LinXitoW

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by LinXitoW 8mo ago
It's more like "We were promised, over and over again, that the squirrel would be autonomous grand master level. We spent insane amounts of money, labour, and opportunity costs of human progress on this. Now, here's a very ex
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by LinXitoW 8mo ago
Model improvement is very much slowing down, if we actually use fair metrics. Most improvements in the last year or so comes down to external improvements, like better tooling, or the highly sophisticated practice of throwing way more token
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by LinXitoW 8mo ago
The main issue with improvements in the last year is that a lot of it is based not on the models strictly becoming better, but on tooling being better, and simply using a fuckton more tokens for the same task. Remember that all these compan
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by LinXitoW 8mo ago
How does 20K to replicate code available in the thousands online (toy C compilers) prove anything? It requires a bunch of caveats about things that don't work, it requires a bunch of other tools to do stuff, and an experienced develope
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by LinXitoW 8mo ago
People absolutely care, but the issue is that no single company/app is really responsible. It's the tragedy of the commons, but for users RAM. No one electron app uses all the RAM, but just a couple are enough to make a common 16G
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by LinXitoW 8mo ago
What is real banana? How much processing is allowed for it to be still real? Considering the selective breeding of banana, is banana even still real? Chemical is just a bad word choice. Artificial, or ultra processed get closer to the issue
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by LinXitoW 8mo ago
I think it's actually a great example of very very important non-pedantry. The entire crux of their argument/issue is dependent on their definition of "chemicals". I would even go so far as to say it's just the natu
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by LinXitoW 8mo ago
What the poster meant wasn't that the LLM itself is an entity with a preference, but simply that because of the training, LLMs are better at doing stuff in a standard Linux environment. If you have to teach it a new environment it eith
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by LinXitoW 9mo ago
You’re right that a lot of livestock feed is crop residues/byproducts humans don’t eat—but that doesn’t make beef “necessary” or erase the land/opportunity-cost problem. Globally, ~36% of crop calories go to animal feed and only ~
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by LinXitoW 9mo ago
Just in case you need some recommendations: Party games: Scale well with more people, easy to explain - Werewolf - Werewords - Codenames (favorite) Beginner Games: Accept a decent amount, somewhat easy to explain - Camel Up - Flip 7 - Dunge
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by LinXitoW 9mo ago
But your program HAS to have some invariants. If those are not held, simply reject all the data! What the hell is really the alternative here? Do you just pretend your process can accept any kind of data, and just never do anything with it?
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by LinXitoW 9mo ago
I don't think any serious dev has claimed 10x as a general statement. Obviously, no true scotsman and all that, so even my statement about makers of anecdotal statements is anecdotal. Even as a slight fan, I'd never claim more tha
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by LinXitoW 9mo ago
Productivity gains in programming have always been incredibly hard to prove, esp. on an individual level. We've had these discussions a million times long before AI. Every time a manager tries to reward some kind of metric for "go
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by LinXitoW 9mo ago
Even better. Job security for current seniors.
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by LinXitoW 9mo ago
But what if it isn't just a basic website? Most sites I've worked on required things like content management, or auditing stuff, a bunch database stuff, SAML single sign on etc. Most languages end up being better at some parts of
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by LinXitoW 9mo ago
I mean, they're taking away parts of cars at the moment. You gotta pay monthly to unlock features your car already has.
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by LinXitoW 9mo ago
We already had that happen. When GPT 5 was released, it was much less sycophantic. All the sad people with AI girl/boyfriends threw a giant fit because OpenAI "murdered" the "soul" of their "partner". That
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by LinXitoW 10mo ago
You mean like Epstein? We've got a bunch of truths about rich people and nothing happens. The fear of an evil government misusing something, more often than not, is a thought terminating cliche. It means we cannot regulate, or create a
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by LinXitoW 10mo ago
Again, this has nothing to do with the point at hand, which is that "in any language, a developer can choose the crash the problem if a unrecoverable state happens". That's it. Tell me about how these supposed magical groups
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by LinXitoW 10mo ago
Because Steam gives customers useful features that are good? GoG should also directly support Linux.
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by LinXitoW 10mo ago
Most people do have an issue with it, because every game that's replaced loot boxes with discrete cosmetics purchases has to then massively increase the price of them. For 20 bucks in Overwatch 1, you got (afaik) 10 loot boxes which al
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by LinXitoW 10mo ago
The fetish for "manners" has stood in the way of every single positive societal change. It's exactly what MLK meant with the white moderate favoring a negative peace over positive change: the Negro's great stumbling bloc
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by LinXitoW 10mo ago
No, it's meant for interactions inside the company, not towards random giant corporations outside of it.
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by LinXitoW 11mo ago
Now, that's all just regulations. What are regulations but laws that restrict/govern the way to do commerce? Anti-slavery is part of that, just like every other concession we've had to pry from the hands of capitalists over t
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by LinXitoW 11mo ago
But that's already true for most cases and devices. Most people using most devices let auto updates just happen. And the other option isn't that much better, because "don't do autoupdates because maybe the update server
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by LinXitoW 11mo ago
Katastrophenverursacherverlagerungserleichterung
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by LinXitoW 11mo ago
Well, no. It's the right, for example, that constantly saw the "spectre of pedophiles" everywhere, including a random pizzerias basement, but when it comes to Epstein Files and his friends, many of who are in office, they sud
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by LinXitoW 11mo ago
The proof would be the drugs on the boat. Unless they're bombing alleged drug dealers on pleasure cruises.
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by LinXitoW 11mo ago
Isn't one gigantic advantage with Postgres the ACID part? It seems to me that the hardest part of going for a MQ/distributed log like Kafka is re-working existing code to now handle the lack of ACID stuff. Things that are trivial
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by LinXitoW 11mo ago
"Tolerate" might be a better word to use for their analogy. I can hate you and all you stand for, but I can still tolerate you. Meaning, I let you be and don't try to curtail your actions according to my personal beliefs.

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