andybak

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by andybak 3y ago
The fact that you got Wittgenstein and Kant confused doesn't give me much faith in the depth of understanding of philosophy that led to your other opinions.
632.
by andybak 3y ago
This intuitively makes a lot of sense and helps explain the more baffling aspects of the case. I'd be happy to call Occam's Razor on this (albeit based on a very cursory reading).
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by andybak 3y ago
There's a vast spectrum of contributions. I use Copilot and most of the time it's just autocomplete with a bit more awareness of context. Like - it suggests the next 10 characters or so it's either correct or correct enough t
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by andybak 3y ago
I don't see how that is connected.
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by andybak 3y ago
I tend to regard Rails and Django as being appealing to people with a roughly similar mindset with regards to web development and htmx feels like it fits into that philosophy - at least more so than the fast bulk of the front end ecosyste
636.
by andybak 3y ago
This is a moderately persuasive argument. Although the crawler should probably ignore all the html body. But it does feel like a grey area if I accept your first pint.
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by andybak 3y ago
Ok. Bad faith discussion confirmed.
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by andybak 3y ago
We're obviously talking past each other. I'll ask one more time - do you think the *article itself* is a hit piece on Elon Musk?
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by andybak 3y ago
Rather than being rude - read what I wrote: > "Are you talking about the original article?" You said "I have Elon hit piece exhaustion" - which sounds like you're referring to the posted article rather than the s
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by andybak 3y ago
Are you talking about the original article? How is this a hit piece in any form? It doesn't even mention Musk by name.
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by andybak 3y ago
I've got a mid-range Redmii Android at the moment and it's perfectly fine. I don't remember any stuttering on this or previous phones.
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by andybak 3y ago
How did this argument work when talking about locally run LLMs?
643.
by andybak 3y ago
> However, in the short-term, we anticipate quite a few problems and challenges. For some values of "short-term" and "quite a few"
644.
by andybak 3y ago
My objection wasn't the controversy - it was the lack of substance and focus. I wouldn't even call it particularly controversial. It's the same broad, general complaining you hear an awful lot around these parts. If you'
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by andybak 3y ago
Seems a lot of words to express the underwhelming hypothesis that "Software is bad because young people are overstimulated". OK - I'm being snarky but I can't see much meat in this essay. Or much novelty. It's fairl
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by andybak 3y ago
The article does mention unions twice but only obliquely. Definitely feels like a elephant in the room situation - and kind of odd for the Guardian of all places not to highlight.
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by andybak 3y ago
I don't understand the connection you're making between SfM (Structure from Motion) and surface shading. I might be misunderstanding what you're trying to say. Could you elaborate?
648.
by andybak 3y ago
No. Mostly unrelated.
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by andybak 3y ago
Read the room... This ain't Reddit.
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by andybak 3y ago
No. They obviously didn't do that so you're just being sarcastic but not actually making any point of your own in addition to that.
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by andybak 3y ago
Advice from whom?
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by andybak 3y ago
Oh god, so far from it. I wouldn't even make it to the interview. I'm also many years past defending them in any meaningful way. But I do try and fight the gradual descent of HN into being a simulcrum of a mediocre tech subreddit.
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by andybak 3y ago
OK people. We've enjoyed the "google cancels everything" quip for a decade or so and it's totally based on truth and they totally deserve to be beaten around the head with it. But can maybe not every comment here be a
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by andybak 3y ago
True. There's a bit of a chorus of "So you want to steal people's lovely open source?" in this thread in response to anyone who has doubts that SSPL is the right way to do it. It's fine to disagree but at least ad
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by andybak 3y ago
Yes but specifically mentioning AGPL would have been extremely relevant. It's something that often feels like a thing only licence geeks widely understand.
656.
by andybak 3y ago
PostGIS was way ahead of the MySQL equivalent last time I checked. The plugin ecosystem is pretty astonishing. Foreign Data Wrappers... I'm not hands on so much any more but there were a lot of things back when I was.
657.
by andybak 3y ago
OK - that's fine then. I might disagree but I can't accuse you of inconsistency.
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by andybak 3y ago
This is about crawling for training data by the look of things. Not sure if the CHatGPT browsing mode uses a different user-agent but most of the entries in that list look like crawlers.
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by andybak 3y ago
How about AI from non-companies? Or genuinely non-profit or open projects? Also - out of curiosity - do you use any AI yourself?
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by andybak 3y ago
As someone who uses and benefits from the results of AI crawlers, I would only want to block crawls under very specific circumstances. I would back a general move to block crawlers from non-open models (whatever that means and if such a thi

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