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5mo ago
What functional stuff is throwing you off? A whole bunch of it can be written procedurally when starting out.
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The word you're looking for is "copied". Don't fall for the great lie of intellectual "property".
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Is anyone actually surprised? The baseline empathy and emotional intelligence of people, both online and offline, has absolutely tanked--I think Covid was the epoch, but arguably going a lot farther back since then. People are just shitty
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5mo ago
I don't even trust the American people to handle the relatively simple task of not voting for septuagenarians and felons, to his claim midway through, much less running and guiding a company. I also love the claim that while it all is
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5mo ago
c'mon now it's not nice to say mean things about ed zitron like that
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5mo ago
> if the agent does something in a VM you have to figure out what happened. If you can't audit what users are doing on a Linux system you have no business pretending you can run a k8s cluster. (k8s was a ZIRP-fueled evolutionary mis
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5mo ago
Simple things: 1. When I click anywhere on a tile, have it expand out (instead of having to click just that little link). 2. It'd be cool to have a link to the source of any of this stuff. 3. Consider streamlining the font stuff to b
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5mo ago
That's...exactly what happened with the Boston Tea Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts Had France not been willing to subsidize an insurgent campaign to distract the British, it's incredibly
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5mo ago
> spherical harmonic encoded materials This in particular has been hilarious for the exact reason you mentioned. For anybody curious, here's a paper from 2008 about this technique: https://www.ppsloan.org/publicati
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A Note On Distributed Computing (1994)[pdf]
(waldo.scholars.harvard.edu)
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Have a Coherent AI Policy
(brianmeeker.me)
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Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game [video]
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It's a combination of pragmatism (not wanting to wade through slop, not wanting to shove out newbie developers) and politics (usual contemporary techie progressive stuff that's now oddly anti-technology).
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> However, there is absolutely nothing stopping an LLM from "deciding" tomorrow that a fix it built a week ago is no longer real, because not only has that fix left its context, but also the bug was not obvious. Yeah, and we&#x
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Counter-point: most developers have no idea or eagerness to actually do that debugging, so it doesn't really matter.
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That's just because they're trying to keep all the best honey for themselves, obviously.
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6mo ago
"Create me an SVG to drive MAXIMUM ENGAGEMENT for my sponsors". Missing an opportunity here, lol.
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"meatshield" has the correct connotations for that sort of work.
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I think that this is an interesting attempt at taxonomy, but it's a bit on the magical thinking end (and I say this as somebody that does a good amount of what's described as the incanter role). It's a combination of the au
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I take certain medications--nothing interesting, nothing controlled, nothing abusable. I have to deal with a whole thing just to get refills, because my PCP forces me to come in every time--and even that is now just a telehealth call that
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6mo ago
If the prose is too much for you, any number of AI services will pre-chew it and give it to you devoid of voice, character, or offense.
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Sora was just a bad product, and the pivot in Sora 2 to be some kind of weird social tool with leaderboards and whatnot was a mistake that probably seemed like a good idea to somebody who wasn't good at their job. Product management at
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Alignment Whack-a-Mole
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Neuralink appears to be working, albeit slowly--as should be expected, because the space is hard . Cybertruck shipped and is commonly seen all over my city, so "failed" seems to be incorrect. Starship...works? Again, the space is
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7mo ago
So, is your position that Jensen Huang, CEO of NVDA, is an idiot?
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Millwright: Smarter Tool Selection from Agent Experience
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Gooning and racism have been a cornerstone of humanity since we descended from the trees, for better or worse.
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If you haven't read this--and also Manna ( https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 )--you probably should.
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