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by dingnuts 2y ago
This is really nice of you but if you want to serve the public it wouldn't hurt to think about how the service can be made self sufficient financially so that when you no longer wish to run it, or want to, it can be handed off to someo
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Mastodon simply cannot be that user centric because the user can only control the subset of the Fediverse that your instance is able and allowed to see. Given that single user instances are largely nonviable due to the abundance of blocking
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by dingnuts 2y ago
they think they want it -- that doesn't mean they will actually like it if they get it
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I found this explanation extremely unsatisfying considering that you could make the same choice and put your child into private education if you're a successful tech person. I know families that homeschool and I like to read articles l
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by dingnuts 2y ago
You only need two friends and a chat server to have a community. I've been running one for my friends, like a self hosted discord, for almost ten years. It is by far my most valuable online space. There's maybe a dozen users. What
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Don't be too rude, this is a common view among people who are technically adjacent but not engineers, like IT people. It's an incorrect superstition, of course, but in tech almost everybody has their superstitions. There's no
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by dingnuts 2y ago
if you had read the F-ing article, which you clearly did not, you would see that you are committing the sin of exponentiation: assuming that all tech advances exponentially because microprocessor development did (for awhile). Development of
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Or at least call it out as a disclaimer? I read this whole article a few days ago when it came by on this site and that would've been real nice to know. Really puts the whole thing in a different perspective, knowing he's FUCKING
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by dingnuts 2y ago
>- you review the workflow (can be an intuitive list of commands, understandable by non-specialist) so you define a DSL that the LLM outputs, and that's the real UI >- you don't need to learn a product's UI, you just fo
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> You build the synth one module and one connection at a time all connected to an oscilloscope. making my music hobby feel like my job sounds terrible lol
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by dingnuts 2y ago
>and chat with Claude almost every time I go out for a beer after a long day... with all due respect, how can you take yourself seriously doing this? I tried to use an LLM as a "cheap therapist" exactly one time and it felt so
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by dingnuts 2y ago
GPT-2 was generating snippets of HTML ten years ago. Was it valid? Not always, but neither is the current crop. It's been incremental logarithmic gains approaching an asymptote for ten years now. Since before "Open"AI stopped
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by dingnuts 2y ago
>mainstream people will see through the facade at some point do you read reddit? lots of people see through the facade now. the only people excited are shills
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by dingnuts 2y ago
you could pre-empt them by defining ultraprocessed food instead of mocking them with the spongebob text if it's so easy to do so. go right ahead.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> the grunt work of implementing it all you mean the fun part. I can really empathize with digital artists. I spent twenty years honing my ability to write code and love every minute of it and you're telling me that in a few years a
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by dingnuts 2y ago
What do you mean? Reddit and Hacker News are link aggregators -- aren't you clicking the links? or are you only reading the comments? There's a long tail of random websites linked to by sites like this one -- like the one in the O
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> On the other hand I have started using llama 3.3 and it is approaching usefulnes cute phrasing! so what you're saying is that you're using it, but it's not useful. You can imagine it being useful, and it produces output
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by dingnuts 2y ago
take your tinfoil hat off. the US isn't one system conspiratorially doing one thing or another. it is a myriad of competing individuals and groups. journalists have different incentives than private prison operators and tend to be more
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Yes, the game and TV show The Last of Us made cordyceps a fairly well known genus
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by dingnuts 2y ago
There's a bit of variety in the vocabulary used between LATAM and Spain, and honestly even between LATAM countries there's variance. An example that comes to mind, as a first year Spanish student (I'm doing my best but fact c
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> while most Linux users are quite happy remembering long unique disk encryption passwords thanks very much. Which brings something up: how do you get back in if you suffer a traumatic brain injury or something like that? I feel like a l
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Oh, they will? Someone else on this site told me they would be running locally in 2-3 years, back in 2022. Someone on this site also assured me ten years ago that we'd have full self driving by 2020.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
sounds like an interactive tabloid. who gives a shit about famous people? authors I assumed died decades ago? Literally I do not give a single shit what Stephen King or JK Rowling thinks have fun with that, but you just explained why it nev
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> because that's not possible it isn't? I'm not aware of any relay servers being run but the AT protocol makes affordances for this functionality. Are those features a lie? I read the protocol specification only a few week
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by dingnuts 2y ago
harder in practice because many large instances block single user instances because abuse was an afterthought to the activitypub designers. Also, if you want to operate a home server, you also have to be willing to have a public file upload
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by dingnuts 2y ago
can't someone just stand up another atproto AppView with different default feeds to solve this problem? BlueSky's moderation team has traditional Twitter-like biases but my understanding of the AT protocol, from reading the spec,
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by dingnuts 2y ago
you'd rather read a novel on your laptop while standing in line at Discount Tire than on your phone? you walk around with your laptop in your back pocket all the time like Eminem or something?
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by dingnuts 2y ago
honestly the community Emacs has really sets it apart, and it's a piece of software where the GPL makes sense and shines and this is super clear in the Emacs community. It gives me hope for the longevity of the editor, and indeed, in t
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by dingnuts 2y ago
ideally you have a button on your mouse to summon this, and use it when you are already using your mouse, and summon a different interface for typing from your keyboard, when your hands are there
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by dingnuts 2y ago
the launch of ChatGPT had an amount of hype that was downright confusing for someone who had previously downloaded and fine tuned GPT2. Everyone who hadn't used a language model said it was revolutionary but it was obviously evolutiona

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