bee_rider

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by bee_rider 2mo ago
It isn’t that surprising that computers have become somewhat crap as they’ve gained ubiquitous adoption (that’s just the nature of appealing to everyone). IMO it is more surprising that nothing has really filled in that gap.
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
MS should either fix the RCEs in Windows 10 (it is unsupported but the defects were already there when it was still supported, just undiscovered), or they should refund their customers (since they never managed to release a defect-free vers
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
I think 2) in particular makes some bits of the story evident that, at least, weren’t so obvious to me. I’m not well informed about the geography of the Amazon. For example, if Manaus is reasonably built up, I guess the hotel situation was
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
Carplay is sort of interesting because the UI does generally suck less than the UI of most infotainment systems. But it is much worse than my phone UI. Various apps seem to be missing their search abilities entirely. It isn’t as bad as most
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
That atrophied skill might be untrainable now that most map apps have some ability to search for food nearby and add a destination to the route.
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
It’s interesting to think of the way experiences go away, in this context. You can get lost if you want nowadays, but it is pretty rare to get lost if you don’t want to. Now you get lost because you intentionally didn’t check the map or bec
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
What’s far from optimal about open source? Open source seems like a window into another universe, which is just lightly better than ours: people just working on problems and sharing solutions, because humans are basically good social creatu
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
Looks like this came out nearly 8 years ago, so… how’d it work out? Given the way job titles work these days I guess we could have some Senior Engineers here who learned calculus from this paper…
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
They managed to fine-tune models to be good at math and coding, despite the vast majority of humanity being awful at those… I dunno. You are probably right. But it’d be an experiment. It wouldn’t be an experiment if it was a sure thing.
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
They are currently experimenting with replacing engineers with LLMs, so it would at least be interesting to try the flipped experiment. It seems like, at least for tasks like distilling the work done at lower levels and passing it up the ma
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
Nah, it isn’t Reddit. I actually removed Reddit from my search results once they stopped allowing me to use the old interface. It’s just some random job board that happens to be popular in my niche for whatever reason.
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
I don’t know if this site did something tricky or if it is something about how I access it, but the switch doesn’t persist.
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
> Plus, isn't this website undissmissably "better in the app" after a few minutes of attempting to use it on a phone? Where's that at? This is the most annoying thing on the internet. There’s a site I’d like to use, b
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
I had an older/seemingly quite skilled bike mechanic look at my bike, who was happy to deal with my vague gestures about squeaky doohickeys and answer any questions. They knew enough to know what normal people don’t know, though, and h
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
It is the delicate art of being a persistent problem that is more pleasant and easier to deal with than ignore.
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
I think this idea (and I necessarily don’t believe in it, but let’s give it a fair chance) is more like a few-weeks detox. Avoiding any news at all half a year seems a bit disorienting (as you experienced). Rather than giving up on news ent
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
No-news-at-all was the suggestion in the post they responded to. It seems like a detox type idea (it doesn’t seem sustainable). I think you are right that there’s some middle ground between 0 and doomscrolling that is preferable, though.
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
How about: The yaks have started shaving themselves, who can keep track of how good a job they are doing?
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
Well the best code is no code. Nop could be second best though.
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
On the bright side it could probably run for years without hitting the mistake as well. But it is nice to get it out of there.
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
It sounds not as bad as Moon dust. Realistically the Mars is about as habitable as the Moon, not habitable. So it’ll be a one-off problem.
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
That’s what some politicians here mean when they say it. The poll seems to indicate pretty negative results for “socialism,” which seems less likely if people were just interpreting it as capitalism+safetynet, right?
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
How much of coding is weeding?
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
> You can't convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. I think this is true. But it doesn’t get rid of the possibility of hyperpersuasive bots, just, points to a reason they might not be as consequential as expected. I
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
> One of the experiments I've heard proposed around here is to somehow create an LLM from all text up to 1980 or 1990 and see if it can get back to making itself. This is an interesting experiment but I wonder if it would be possibl
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
Their web chat UI seems to be called “Vibe.” I think? I’m not sure if that’s the name of the product or just what they decided to label it in the browser. I wonder if -strap is just what they call the actual models, which are meant to be ru
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
Yeah, everyone knows the best content is on a professor’s site from the 90’s, with no images. Maybe some figures, but if so, they should look like they were printed, physically cut out, and then scanned. Bonus points if the background of t
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
Is that actually true though? I think it is an analogy, and as an analogy it seems quite risky because “convex hull” and “linear combination” are technical terms that might give the recipient the impression that it is a technical argument.
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
The plot in the blog post seems to be very symmetrical around 50% (to the point where there must be some identity going on). The plot from the paper seems to cross over around 75%. So the 3rd quartile still has some explaining to do, right?
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
I think the third one is a separate thing. I don’t know of a name for it, but I’d call it the engineer’s (or physicist’s) blindspot or something like that. I can’t remember of DK suggests some sort of effect where the expert has undue self-

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