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by b33j0r 3y ago
American here. I’ve never heard of it, and I read the news all day. It is very well written if it’s fake, but I mean I could hypothetically do that too… If it’s even a real article, “whistleblower” is a busted term in the US right now. Rath
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It’s for bringing employees back into the office who are never coming back into the office! In our Titanium tier, you can even eye-track how often your employees glance at their phones! … What happened here is that VR/AR have always be
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I’m converted! Well, I’m const var convinced, not quite const const const.
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Indeed. Tangentially, there is another side to the coin. The antithesis of this is the contract model, when a client comes to you and asks you to make something specific, rather than describing what they need. In this case they are almost a
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I’m personally surprised that this strategy plateaued as soon it has. It had an extremely sharp early-success curve. Opinion: a lot of people in this space thought “no one wants to get in a car with a radar tower on top, can’t we make it ju
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I haven’t found reddit to be a reliable source of information for years. Go ahead and price themselves out. Even stack overflow doesn’t make me click “read more comments” to show full content of the thing I’m looking for. How many times hav
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I am not serious, completely. But you called it a dumpster for the underclass (not judging either way). But it points to an irony when you’re there, going to a meeting at the Transamerica pyramid or walking past the headquarters of Salesfor
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Given other trending headlines, I thought he’d died. The past tense thing. Glad it was just a celebration!
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I would read a blog or twitter account just full of stories like this. I would send in some of my own, as I think it’s a funny and beautiful thing when a mundanely localized supernatural mystery is solved by investigating. A tone of mild di
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Heard of it, but I’m still wondering why every RFC looks like it’s from 1998. We work with structured data all the time. Then I remembered the armistice between yaml and toml and how I’m still confused about why the python community was tor
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Man, I wish they had this back when I had money. Alas, I spent it all on oscilloscopes, function generators, and power supplies!
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Yep, I made a categorization and sentiment error. As a non-large language model, my loss function is brief internet shame. :p good call
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I’m not taking a side on any issue at all, and definitely not this one! Just a funny observation about how something could go undetected on a wiki. I’ll go as far as a joke postulate: “For any given page on wikipedia, the people with the mo
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Have you used it? At worst it’s a way better intellisense. I am invested in it being a little more, but not like my robot wife lol. I’m genuinely curious, why does reading about transformer models and chatbot news upset you, and some others
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Why don’t nerds get the same rights? According to US news over the past 3-4 years, you can just ignore subpoenas, then get a contributor job on a cable news network. Bonus points, the more you flout the law as arrogantly as possible ;p
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Funny enough I only got this joke on my second read. One of my uncles had a company with a name similar to your joke :D ADD probably. So, to me it was beej. But in reality, to the public [you can’t nickname yourself]. So it’s always been b3
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by b33j0r 3y ago
My nick has been Beej or b33j ever since starcraft or counterstrike 1.5. I will always bring up “but you know who the real beej is, right?” if the other person is a nerd.
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I was hoping it would be isomorphic. I could just like make the recipe, and weigh out the ingredients… and then some geek browser would do the work. Disappointed, but I’ll have to learn to adapt! My hydration levels were way too low the las
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by b33j0r 3y ago
This got into the zeitgeist somehow. I just implemented my first SSE app with FastAPI last week, then I saw a youtube video and this post! I was implementing something with websockets and asked chatgpt to tell me about modern alternatives.
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Heyyyy ;) Computers were slow. Java applets were slowest. These days I think QT is slow. It’s not, but with the decadal upgrades in hardware… there should be things that load instantly. Everywhere! (Deep breath on my end. Ok.) It’s like how
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by b33j0r 3y ago
That was a very well-thought out comment, and I learned new things! Thanks! The strange thing to me that gives me weird feels despite the science is that I’m never had an ssd die that I installed. And I’m no Linus of LTT here. Plenty of app
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Yep. I cut my teeth making custom .ocx components. That teenager was part of your dll hell! VB.net is pretty good, but at that point I just used C#. I go back and make C# guis every now and then with winforms. It always makes me think “how
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Don’t tell anyone, but I still think we’ve been terrible at UIs since VB6 and Hypercard. We mostly gave up on 2D grids as device resolutions evolved. We made HTML, then made HTML5 as if everything was a blog or newspaper with a navigation b
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The thing that still bothers me is that the read-write cycles and lifetime are sort of unpredictable to me personally. For an analogy, I only buy LED lightbulbs, love that tech. When they first became widely-available, my house had a few in
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by b33j0r 3y ago
The gaping hole in my argument is that large language models know nothing about panic. Except kernel panic. I ain’t claiming these things are conscious. I’m not that guy. I’m the guy pointing out that it’s a model of us. Trained on watching
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by b33j0r 3y ago
Well yeah. Emergent behavior was analyzed with a pretty tight technical definition. Put 5000 AI’s in a soccer stadium and I expect that they’d act like 5000 of us. I’m not sure I even have emergent behavior, unless I’m in an environment wit
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by b33j0r 3y ago
That’s what I have been up to as well. I just think we’re so traumatized from the past 15 years of software engineering (kidding) that we’re stuck thinking “hey, let’s add memcached, that solved many problems like this before!” Natural lang
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I’m considering the recent 64k token models as the most relevant examples. More anecdotally, I couldn’t get anything to say more than a sentence locally at the beginning of 2023. I can get tons of useful results today. Sure, this will plate
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by b33j0r 3y ago
I’m sure many of you have tried generating epic conversations from history. With work and luck, I’ve read stuff way better than college. But 90% of the time, it’s two barely distinct personalities chatting back and forth: Me: Hey brian, wha
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Yep. To be clear, that’s the exact approach I’ve been pursuing. But then I see model context length getting longer and longer just within the transformer architecture and the training engineering going on. To me that’s a fundamentally diffe

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