anonyfox

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by anonyfox 3y ago
not only price but also speed and API limits. I always ask myself the following pseudo-question: "for this geneneration/classification task, do I need to be more intelligent than an average highschool student?" Almost always
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by anonyfox 3y ago
It depends solely on company/team culture. If people are churning after like 1-2 years, they never get to experience the long term pain themselves, and new hires will lobby for rewrites anyways. Since individual apps are rather small,
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by anonyfox 3y ago
> "not compromising on principles" which almost always is immature behavior, whereas adults think solution-oriented, which sometimes is called "Realpolitik" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real
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by anonyfox 3y ago
Note that its simply a matter of principle here from elon musk. The union agreements wouldn't cost him more than he already pays. I don't think that elon actually is _dumb_ but I guess this is pure ideology getting in his way, esp
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by anonyfox 3y ago
"small japanese garden" - I think its the biggest one in europe still if I remember right
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by anonyfox 3y ago
can not give you a codebase for permission reasons, but ie in nodejs land you rather easily can do: 1. write a bog standard express.js backend (might or might not use a SPA/SSR frontend) 2. make the normal (dev mode) server start with
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by anonyfox 3y ago
It's indeed very powerful and there are jobs out there. Besides being an excellent modern toolbox for lots of problems (scaling, performance, maintenance) and having the arguably best frontend-tech in the industry (LiveView), the Phoen
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by anonyfox 3y ago
Amazing addition to Elixir for even more scalability options! Love it!
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by anonyfox 3y ago
This year might be the gpt4 speedrun mode. I still prefer to do it manually since casually tackling it is a great way to learn a new language or refresh past knowledge!
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by anonyfox 3y ago
Similar story here. I started with like 12 casually with C and later C++ in multiple attempts and failed, but TP brought me the joy of programming. And later I could master all other languages (including C/C++). I will never forget how
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by anonyfox 3y ago
Seems like in the minority here, but for me this is looking like a win-win-win situation for now. 1. OpenAI just got bumped up to my top address to apply to (if I would have the skills of a scientist, I am only an engineer level), I want AG
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by anonyfox 3y ago
Not at OAI or some researcher, but I‘d be in an archetype 3: I‘d do anything I can to make true AGI a reality, without safety concerns or wanting to profit from it.
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by anonyfox 3y ago
Every country has these problems currently. But people’s money is tacked away in the pockets of the riches and shareholders, something that can and should be solved in different ways than burning dinosaurs. We can not destroy our environmen
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by anonyfox 3y ago
This is good news. And while there are problems with achieving 100% renewables year round, from energy storage to geographic country conditions, the world would be much better off when the fossils only are used on these days where there i
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by anonyfox 3y ago
> is achingly small don't agree. the amount of written words we feed in, yes. but a tottler is a multimodal system including not only audio/images but actually video, plus other senses like touch or smell. This complex input 24
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by anonyfox 3y ago
We don't need more research or missing some key technology. Its only a motivation problem at this point. Even battery tech is _way_ more advanced than the current lithium that is cheaply available - only the demand isn't there bec
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by anonyfox 3y ago
using cursor as my editor, its close as of today, I mostly steer the AI into directions rather than typing on my own majority of time now. Especially complex refactorings or debugging/error hunting works surprisingly well when the full
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by anonyfox 3y ago
Slightly related: is Bluesky moderated good enough or do I get lots of rightwing and conspiracy crap like on twitter currently? I‘d really love to have some more civilized hub again that isn’t full of hate and anti-intellectualism.
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by anonyfox 3y ago
Pretty much this. Also not only for ChatGPT, but there will be a timespan between majority of people are automated out of jobs and a a forceful redistribution of wealth happens (let’s call it socialism). It’s always a good idea to have that
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by anonyfox 3y ago
While in general you are right, I'd strongly say "it depends". The raw BEAM ecosystem (things that come ootb) is huge in itself, many things that would require additional machinery/libs/infra/... in other tech
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by anonyfox 3y ago
Its worst of both worlds tbh. You have the usual private corp management structure and siphoning of profits (not to the state shareholder, but to everythign else from consulting firms to "favorite" contractors) instead of longer t
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by anonyfox 3y ago
You cannot overstate this point. It’s front and center of rightwing populism that „these people“ are mostly criminals, which is wrong of course.
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by anonyfox 3y ago
What is „courage“ in indoctrinating people? It’s actually dumb. Diversity of thoughts and values is where societal progress comes from, when outdated stuff gets questioned. The important part is preventing one culture to overwhelm everythin
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by anonyfox 3y ago
There are lots of tradeoffs with the current decentral/federated system for sure. But one key point is that it’s incredibly hard for an extremist or fascist party to take over the whole country and run it into the ground quickly(again!
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by anonyfox 3y ago
The problem is that it’s a real thread right now. Again rightwingers may ruin the show for everyone.
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by anonyfox 3y ago
agree on the stupid decision. but more important: the way forward. - building up new nuclear reactors takes _many_ years and is still quite expensive, so its not a short-term solution. long term due to climate change the cooling might be a
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by anonyfox 3y ago
All engineers in my company are immigrants, and the official work language is english. Located in Hamburg, serving nearly exclusively German customers.
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by anonyfox 3y ago
Privatization of deutsche Bahn comes to mind, and Deutschlandticket is actively being sabotaged by the neoliberals, so it might no longer exist next year for „fiscal reasons“ - even though it costs less than some miles of just another autob
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by anonyfox 3y ago
Germany has its problems, but the critical issues are mostly down to 3 things: - energy policies of the past decades was a desaster, mostly ruined by the conservatives. Germany was at some point a pioneer of solar tech, but it got crushed b
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by anonyfox 3y ago
Or, you could use Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView, and have a javascript-free interactive fullstack framework that can do everything rails can do, except it is faster, scales _much_ better and maintenance is easier. For now Rails has more

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