Octoth0rpe

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by Octoth0rpe 4mo ago
> Depends who 'we' is - I've seen plenty of non-tech people in the real world begin to use ChatGPT as a primary information source rather than the web (rightfully or not!) I don't think that's really what people
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by Octoth0rpe 4mo ago
I think the management answer to this is that you can just hire 9 offshore not-seniors for less money, and that somehow equals the experience of a single onshore senior. In that sense it's a kind of the experience equivalent of the 9 w
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by Octoth0rpe 4mo ago
> Copilot was a huge flop _Which_ copilot? Lots of big businesses are buying github copilot for their devs, I wouldn't call it a flop by any stretch.
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by Octoth0rpe 4mo ago
The one in that section that kills me is the lack of `uname`. So you build a bunch of posix-compatible stuff, note that some things will be missing and some work slightly differently. It sure would be nice if we had a standard way of tellin
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by Octoth0rpe 4mo ago
Oh man, I really hope this is sarcasm :) To explore this (hopefully parody) alt history, I don't know why the us gov wouldn't waited 70 some years for spacex to reach this point to grant that monopoly versus handing it off to the
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by Octoth0rpe 4mo ago
There are a host of issues that the dems are better on (assuming one agrees on what better means), but I don't think they're particularly better on this issue. One can point to pro-privacy outliers on both sides, but we're no
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by Octoth0rpe 4mo ago
we're probably only a year or two out from LTE/5g being an option on Apple laptops, and I can see a bunch of other manufacturers jumping in a year after that to claim parity. (Note: My estimate on this is purely based on Apple imp
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by Octoth0rpe 4mo ago
To be fair, they're ignoring reality because the big rocket comes _down_ :P
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by Octoth0rpe 4mo ago
> Imagine not wanting to own a piece of the first company to make a re-usable orbital class booster. They didn't say they didn't want to own it, they said they wanted to own it at a : "90% discount after the IPO and the ne
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by Octoth0rpe 4mo ago
> because the desktop doesn't need to exist at all. Which is a really strong argument for most people just buying chromebooks, which run linux.
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by Octoth0rpe 4mo ago
Eh, the point is interesting, but I'm not sure it's not solvable. Beyond that, I'm quite hopeful at linux breaking out in a big way in the next couple of years via chromebooks. My theory is that we'll start seeing a hock
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by Octoth0rpe 4mo ago
The rate the bots are generating content / new channels is far faster than you can click on that optin.
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by Octoth0rpe 4mo ago
> I think I've managed to avoid most of the AI generated internet. I honestly am not sure that one can know that that is true anymore. Probably the only place left that I have any confidence in is maybe the small discords I'm i
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by Octoth0rpe 4mo ago
I think the lack of motives are part of the argument: that aws management is acting with complete indifference, not out of malice; and that this indifference is leading to the people who actually make a difference being forced out.
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
> Yes you can invalidate them All I'm saying is that if you clearly can, then don't claim that you can't. Maybe claim it's inconvenient or impractical, but it's an absurd paragraph in the original article. > T
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
I have a pile of personal criticisms of jwt, but I don't think this article does a great job of arguing against JWTs. For example: > You can't [invalidate a jwt]. That's the answer. The token is valid until it expires, ful
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
I messed up, for some reason I had it in my head that there were 9 on starship, so 33 + 9 = 42.
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
> If it's just unreliability then it might be a hard problem to solve. It might, but it certainly helps having a ton of them around. Given that they used 42 of them today and 2 failed in some fashion, we'll call that a 1:21 fai
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
Adequately implementing solves one problem (the making up a story because of a grudge), but creates a whole new set of likely much worse problems: how does one maintain a democracy / civil society? It's not just the trust of &quot
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
The opposite I'd say, completely open models/weights with some level of government/civil support for ongoing training (through universities? government labs?), but the infrastructure to run models is private and entirely comm
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
> What’s an example that you believe highlights NYTimes moving rightward? The treatment of Mamdani for one, or Hochul/Cuomo. >say NYTimes “leans left” and is “left-center” respectively. That can be true and at the same time it ca
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
Where is the steady coverage? Again, I see coverage moving rightward at every major publication (including the ny times)
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
> Maybe this has to do with the leftward trend of the mainstream press. What mainstream press outlet has moved leftwards? I can't think of any, and I certainly am interested in knowing which those might be. Inversely, cbs, the ny ti
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
It really could use a good corporate sponsor and a couple of widely known success stories.
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
> If they can ship code that matches a spec, why does it matter if they’re using ai or not? The inability to write fizzbuzz strongly implies their inability to understand what they've shipped. Review is some significant portion of t
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
The difference comes down to focusing on what we think of as the core infrastructure of the internet (the first modern browser, apache), versus _access_. I think there was a pretty big jump around 1996, 1997 in dialup subscribers. To get ge
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
> there are companies that are mostly an investment vehicle and companies that have a strong motivation to make changes in the world. And there are companies that are mostly an investment vehicle whose leaders spin their self-serving de
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
which seem to be out of stock in any case, so probably not a loss for apple. https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/mac
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
That year range definitely surprised me. In my generation I suspect many of us think of winamp as being just sort of always there, but of course it wasn't. When you add it up, it really only existed for <25% of the history of the we
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by Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
That's the fun thing about greed, it is rarely satisfied :/

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