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by al2o3cr 2y ago
The AI bubble in a nutshell: * VC asks LLM question it can't possibly answer accurately * LLM produces vaguely plausible-ish bullshit * VC insists the bullshit is truth because something something slowly changing blah blah blah * ????
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
Nonsense. This is like arguing that because you've seen plumbing that was installed badly with wrenches, that wrenches shouldn't exist.
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
When you buy any other car for $100k, you get something that's already easy to clean - the wrap is basically a $6k "our CEO is a narcissist" tax on every customer.
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
which can now solve Advent of Code challenges with minimal input Citation? The best writeup I found of people trying this for AoC 2023 had a mediocre success rate on the first 12 problems: https://www.themotte.org/
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
Strange to see an article about Postgres multitenancy that doesn't even mention schemas: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-schemas.html I assume the article's solution involves some different s
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
The author sounds like he's confused "being an asshole" with "being a visionary" Maybe he needs more "ruthless self-reflection"
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
I could only find a service manual for the MPC3000 (on archive.org), but the schematic in that one shows the LCD is controlled by an LC7981 display controller. This interfaces with the CPU's bus and produces very low-level clock &amp
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
What groundbreaking logic it had implemented? We consider a lot of what it introduced as "just videogames" nowadays, so it can be hard to spot. Comparing can help - consider Doom (1993) versus Wolfenstein 3D from the pre
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
Very curious how Larry thinks AI cameras would have prevented this: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/technology/oracles-chief-... Or is he only worried about the behavior of people who aren't bill
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
A typical business wants customers that call in to get a quick and efficient response, so they will potentially buy more things in the future. Your health insurer, on the other hand, already HAS your money. Their goal is to do exactly as mu
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
What these results tell me is that it is probably possible for users to modify their slicer settings to get similar performance. It took an LLM to notice that 170k lines of G-code was probably not typed in by hand? Despi
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
Sounds like this dude's had a rough time, but I feel like "14 years of job-searching" needs to be balanced against "was an alcoholic for the first half of that".
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
The closest we've got nowadays is, IMO, 18650 cells - they're manufactured by a lot of different companies, and you can (usually) put them in anything that expects that size + capacity.
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
It’s a clever, technically sophisticated solution to a hard problem, and OpenAI has had a working prototype for two years. Sure, and I've got an infinite free-energy generator in my garage. No, you can't see it or an
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
Interesting approach, but the results seem as rough as they usually are regarding cross-platform UX. For instance, check out the demo on slide 10: now you can have janky sliders that don't match the platform's version on every p
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
It's even funnier how normal people DGAF what "founder mode" is.
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
“.NET developer”? Meaningless. Copilot, Cursor, etc can get anyone conversant enough with .NET to be productive in an afternoon Until something breaks. Or needs an API after the LLM's knowledge cutoff. Or has a bug in
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
sell that data to dental insurance companies I know of at least one startup that tried this the other way - started with a networked toothbrush and created a dental insurer that tracked how much you used it. They've pivoted a
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
Fly.io has been working in a similar space (globally-distributed apps) for a while; their blog posts are a great place to start reading.
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
Leaking too much info in user-facing error messages has historically been enough of a problem to get OWASP articles about it: https://top10proactive.owasp.org/v3/en/c10-errors-exceptions Well-run sites will have s
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
100% certain that you could find an identical version of this rant complaining about how the newfangled Algol-68 is making people lose sight of the power of assembly language.
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
You could manually read and review all the code the LLM writes If you're committing code you haven't even READ, maybe you should be replaced with a small shell script...
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
That's not how significance works - so much so that it has a nickname, "peeking": https://gopractice.io/data/peeking-problem/
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
"anonymous coins" that ALSO maintain location information seems like a contradiction...
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
Shorter TFA: "What if instead of AGI we 'only' get things that haven't been delivered and may not even be possible? Wouldn't that justify all this expenditure?"
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
The best way to use an LLM to learn a new thing: * figure out what you'll use to check to see if the LLM is correct * go study THAT instead
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
`cond` still returns the same output even though its input args have changed. So `cond` is not a function anymore! It sounds like you're holding the definition of "pure function" backwards: a pure function can&
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
Re: people sharing screenshots of news sites This arguably should make Meta subject to the requirements of the Online News Act. LOL gotta get rid of that last 15% of engagement, I guess. Maybe ban even mentioning the NAMES of
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
Most eInk displays use a flexible PCB connector that's going to be quite challenging for somebody who's still learning which end of the soldering iron gets hot. A breakout board like this one will likely be helpful; it includes th
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by al2o3cr 2y ago
AI systems are designed to execute these functions with high accuracy LMAO AI’s Deterministic Approach ROFLCOPTER For example, when AI is used to automate security protocols, the exact parameters of those protoc

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