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by davidgerard 8mo ago
As I said below, there's hands on and there's hands on. The operator is unambiguously the operator, even as they automate to some degree.
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by davidgerard 8mo ago
author here - there's hands on and there's hands on, a Waymo operator is mostly getting the robot out of stuff beyond its if-then loop but also they are in any reasonable sense the human operator. Like, I'm sure our bro autom
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by davidgerard 8mo ago
author here, the video and post content are basically the same full credit to Ariadne Conill for finding the crypto angle, that makes sense of the whole thing
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by davidgerard 8mo ago
I can't see the crypto token, but everything about this reeks of someone will announce a token shortly. EDIT: oh there it is
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by davidgerard 8mo ago
There's a bug about it, and it's already marked WONTFIX https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/issues/3143
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by davidgerard 8mo ago
This isn't quite right? Wayland was literally created by an X11 developer who got two more main X11 developers in. It's a second system, not a competitor as such.
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by davidgerard 8mo ago
Long-time XFCE user here. We care that stuff works the same, we appreciate how much work it is to achieve that when the world is changing out from under you, and we appreciate that XFCE understands this and cares about it. Being in Rust is
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by davidgerard 8mo ago
This still comes across as ignorance of the area. How does one miss VLC?
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
The book intro proudly states it used LLM drafting.
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
My first guess is this is about spam and Bandcamp only having so many petabytes of backed-up disk.
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
"greetings, fellow musicians" - genAI and quant guy
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
alt-rightclick anywhere in the vague vicinity of a corner and you've grabbed it.
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
they're actively working on Wayland and very much want it to work well there? https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap One problem is I think Xfce has no paid developers, it's all spare time.
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
I did exactly the same series of switches.
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
I just set dpi to 128 or 192. The out-the-box 96 could do with changing.
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
The greatest drag on Linux adoption is Linux evangelists.
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
I'm a sysadmin, I hate computers professionally.
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
this guy has elsewhere in this thread cited "a16z revenue benchmarks" as evidence of productivity. you know, the sector most famous for setting more money on fire faster than anyone in living memory.
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
> I could not read past the first few sentences. You sure generated a lot of text from a few sentences! Well done! Or are you saying you have difficulty reading text? Because very little of what you're claiming is in the text.
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
A headline that delivers in the text is called an "effective headline".
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
Author here! "clickbaity" implies deception. I think I delivered on the title, given that's the message of the post and there's variants of the phrase three or four times.
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
lol those are all self-reports of vibes then they put the vibes on a graph, which presumably transforms them into data
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
LLMs are for producing work that should not be done. So it can definitely comment in the style of a comment that's superfluous. I keep testing with LLMs and it's super bad in writing convincingly in the style of a good writer. T
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by davidgerard 9mo ago
I can't detail it much further than just this, but I understand that Tim O'Reilly has the AI virus bad and makes his reports tell him what they've done with AI that day every day. So I've got a first guess.
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by davidgerard 10mo ago
The article also reads like it was written with a chatbot.
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by davidgerard 10mo ago
I'm an AI Moderate, with much more sensible opinions - you can tell, I used a sensible-sounding name for myself! - and it's clear that the moderate position is to set it on fire. The only reason it seems useful for search is bec
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by davidgerard 10mo ago
The real prize is running Win16 apps on 64-bit Windows. Mind you, Wine might lose that too ...
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by davidgerard 10mo ago
Cooling worked well, everything else sucked. https://www.itpro.com/infrastructure/data-centres/microsoft-...
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by davidgerard 10mo ago
yep, just found Microsoft admitting precisely that in 2024: https://www.itpro.com/infrastructure/data-centres/microsoft-... Cooling was great! Everything else sucked. DCs in space will have all the stuff that suck
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by davidgerard 10mo ago
Wine ran sort-of-fineish in WSL v1 and I'm pretty sure it'll run perfectly in WSL v2 (which is just a VM).

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