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by bandrami 6mo ago
That's happened like three times to the extent that the forks are more widely installed than the original
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Right but, were you really not using snippets and templates before LLMs? Company? Helm? Whatever vi uses that's like company and helm? Haven't IDEs written function calls for you for like decades now?
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Oh my God don't do that
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by bandrami 7mo ago
This conversation keeps missing me because I don't think I've typed out boilerplate in like 20 years. Were people actually physically typing every character of the software they were writing before a couple of years ago?
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by bandrami 7mo ago
So many use cases for LLMs I've read leave me asking "did none of you have a working text editor?"
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Eno is amazing but can be a little hard to approach; I like as a starting place Omri Cohen, who has a youtube channel that has both his music as well as a lot of examples on how he makes it.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Early on in my career my manager told me "a monitoring system that sends more than a dozen notifications a day actually sends zero notifications". Words to live by.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
As someone who makes and enjoys generative music I've always wondered what the parallels were like in the visual and plastic arts. This is cool.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
As always in security, It Depends™; there are vulnerabilities that only impact systems with secure boot (and result in a situation worse than not having secure boot to begin with).
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by bandrami 7mo ago
No, the email system was a Unix server you telneted to from the Mac SEs in the computer lab so I just kind of picked up Unix usage. Then once I graduated I got a job tending a BIND and sendmail cluster for a local ISP (the "training&qu
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by bandrami 7mo ago
There was (still is?) a Middle East themed campaign with just absolutely gorgeous artwork.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Huh. I graduated from there and about a third of my class (including me) works in tech in some form. Though being a sysadmin seems to be more common than being a programmer. But I had no idea the Wesnoth dev went there too!
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by bandrami 7mo ago
> excellent salesman of vision when fundamentals are weak Wow that was a polite way to say that
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by bandrami 7mo ago
In my lifetime: S&Ls, .com's, housing, and NFTs.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
It will not be lucrative if the hundreds of billions of dollars in ad revenue cost the providers trillions in compute. That's still the big question.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Yeah TCO on AI is the big hazy uncertainty that a lot of large firms are still waiting on firmer numbers on before they really adopt. And in the nature of things we can't get TCO numbers for another year or so.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Enron employed a lot of smart people too. So did Bear Stearns. Smart people given bad incentives can create huge messes.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Yeah, my point has basically nothing to do with AI and is the argument against comment blocks in general. It's bad to store information in two places.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
> If someone has a subscription then yes that is pretty normal. Not if you've substantively changed rate limits 3 times in the last 5 months while still counting those forecast revenues. In most industries that's called rug-pul
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by bandrami 7mo ago
OpenAI is great at attracting people who say "yeah, sure, I'll give you capital at some point in the future" who then never actually give them the capital (or at least haven't yet).
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by bandrami 7mo ago
> can you run any Linux distribution in a FreeBSD jail -ish. There's a compatibility layer that works at the libc level but not the syscall level. In practice anything open source that works in emulation almost certainly has a FreeB
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by bandrami 7mo ago
The difference between "essentially infinite" and "actually infinite". Infinity is a very long time.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Thinking back to when I was hosting, I think telling a customer "your web server was running fine it's just that the database was down" would not have been received well.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
> What is the point - exactly - of profit? It's what attracts capital investment, which businesses need
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by bandrami 7mo ago
But you will also fail to keep the comments and code synchronized, and the comment will at some point no longer describe why the code is doing whatever it does
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by bandrami 7mo ago
> It's well know everyone is making great money on inference. That is not, in fact, "well known", but based entirely on the announcements of the inference providers themselves who also get very cagey when asked to show the
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by bandrami 7mo ago
I think the issue is not that the patches are more compelling but that they're significantly larger and more frequent
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by bandrami 7mo ago
But they're really cagey about actually handing money over to them today
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by bandrami 7mo ago
> why should only profits matter? In this case because it's not clear that anybody has actually figured out how to sell inference for more than it costs
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Announcing isn't reporting. Am I the only one old enough to remember Enron?

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