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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
Windows is enshittifying too but at least carries some of the pre-walled-gardens mentality of computing, when users expected a bit more agency. I personally use Linux, but I also know it's not practical for average regular people like
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
I once tried to put an mp3 on a relative's iPhone. I tried connecting it to our PC, and do it with iTunes, but it turned out I couldn't do it. Or it was some ridiculous contortion performance. I just told my relative that he shoul
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
Ubuntu may have issues, but at least the logs are there and you have freedom to open up the hood and reconfigure things as you wish. This is effort but we are in a thread discussing the problem of opaque errors and the impossibility of trou
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
RSS exists but those authors who don't publish through it probably wouldn't care about it either. Like, if by magic, RSS became popular as a technology, they would publish through it, but then there would be demand for discoverabi
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
There is a self-regulating loop that Apple users quickly learn not to "draw outside the lines" and just use the thing as designed and intended by Apple. If you use stuff like AdGuard, custom DNS etc, that's tinkerer tier stuf
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
They don't want tinkering or tinkerers. Apple is all about walled-off, locked-down, black box, just-works (when it does) etc. It's supposed to seem like magic. You're not supposed to tinker with magic, it makes it pedestrian.
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
Ok, maybe pretraining is now complete and solved. Next up: post-training, reinforcement learning, engineering RL environments for realistic problem solving, recording data online during use, then offline simulation of how it could have gone
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
There is absolutely no monopoly in photo editing software. Entering this market is fairly easy with a new product. I wonder what market (in software or outside software) could you name as more competitive.
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
Depends on how much people want the hidden content. People in Eastern Europe, regular people, noch tech wiz kids, know how to use torrent and know about seed ratios etc. At least it was so ca 5 years ago. People can learn when the thing mat
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
No because tivo could take it under the gpl2. It's not an auto upgrade. The new version is optional.
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
It looks like an AI generated fluff article without any evidence. People also did this for image generators as if you needed these arcane templates to prompt them, but actually the latest models are great at figuring out what you want from
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
That's true for unverifiable "talk professions" where there is no grounding and it's all self-referential navel-gazing chatter. But LLMs are already beyond that in writing code that passes actual tests, proving theorems
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
Should Youtube "fix" the proliferation of exaggerated faces in thumbnails? People prefer the slop, at least until they collectively notice the AI smell, at which point the post training will likely train it out of models and slop
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
I don't think any of this indicates a fundamental property of the tech itself. AI companies post-train their models to sound like what people like to read better. There's a reason that engagement farmers have converged on the tone
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
No, actors recite a pre-written script. But scriptwriters do have to be great thinkers in order to know what the great thinker would actually say.
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
This is the same distinction and motivation that led to Java's checked exceptions vs RuntimeException. It seemed like a good idea to enforce at the language level to handle what the author calls "known" errors, but treat &quo
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
This is a very strange statement. People don't always announce when they use AI for writing their software since it's a controversial topic. And it's a sliding scale. I'm pretty sure a large fraction of new software has
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
In my experience most people don't care at all. Even if you tell them about these topics, they find it weird, and tinfoil-hat adjacent. "If you have nothing to hide..." and "why would anyone care about my data in particu
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
Discussion a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111137 And longer ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352825
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
People don't care about privacy as long as a faceless corporation is doing the spying. People very much care if it has a plausible path to embarrassing or creepy situations involving actual people in your life. The chilling effect of u
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
What do you mean bodycam isn't a problem? Do people wear body cams to normal social occasions? People are more okay with cameras in public areas and less okay if it's in intimate, social, private situations, inside apartments, ind
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
Yes, the idea that you can meaningfully modify the program for your own purposes (one of Stallman's four freedoms) was quite unrealistic except for the most skilled and invested among users. LLMs change this. I mean, as long as you use
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
"Deterministic" is not the issue either, it's that small changes of the input will cause unknown changes in the output. You might theoretically achieve determinism and reproducibility for the exact same input (seeding the ran
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
Another LLM will read it of course.
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
I think there has to be a gradual on-ramp for things to pick up steam. You can't go over the "activation energy" required to set up the semantic markup etc. upfront that would have been needed for the Semantic Web back then (
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
Soon you'll be able to generate a video with AI that shows you typing the entire thing, and will narrate it in your own voice with voice cloning.
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
You can also just kind of hop from blog to forum to subreddit to discord to social media account etc. passively over time based on what interesting people are talking about or mentioning. My main point is that you can't expect to find
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
If you want a validation layer, why not write a cli that wraps the other cli?
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
Even if the help isn't great, good coding agents can try out the cli for a few minutes and write up a skill, or read the sources or online docs and write up a skill. That takes the spot of the --help if needed. I found that I can spare
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by bonoboTP 8mo ago
> When Claude does something unexpected with Jira, I can run the same jira issue view command and see exactly what it saw. Same input, same output, no mystery. A sign of bad UX. There should be better ways to drill down into what actuall

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