davesmylie

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by davesmylie 1mo ago
"That gap — between a system knowing and a person knowing — is the actual incident. Everything else is detail." this copy is terrible. It's like they made no effort no even slightly rewrite the garbage their LLM spat out at t
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by davesmylie 7mo ago
completely anecdotally (sample size of one!) but I found big improvement in comfort and posture when i moved to the kinesis ergo (split, but joined) about 15 years ago. Eventually I moved to a full split, positioned quite some distance apar
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by davesmylie 8mo ago
> Unfortunately, reading books for entertainment is ridiculous. You do not live in a log cabin on the prairie. You have Netflix, you have video games, you have TikTok, you have Twitter (you really spend too much time on Twitter anon). N
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by davesmylie 9mo ago
Certainly one of the few podcasts that I've stuck with. I think I started about 15+ years ago, and I know it was running for a while before that. Can't say every episode is great (not a fan of the live shows) or every segment is g
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by davesmylie 1y ago
oof. Of all the things I wouldn't trust AI to hallucinate facts on, mushrooms would have to be right up near the top of the list
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by davesmylie 1y ago
Not AI related, but the (hard sci-fi) book Blind Sight by Peter Watts explores this from a different angle. He posits that consciousness is expensive and some species may evolve to just "fake it". Also, space vampires.
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by davesmylie 1y ago
Well, that's some distopean shit right there ain't it
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by davesmylie 1y ago
Obviously it's well over a year since this article was posted and if anything I've anecdotally noticed hallucinations getting more, not less, common. Possibly/probably with another years experience with LLMs I'm just mor
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by davesmylie 1y ago
Personally nothing - a one off payment for software is fine. Subscription based software - it's what I do for a day job but I'm not interested in any more monthly money drains than the bare minimum - ie mortgage, rates and utiliti
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by davesmylie 1y ago
> This firm doesn’t care a whit about the impact on users - they are just too cheap to follow the rules. I'm old enough to remember when one of great things about the web was the low barrier to entry. Not every site has a large comp
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by davesmylie 1y ago
Hey, would be interested in checking this out when you release it
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by davesmylie 1y ago
I was pretty late to the AWS bandwagon (maybe 2019ish) but I had no idea there was a point when your resources were directly addressable by other customers. I'm surprised they got anyone signing up at all - though I suppose back then h
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by davesmylie 1y ago
This was true a few years back. Probably not been the case for at least the last 18 months. Curious what other professions you'd pursue?
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by davesmylie 1y ago
I suspect this is the only way they can differentiate it from a phone, and it will be pointless. Voice-to-text is already as good as it needs to be now, and most people barely use it because unless you are driving, a keyboard is better. I d
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by davesmylie 1y ago
I would consider not using a "smart tv" at all. I have had an old PC running my TV for many years now - it's fast, so doesn't get bogged down rendering applications, I can play any content that I have using full resoluti
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by davesmylie 1y ago
I was actually surprised to see that there's been a release in the last 12 months - I had thought it was dead. I used it extensively in the late 90's early 00's and really liked it. As a newb sysadmin at the time, the built-i
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by davesmylie 1y ago
I wonder how long before a freshly wiped phone or phone with only a few days of history is suspicious enough to cause entry issues in it's own right.
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by davesmylie 1y ago
If you have a web browser on your android, you could try this one.
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by davesmylie 2y ago
Hmm. Notably Farmers NZ recently had an extended unplanned outage, and has a 4 star app
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by davesmylie 2y ago
this - I use atop heavily in my fleet for exactly this reason. It's really helped nail some otherwise hard to find root causes.
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by davesmylie 2y ago
I've done this a lot - mostly with big machinery where the ANC on the earbuds, or the (not aviation quality) ear muffs alone don't suffice to bring the noise down to an acceptable level. It works well - but have them in long enoug
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by davesmylie 2y ago
Or beeper - its fully replaced messager on my phone with no issues from Facebook marketplace
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by davesmylie 2y ago
I have stopped doing them altogether unless there is a known issue that I am trying to resolve. I have some "smart" devices like TVs, printers etc that require local area network access - where ever possible/practical they ar
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by davesmylie 2y ago
Why wouldn't you - the average person has few ways to influence big players and voting with their dollar is by far the most effective. I wanted a Tesla for years. I wouldnt consider buying one now.
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by davesmylie 2y ago
> You could have been using something good for a year, rather than something designed to prey on your mind. Do you know of any good, free, alternatives?
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by davesmylie 2y ago
system operations/admin. moved over from dev about 10 years ago, but for various reasons still do a bit of programming, mostly for one-off adhoc analysis or config tasks. Gotta say not having to worry about end users, future proofing o
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by davesmylie 2y ago
> maintaining the existence of their feature suggestion community boards while just utterly stonewalling for years while thousands of paying users beg for stuff my one I've been asking them for years for is the ability to quickly s
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by davesmylie 2y ago
Pretty much - either they pay gig musicians an hourly wage to record "human" slop that spotify has the rights to and can stream effectively for free, or just out right ai generated slop https://harpers.org/archive
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by davesmylie 2y ago
Cool. I wrote a few watch faces for this back in the day. One of them - ruler watch face was moderately popular. Not sure what it is about the subsequent breed of smart watches (android, apple etc), but none of them seemed to scratch quite
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by davesmylie 2y ago
What is the difference between a senior engineer and a staff engineer?

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