NBJack

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by NBJack 2y ago
Wait until you try refactoring in Go. Java has plenty of warts, but the explicit inheritance in it and other languages makes working across large codebases much simpler when you need to restructure something. Structural typing is surprising
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by NBJack 2y ago
My hot take on context is that it's secretly an anti-pattern used only because of resistance to thread locals. While I understand the desire to avoid spooky action at a distance, the fact that I have to include it in every function sig
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by NBJack 2y ago
Previously it could be anything you wanted. These days, you need formal approval. Google has changed a bit.
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by NBJack 2y ago
I can't think of a major phone brand that hasn't had some kind of major issue over the years. The batteries of the Note 7, iPhone "antenna gate" (and the more recent lack of advertised AI debacle), etc. How would you say
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by NBJack 2y ago
I'm looking forward to it! Will try to share if it turns out well with what I have in mind.
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by NBJack 2y ago
Golden age as in, "this is as good as it gets", rather than "it will be better in the future".
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by NBJack 2y ago
Is the graph file available as raw data? This looks like fun.
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by NBJack 2y ago
> Well they certainly have the GPUs for that. Eh, not really. They are behind in this 'race' on GPU stock as well as spare power, and I question if they will be able to truly catch up before the interest wanes. https:/&#x
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by NBJack 2y ago
That's a very meta comment, but I'll have to mark it with an X. Would you like an apple for your efforts?
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by NBJack 2y ago
You should really try some of the LLMs made by companies in China. Then ask about a culturally sensitive topic the Chinese government would prefer you didn't discuss. Offline of course. Humans are still responsible for the content that
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by NBJack 2y ago
Almost every citation here is research funded by a party selling something that just happens to be AI/ML. And they all have glowing reviews of their own products. Color me skeptical. The last, and perhaps somewhat respectable study sur
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by NBJack 2y ago
It's more like duct-taping a VR headset to your head, calibrating your environment to a bunch of cardboard boxes and walls, and calling it a holodeck. It actually kinda works until you push at it too hard. It reminds me a lot of when I
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by NBJack 2y ago
Outside the US, and a handful of other countries, Android is far more dominant than iOS (75% vs 25%). [1] WhatsApp has an estimated active userbase of approximately 3 billion. [2] The number of iMessage users is estimated to be about 1 bill
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by NBJack 2y ago
> Or maybe that will also be difficult, and people will have moved on to the next thing they will fail to replace with AI. Probably quantum computing. That seems to be the next hyped up product.
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by NBJack 2y ago
I wonder if it will actually respect the robots.txt this time.
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by NBJack 2y ago
Don't worry; they'll have plenty of time to regret that. There's a reason they're sweating the data issue. As much as it sucks to say it, Google/Bing/Meta/etc. all have a shitton of proprietary human-gen
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by NBJack 2y ago
Streisand Effect in full force.
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by NBJack 2y ago
You should probably update your personal data on what kind of debt they would be taking on, and how long it takes to pay it off. https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-statistics https://research.com/ed
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by NBJack 2y ago
I think the problem is "but why?" What incentive would they have when they just need a brief answer or solution, i.e. just make code do this, get the boss their answer on that, etc.? It's going to be fun when LLM agents do al
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by NBJack 2y ago
Nonsense. We just need...about 10-15 USB-C laptop charging blocks rated at 100W each. I'm sure can find a 1:10 USB charge splitter (heck, maybe we just need to get creative with a few 1:4s) on Temu. What could possibly go wrong?
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by NBJack 2y ago
Couple this with regular threats and fear mongering about AI coming for the jobs of tech workers, and the picture gets even more somber. The tech industry wants to cheapen labor.
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by NBJack 2y ago
It violates the spirit of what you probably want, but there are some amazing free upscaling options these days. I recently found a pic from behind-the-scenes of an old favorite movie of mine. It was exactly the kind of photo I wanted, but w
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by NBJack 2y ago
I admit I don't find it practical to hold. Part of today's shapes are to make it easier to grip, hold at an angle, etc. The metal body is neat and probably super durable, but I imagine that glass won't last long if it slips.
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by NBJack 2y ago
One of those things might take your server/application/data out. The other is guaranteed.
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by NBJack 2y ago
Going to be interesting to see the MTTL (mean time to lawsuit) on this. Sounds grossly negligent. I feel kinda sorry for the lonely lawyer.
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by NBJack 2y ago
Oof. I honestly can't tell if the author is joking at times. Gave up on reading it.
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by NBJack 2y ago
Yes: https://www.cyberghostvpn.com/privacyhub/apple-privacy-viola...
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by NBJack 2y ago
As someone obsessing over small performance gains for his processor recently, there is definitely overhead to consider. Note by default you get things now like Teams, Copilot, the revised search indexing system, Skype, etc. Passmark in many
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by NBJack 2y ago
> May you always be as vivid as your hallucinations. It's got a few gems in it.
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by NBJack 2y ago
Not to my knowledge, no. If it's a virtualized server, maybe this works, but to my knowledge most companies try to maximize their hardware usage through a variety of slices/sizes based on underlying resources. I am not a datacente

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