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by brazzy 4y ago
The entire strength of large language models like GPT is that they do know a frighteningly good approximation of everything, in terms of having been trained on text written about it.
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by brazzy 4y ago
Almost all people almost never have truly original ideas. When asked to "tell me an idea [you] have never heard before", they will remix stuff they have heard to get something that "feels" like it's new. In some c
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by brazzy 4y ago
How can an disagreement over GPT possibly be something to end a friendship over? This sounds like you said "I cannot possibly be friends with someone who does not believe that LLMs are emerging AGI!", and people read it like that
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by brazzy 4y ago
Status is a social construct, and we are social animals. So it really, truly does matter. And money is not the only thing that can convey status.
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by brazzy 4y ago
> It's easy to make something better, but somehow much of the world seems stuck with the two worst options. You got some interesting cognitive dissonance there...
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by brazzy 4y ago
> More busy work will be automated taking away some of the fun and leaving the harder tasks thus making jobs shittier Since when is busy work fun and hard tasks shitty?
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by brazzy 4y ago
People were saying this exact thing in 1960 about COBOL. The job of programmer was going to go extinct because business users could write their own software. We've been through a number of iterations of the same pipe dream since then,
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by brazzy 4y ago
It's absolutely a tradeoff requireing a cost-benefit analysis. Prior to Java 5, the language was quite simple, the spec readable and understandable without requiring deep knowledge of compilers. The introduction of generics and lambdas
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by brazzy 4y ago
Only if you know nothing about coding nor AI.
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by brazzy 4y ago
Same thing with the "vinyl sound". It's a proven fact they are worse a reproducing recordings faithfully than a regular well-mastered audio CD, let alone some high resolution FLAC. Vinyl distorts the sound. But it distorts it
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by brazzy 4y ago
> Or if it's a bunch of bare metal machines, hopefully someone old-school in the organization thought to deploy 48/96-port rs232 console serial concentrators and wire them up to the db9 serial port on each physical server. And
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by brazzy 4y ago
> It would only be really problematic if they also lost SSH access to those machines using Puppet. If you have root access the fix is not exactly hard. > But then they fired people that did had access so that might also be a problem O
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by brazzy 4y ago
You can spin "what this is about" whatever way you want, but it's simply a fact that for the kind of businesses that typically had deposits at SVB, the overwhelming part of those deposits existed to pay employee's salari
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by brazzy 4y ago
What you're glossing over is that when the employers suddenly lose most or all of their liquid assets and don't have perfect positive cash flow, then they cannot pay their employees .
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by brazzy 4y ago
The problem is that the interrupts may be used by library or framework code that you're not aware of, in hard-to-reproduce edge cases.
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by brazzy 4y ago
A good long look at the history of Chinese civil wars should be enough to scare anyone. Maybe they could control simultaneous large scale insurrections. But it would be wise not to be overconfident in that regard.
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by brazzy 4y ago
It's enormously funny how you say that a document that you yourself just cited to support your argument has no actual meaning. Try harder, little propaganda bot.
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by brazzy 4y ago
Except Florida and Texas have actually been part of the USA for centuries, while Taiwan has never been part of the PRC and has existed as a de facto sovereign country as long as the PRC has. Plus only a clear minority of the people of Texas
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by brazzy 4y ago
No, you spreading Chinese propaganda lies. I am much better educated on the subject than you.
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by brazzy 4y ago
No, we can assume that Taiwan is an independant sovereign country in its own right according to the will of its people. The one pouring billions into creating a secessionist movement there is China.
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by brazzy 4y ago
A "separatist movement" that encompasses the majority of the population of a "province" that was never fully under Chinese control. You are spreading Chinese propaganda lies.
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by brazzy 4y ago
>China prefers Taiwan be a rebellious province rather than an independent country because it strengthens China's claim to the island. I'm pretty sure that the Chinese government is actually scared shitless that Taiwan declaring
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by brazzy 4y ago
China absolutely does maintain its own diplomatic fictions. For example, a Taiwanese person travelling to the PRC needs a "Mainland travel permit for residents of the island of Taiwan", which is most emphatically neither a visa
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by brazzy 4y ago
My wife is from Taiwan, and what you wrote is a warped understanding of how things were 40 years ago. The official position of all Taiwanese parties is that Taiwan and China are one nation divided by temporary difficulties, because China ha
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by brazzy 4y ago
And half the assertions are at odds with what computers are and can do rather than just our culture around them.
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by brazzy 4y ago
In Germany, standard terms are to have the interest rate fixed for 10, 15 or 20 years, independant of how long it takes to pay off. Additionally, the customer has the right to refinance at current rates after 10 years. So a longer fixed rat
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by brazzy 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_China
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by brazzy 4y ago
I will agree with you on that.
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by brazzy 4y ago
I'm not saying those things are "okay", they are just not something that's appropriate to handle via criminal law.
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by brazzy 4y ago
A whiteboard is a great tool to quickly iterate towards a shared understanding of the design at that point in time . But if you take a photo of it and think you're done with documenting your design, you A) lose most of the context of

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