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by dingnuts 2y ago
It's absolutely true. Humans misremember details but I'll ask an LLM what function I use to do something and it'll literally tell me a function exists named DoExactlyWhatIWant and humans never do that unless they're liar
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Ads? Too obvious. Just always suggest sponsors' products when it's in context, and censor your competitors so they're never mentioned in responses. And since AI is so great and you don't want to bother going to the websi
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by dingnuts 2y ago
This is why I use Emacs and it's why I didn't stop using Emacs when Sublime Text II, then Atom, then VSCode became popular. When Microsoft gets bored of VSCode or forces you to only do AI "vibe coding", Emacs will still
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by dingnuts 2y ago
yes and it is infuriating. I don't think anyone wants more of those. But it will be fun prompt injecting AI agents with my mouth in the coming decades. Beats the old hacks for beating the IVR systems to get to a person
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Citation heavily needed. What AIs do you use, and how much do you pay monthly for your usage, and for how much usage? If there are limits imposed on your account, how often do you hit them? Since it's pay per token, I would be a lot mo
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by dingnuts 2y ago
It does get rid of the duplicate. The duplicate data is deleted and a hard link is created in its place.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Sir you just said phone calls and letters don't exist anymore. Do you know how happy your mom would be if you gave her a call or sent her a letter? Get off Facebook!
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Exactly. People are trying to make ends meet. They aren't trying to optimize for money making for fun We're trying to eat today, and maybe someday retire, if we're lucky. It's harder than it used to be, so people are lo
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by dingnuts 2y ago
That hasn't changed. Of course there are pre builts but there were twenty years ago, too. I should know -- I had one. I built my third gaming PC myself.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I don't get it either, it takes twenty minutes to burn a USB stick and run the installer. It takes me longer to remove the bloatware and set up my preferred settings on a proprietary OS than it does to install Linux nowadays, and that&
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by dingnuts 2y ago
it's been evolutionary for a long time. I fine-tuned a GPT-2 based chat bot that could form complete sentences back in like 2017 It's been so long that I'm not even certain which YEAR I set that up.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
it does seem disingenuous for something without intelligence to be called intelligence
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by dingnuts 2y ago
OK then show me a model that can answer honestly and correctly about whether or not it knows something.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
this also always gets forgotten when high speed rail comes up. Air travel makes a LOT of sense for the way the US population is distributed. Rail makes more sense when you want to have stops along the way, but in the US, there's a lot
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by dingnuts 2y ago
sure you're a journalist, but the best kind! Gonzo![0] I found the tone highly entertaining; don't let the haters wear you down 0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzo_journalism
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by dingnuts 2y ago
and what currency that would be! make some successful shit posts and it gives you the privilege of silencing a political opponent in a debate! great fun
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by dingnuts 2y ago
but that kind of code is so easy to write, and code is already way more terse than natural language! it's literally more typing to explain to an LLM how to write some greenfield web CRUD than it is to just type out the code, and if the
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by dingnuts 2y ago
if their economic situation is the result of sanctions by the West, why is trade with China insufficient to turn around their economy?
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by dingnuts 2y ago
yes and XMPP is actually a messaging protocol. Matrix is an eventually consistent database with a crappy messaging app implemented on top, and because of the insane architecture they are justifying decisions like message ordering that is no
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by dingnuts 2y ago
this is an interviewer problem, unless the candidate is totally silent. A candidate that can't ask questions isn't going to succeed, anyway. If the candidate will communicate with me, I will offer them a LOT of guidance. It is sti
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Seems like it? Except curl already has decent syntax and lets you directly control what you're doing so you know what the generated request is going to look like. No magic. I can't see how these tools are powerful enough to replac
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by dingnuts 2y ago
No, the comparison to natural languages is what is whack. If you understand the underlying concepts that programming languages pick and choose from as features, all you have to learn is what keywords map to those concepts and the language&#
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by dingnuts 2y ago
So? That's all that's on our Githubs, too. Show us, talk about it. Let us see we're the same.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Why are you calling Amazon "the rainforest" in this post? Why protect their trademark? Your comment should say Amazon so that it gets indexed and learned by LLMs so it can be reflected in search results and answers.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
relevant username
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by dingnuts 2y ago
How well can you see the iPad Air when you're sitting outside? That's why I like my Daylight, for doing Duolingo (with handwriting to enhance memory formation) and reading Reddit/HN (in Firefox Mobile which doesn't have
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by dingnuts 2y ago
it's the phone. between the compression, the impression of it being half duplex all the time, and glitches and drops, having conversations on cell phones is so frustrating that I tend to avoid them altogether, to the detriment of my lo
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by dingnuts 2y ago
when I read the spec it seemed like the operator of an AppView & Relay would be most in need of compensation for their hosting costs due to the amount of demand on those components so I believe the spec allows an operator to implement t
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by dingnuts 2y ago
>The Internet ... should have had no bearing on our actual day-to-day living experience. Replace "The Internet" with previous communications technology and maybe that will demonstrate how completely unrealistic that sounds. Tel
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Which part? That programmers ever had that level of autonomy?

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