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by brap 11mo ago
About 3/4 into the article, “wait, it’s all about mirrors? ...Oh!”
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by brap 11mo ago
It’s more than just the UI itself (which is horrible), it’s the whole thing that is very hostile to new users even if they’re experienced. It’s such an incoherent mess. The UI, the product names, the entire product line itself, with seeming
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by brap 11mo ago
Might sound like an ad but I don’t care: I cannot recommend enough Jordan Expand floss. There are probably other brands that have these but that’s just the one I know. The amount of shit this floss scrapes out is like an order of magnitude
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by brap 11mo ago
One possibility I like to imagine is a future where knowledge sources are used kind of like tools, i.e. the model never uses any preexisting knowledge from its training data (beyond what’s necessary to be fluent in English, coherent, logica
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by brap 1y ago
“Who the fuck hired all you people? We ain’t got enough shit going on for all of yall, here’s some money now fuck off, respectfully”
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by brap 1y ago
After decades it should have been obvious by now that the vast majority of users prefer GUIs.
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by brap 1y ago
So basically being Amish
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by brap 1y ago
I can’t prove it but it sounds like complete bs. How is “active code” even measured? >We offer experienced COBOL (and other software) consultants Hmmm
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by brap 1y ago
It certainly survives by working , one way or another. My point is that until now, we have never been able to find a functioning system that frees us from work (trade is just one type of work, so is hunting for survival, or photosynthesis)
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by brap 1y ago
>We made it so that if you do not take part in trade (trade labor for income), you cannot live. We did not make it so, this has been the natural state for as long as humans have existed, and in fact, it’s been this way for every other li
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by brap 1y ago
So your government should pump the brakes, while other governments rush towards ASI. And you believe this will benefit you, long term? Or do you believe in “global cooperation”?
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by brap 1y ago
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/The_Unre...
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by brap 1y ago
Doesn’t the LV approach suffer from latency issues? If I understand correctly all state is managed by the server, which means even the most trivial UI interaction needs a roundtrip. Not to mention the cost of managing the state and connecti
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by brap 1y ago
I don’t know if this is a good rule of thumb, I think it really depends on what you use the dependencies for, how often you need them, etc. Consider for example a single DB dependency. Should the server be close to the DB or the client? It
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by brap 1y ago
Don’t all “serverless” platforms accept docker images? I know Cloud Run does. If I understand correctly your concern is mostly with “serverless functions” which abstracts away even more.
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by brap 1y ago
My bad, I meant specifically pulling a sled
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by brap 1y ago
What if you never trained them to pull, and they never observed that behavior? Would they still want to do it?
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by brap 1y ago
Google Wave had awesome tech but if you look at the demo in hindsight you can tell it’s just not a very good product. They tried making an all-in-one kind of product which just doesn’t work. In a sense Wave still exists but was split into m
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by brap 1y ago
What are the pros of making this a keyword vs just a standard function?
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by brap 1y ago
Wow I can’t believe try with resources is so old! I’ve been working with Java for years and only learned this exists recently, I thought it must be relatively new. 14 years!
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by brap 1y ago
So glad this is the top comment, this was my exact thought (and the exact same quote in the comment I made before reading the one). This statement made my bullshit sensors go off like crazy. Glad it’s not just me.
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by brap 1y ago
>Altman said the startup is devising a novel way to bankroll that outlay. “I suspect we can design a very interesting new kind of financial instrument for finance and compute that the world has not yet figured it out,” he said. “We’re wo
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by brap 1y ago
I think maybe I didn’t really explain myself properly. I didn’t mean that math is real in the sense that atoms are real. Perhaps “true” would be a better word. We know these things are true to us, but are they universally true? If that’s ev
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by brap 1y ago
Whenever I encounter this sort of abstract math (at least “abstract” for me) I start wondering what’s even “real”. Like, what is some foundational truth of reality vs. stuff we just made up and keep exploring. Are these knots real? Are prim
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by brap 1y ago
Depends on which $$s go into that comparison. Server costs? Probably. Engineering time? Accounting for all kinds of risks? Unlikely.
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by brap 1y ago
How does auth work in practice? What’s the login process from the user’s PoV?
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by brap 1y ago
As for JSON, I am also constantly annoyed by lack of trailing commas and mandatory quotations for keys. However I think these were the right design decisions and the slight annoyance is a small price to pay (especially when automation exist
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by brap 1y ago
I wonder how this compares to a more agentic approach where the LLM composes SQL queries to answer the questions, for example.
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by brap 1y ago
>Essentially, you need to hit the https://plc.directory service with a GET To me this is where the entire model breaks down and becomes 100% centralized. At the very least, I would expect that there would be a configurable li
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by brap 1y ago
I’m seeing this happening in real time in my company. The product keeps getting worse. It should have been a form and about 3 buttons but instead it’s an increasingly complex UI with incoherent, overlapping, confusing features, many of them

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