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by chrsw 10mo ago
Users are using Windows, not choosing it.
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by chrsw 10mo ago
It's abuse. Sugar coating it will only empower the perpetrators. Is it the most inhumane thing possible? No, obviously not. But these sites are taking advantage of the fact that you're there to do something, learn something, get s
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by chrsw 10mo ago
I thought the problem was me not keeping my software up-to-date. Looks like web browsing was fun while it lasted. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I mostly use ad-blockers and content filters and when I go to a commercial page without
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Navigating AI: Critical Thinking in the Age of LLMs(mcuoneclipse.com)
2 points by chrsw 10mo ago|0 comments
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by chrsw 10mo ago
I think organization technical leadership wants to deploy AI to ship faster, not so engineering teams can do what they should have been doing all along. "Sure, we can deploy these tools, but first we need to properly document our desig
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by chrsw 10mo ago
I see a lot of Teslas on the road. But I spend a lot of time in Massachusetts and some in California.
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by chrsw 10mo ago
I'm still chugging along on a Dell XPS Developer Edition that came with Ubuntu 20.04 preinstalled. It's not as repairable as a Framework but it's been very reliable. If I had to get a new laptop for personal use today I'
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Amazon Is Filled with AI Book Slop(rollingstone.com)
12 points by chrsw 10mo ago|2 comments
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by chrsw 10mo ago
Arduino was finished the moment it was acquired by Qualcomm.
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by chrsw 10mo ago
Some of favorite desktop environments: NeXTSTEP BeOS/Haiku ChromeOS Raspberry PI macOS CDE I like uniformity, simplicity and consistency, stability, few surprises, little guessing. I want to use the computer. I don't need to becom
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by chrsw 10mo ago
Yes, I agree. And you can add security to that too.
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by chrsw 10mo ago
I work on deeply embedded software that doesn't have what you'd commonly think of as a "UI". So, unless there are bugs or we ship faster or something like that, users will never have any idea how much of our code is AI g
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by chrsw 10mo ago
The only reason why you run local models is for privacy, never for cost. Or even latency.
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by chrsw 11mo ago
Real machine learning research has promise, especially over long time scales. Imminent AGI/ASI/God-like AI/end of humanity hawks are part of a growing AI cult. The cult leaders are driven by insatiable greed and the gullible
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by chrsw 11mo ago
> Out of curiosity, is yours on gitlab? Something else? Something else, it's a self-hosted Git server similar to GitHub, GitLab, etc. We have multiple repos well clear of 1k files. Almost none of it is JavaScript or TypeScript or an
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by chrsw 11mo ago
How does this work if your repos aren't on GitHub? And what if your code has nothing to do with backend web apps?
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by chrsw 11mo ago
I think that's just the name they picked. I don't mind it. Taking a glance at what it actually does, it just looks like another command line coding assistant/agent similar to Opencode and friends. You can use it for whatever
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by chrsw 11mo ago
> run locally for agentic coding. Nowadays I mostly use GPT-OSS-120b for this What kind of hardware do you have to be able to run a performant GPT-OSS-120b locally?
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by chrsw 11mo ago
How do you know?
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by chrsw 11mo ago
I'm not sure how it is in other countries, but here the US, gas cars and EVs are political statements.
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by chrsw 11mo ago
Tech company leadership sees AI as a shortcut to success. You know how in project planning meetings engineers are usually asked how they can pull in the schedule by x number of months? AI is now that thing. Obviously, this is a mistake. The
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by chrsw 11mo ago
> LLMs "survive" by being useful - whatever use they're put to. I might be wrong or inaccurate on this because it's well outside my area of expertise, but isn't this what individual neurons are basically doing?
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by chrsw 11mo ago
I could be wrong but I think a lot of the negativity comes from people who want a modern laptop, with decent port selection, a good screen and a good keyboard, fully supported by Linux because everything is open. Quality hardware with suppo
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by chrsw 11mo ago
It will probably take decades for machine learning to transform the way we live and work.
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by chrsw 11mo ago
That sounds like the way nature handles growth and complexity: slowly and over long time scales. Assume there will be failures, don't die and keep trying. When you bite off too much complexity at once you end up not shipping anything o
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by chrsw 11mo ago
I got upvoted then downvoted in the acquisition thread where I suggested this would happen. Anyone who thinks the old Arduino still exists is simply naive.
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by chrsw 11mo ago
I thought I was just getting old...
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by chrsw 11mo ago
People don't want to contribute to the country that made them rich. I expect that in a place like the USA, where your taxed money can go to helping people who don't look like you or don't have your same values. But I assumed
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by chrsw 1y ago
Anything you see on the Internet can be gone in a moment. If something is important to you, you must save it to guarantee you want to see it again.
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by chrsw 1y ago
What's the cheapest way to get the same memory and memory bandwidth as a Mac Studio but also CUDA support?

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