boomlinde

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by boomlinde 2mo ago
I've noticed that ChatGPT (whatever model the free version uses by default) likes to phrase answers as though it's correcting me, even when my question doesn't contain any assumptions.
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
All buttons and links need to shift around for a good 10 seconds before the page settles.
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
It seems to me that you might as well put that thought and effort into describing the changes yourself. Most of my changes warrant 0-2 sentences of description below the header. A few particularly subtle bug fixes may need more to make sens
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
Being clueless has in my experience previously been a rate limiter. Without LLMs these people would simply be much less productive than those with a clue, and problems they don't understand would at best compel them to read and learn,
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
> Well-respected by who? She was elected to the California State Assembly, so presumably by her constituents.
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
> Because what they're asking for is that another person shutter their personal hobby. Their personal hobby insofar it involves violating F/OSS licenses, for a reminder of context. > but what they actually want is for tha
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
> They're talking about the result, one must think. Maybe they are, but in that case it's a frequent source of equivocation because people will conflate the process of their making with the result of some other process so as
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
I've seen people here insist that LLMs enable everyone to make music or art. It's diametrically opposed from my own view that making something is the process of making something, neither the result of nor the motivation for that p
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
> That's both more honest In what way is it more honest?
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
> Now every person can make satisfying music. Thanks to taxis, everyone can drive.
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
> the only winning move is not to play Presumably no one is forcing the maintainer at gunpoint to have an LLM slightly shake up other people's code, relicense it under an incompatible license and then claim that "every single
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
He doesn't seem to care whether its paid for or gratis. My understanding is that he's against using non-free software because it limits the ways in which you can use it, by the definition of "free" he and FSF subscribe t
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
Seems like less of a problem in smaller models where bullshit tends to become very obvious to anyone with half a clue about the given subject than it is in larger models where the illusion is complete enough that the confidently stated answ
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
Problems where verification of the proposed solution has a high cost or high risk.
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
The demo page doesn't work as described in Firefox when I open my bookmarks or history sidebar. It displays a correction offset, but Firefox valiantly defeats this evil hack and makes sure that the box is still at the center of the vie
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
Perhaps they weren't basing their statement on the "quoted fact" which was later posted in response to their statement (which FWIW isn't factual; as someone else points out this was not the only Amazonian civilization).
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
Yeah, I confused you for another user. Still, I don't get where "virtuous environmental brownie-points" enter the discussion or how the first reply pertains to them. It seems like a simple factual statement that is either tru
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
Since when is "assigning virtuous environmental brownie-points" the topic of discussion? Your original claim which GP responded to is unrelated to that.
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
I think its peculiar in that it's so limited, repetitive and undiscerning in its stylistic expression. The stylistic elements on their own wouldn't raise an eyebrow if they appeared rarely among many other stylistic devices in ord
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
If you have a slight interest in originality of presentation, whatever website copy first comes out of Claude is not there yet. Its preoccupation with "no x, no y" and annoying runs of sentence fragments might have been a punchy r
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
I use stock OpenBSD with nothing else for a web server. Very easy to maintain and configure, very good manuals and very good vulnerability track record. OpenBSD 7.9 was released 1-2 months ago. I know some people use OPNsense or pfSense for
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
You can't tell from this graph alone the extent to which the change in share during weekends is due to decreased use of the more popular operating systems or due to increased use of Linux.
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
If you then also define defecating as "incrementally refining output vectors to converge at the correct output" it could be argued that they are defecating.
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
Planes fly. They're up in the air passing through it. It's not an analogy; that's what flying is. Long before planes, balloons and helicopters, objects other than birds, bats and insects were considered to fly if for example
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by boomlinde 2mo ago
This program will always give a non-zero return code. This is unconventional if not straight up wrong, if the goal is for main to indicate whether it was successful in printing.
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by boomlinde 3mo ago
What's the point of showing an example if it's incorrect? If someone asks "how do I get some frigging text to show up on the terminal" and the answer is incorrect, it's bad advice as far as I'm concerned. >
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by boomlinde 3mo ago
The typical Hello World implementation tends to reveal very little about the language, because their print/println/printf/whatever implementations have failure modes that are either impossible to handle or easily ignored (e.g
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by boomlinde 3mo ago
Using e.g. a single zettabit-sized look-up table to give the 64-bit result of a multiplication of two 32-bit numbers suffers from a similar problem. But if we're talking about practical concerns there are already faster methods than ra
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by boomlinde 3mo ago
Their job probably isn't to invent weird, stupid ways to account for button bounce, either.
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by boomlinde 3mo ago
Regardless, if the problem is an input that normally registers the state of a button except for noise for some time as it bounces when it transitions, 48 of those reads, the averaging and the 5ms latency that incurs are unnecessary with res

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