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by davemp 6mo ago
Claiming LLMs are fair use is ridiculous bordering on ignorant or disingenuous. Here’s the 4 part test from 17 U.S.C. § 107: 1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit e
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by davemp 6mo ago
> No. Reading something, learning from it, then writing something similar, is legal; and more importantly, it is moral. Machines aren’t human. Don’t anthropomorphize them. The same morals and laws don’t apply.
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by davemp 7mo ago
Considering we can only approximate irrational numbers, I’m not sure that’s a given. Maybe we’ll have a breakthrough with some type of analog computing, but we could also just hit physical limits on energy or precision.
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by davemp 7mo ago
So often these AI articles mis or ignore the Test Oracle Problem. Generating correct tests is at least as hard as generating the correct answers (often harder). I’m actually starting to get annoyed about how much material is getting spread
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by davemp 7mo ago
There’s like 10 replies telling me it’s not actually that complex then describe an equally or more complex solution that’s probably missing some of the security or features I have. I guess I wrote “complicated to set up” when I meant “compl
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by davemp 7mo ago
I’m not giving untrusted devices unfettered access to my lan and an airgapped network sounds more complicated tbh. VLANs aren’t really that bad with good networking gear.
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by davemp 7mo ago
I use an RPi 4 w/ 4GB of RAM and a 1TB usb 3.2 SSD and it flies through all my workloads. Though I don’t do any video encoding things.
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by davemp 7mo ago
Fun project. Though it’s kind of unreal how complicated it is to set up HA and I literally do this for a living, both embedded sw and backend web dev. Docker compose with a zwave management server, reverse proxies for TLS, vlan isolation fo
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by davemp 7mo ago
Professionally, sending our code off prem is not an option. Frankly I don’t understand why executives are okay with AI companies training LLMs on their IP. Unless they own a significant stake in the AI company I guess. Personally, it’s been
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by davemp 7mo ago
Do you walk around with rotating face coverings and disguise your gait? The onus is on the organizations spying on the public and the Govt. for letting them do it.
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by davemp 7mo ago
> The current project I'm working on has about 3 copies of every component because nobody bothers to clear up after themselves In these cases you know the duplication and dead code is there because of sloppiness and Chesterton’s fen
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by davemp 7mo ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_... Ignorance of why something exists is not a good enough reason to destroy it.
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by davemp 7mo ago
Leave parenting to the parents. Stopping bad/evil parents is not possible. The tiktok/youtube recommendation algorithms will undoubtedly cause more harm to minors than wandering onto an adult website and learning about how babies
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by davemp 7mo ago
Extremely debatable. Especially because there is no "The Turing Test" [0] only a game and a few instances were described by Turing. I recommend reading the original paper before making bold claims about it. The bar for the interro
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by davemp 7mo ago
Amazon hedging $35 billion on an IPO (we know the odds of AGI with LLMs are vanishing small) is concerning. The hedge signals that they think it's a good "greater fool" investment, otherwise they should be happy to take equit
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by davemp 8mo ago
Does it even need to be explicitly stated? Closed linux userlands.
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by davemp 8mo ago
I’m not going to write a detailed response to something that’s extremely close to what an LLM responds to “what UB does zig have?” Arguing about whether certain static analysis should be opt in or opt out is just extremely uninteresting. It
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by davemp 8mo ago
This is pretty close to saying Rust is not very different than C because it has the unsafe keyword. That is, either an ignorant (of Zig) or disingenuous statement.
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by davemp 8mo ago
> IMHO the zig footgun story with respect to UB behavior is largely unchanged relative to C/C++ The only major UB from C that zig doesn’t address is use after free afaik. How is that largely unchanged??? Just having an actual strong
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by davemp 8mo ago
Brute forcing a problem with a perfect test oracle and a really good heuristic (how many c compilers are in the training data) is not enough to justify the hype imo. Yes this is cool. I actually have worked on a similar project with a sligh
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by davemp 10mo ago
Very good news. Happy to see Zig getting more investment. I already use the build system for production systems and am looking forward to writing some more Zig when projects allow. Having a modern language that attempts to directly model lo
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by davemp 11mo ago
Windows prioritize phoning home and data collection over UX. If you have a corporate install you’ll also have negligent EDP software killing your boot times. You can get fast boot times on linux if you care to tweak things.
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by davemp 11mo ago
I’ve always just blamed the extreme bloat of the web and lack of design around poor connections for 2bar lack of performance. HN usual works fine on but that’s about it for sites I visit.
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by davemp 11mo ago
My point is that it’s easier to write correct Zig code than correct unsafe Rust. Raw pointers can be null in rust so you should use NonNull<T> but there’s aliasing rules that are easy to mess up. And difficultly with the stdlib as you
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by davemp 11mo ago
Rust technically isn’t a memory safe language the second you use “unsafe”. Rust advocates tend to pretend the can have their cake and eat it too when comparing it to other low level languages. No, just because you have the word unsafe next
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by davemp 11mo ago
> Paradox of Tolerance, which you alluded to. Just as a tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance without eventually just becoming intolerant I’ve always thought this was hand wavy nonsense. Tolerance and tolerating is so ill defined
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by davemp 1y ago
Programs aren’t text that you run on a computer though. Programs are text that describe an abstract syntax tree which encodes the operational semantics of the thing you’re computing. Maybe (likely) you could come up with a more convenient s
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by davemp 1y ago
imo git does a terrible job of showing its state so when anything more complicated than committing changes you really have to have thing internalized.
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by davemp 1y ago
> You won't get anywhere with people who just like to argue. Yeah not really sure why I bother. I think I just get bothered that Rust gets touted everywhere as a silver bullet. > Tony Hoare's "billion dollar mistake&quo
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by davemp 1y ago
What a crap, disingenuous argument. A kernel oops isn’t a panic at least however zig or rust defines a panic. So zig saying things about panics don’t apply here. Rust fails here the same exact way if drop semantics aren’t upheld (they aren’

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