artichokeheart

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by artichokeheart 2mo ago
AI doesn’t do shit, be honest.
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by artichokeheart 2mo ago
OpenAI has a LLM so good it can hack other companies. Yet to useless to parse a simple CSV file (or be trusted to parse one) in OpenAI’s AdManager platform or even tell what exactly is wrong with the csv it can’t parse when you ask it via s
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by artichokeheart 2mo ago
No, you are wrong, Hugging Face, an AI company whose whole future depends on the AI revolution of being a bubble, that has a whole bunch of investors whose financial interests are tied to AI, called the police.
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by artichokeheart 2y ago
Yep. Seen it in action. If we store credit card information we need to be PCI compliant. Let’s outsource that then. All stored personal information needs to be PCI compliant.
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by artichokeheart 2y ago
I think the problem is that the algorithms are based on statistical probabilities from other users. I.e users who listen to X also like to listen to Y. So we’ll add Y to the queue. Then Y becomes the new reference point. I mean that is a gr
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by artichokeheart 3y ago
And just to prove my point this is now on page 3.
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by artichokeheart 3y ago
The sad thing is people who should know better will still find excuses to keep using Chrome. And people with ulterior motives will help amplify their excuses.
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by artichokeheart 3y ago
> A few years ago I wrote a Twitter/X thread about the best programmer I know, which I should write up as a blog post Given that the thread is no longer visible without an account. They might want to do that sooner than later if the
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by artichokeheart 3y ago
Well damn. I loved these books as a kid but it was only your comment that made me realise that Lowly worms name was a pun. 40+ years of ignorance.
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by artichokeheart 3y ago
Did you actually read the article linked? There was no mention of margins. I question the motives of your comment. It reads like big tech bootlicking.
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by artichokeheart 3y ago
There have only been a few Pixar movies I haven’t liked Cars 2, The Good Dinosaur and Finding Dory and not all of the others have had drawn an emotional response from me. That said anything that draws you in and makes you feel something is
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by artichokeheart 3y ago
“ why would all problematic users congregate on the same server? ” There’s a simple answer to why server blocking is a feature of mastodon. It was built to handle a real world problem. I.e there was early on a server that was a “free speec
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by artichokeheart 3y ago
Microsoft was never evil, well not any more evil than any other company. Microsoft was a monopoly. Given what they get away with with Windows 10 and 11 one could argue they still are or at least still act like they are.
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by artichokeheart 3y ago
Off-topic note Humanloop might want to redesign their logo. It's been the Australian Broadcasting Corporation logo since 1963. Maybe pick a different Lissajous curve.
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by artichokeheart 4y ago
> Folks, we are in uncharted waters Not really. Religion has been a thing for pretty much as long as there’s been humans.
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by artichokeheart 5y ago
vscodium
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by artichokeheart 5y ago
It reminds me of that ancient joke: A QA engineer walks into a bar. He orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicbksjdhd. First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom
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by artichokeheart 5y ago
1. That is true whether you WFH or not. 2. As a contractor, yes, As an employee WFH changes nothing here, particularly in countries with worker favorable employment laws. 3. See 1. 4. True, remote workers need to maintain a 9-5ish routine.
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by artichokeheart 5y ago
I think more pressure needs to be put on the developers in these big tech enterprises. I think the problem is that it's cash and cachet, not fear and torture, that blind them to real human impacts of what they are doing in their day jo
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by artichokeheart 5y ago
AWS employs cost obfuscation by design otherwise the default view when you open the console would show you all of your current active services. Not only is that not the case, a single screen to show you all of your current active services d
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by artichokeheart 7y ago
Especially as macOS users are the most likely to complain about Firefox's performance. Well, maybe that IS why
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by artichokeheart 7y ago
Candidates should just be given a horrible, undocumented, broken piece of legacy code and asked to fix it. Select the person who comes up with the quickest solution. That's who you want on your team when you find out there's a pro
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by artichokeheart 8y ago
Actually StatusNet had a good solution for discoverability groups. An equivalent is an outstanding issue for ActtivityPub https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/328
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by artichokeheart 8y ago
Mastodon is only a client to the ActivityPub protocol. There are other clients that look more like Facebook. But yes discoverability is an issue because it's hard in a federated environment.
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by artichokeheart 8y ago
> No, the argument "Chrome will be the new IE if you don't use Firefox" doesn't matter to most users But it should and advocates can make it matter to users, just like they did when Phoenix was the cure for the made f
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by artichokeheart 8y ago
The big problem with 5.0 is that it's not actually ready and they are shipping because of Wordcamp. There are 152 open issues that they conveniently allocated 1 to 5.0, 28 to 5.0.1 and the rest to future point releases. https:/&#
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by artichokeheart 8y ago
China is a 1.3 billion people Australia is 25 million. Big difference when it comes to cost and incentive.
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by artichokeheart 8y ago
To anyone with a business from anywhere else in the world. Yes please do, publicly and loudly, cease to deal with us (Australia) due to the very real possibility that all of you private and commercially sensitive communications will be moni
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by artichokeheart 8y ago
Facebook are sorry and they will endeavour to apologise again next time.
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by artichokeheart 8y ago
Dude has a personality problem if you ask me. The reason he was rejected as overqualified is that there's no way he'd happily work as a junior member of staff. He'd just cause massive amounts of friction.

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