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by bitwize 3mo ago
"Synch rate" is roughly "you know how to manipulate the model to get it to do precisely what you want". This is nonobvious even for open-weights models and can change as new models are published, often under the same nam
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by bitwize 3mo ago
I didn't say you did. But the industry is full of people with technical acumen but little in the way of people skills or a knack for business needs; and in the supposedly halcyon days of the past many of them could grow rich, or at l
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by bitwize 3mo ago
The fact that Eric Raymond has gone full fascist in the intervening years was absolutely not on my bingo card back in the late 90s, but it makes CatB even less relevant now. Of course, he would tell you otherwise. He would say that the vict
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Information systems has always been about empowering business leaders to produce more with less human effort. In that respect, AI for example has been a game changer. Everything else was a sideshow. If you've been leaning hard on progr
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Except it's not really a mechsuit; inasmuch as it is, it's more like an Evangelion: it's got bits of people's souls floating around in there; it only works well with a high synch rate with the user, which is difficult to
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Giving the government wide leeway means more restrictions for you and less accountability for them? surprised_pikachu.jpg
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by bitwize 3mo ago
What's super cringe is that there already was a company called Thinking Machines, which built the Connection Machine supercomputer. The CM was featured in the movie Jurassic Park and had a network fabric for its CPUs co-designed by Ric
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Now all we need to do is build an invincible giant robot out of it, to protect peace and justice from the forces of evil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazinger_Z https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chog
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by bitwize 3mo ago
As I recall, Bell Labs actually abandoned Alef on Plan 9 because the concurrency primitives they wanted were doable in C so they just went with that.
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Errbody gangsta until the agent figures out it's in a container and finds an exploit that lets it break out of container jail...
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by bitwize 3mo ago
> This whole you need to "adapt" to LLMs thing is bonkers to me, because there's practically no skill in using an LLM. False. There was a person in this thread complaining about how the LLM forgot to run the build script i
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by bitwize 3mo ago
"Nothing could have prevented this from happening," say users of only language where this happens
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by bitwize 3mo ago
This is the PRIDE I meant. It's hard to tell if MBA (more recently, M&JB Investment Company) is still a going concern. Milt Bryce's son Tim was keeping the lights on but he died of cancer at the end of 2023.
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by bitwize 3mo ago
And the Chinese are still going to kick our ass. Ancaps are in for a major cope and seethe when they are forced to admit that the communists won the cold war.
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Source is the new binary. Specs and requirements are where the engineering is happening now. Of course, this was anticipated in 1971 with the creation of the very successful PRIDE methodology, but it's taken a few decades, and a comple
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Getting chicken pox as a kid means you already have the H. zoster virus in your system, and when you get older as your immune system weakens, it may come out for a second go around, manifesting as shingles. Having had chicken pox as a kid i
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by bitwize 3mo ago
My A1C popped high, so I could get Shingrix 2 years before the nominal minimum age, paid for by insurance, on the technicality of having a T2D diagnosis. My blood sugar is much more under control now, but that's a nice little side bene
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by bitwize 3mo ago
No, he is correct. LLMs have much larger working memories for the kind of details you work with in programming tasks. You are at an objective cognitive deficit by not taking advantage of this. Everybody knows what he means by left behind. W
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by bitwize 3mo ago
I hate to break it to ya, but there's been kind of a change in the way software gets built especially in the past year or so...
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by bitwize 3mo ago
I was a bit surprised when about ten years ago I noticed that there were now really only two reactions to my Emacs use: "Emacs? What's that? Oh, sorry, I like things with an actual UI." Or: "Emacs? I remember that from m
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by bitwize 3mo ago
What you described is even better: an Atari ST :)
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by bitwize 3mo ago
In Emacs, everything looks like a part of the core system. The whole thing is just one unvariegated blob of Lisp, which could be a strength or a weakness depending on your perspective. Me, I happen to like that sort of thing.
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by bitwize 3mo ago
If the Touhou games or Cave Story were released today, all of Hackernews would be like "dude, I wonder what their LLM workflow is like!" Japanese solo hikikomori devs have been putting out insane stuff since long before LLMs emerg
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by bitwize 3mo ago
It's like At Ease for mobile. Neat!
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by bitwize 3mo ago
It came from a company called Willow Pond Software. That seems to narrow searches down. WillowTalk is apparently still of interest to Half-Life modders because another WillowTalk voice, possibly a clone of DECtalk's Huge Harry, was use
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by bitwize 3mo ago
One popular speech synth from back in the day, I believe it was WillowTalk, had a voice called Colossus, which sounded like the voice module of the computer from Colossus: The Forbin Project . This voice was used for that of CATS in the fa
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by bitwize 3mo ago
The good news is that by making cars more trouble than they're worth, this may speed us closer to walkable, bikeable neighborhoods that can only be reasonably navigated on foot or by bike, connected by extensive public transit networ
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by bitwize 3mo ago
WHAT Department of Education?
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It's almost as if... laborers in every field (the proletariat) have to unionize as a class against the ownership class (the bourgeoisie), seize the means of production, and reorganize society to their own benefit because the bourgeoi
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The IDEs would format the desired way as soon as you cursored off the line in some cases. This had benefits and drawbacks: it would actually parse the line, so if there was a syntax error, you had to dismiss the dialog and fix it before you

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