ahofmann

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by ahofmann 7mo ago
I have access to the ChatGPT account of my boss and it is unusable sycophancy slop, horrible to read because every information is buried under endless emojis and the like. And it is almost indistinguishable if the LLM is wrong or right, eve
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by ahofmann 7mo ago
150m page views a month is peanuts and very far away from the "social" networks numbers. I don't have those numbers, but I know how many page views we had 2011 while running a german browser game community.
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by ahofmann 7mo ago
And "Witz" means "joke" in german.
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by ahofmann 7mo ago
Small internet isn't very attractive for most bots. Also, I use websites that are invite-only. This is effectively a web of trust. This works pretty well, bots aren't a real problem there.
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by ahofmann 7mo ago
Bandwidth is only expensive in the US, somehow. Here in Germany I didn't bother about bots and their additional traffic since 1998 (there are other annoying things about bots though).
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by ahofmann 7mo ago
They are down to 2,6 seconds now, wow.
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by ahofmann 7mo ago
This blog post is in the uncanny valley of "looks and sounds nice, but a bit too nice, could be useful, could be useless AI-slop, idk".
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by ahofmann 7mo ago
I would like to encourage you to step back a little and try to get a broader view on this issue. I don't want to discuss whether there is more LLM-generated content or not. There clearly is, and there is no feasible way to get rid of i
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by ahofmann 7mo ago
This naming scheme made things very obvious. While it wasn't the most creative, it was objectively the best ;-)
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by ahofmann 7mo ago
What is GHCP?
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by ahofmann 8mo ago
Thank you for your insight and sharing of your perspective. This system leads to some interesting conclusions and observations. One is, that it explains why big brand products made a significant dive in quality. My decades old bose QC25 whe
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by ahofmann 8mo ago
Hetzner mostly ate up the rising energy prices in germany for the last 3 years and they have big problems with their hardware supply since then. It is hard to get cloud instances in nbg and fsn. So an increase in pricing is very much expect
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by ahofmann 8mo ago
I just tried the demo and I think, this is huge! If they manage to build a chip in 2 or 3 years, that can run something like Opus 4.6 or even Sonnet, at that speed, the disruption in the world of software development will be more than we sa
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by ahofmann 8mo ago
This issue is the main reason why a big percentage of jobs in the world exist. I don't have hard numbers, but my intuition is that about 30% of all jobs are mainly "understand what side a wants and communicate this to side b, so t
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by ahofmann 8mo ago
Try it, your binary will crash at some point, like any other program. If you introduce random bit flips in the trained data, you will maybe get strange responses for some type of query.
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by ahofmann 8mo ago
I don't have all the details anymore. But one of the non obvious things for me was that foreign key cascades where not in the binlogs. I also think that some changes in the database layout could lead to strange things on the replicas.
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by ahofmann 8mo ago
MySQL is the PHP of databases. It was free, easy to setup and had the spotlight at the right time. The bad decisions that are baked into MySQL are plenty and really sad (like the botched utf8 defaults, the myisam storage engine, strange stu
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by ahofmann 8mo ago
I've used bin log for almost decades and never experienced a big performance impact. This even holds for write heavy MySQL instances in ancient times where servers had spinning disks.
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by ahofmann 8mo ago
This happened to the female speaker with her voice, which I find terrifying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO0WvudbO04
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by ahofmann 8mo ago
Em dashes are used often by LLMs, because humans use them often. On mac keyboards its easily typed. I know this is oversimplifying the situation, but I don't see the usefulness of the constant witch-hunting for allegedly LLM-generated
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by ahofmann 8mo ago
Filthy pork addicts...
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by ahofmann 8mo ago
Yeah, I've read this report and learned this: don't use their services, they only list jobs, that don't pay well.
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by ahofmann 9mo ago
Yes! The very famous xz hack was only found, because a German wondered why his ssh session lagged 200 ms at the start. Everyone should go mad when their main tool lags a few hundred milliseconds. It is unacceptable that we sit on machines,
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by ahofmann 9mo ago
That was said about reddit some years ago and now reddit is clearly riddled with astroturfing and other manipulations. We don't know how big the problem on hn already is and how bad it will get. But it would be naive to think, that it
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by ahofmann 9mo ago
In my new credit card app I can set if I want to repay 3%, 5% or 100% at the end of the month. If I set it to 100%, I have to pay $2 per month. Banking is already actively hostile against the customer.
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by ahofmann 9mo ago
If Proton is too expensive, you can use zoho. I switched from Google and I'm missing nothing.
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by ahofmann 9mo ago
I tried controld and wasn't impressed. In what way is controld better than nextdns?
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by ahofmann 10mo ago
I don't know much about water. I just remembered that rivers aren't freezing at all, even in harsh winters and searched a bit on the internet. To be honest, I'm writing this comment mainly to say: what a great user handle, I
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by ahofmann 10mo ago
Moving water will get much colder than 0℃ before turning solid. -10℃ or even -25℃ are easily possible. If the water is also under pressure, it can get even colder.
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by ahofmann 10mo ago
Have you read the about page and "how it works"? https://www.myvocab.info/en/about https://www.myvocab.info/en/howitworks It looks like a reasonable idea to me and not stupid at all.

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