RhodesianHunter

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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
I don't think you fully understand the context in which this was written, but you probably should before passing so much judgement.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
This appears to project the last few years' growth continuously into the future, whereas a great many experts seem to be suggesting that we've hit a plateau. I tend to believe the plateau theory, given how AI development has occur
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
These don't seem like the brightest bulbs.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
Implying that these people quite because they realized they weren't needed (no need for safety if AI isn't coming) rather than what seems like the common perspective being that safety initiatives always lost out over money making
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
Kinda weird to expect a for-profit company to "care" about a technology outside of it making them more money TBH.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
Or bed bugs :P
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
Is this because you're using some sort of network backed storage like EBS?
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
>LLMs is doing nothing of the sort for me. Don't use it for things you're already an expert in, it can't compare to you yet. Use it for learning new things, or for things you aren't very good at and don't want to
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
>The technology, if embraced this way, will have the effect of cutting off the the skils pipeline. That would work in the short/medium term, but in a generation when you start to see lots of retirements, you'll hit a skills dea
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
That's not the point at all.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
I read it as obviously and entirely tongue-in-cheek.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
/Not to mention the skill of being able to "check work" usually flows from deep experience of "doing work." Precisely, but you need far fewer of these people, which is why this is being so heavily pushed.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
Absolutely, which is why you have the LLM generate one method for you at a time. This still increases your productivity dramatically, and shift you into the role of editor rather than writer.
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by RhodesianHunter 2y ago
Gods if this isn't exactly how it'll turn out.
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
Exactly. Most people would rather use the best app for the niche thing they want to do rather than the shittier version from some mega-app they happen to have for some other reason.
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
The "starve the beast" propaganda has been wildly successful and is seeded deep in American culture and psyche.
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
16k wouldn't cover daycare in much of the US let alone food, clothes, etc.
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
Gotta keep the narrative rolling that you're always a victim.
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
As in you never get spam calls, or you don't consider them a problem becausee you ignore them? Because I get 2-3 a day on my Pixel and they annoy the poop out of me, even though I don't answer them.
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
The only thing the twitter files showed is that the US government sends requests to Twitter to take down illegal content and misinformation, and sends them "scoops" or other information as they would a news outlet or journalist. Y
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
This take always feels very "get off my lawn" to me. Have you tried it? My feed is woodworkers showing their techniques, physicists talking about strange discoveries, and developers talking about what you can do with ai. As with a
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
The country is run by bureaucrats, not engineers.
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
>I googled “twitter active users per year” None of the numbers you're going to see since the purchase are reliable, given that the company is now private and unlikely to release anything substantive.
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
Had to look this up, very interesting: https://www.thedailybeast.com/weve-been-accidentally-geoengi...
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
Too bad he's jumped the shark these last couple of years.
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
So you decided to add your own that contributes nothing of value whatsoever?
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
The windy side of Maui has a bunch of wind turbines.
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
Yeah, the only systems likely to see real benefits from serverless are those with infrequent and intermittent traffic.
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
That's only true for libraries with zero transitive dependencies. Otherwise you're almost guaranteed to be pulling in un-patched vulnerabilities.
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by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
The fact that everyone in these comments points at the one major incident in years is more telling than anything else.

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