bigfishrunning

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by bigfishrunning 5d ago
Yeah, but "<company> at <ridiculously inflated price> is not far-fetched" is a great way to get people to think "it's not there now, but it will be", which is almost explicitly an attempt to boost stock
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by bigfishrunning 5d ago
This will likely result in more "No pets allowed" leases
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by bigfishrunning 5d ago
Basic cable had ads, premium cable (HBO, Showtime, etc) usually only advertised future programming in between programs, but nothing during a program.
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by bigfishrunning 9d ago
> if anything, LLMs/agents are rapidly eroding some of the practical premises his arguments depended on, IMO As someone who also remembers classic Slashdot, it's staggering how many of the things Stallman was writing about back
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by bigfishrunning 9d ago
> For example Hacker News learns my password to this web site every single time I sign in because that's just a secret. I don't know the details of the login system for Hacker News, but i would expect they learn "a hash of
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by bigfishrunning 9d ago
I don't think popularity is a goal for Anthropic or OpenAI. They merely want to have a product that they control and you depend on, and don't care about anything else. Nobody really *likes* their drug dealer.
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by bigfishrunning 10d ago
Using a computer is irrelevant in the age of AI, you should stop doing that.
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by bigfishrunning 10d ago
I don't think he was calling everybody that is using LLMs a bunch of noobs. I think he was calling the people using LLMs to submit code they don't understand a bunch of noobs. I think if the patches were well reasoned and could be
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by bigfishrunning 10d ago
> I find this very offensive. You shouldn't, unless you're producing a bunch of code you don't understand.
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by bigfishrunning 10d ago
> It's not about what the customer complains or notices at short term, is about having a quality system that can be augmented without accumulating same kind of debt. I agree with this wholeheartedly, but convincing nontechnical mana
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by bigfishrunning 10d ago
20 years of being tech support for countless family members and acquaintances says that nothing can possibly make people care about "digital hygiene". An iPad, Chromebook, or similar inflexible device is perfect for most people, a
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by bigfishrunning 10d ago
> we would have to live in a world where software engineering didn't matter. As an engineer who works very hard to do the right thing, I'm beginning to worry that software engineering doesn't matter. I write code that i th
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by bigfishrunning 10d ago
Dropdown TV sets, luxury! i seem to remember a projector and a screen at the front of the aisle :)
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by bigfishrunning 12d ago
the "performance" link at the top also doesn't lead anywhere...
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by bigfishrunning 12d ago
Please just try out traditional Emacs, I'm not sure this will paint a fair picture.
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by bigfishrunning 12d ago
The whole point is not signing up for twitter. If signing up for twitter wasn't a problem, Nitter wouldn't exist in the first place.
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by bigfishrunning 12d ago
The login wall provides one more avenue for profit: selling the data of logged-in users. A profile with a history of likes, read-times, etc is more valuable then a pair of eyeballs that are glazed-over and not clicking on an ad...
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by bigfishrunning 12d ago
> ML was pretty much about classifying things into buckets. It still is, it's just that there are a ton of buckets.
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by bigfishrunning 12d ago
True, and that's a bummer, but it's the decision of the maintainers of those projects to make. If it goes really sideways, and it may, you can either fork Linux or move away to something like one of the BSDs.
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by bigfishrunning 12d ago
Netcraft may confirm that some day
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by bigfishrunning 12d ago
It's important to remember that this is a story about Ubuntu, and not Linux, and they are two very different projects with different motivations.
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by bigfishrunning 15d ago
Almost zero. The party may still be, but the administration almost certainly won't.
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by bigfishrunning 15d ago
Programming encourages analytical thinking, and also if no-one learns to program it'll become magic, and that'll be a major societal step back.
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by bigfishrunning 15d ago
Irish twins! congratulations :)
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by bigfishrunning 16d ago
It seems like you're comparing "start from scratch in rust" to "start with an existing game engine in some other language". That's not really a fair comparison. there are popular game engines in rust (although
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by bigfishrunning 16d ago
I do think rust works there (as you clearly know), i just like Go's ergonomics for that exact task better, that's all.
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by bigfishrunning 16d ago
Yeah, you're still stuck with DSL's there, but not for lack of trying https://github.com/NVlabs/cuda-oxide
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by bigfishrunning 16d ago
Honestly, the only domains that I think rust isn't suitable for are: * rapid-prototyping, where javascript and python are still top-tier * adding scriptability to existing programs, where lua and scheme (and python) are popular * Ser
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by bigfishrunning 17d ago
This article was an indication that we're not going to make it. People, I mean. https://futurism.com/altman-please-thanks-chatgpt
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by bigfishrunning 17d ago
> --quiet suppresses compliments, never criticism. It's the only way to grow.

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