chefandy

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Cool work!
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One of my least favorite tendencies of software developers is assuming they can pull apart non-technical/mathematic problems involving human complexity, even at a societal scale, with a series of logical thought experiments like they’r
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Phone autocorrect usually is the culprit for those types of typos for me. I imagine this crowd would be more likely than many to have that common abbreviation for Active Domains trained into their input methods.
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This is a tad reductive. If there were no ads, how would people know that products existed? Would they just see the products on store shelves? What about services? Would labels be ads? Would how stores merchandise things be advertisements?
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> Like cancer, I think it's possible to split ads into two categories: Benign and malignant. I think you mean tumors because all cancer is malignant. There’s no benign cancer. > you know that things have gone sideways. You can fe
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Having been an avid net user since the early 90s, I can’t think of a time where that assertion wasn’t specious. In 2005— the year Gmail debuted and people stated using the term “web 2.0”— most of the content on the net was still from tradit
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Every corporate pronouncement of virtue must be appended with “until we get paid enough, or the right people ask.”
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This is a fun toy. I have no problem naming toys after the serious people and things that inspired it. For all I know, that is exactly what the author of this toy intended to do. Toy isn’t even a denigrating term — play is critically import
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> I’d completely disagree, because China was the beneficiary and it destroyed North American jobs. a) The whole point of commercial NN services is to replace human labor, and jobs are paid labor. Literally the entire point of LLMs is to
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Houdini’s 3D Voronoi tools are fun.
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A whole lot of people in the tech scene got really mad when Huawei was using obviously stolen Cisco designs and code for their switches. Didn’t humanity benefit from having cheaper access to switches because they didn’t have to pay for Cisc
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I wouldn’t even expect them to understand basic marketing themselves: there’s a lot more to it than many assume. I would hope they could understand the value of someone that does. There’s this kind of “well if I don’t understand it then it’
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Maybe post-catch or something— like a cleaning chemical used in fish markets or something— but one branch of my family are lobstermen in nearby waters south of the border and I haven’t heard of any such thing happening in their communities.
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As a long time creative worker in addition to my technical work, I’ve tried in vain to explain to the FOSS crowd that names, UIs, user flows, etc a) really matter if they want anyone outside of the technical world to use their tools, and b
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But there’s no hard ceiling above the people on the bottom. It’s not a stratification — it’s a spectrum. The lower-end developers replaced easily by LLMs aren’t going to just give up and become task rabbits: they’re going to update their sk
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Just another way for the people on top to siphon money from everyone else. No individual contributor is going to be rewarded for any productivity increase beyond what is absolutely required to get them to fulfill the company’s goals, and th
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Many bosses are willing to stake their subordinates’ reputations on it, too.
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It’s weird that caring about people impacted by the training of a hobby NN model feels anachronistic. Well those people were ALL the way at the other end of the internet tube, and it was only a game so their time doesn’t really matter, and
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For some little indie setup, sure. But AAA studios are like any other software companies— the folks putting their network stack together aren’t the same people that are making the gameplay logic, many of whom probably went to art school and
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There's a big difference between can and will. We absolutely can hold people and corporations accountable, but we often don't . We cannot hold a computer responsible for anything. It's a computer. No matter how com
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Hmmm... maybe I need to make an AI bot service that repeatedly has agents making 24/7 argumentative chat and voice complaints to customer service about services you use to reach the optimal low price. And THEN have another company sell
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I guess what I'm probably not seeing from my vantage point is that translating into a better experience with the tools available. I just cancelled a ChatGPT plus subscription because it just didn't seem useful enough to justify th
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Could you give an example of something we recently solved that was considered an unsolvable problem six months beforehand? I don’t have any specific examples, but it seems like most of the huge breakthrough discoveries I’ve seen announced e
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I don’t mean the more effective voting system — I mean the more effective system overall. I don’t really think that’s controversial. As I said, I like the Slashdot voting system
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Thanks— Could be my vpn.
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I'd love to know more but there's a zero percent chance I'm paying for a Daily Beast subscription to access a 2014 entertainment column. Oh well.
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> Swift can’t evolve or even exist without Apple and so unless you’re Apple, then Swift is too great of a risk. I'm not sure what you're saying here. It's Apache licensed so you can just fork it. It's got pretty activ
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Oh yeah true
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Yeah I'm sick of this. Did you know you can't even use ext2/3/4 together on the same partition? What a mess.
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And then all of their stans taking on a persecution complex because people that actually made all of the “data” don’t uncritically accept their work as equivalent adds insult to injury.

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