ZaoLahma

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by ZaoLahma 27d ago
I'm surprised YouTube allows it. I'd expect them to want "their" share of the ad money, since creators in a way are side stepping the "normal" ad flow.
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by ZaoLahma 2mo ago
Full agree. I until very recently thought AI tools of today were limited to prohibitively expensive high end hardware hosted in data centers. I was surprised and amazed to get "decent" (with the expectations set right / low)
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by ZaoLahma 3mo ago
> Luckily, it doesn't matter because it's a solution in search of a problem. Most consumers aren't using AI apart from google search. This is... a view. Maybe I live in a strange sphere of strange ("normie"-ish)
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by ZaoLahma 4mo ago
> all the way to local models for some tasks. I think this is the key takeaway for the future of AI. Give tech a few years to catch up and we will likely have the functionally equivalent to today's models running on consumer grade h
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by ZaoLahma 4mo ago
> I thought about resurrecting my old game boy advance to introduce my little boy to the tech world. Hello myopia my old friend. We will wear glasses to the end. Because my vision's slowly slipping. Played Gameboy while I should be
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by ZaoLahma 4mo ago
I (software engineer) have lived with a software engineer for 14 years. We (half jokingly, somewhat seriously) refer to non-software engineers as "real persons", or human-humans.
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by ZaoLahma 5mo ago
> There seems to be a strong bias where using AI feels like you're making a lot of progress very quickly, but compared to manual coding it often seems to be significantly slower in practice. This metric highly depends on who uses th
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by ZaoLahma 5mo ago
From the article: > And they don’t travel very far, so only nearby microphones would “hear” the tag. That makes the devices inherently private, Deng said, because other people wouldn’t detect any activity unless they were within a meter
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by ZaoLahma 5mo ago
I'm starting to notice how those who don't use AI end up having to hand tasks over to people who can get them done quicker. It is anecdotal for sure, but it's a pattern that seems to be emerging around me that expectations of
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by ZaoLahma 5mo ago
I'm firmly in the LLM fanbase. Not because I can't type code (was doing it for over 17 years, everywhere from low level hardware drivers in C to web frontend to robot development at home as a hobby - coding is fun!), but because i
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by ZaoLahma 6mo ago
I do a hybrid, where I keep lowest tier subscriptions but choose to watch content off of our media server setup at the highest available quality, without advertisement. I don't mind paying for what I consume, but God damn is the value
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by ZaoLahma 6mo ago
A notification on my phone. I don't know what produced it exactly, but it was probably connected to my google account (sigh!) somehow. It's something that happens rarely enough for me to not having developed an automatic "aw
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by ZaoLahma 7mo ago
This drives me nuts. It's been going on for years that a simple "if this, do that" deal is encoded in an overly elaborate 10 minute long YouTube video where at least 9 minutes of it is filler. You know, when you start skimmin
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by ZaoLahma 7mo ago
Exactly we don't, and what's worse is that the "content" is getting to the point where we need _content_ blockers. I recently got hit by an "article" that promised to tell me which three AAA games would be rele
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by ZaoLahma 7mo ago
Yeah. In these cases it's not like anyone is going to spin up their own instance and start competing with you. Government / handles society-critical things code should really be public unless there are _really_ good reasons for it
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by ZaoLahma 7mo ago
Some months back I would have agreed with you without any "but", but it really does help even if it only takes over "typing code". Once you do understand the problem deep enough to know exactly what to ask for without am
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by ZaoLahma 7mo ago
I've recently worked extensively with "prompt coding", and the model we're using is very good at following such instructions early on. However after deep reasoning around problems, it tends to focus more on solving the p
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by ZaoLahma 7mo ago
Full agree on this. I (deep, deep in embedded systems) have seen this too often, that code is incredibly complex and impossible to reason around because it needs to reach into some data structure multiple times from different angles to answ
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by ZaoLahma 7mo ago
I think it boils down to how companies view LLMs and their engineers. Some companies will do as you say - have (mostly clueless) engineers feed high level "wishes" to (entirely clueless) LLMs, and hope that everyone kind of gets i
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by ZaoLahma 8mo ago
This will be a fun little evolution of botnets - AI agents running (un?)supervised on machines maintained by people who have no idea that they're even there.
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by ZaoLahma 8mo ago
This reminds me of the "if you were entirely blind, how would you tell someone that you want something to drink"-gag, where some people start gesturing rather than... just talking. I bet a not insignificant portion of the populati
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by ZaoLahma 9mo ago
Spread the risk and reduce the probability of extinction. We know for a fact that earth is doomed, on top of our own continuous efforts to kill ourselves off. No not recent climate change type of doomed, but the evolution of our sun is cont
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by ZaoLahma 10mo ago
This is the correct way. Make it unnecessary to look at and into the clever code until it's absolutely necessary to look at and into the clever code. The vast majority of those who are affected by what you're doing should be askin
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by ZaoLahma 10mo ago
It's hard to motivate high quality at high cost on subscription based platforms. We all pay the same price regardless of whether the content is barely palatable or great, and we all want new content frequently. Better then to pump out
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by ZaoLahma 10mo ago
AI makes the parts of my work that I spend the least time on a whole lot quicker, but (so far / still) has negligible effects on the parts of my work that I spend the most time on. I'm still not sure if this is due to a technologi
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by ZaoLahma 10mo ago
For me the longer I work, the worse the bugs I work with become. Nowadays, after some 17 years in the business, it's pretty much always intermittently and rarely occurring race conditions of different flavors. They might result in diff
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by ZaoLahma 10mo ago
> That said, unless fixing a bug requires a significant refactor/rewrite, I can’t imagine spending more than a day on one. The longer I work as a software engineer, the rarer it is that I get to work with bugs that take only a day t
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by ZaoLahma 11mo ago
Funny that you used that symbol, as it would have been a fantastically bad choice for clarity in product naming. I'm going to assume that you're German speaking and think of it as meaning "average". In my head it would h
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by ZaoLahma 11mo ago
Nintendo almost managed to do the same to their own gaming machines with the absolutely insanely inadequate Nintendo Wii / Wii U decision making. As an engineer and a consumer / customer, I simply cannot understand why there'
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by ZaoLahma 1y ago
Company / professional context: Step 1: Raise your eyes above the computer monitor in front of you. What is the team / company already using? What will they likely be using in one year from now? Step 2: Ask yourself honestly witho

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