bigfishrunning

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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
Mostly Very Confusing
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
That's not true; most of them don't represent network interfaces as files for instance. Plan-9 gets closest i think, and it's an outlier
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
I don't think it's satire, and I'm not sure it's not a good idea
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
I would argue that in a post-LLM world, becoming as specialized as possible is the only way to survive. If you have the serious systems programming skills required to write graphics drivers, your talent would be wasted writing CRUD apps any
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
Are you asserting that C++ is not a marketable skill? If anyone reading this has this un-marketable skill, Carnegie robotics in Pittsburgh is hiring carnegie-robotics.breezy.hr/p/2d85f5321cc7-software-engineer
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
Lesson learned: Publicly traded or VC-owned companies should be de-prioritized when choosing an engineering job.
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
In my perception, VCs don't really care about goals. They care about a convincing argument "if you give me money, I'll give you back more money". Note that it doesn't matter if that statement is true; it only needs
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
The smartest people aren't insufferable, but people who think they're the smartest are.
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
If I'm not allowed to extract value, what is the incentive to start or invest in a business? Why bother owning or running a company?
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
If you're just copying and pasting to some chatbot, is it really human interaction anymore?
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
The concept of a mass market device is sort of incompatible with the freedoms we generally associate with linux -- Android is really the closest thing we can hope for. It runs a linux kernel, a very non-standard userspace, and is relatively
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
I understand that, I was referencing a quote (often misattributed to Oscar Wilde, I don't know its true source)
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
If you think an ethics course is about "racism is bad" or "don't be a meanie" then you weren't paying attention. The ethics class i took in college focused on the philosophical models of ethics from Kant and Ar
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
Except for sex, which is about power
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
> Except that it's all Android? If only this were true. Samsung makes arguably the best hardware, but I refuse to buy a phone with Facebook pre-loaded and unremovable, a second (worse) app store preloaded and unremovable, and a bunc
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
Why should Linux users have to agree? run what you want, it's your computer.
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
It's better when it isn't, so that you have an easy skapegoat for the hallucinations!
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
ok, so i misread the censored word. Maybe i'm old; the concept of "trigger words" doesn't seem to be solved by making it harder to communicate in my opinion.
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
one of the tweet screenshots censors the word "kosher", which I completely don't understand. Why are screenshots online so agressively censored?
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
Shouldn't anyone reviewing such a PR know how the internals work?
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
The EAs told me a monster will come get me if I don't put all of my effort into developing an AGI...
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
Commercials, in 5 years "If you or a loved one have taken a class of drugs known as GLP-1, you may be entitled to compensation..."
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
People are constantly Dunning-Krugering the Dunning-Kruger effect
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
"the one who knows god knows everything" could also be a reference to the fact that god is unknowable, and therefore so is everything...
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
I guess you mean s7 -- I find s7 scheme fits into a lua shaped hole for scripting larger applications quite well without having to use lua (which is a personal preference). I used s7 scheme for scripting a C program years ago, and moved on
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
Those are all RPC mechanisms, not an ABI. They exist at a much higher level. You could have an RPC protocol be your only interface to the OS, and that would be a valid design, but would have a performance cost (see the classic Tanenbaum–Tor
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
> OS ABIs aren't independent of the language. I'd push back on this a bit. The ABI is "put the arguments on the stack this way and jump to this address". The fact that it's easy to do in C doesn't really mak
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
I would argue that inline assembly, while not in the standard, is really just a convenience feature -- it is part of the standard to declare an extern reference to a function in the symbol table and jump to it, it just requires a separate
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
or you could just look up the word...in a dictionary.
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
Yes, but have those positive effects on AI research had a positive or negative effect on society? I guess time will tell

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