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by dingnuts 2y ago
this is still how I am with pretty much all genAI. People on this site say it's great, but a lot of people on this site have big incentives to hold that view. I have found the free models to be useless, and sufficiently useless that th
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by dingnuts 2y ago
The point of art for the artist is expression. The point for the audience is to gain something through shared experience with the artist. AI outputs are not created by a conscious agent experiencing affect, and its audience shares an experi
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by dingnuts 2y ago
>a person who interacts with them, without buying anything, is stealing from them This is so asinine. This would be like Target locking you in until you make a purchase, because you entered the store, and are thus wasting their resources
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by dingnuts 2y ago
just because you found those mechanics to be not to your liking doesn't make them invalid. A whole lot of shallow gameplay can easily add up to a game that is fun, because it is full of small activities that are each fun for a little w
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by dingnuts 2y ago
the parent said: to block things that are illegal. phishing is illegal.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
If you don't like Go, why did you come and comment in this thread? didn't your mother ever tell you that if you don't have something nice to say, you shouldn't say anything? at least Go doesn't have virtualenvs
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> But I just find it baffling how acceptable it is to see someone publicly smoking weed at 7am on a weekday. This isn't even socially accepted among stoners who smoke every day once you're old enough to have a job. Not sure who
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by dingnuts 2y ago
as a heavy user of vim motions and macros I'm thinking this is one reason I've not found AI code generation terribly useful. Yes, it's good at boilerplate. But I've spent a long time getting good at vim macros and I&#x27
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by dingnuts 2y ago
over the last ten years the tech industry has 10x'd the value it has created, which is obvious if you look at the accrued wealth of the leaders in the industry. you know what has NOT gone up 10x in the decade I've been working in
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by dingnuts 2y ago
are you kidding? AI will make live performance more valuable, not less. The human connection is what we want. Citation: the magic feeling my instrument makes when it vibrates in my hands when I play. AI isn't going to take that away yo
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by dingnuts 2y ago
yeah you would think but the things I've heard about Nextdoor have /not/ encouraged me to make an account. And I sort of know my neighbors lol
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by dingnuts 2y ago
>What irks me is how LLMs won't just say "no, it won't work" or "it's beyond my capabilities" and instead just give you "solutions" that are wrong. This is one of the clearest ways to demonstr
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by dingnuts 2y ago
IQ is compute speed, not storage. It has nothing to do with knowledge. IBM used to give one out as part of their hiring process, years ago, and even I took it the entire test was a timed multiple choice exam where every question was looking
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Is anyone actually getting value out of these models? I wired one up to Emacs and the local models all produce a huge volume of garbage output. Occasionally I find a hosted LLM useful but I haven't found any output from the models I ca
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by dingnuts 2y ago
United Healthcare already got caught using an LLM to make life or death coverage decisions. IMHO that's both worse than your nightmare scenario and it's already happening.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
necessary for those of us who forget what they're doing whenever they open their phone. The ability to tell my phone "shut up I'm at my desk" without opening it and being confronted with the home screen & notificatio
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by dingnuts 2y ago
ok so where do those who have been consistently mad at the people variously in power going back to 2016 or even 2008 go to complain? non-partisan free speech believers exist
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by dingnuts 2y ago
yeah, the person you're referring to is confused because the Cloudflare HTTP service terminates TLS and presents a Cloudflare certificate, but that doesn't have anything to do at all with Signal's E2EE which is not based on H
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by dingnuts 2y ago
in practice that's not the kind of content that is defederated. what is defederated is usually for ideological reasons, but sometimes it's because of illegal content (there's a lot of Japanese Misskey instances that will happ
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I don't understand why gw is so dominant in this space; is there no room for other tactical ttrpg IP?
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by dingnuts 2y ago
fucking hell are we only now having this discussion? when GitHub Copilot first released, a few years ago, my first reaction was: that's a keylogger! it sends everything in your editor to Microsoft, isn't anyone worried about that
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. Carlson and Maddow made nearly identical arguments in court and if both are not mentioned in the same breath, the speakers bias is instantly displayed to anyone who is educated on this topic. > IMO they s
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by dingnuts 2y ago
well according to xianshou's profile they work in finance so it makes sense to me that they would gloss over the hard part of programming when describing how AI is going to improve it
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by dingnuts 2y ago
there are other email providers, you know. the choices are not "do it all myself" and "be Google's product."
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by dingnuts 2y ago
designers entire profession is around figuring out what looks good to the most people, not just fonts; your comment is so ignorant and dismissive of an entire profession that it's startling. you are hereby cursed to use papyrus to code
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by dingnuts 2y ago
surface as a verb isn't office jargon. Submarines and whales surface.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
The type of power China has is very different than Zuck's. You aren't going to get taken to a black site for talking about Tianamen Square on Facebook. (or something like the Tusla Race Massacre may be a better example, since that
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by dingnuts 2y ago
parents aren't on Discord
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by dingnuts 2y ago
if the problem is advertising and data monetization, why am I so addicted to /this/ website? I have had a much harder time quitting Hacker News than I ever did quitting Facebook. I've been off Facebook for ten years yet I kee
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by dingnuts 2y ago
what is an "open source" network infrastructure provider?

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