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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I didn’t read the whole essay, but it seems to be more like: find something you are interested in, interested enough to work very hard at it, and don’t worry about what others think too much. It seems basically true (and legitimately good a
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
IMO allowing package adoption makes sense in the responsible/intended use-case: AUR packages aren’t trusted, you have to read the PKGBUILD anyway, so the reputation of the contributor doesn’t matter. Removing adoption is admitting that
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Having made the mistake of writing a couple of them, I’m pretty sure the only uses of non-fiction documents longer than ~30 pages is * As a reference; people can look look up just the algorithm they want * As a token that says “I’ve thought
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I think that might have been semi-sarcastic. I mean, there are lots of reasons to do this sort of thing, some are bad, some are not so bad, most are not war.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I’d expect the mail carrier who goes from the mail center to the bank to be slightly more trustworthy than the one who visits me off in the middle of nowhere. Or at least, if that carrier is untrustworthy, it is a big problem for a lot of
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Eh, I think I disagree. We should support a convention of reading all of the paragraphs to the posts we are responding to, not just the first one.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
The specific swings are a little surprising, but only in the way that a macaroni jumps around in hard to predict directions if you put it in boiling water. We’ve made the weather less predictable, but we knew we were doing it.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I want to applaud your choice to not include anything like quotes here. That would be misleading because it isn’t an actual literal quote. And, we’re too used to just skimming posts here before jumping right in to argue against them.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
If the poster agreed with the opinion, they wouldn’t have included “actually” (indicating that they think the reader will be feeling incredulous at that point) and “otherwise intelligent.”
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Oh, that seems like it would be quite nice, actually. It is vaguely annoying when my touchscreen moves my mouse cursor.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Where do linear algebra folks go to get started with ML stuff? It seems pretty easy but the hardware is expensive.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Lots of linear algebra codes are actually “easy to write” in a way. It isn’t like conventional CS where you are always going a bunch of recursive nonsense going on. There should be mathematical relationships between all of the variables, th
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
The suggestion was to have some AI system “fix” the code. They are reporting that they’ve found lots of bugs. Are they even claiming to have exhaustively found all the bugs? I don’t think even the most optimistic pitches would claim that. I
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
What do you mean by “PC correctness”? I’d expect the politically correct answers to be the ones desired by the current admin at test time, whoever that is. The current political correct answers would not be very “woke.”
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
The postmortem for many cows is “how did you like your hamburger” so it isn’t all bad (from the user point of view at least).
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
AJAX is old tech though, using stuff that worked in the year 2000 is cheating in 2026. You are supposed to make the site slow and bloated for some reason.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I don’t think they need to go all-in on anything related to AI. > This leverages their core competencies, requires only modest investment, and will likely pay out no matter how the AI market eventually shakes out. This looks more like a
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
What if an IT guy installs one of those “cookie banner be gone” extensions without the user’s permission?
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I don’t see how we could possibly prove that the person who clicked “I agree” is still the person using the computer. Or that any actual human is aware that an agreement was made (since an AI can find a checkbox nowadays or software can be
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I think it is worse actually. Tokens in a game are usually just purchased for enjoyment in the game. They are purchased as a part of your entertainment budget, not expected to be useful in any way. LLMs are fundamentally tools intended to b
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Separating out what is artificial or not seems more like an exercise in rhetoric; defining things as fundamental and real. The whole economy is an imaginary thing dreamed up by our natural human brains.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
You have a good point, there are some games with terrible business models too. I just don’t play them, haha.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I think games are the exception because they are * relatively small purchases * paid for directly by the user * expected to be enjoyable Most other software fails at least one of those tests, reducing the ability to shop around and make an
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Although, I do with these LLM companies would be better about licensing their derivative works (the models) under GPL, when they ingest GPL’d code.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Oh, that’s interesting. I think the general expectation was that blocking exports to China would result in companies there building their own cards competing with NVIDIA. If it has incentivized them to release open weight models instead, th
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I do have a PhD, and I have crawled up the trees of citations on occasion. But they were not so huge that I needed to manage them actively. But it was STEM, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that more complex bibliographies exist elsewhere.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Hmm, like in the References section for a paper? Personally I don’t see any point to typing that sort of thing out (bibtex handles it more accurately that I could anyway). For the reader… I dunno, do people actually read through a citation
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I wonder if an LLM could just turn my hand-written notes into code, and if so, where this’d land on the brain health spectrum.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
This is a great example of the sort of culture-war nonsense that people are here to avoid.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I wanted to stop going to Reddit because I just used it to look at stupid memes. So, blocking old Reddit for logged out users was a nice favor to me.

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