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by IX-103 1y ago
It's pretty good at Rust, but it doesn't understand locking. When I tried it. It just put a lock on everything and then didn't take care to make sure the locks were released as soon as possible. This severely limited the scal
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by IX-103 1y ago
Yep, LLMs are basically at the "really smart intern" level. Give them anything complex or that requires experience and they crash and burn. Give them a small, well-specified task with limited scope and they do reasonably well. And
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by IX-103 1y ago
If you're not using separate domains then I hope you don't have any kind of sensitive information stored in cookies. You can't rely on the path restrictions for cookies because it's easily bypassed.
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by IX-103 1y ago
Stalk one person and they get a restraining order. Stalk the entire town and it's a profitable business.
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by IX-103 1y ago
You still have the right to run whatever you want. You just have to use adb to install it, instead of letting it happen automatically. It sucks, but it's not the end of everything...
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by IX-103 1y ago
They still exist, I know a few. Most of them are busy protesting Google taking over Microsoft's contract to provide surveillance and targeting information in Gaza, but I can ask about this issue.
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by IX-103 1y ago
I'm sure that kind of functionality is coming. There's a lot of activity in the chromium repo (chrome/browser/actor/tools) that appears to be adding support for that sort of orchestration.
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by IX-103 1y ago
From what I heard it's only not on Linux yet because they've had some serious crashes due to incompatibility with Wayland. Don't worry, it'll come to Linux in time.
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by IX-103 1y ago
It's only a matter of time before AI becomes a commodity. The open source models are just a generation behind the proprietary ones and they're almost good enough for most users. Even if we're somehow limited to using propriet
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by IX-103 1y ago
Yep. It's much easier to improve your DEI metrics by doing it illegally than it is by doing it legally. I had an internship at a place like that and the first disabled woman of color to apply would have been practically guaranteed a jo
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by IX-103 1y ago
Yes, but they're also slower. As LLMs start to be used for more general purpose things, they are becoming a productivity bottle-neck. If I get a mostly right answer in a few seconds that's much better than a perfect answer in 5 mi
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by IX-103 1y ago
They're pretty close to being an omnitool. But like any tool you need to know how to use it. Asking it to do some common task is probably silly when you should be asking it to write a program to do the common task (and add the progra
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by IX-103 1y ago
There was a time when everybody did arithmetic by hand and "calculator" was a profession. There was a time when spreadsheets were made with ink and paper. There was a time when all programs were written in assembly. Now, most arit
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by IX-103 1y ago
With induction, heating faster is just a matter of getting a high enough wattage stovetop. So maybe don't compare a low-end induction stove to a gas one? Low-end gas stoves have different problems (reliability, ease of cleaning, etc).
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by IX-103 1y ago
"entire newsrooms that do nothing but systematically promote right wing ideas without revealing that fact" Have you heard of Fox News, Newsmax, or OAN?
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by IX-103 1y ago
Doesn't Rust do this? `let` is always on the stack. If you want to allocate on the heap then you need a Box. So `let foo = Box::new(MyFoo::default ())` creates a Box on the stack that points to a MyFoo on the heap. So MyFoo is a stack
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by IX-103 1y ago
Rust is far from perfect. * I think Rust gives the compiler too much freedom to choose whether or not to apply Deref (and in what order). The whole .into() and From trait allows the compiler to perform arbitrary type conversions to make the
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by IX-103 1y ago
You mean like to Software Engineering? That's a real major that's been around for a couple of decades which focuses on software development (testing, version control, design patterns) with less focus on the more theoretical parts
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by IX-103 1y ago
That's mostly true of humans though. They almost always give average answers. That works out because 1) most of the work that needs to be done is repetitive, not new so average answers are okay 2) the solution space that has been expl
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by IX-103 1y ago
> But they're not just "stochastic parrots." They can model the world and reason about it, albeit imperfectly and not like humans do. I've not seen anything from a model to persuade me they're not just stochastic
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by IX-103 1y ago
Assuming AI improves productivity then I don't see how it couldn't result in an economic boom. Labor has always been one of the most scarce resources in the economy. Now whether or not that the wealth from the improved productivit
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by IX-103 1y ago
My anecdata - the large tech company I work for has practically stopped hiring. I went from conducting interviews practically every week in the first quarter to none at all on the post 3 months. Even during the layoffs on 2022 they were sti
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by IX-103 1y ago
And also to prevent (or at least delay) the app-ification of the web, because apps are not searchable.
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by IX-103 1y ago
That's an unnecessary charicaterature. I have met many rationalists of both genders and found most of them quite pleasant. But it seems that the proportion of "arrogant dickheads" unfortunately matches that of the general pop
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by IX-103 1y ago
Is it really that surprising that a group of humans who think they have some special understanding of reality compared to others tend to separate and isolate themselves until they fall into an unguided self-reinforcing cycle? I'd have
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by IX-103 1y ago
I'm not a Node dev, but I've done some work with JavaScript on the web. Why are they using JSON to send data between v8 isolates when sendMessage allows sending whole objects (using an implementation defined binary serialization p
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by IX-103 1y ago
They have clear numbers for things, but it's not obvious how those numbers would map to what you're trying to run. If I charged compute based on the number of micro-ops executed then that would be a clear definition, but the actua
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by IX-103 1y ago
That seems like a recipe for corruption. Representatives would need to supplement their salary somehow just to afford housing. The easiest means would be to leverage their position. Even if you make it illegal, the demand will make it hap
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by IX-103 1y ago
How can both be true? 1. Israel's 18 year blockade of Gaza is an effective mechanism to prevent weapons coming into Gaza 2. Hamas has been launching rockets into Israel for 18 years
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by IX-103 1y ago
Well, that's what you'd expect from an LLM. They're not designed to give you the best solution. They're designed to give you the most likely solution. Which means that the results would be expected to be average, as

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