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by antonvs 6d ago
That’s not a reasonable position to hold, unless and until Flock does much, much more when it comes to safeguards against abuse. I can understand being pro-surveillance, but Flock is a case study in how not to implement surveillance systems
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by antonvs 6d ago
> Types are properties of values, not variables. In computer science, specifically programming language theory, types are properties of terms (syntactic expressions). It wouldn’t be possible in general to typecheck a program before runni
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by antonvs 6d ago
Getting access to the weights for an OpenAI or Anthropic model could be payment enough.
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by antonvs 6d ago
I had an account banned simply for pointing out that there was a spare seat in that orbiting sports car, and implying that Musk would be a good choice of passenger. It made me wonder how unlikely or impossible an event has to be before it w
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by antonvs 6d ago
It might be regional? I haven't noticed it in the northeastern US, or in the multinational company I work at, where I talk regularly with people from at least 10 countries.
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by antonvs 6d ago
The point is that in saying "I bought a car", you're not attempting to specify which specific car you bought. The fact that you obviously did buy a specific car isn't relevant to the grammar of this. If the audience alre
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by antonvs 7d ago
AI doesn’t kill people, people kill people.
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by antonvs 7d ago
The 260 character limit is just a Windows problem. See my other comment in this subthread for a summary of the eldritch horror in question. The tl;dr is that backwards compatibility is a helluva drug.
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by antonvs 7d ago
It’s a Windows problem. There’s still, to this day, a 259-character limit on path length in the Win32 API unless the OS has been configured to support long paths and the application uses the correct subset of Windows APIs. For example i
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by antonvs 8d ago
> Mining probably also plays a decent role. In the Johannesburg area in South Africa, gold mining has produced up to half of all gold ever extracted in the world, with mines reaching depths of 4000m. This has resulted in frequent seismic
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by antonvs 8d ago
“Pro-social” is a strange way to describe something that’s actively contributing to the death of our civilization.
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by antonvs 8d ago
> Also if I'm the guy receiving a security report and it's AI generated and poorly formatted, I'm failing you short of producing something for a human to parse. Simple as that. It’s clear that you’ve never worked for a com
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by antonvs 8d ago
The term “hallucination” is a projection of inappropriate expectations onto a program. We know that LLMs are not “truth machines,” but we really want them to be. So when they produce a result that happens not to match external reality - whi
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by antonvs 8d ago
It's gotten to the point where I assume "product manager" is a synonym for "incompetent person who breaks working products."
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by antonvs 8d ago
Yes, I think it can be a sign of a very deep difference. When they say "spend time learning AI," they mean work through some teaching materials to learn how to replicate what others are doing. This often doesn't result in a d
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by antonvs 8d ago
It’s hard to find good new literature - it may be out there, but it’s hard to find. But there’s lifetimes worth of good older literature, that’s much easier to find, that you haven’t read yet.
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by antonvs 8d ago
I used an LLM a year or more ago to generate a description of our SDLC for a compliance certification. Perfect application of LLMs IMO. Do you want to die on that hill as well? A lot of documentation generated in corporations has marginal r
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by antonvs 8d ago
That comparison isn’t automatically valid, because the criteria for what makes acceptable code are very different than for natural language prose. It’s perfectly possible to consider e.g. working, LLM generated, human approved code acceptab
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by antonvs 8d ago
Yup. Somewhat amazingly, John Stuart Mill addressed this as long ago as 1869 - a full hundred years before The Personal Is Political , in his essay The Subjection of Women : > “But was there ever any domination which did not appear nat
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by antonvs 8d ago
I take it you’ve never used a modern agent.
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by antonvs 8d ago
> they just share or open(-source) their knowledge with an absolute no cost. You need to consider how they were able to do that. For many people, it’s because they had highly paid, secure jobs that essentially funded their open source ac
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by antonvs 8d ago
The 1980s called, it wants its stereotypes back.
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by antonvs 8d ago
Why not 68000
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by antonvs 8d ago
Modern agent harnesses rely heavily on tools, as well as writing code, to avoid hallucinations affecting deterministic values.
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by antonvs 8d ago
That’s nothing, I have three AZs in my laptop.
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by antonvs 8d ago
There’s a provider that’s more expensive than Anthropic?
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by antonvs 8d ago
You think you can cover up your misunderstanding of how data durability numbers work with zealotry?
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by antonvs 8d ago
Individuals aren’t the ones buying Flock cameras.
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by antonvs 8d ago
It’s telling that you think treating people with respect and dignity is “socialist”. In a sane society it should be easy to argue against that claim, but looking around in the US at least, it turns out you’re correct: that doesn’t seem to b
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by antonvs 9d ago
> the idea of we are going around experiencing things and our life is a product of these experiences we consume and interpersonal politics - that's very california "the personal is the political" That's a very superf

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