit has to be discovered anew. No more conveniences like common libraries. This is sarcasm, but it's probably also going to get sold as a feature at some point.
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
Even at 2x the tokens (max from that tweet), that makes them 40% of resources. Which is still only 40% of the resources.
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
Is it hypocrisy or learning? A more charitable take - it wasn't too many years ago that I also decried the need for all the collaboration. But as I advanced in my career, that worldview just didn't hold up. In this case, maybe the
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
Users don't currently trust software. Look at what we've done to them - can you blame them? The consumer space is about extracting every ounce of personal data possible. The b2b space is about "maximizing customer value"
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
I'd say closer to 10-15 but... I'm not sure the point you're making. Is it okay because it's 25 years in the future?
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
Tried deepseek 4 w/ CC yesterday, and was watch my usage eke up by only 0.01 at a time while doing plenty of high-token-count tasks. I understand it's currently at a discount, but even after that expires the same-quality output wi
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
True - also when you put something in quotes I think it should be a quote.
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
Huh, kind of. That's not the actual quote. Note I haven't followed the chain further back than this: https://browsergate.eu/the-evidence-pack/ LinkedIn’s systems “may have taken action against LinkedIn
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
Sure but it's not your life, right? This is other people's misfortunes, and these reviews weren't written to convey their entertainment at an old story.
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
> I predict that costs will grow to 80% of what it would cost a human, across the board for everything AI can do. 80% of a human's price varies greatly by region. 80% of the lowest-priced effort-of- humans in this space right now wi
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
I'm struggling a bit with how the 'funniest' ranked reviews are genuine descriptions of people's miserable (and sometimes unsafe) experiences. Where's the funny? As an experitisement, I guess it gets the name out t
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
Isn't this more about disincentivizing the posting of it in the first place by increasing the chances of getting banned? Once you have to remove it, it's too late.
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by GrinningFool 5mo ago
> traumatizing contract workers for $2-3 an hour) Is there an hourly rate at which this should be acceptable?

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