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by dingnuts 2y ago
The GP's point about the energy density of gasoline and how quickly it can be transferred is not refuted by this irrelevant statistic; indeed, reading the same statistic with a pessimistic interpretation makes my point: if the median t
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by dingnuts 2y ago
there just aren't enough doctors. nobody talks about the cap on licenses that the AMA will issue, which makes it so nobody ever has more than a few minutes with their doctor. It's to the point now where seeing an MD at all is a ch
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by dingnuts 2y ago
The garment industry is an interesting one to make a cost argument about. It produces an immense amount of ecological damage and human suffering to support prices so low that even poor people have way more clothing than they need. The garme
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I added them, because they are a plug-in like anything else, but rarely find a use for them. They are best at helping me remember syntax for single statements, nothing more. Like autocorrect but vaguer.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
no, because before transistors we had vacuum tubes so the functionality of a transistor was well understood and the breakthrough was in size and power consumption. the analogy would be more apt if tomorrow I could run ChatGPT 4o, the hosted
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by dingnuts 2y ago
How does an LLM muddy the definition of intelligence any more than a database or search engine does? They are lossy databases with a natural language interface, nothing more.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
hmmm I apparently confused it with an RTS, oops. also it's not conspiratorial to wonder if someone in silicon valley today receives funding through the AI industry lol like half the industry is currently propped up by that hype, probab
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by dingnuts 2y ago
nevermind, I hate this website :D
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by dingnuts 2y ago
how am I supposed to take articles like this seriously when they say absolutely false bullshit like this > the AIs can do everything taught by a CS degree no, they fucking can't. not at all. not even close. I feel like I'm taki
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by dingnuts 2y ago
isn't the whole issue that they have no good way of knowing how many to make until launch? you don't want to wind up like Atari burying copies of ET in the desert
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by dingnuts 2y ago
it's completely unsurprising that a child raised with no spiritual grounding would be interested in a book that teaches how to live and attempts to answer the questions that rationalists and atheists have nothing satisfying to say abou
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> I'm pretty sure you could "vibe code" a Jira or Jenkins clone in a couple of days and at least pass the PoC sniff test. oh man, just think of the security implications of a "vibe coded" CI system, holy shit I&#
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by dingnuts 2y ago
not if you don't have a WiFi signal available. The part that makes it a cell phone isn't the ability to run messaging apps, it's the cellular modem.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> Since it's not a New Yorker article, I was hoping to spare the audience a long personal life story The New Yorker out here catching strays. Spare us, "maga," your excuses and weird insults! You didn't need to share
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by dingnuts 2y ago
how am I supposed to notice and fix the myriad bugs produced if I'm not familiar with the framework or runtime? and if I am familiar, how is prose literally ever more terse than the actual code? to me it just comes down to which one is
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by dingnuts 2y ago
you're making a straw man argument and being an asshole about it to boot. neurons aren't binary. who knows if they're special in a way digital computers can't simulate -- they aren't well understood. nobody said any
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by dingnuts 2y ago
_will_ vote in some folks? see this is what confuses me about the trump is a fascist crowd, aren't we concerned about giving the state this much power because of the people who have already been voted in? I mean, it's too little t
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by dingnuts 2y ago
You mean the shooter's escape. Mangione is pretty obviously being framed, c'mon
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I've been programming for a few decades. I hate LLMs. They generate oodles of buggy shite that I have to fix by hand. They frequently steal my time and make me less productive because people on this site say I have to learn them or ret
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by dingnuts 2y ago
LLMs will be best at HTML and CSS among programming languages because even if it's subtly wrong the browser will still render something. Still, I'm not sure I need to spend $250/yr to occasionally generate some HTML that I co
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by dingnuts 2y ago
why would I pay for the advanced features when I haven't been impressed with the free features? in fact Claude 3.5, which is what is available, is a nearly worthless product, with value comparable to a free search engine, and not even
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> Not one open source project larger than a library has gotten anywhere major without corporate sponsorship. Bold statement. Who is the corporate sponsor of Emacs?
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by dingnuts 2y ago
just ten years in the gulag archipelago I guess lol, not death!
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I don't understand why cashless is a goal. You want DOGE to be able to control who you're allowed to pay, directly? And Trump Admin tracks every transaction? I understand that w bills with serial numbers, cash is also trackable, b
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Your rhetorical begs the question -- I can't think of anything more recent than the MIT license. What DO we rely on that has come out of MIT this century? I'm having a real hard time thinking of examples.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Horrible, terrifying advice. If you want safety critical code, DON'T USE AN LLM AT ALL. Use formal verification methods! This is a solved problem!
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by dingnuts 2y ago
if Elon Musk hadn't convinced the world in 2015 that self driving cars were right around the corner, that could work with just a few sensors and machine learning, maybe we'd have smart highways now. Slightly less fancy technology
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by dingnuts 2y ago
yeah a lot of people saw that and it's why Trump won on an anti intellectual platform and the media can't comprehend it because every single talking head is very proud of their mass communications degree from whatever Ivy got them
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by dingnuts 2y ago
yeah, there's subsistence farming and cosplaying as a subsistence farmer. one's a lot more fun than the other :P
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by dingnuts 2y ago
if one blackout from a freak storm in thirty years is your litmus test, I'd like to know where you live because I'm willing to bet the track record isn't substantially different -- except maybe in how it was covered.

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