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by Spivak 11mo ago
That's an excellent observation, you've hit at the core contradiction between OpenAI's messaging about ChatGPT tuning and the changes they actually put into practice. While users online have consistently complained about Chat
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by Spivak 11mo ago
I had the misfortune of acquiring a temporary disability while I was overseas and it kind of opened my eyes to how shitty the west treats the disabled. While I was in eastern airports the staff were tripping over themselves to accommodate m
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by Spivak 11mo ago
I feel like people forget just how fast a single machine can be. If your database is SQLite the app will be able to burn down requests faster than you ever thought possible. You can handle much more than 23 req/day.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Once you open the door to 3 it's a lot harder to stop the slide into 4. Devs love greenfield codebases and once that's an acceptable way to solve a problem they'll reach for it more and more. Especially if your setup has low
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by Spivak 11mo ago
I see it as the same issue as doctor's notes. They're extremely useful but it's a waste of time to actually make the doctor do them. At some places it's a person's whole job to follow around a doctor and do all the
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by Spivak 11mo ago
> It wouldn't be acceptable in a well managed company so I don't understand why side projects would get a pass to become sloppy. I can assure you that it's very acceptable at companies of all sizes and ironically it's
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Yeah this project is great, it's exactly the kind of tedious work that should be automated by AI. Some weirdos are going to mythologize commit messages and MR descriptions like they aren't our industry's version of pointless
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by Spivak 11mo ago
This doesn't really disagree with the parent's thesis. You're just giving the long explanation for each event. Any significant technological advancement necessarily uses some shared public resource which will drive people to
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by Spivak 11mo ago
This is because your home country has jurisdiction over you and is more than free to write laws punishing you for whatever they want. This is country B considering something a citizen of country A did while in country A to be a crime. And n
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Well if you have absolutely no stake then you're just playing with other people's money. If your entire stake is tied to the stock price then that's also bad for the known reasons. In a somewhat better governance model I woul
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by Spivak 1y ago
The AI version of that Kent Beck mantra is probably "Make the change tedious but trivial (warning: this may be hard). Then make the AI do the tedious and trivial change." AI's advantage is that it has infinite stamina, so if
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by Spivak 1y ago
Because a banner is ignorable. A block will actually spur action.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Yep, change nothing in the code in the article but spin up an Ollama server and use the OpenAI API https://docs.ollama.com/api/openai-compatibility .
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For certain use-cases, but it's not like any of the other usual notions of text length are any better for what you want.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Yeah the author is broadly talking about the difference between IaaS vs PaaS where in the latter the vendor is also your DevOps team. The cost being a more opinionated setup you have less control over. A trade worth making oftentimes but it
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by Spivak 1y ago
I really don't get the doom and gloom on this, NYC now has a mayor that might inadvertently fuck over the city trying to do right by working class folks instead of a mayor who does it as a matter of course. Forget policy disagreements,
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by Spivak 1y ago
But they're a private company and they're allowed to make you drink a verification can if it's in their ToS.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Oh no they'll find out my company is i.manage.microsoft.com/DeviceGatewayProxy/ioshandler.ashx?Platform=MacMDM
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by Spivak 1y ago
It would be emotionally satisfying for the AI bubble to burst, bringing the rest of the industry down with it, and having a good chance of costing them their job? It doesn't come off as schadenfreude to me as much as it does the emotio
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean it's not really a paradox. Stallman's vision of open source is one where software serves its users' interests and no one else. This came at a time where people were buying bits-in-a-box to install on their computers or
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by Spivak 1y ago
This prayer bothers me because it punts the "hard part" to the Lord when it doesn't need to. The exact same sentiment which has been rediscovered over and over for at least 2000 years and is far more actionable is, "you
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by Spivak 1y ago
Check the list of supported architectures https://wiki.debian.org/SupportedArchitectures , it's pretty short. Official support extends to exactly 5 architectures. So Debian was never going to be your go to for anything
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by Spivak 1y ago
I think it's because people, somewhat rightfully, consider the descent into a fascist regime to be a force of nature—a bug in humanity v1.0 that history has proven we have basically no internal defenses for. And the last election might
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by Spivak 1y ago
This was the argument when the ACA (specifically the medicare changes) went before The Supreme Court! End running around the constitution via the tax and spend power by taxing money out of states and then giving it back with strings. And it
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At least from their docs it seems like you can do exactly this.
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How are all of you spelling WezTerm wrong.
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It's funny when people use lobster as an example because it used to be literal bottom tier food served to prisoners. So I hope we can do at least as good as the lobster truck.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Good tasting (for their culture), fresh, nutritious, and calorically dense food available from somewhere at least as convenient as a grocery store. As well as some extra money to afford a few prepared meals and a few 'luxury' food
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Right, it's a reimplementation, a really good one, but it doesn't change how Python packaging and dev environments work mechanically. The PEP that would have actually changed Python packaging to be more like NPM ( https:/&#x2
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by Spivak 1y ago
Well you shouldn't cite Wikipedia in your paper for the same reason you shouldn't cite LLMs, they're tertiary sources. You shouldn't cite a paper book encyclopedia either. It has nothing to do with digital literacy so I&

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