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by ashleyn 6mo ago
Ah yes, the new "for tobacco use only" of tech.
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by ashleyn 7mo ago
PSA: Adblock is non optional for personal and enterprise security. My gf told me they blocked all addons at work, including adblock. Told her to recommend to the IT department that adblock be mandatory on all computers. Ad networks make too
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by ashleyn 7mo ago
It's probably a mix of AI productivity boost and market cycle. There is some substance to AI job loss, but I believe jevons paradox will eventually catch up to transformer-based LLM capabilities. I'm the last remaining frontend de
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by ashleyn 7mo ago
It's a fools errand to ever believe in job security. Even if you're absolutely right on your importance, management can always remain stupid longer than you can remain employed.
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by ashleyn 7mo ago
I'd probably view LLM advice like the blind spot indicator on my car. Trust when it's lit. Don't trust when it's not lit.
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by ashleyn 8mo ago
This was a very common thing media companies dealt with and still deal with. There are too many legal risks in even reading the idea. SOP is to send back the envelope sealed and with a canned response explaining that they don't accept
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by ashleyn 8mo ago
I often think about how Ask Jeeves had the last laugh in the age of LLM-powered search.
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Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism(github.com)
40 points by ashleyn 8mo ago|73 comments
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by ashleyn 8mo ago
I feel like "game engine" is a misnomer for what we're actually dealing with here. It's more like an "ECS-based scene rendering engine, which can be used for games or for advanced UI". But that doesn't hav
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by ashleyn 8mo ago
This is the central problem with Citizens United. The supreme court tends to be unusually deferential with 1A cases and ruled that infinite money can go into formally unaffiliated PACs. Undoing this would require activist judges or a consti
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by ashleyn 8mo ago
Better question: What if we actually punished perpetrators of threats and doxing with the existing laws we have against terroristic threats? Why do we treat this as some unstoppable force of nature when the vast majority of them come throug
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by ashleyn 8mo ago
I'm guessing this "humanizer" actually does two things: * grep to remove em dashes and emojis * re-run through another llm with a prompt to remove excessive sycophantry and invalid url citations
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by ashleyn 9mo ago
Curious what the rules were.
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by ashleyn 9mo ago
It appears ChromeOS is being killed and they're porting much of its feature set into Android. This may be marketed as "ChromeOS", with identical functionality, and consumers won't be none the wiser.
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by ashleyn 9mo ago
How will this succeed where the Motorola Atrix failed way back in 2011? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/03/the-motorola-atrix-4...
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by ashleyn 9mo ago
Internet censorship is more of a reality and a problem than it felt at the dawn of the age of cheap wireless broadband. I can certainly see the value in local wikipedia copies if internet blocks, age gates, etc need to be contended with.
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by ashleyn 9mo ago
Appears to use a Z80 CPU and shares some heritage with the SNES CD: https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=17156
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by ashleyn 9mo ago
I guess the first question I have is if these problems solved by LLMs are just low-hanging fruit that human researchers either didn't get around to or show much interest in - or if there's some actual beef here to the idea that LL
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by ashleyn 9mo ago
Phind was the first AI search I used as well. But they seemed to be quickly outfoxed by Perplexity. I started using Perplexity after it was recommended to me as having fewer hallucinations - now it can integrate its tools with SOTA models l
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by ashleyn 9mo ago
Would love to know the thought process and rationale of whoever underwrote that policy. My experience suggests you should never trust unsupervised LLMs for anything life or mission critical.
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by ashleyn 9mo ago
Having to prime it with more context and more guardrails seems to imply they're getting worse. That's fewer context and guardrails it can infer/intuit.
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by ashleyn 9mo ago
It really begs the question of, how much is this obsession with controlling others' gender actually going to end up negatively impacting the US's competitive edge in higher education? Between this and firing qualified TAs who did
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by ashleyn 9mo ago
It boggles my mind that, not only do people do this, but it's common . I've seen managers at work with hundreds of tabs open, with an uncanny ability to know exactly where the thing they need is. I've been using tabbed brows
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by ashleyn 9mo ago
If the AI-based product is suitable for purpose (whatever "for purpose" may mean), then it doesn't need to be marketed first and foremost as "AI". This strikes me as pandering more to investors than consumers, and e
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by ashleyn 9mo ago
I suspect the icons have to do with a non-english or reading disabilities accessibility requirement. I'd argue it's not comparable to the 1992 standards because there's not clutter on the right due to dimming for the hotkey l
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by ashleyn 9mo ago
Obesity, junk food addiction, and chronic inactivity still remain unsolved as ever.
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by ashleyn 9mo ago
This accurately describes many tech jobs outside of FAANG or the startup scene. Lay low, close your tickets, and invest aggressively into the S&P 500. You'll be done in about 12 years. Most you'll need to worry about are fudgi
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by ashleyn 10mo ago
Wait, iphones now support detection of finger hover? I remember hearing about iOS introducing software support for this, presumably for when the hardware can catch up. But never heard of it actually being implemented.
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by ashleyn 10mo ago
Steam prints money and the Steam Deck was already priced like a loss leader for Steam sales. Makes me wonder if valve will just eat the cost to get the install base.
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by ashleyn 10mo ago
The chicken tax pretty much makes this impossible. The only domestic manufacturer interested in cheap light-duty trucks is Slate, which is still in the development phase and faces a lot of risks, notably high cost for the segment.

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