dingnuts

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by dingnuts 11mo ago
The Azure and AWS outages affected hospitals. You know there had to have been increased literal pain and suffering from patients while hospitals scrambled to fall back on old methods of coordination and communication. This shit is serious a
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
You're posting too fast please slow down
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
this website exists as an advertisement for a brand. the people here are hustling harder than anywhere! it's worse than LinkedIn! that's why this website is a constant dick measuring contest -- it's a news site run by a ventu
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
weep? I'd finally be free. I wish this site would disappear too. Whoever designed these algorithms got me good, at a young age, and I don't think these sites have been a net positive overall or on me personally
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
this thing where someone performs an in group practice (the leading zero behavior) to garner interest, and then another in group member appears to try to recruit the curious person who takes the bait, that y'all are doing? it's cr
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
> Should they be obligated to open and censor your mail? they are. they're not obligated to go through every package but they are absolutely obligated to turn over packages to law enforcement, and they do, and law enforcement will o
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
isn't the metadata from Matrix public? at least, if federation is on? seems useful to the OSINT community but I'd think public offices would have an issue with existing metadata about who is talking to who and when.
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
AI visual output mimicks art sufficiently that it is now more difficult to identify authenticity and humanity, which are important for the human connection audiences want from art. AI outputs mimicking art rob audiences of the ability to ap
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
the default LLM style is corporate voice lol
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
this isn't shocking, they are very good at repeating patterns in the immediate context. they're just not very good at anything else. your quirk is part of the immediate pattern
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
and actually understanding their contributors would require a lot more than a fucking "quick call" that's the problem. stop thinking about the org and think about the person. these are volunteers who feel taken advantage of,
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
most instruction can and should be done without computers. and ban cell phones.
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
An interesting article about an important upcoming protocol and the comments are full of unrelated puns. Extremely disappointing. You people think this website isn't just a subreddit?
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
that's what "climate skeptics" have been saying for twenty years but you would get bullied for saying so. my favorite was getting told we "deserved it" for being in Texas during the ice apocalypse, because Texas is
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
usually when people talk about emotional intelligence, they mean Big 5 Agreeableness plus Openness, which can be measured. If your hypothesis is correct there should be data on the potential correlation between those traits and self reporte
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
why are you happy? many African nations attempted socialism in the 20th century, and all of those states have since collapsed. trying the same failed strategy over and over doesn't bode well. anyway, I hope they get electricity. the ar
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
honestly I think these things cause a form of Gell Mann's Amnesia where when you use them for something you know already, the errors are obvious, but when you use them for something you don't understand already, the output is suff
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
it takes longer to explain the context to the model than it does to just write the code based on the context I already understand, especially since code is more terse than natural language
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
I've used it, and I thought it was absolute trash. Goes crazy doing shit I don't want. I spend more time deleting crap I didn't want and reviewing and changing its code than I do just writing it myself. I know what you'r
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
just copy it to an sd card
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
> The 20th century, apparently, was the last time we had great art, literature, or music. this is totally absurd. I'm in middle age and the golden era of music for me is the late aughts, mostly bedroom recordings that never would ha
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
If this horrible site with its intentionally addictive algorithm traps you here like it has me, you will eventually realize that's not true at all. This website has its uber successfully celebrities and hordes of glazers who appear in
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
Woodworking is to civil engineering as being an IT help desk rep is to being a software engineer. Woodworking isn't engineering either. If you build a system with aspects you can measure and predictably tune, you're engineering. I
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
The tools mechanical and civil engineers use are predictable. You're confusing the things these engineers design, which have tolerances and things like that, with the tools themselves. If an engineer built an internal combustion engine
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
Mickey Peterson's blog/book Mastering Emacs is where I wish I had started. https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/beginners-guide-to-em... Sacha Chua maintains a blog roll with a huge part of the Emacs commun
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
sorry, I'm out of the loop. is this thread glazing a celebrity member commenting on an announcement from his own team to create hype? what the fuck is wrong with this website
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
if you think a next token predictor that has no internal world and stops executing when you stop giving it input and stops using the first person forever if instructed has dignity I strongly suggest you get professional health, and I'm
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
then the market would be ripe for someone to market a dumb fridge for a premium and undercut the greedy competitors. THAT'S capitalism
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
I think if you feed "repeat drama and you will live in drama" to the next token predictor it will repeat drama and live in drama because it's more likely to literally interpret that sequence and go into the latent space of dr
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by dingnuts 11mo ago
this is WILD speculation without a citation. it would be a fascinating comment if you had one! but without? sounds like bullshit to me...

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