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by djhn 6d ago
Your comment started out well within the Overton window, but in the second paragraph it jumped out. Can we call that Overton window defenestration?
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by djhn 10d ago
This must depend on language. I think that at least for Python, JS/TS, Go, C, Fortran there isn’t much difference in setup with notepad+terminal (or sublime+terminal for myself) relative to whatever the kids are using these days. Other
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by djhn 10d ago
Ah, watching that was like soap for a brain sullen with today’s video content.
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by djhn 10d ago
Wait, what? I’m not sure I’ve ever used an online shop that didn’t allow you to buy things without registering, but then again I do most of my purchases in person and offline.
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by djhn 1mo ago
RE side hustles, as in, reverse engineering?
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by djhn 1mo ago
No, sorry, didn’t mean to come across rude. I wasn’t arguing, I trust that for whatever you were working on, that was indeed low latency and take your word for it. I just can’t think of what field or general area of computing you’re talking
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by djhn 1mo ago
I also tested this and couldn’t get the pull down method to work: Spotify still shows its annoying post-screenshot menu.
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by djhn 1mo ago
I’m curious now, what areas of computer science (as opposed to copy paste react development) consider 100ms low latency? Were you working with very big writes? Very old storage?
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by djhn 2mo ago
Meta makes money on advertising. They are not paying 30% fees on ad spend. Meta does lose revenue when Apple and Google introduce privacy features and decrease ad tracking efficacy. They also hate that unlike the web, where their cookies
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by djhn 2mo ago
Constant hallucinations. OpenAI:s latest on max settings. If you are to naively feed say, a short corpus of text to turn it into a parallel corpus in a few different languages, the original text gets subtly mangled and no longer matches the
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by djhn 2mo ago
Definitions matter. The meanings of words matter. What you call a model acquiring agency I call plain old software with productivity workflows designed by humans, with deliberate goals. We must separate “model” and an execution environment
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by djhn 2mo ago
The implied assumption that “writing correct code” used to be a limitation that has been solved since 2024 is… overstating current capabilities. The idea that “AI models” have acquired “agency” as of 2025 and are working on “self-improvemen
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by djhn 2mo ago
I agree. Not to mention safety. To be useful they’re gonna have to be capable and powerful. If they’re good enough to be useful, they will be dangerous. Advanced household robots are closer to fully autonomous cars and airplanes than roomba
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by djhn 3mo ago
> (Apart from rent payments). Privilege enables you to rent competence, historically by paying other people. The slop companies will now sell you a simulacrum of competence by the token. The fact that competence can (could?) only be acqu
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by djhn 4mo ago
If the government had the capacity to prevent this, they would have. It appears, therefore, that they indeed do not.
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by djhn 4mo ago
On TSMC: what is your reasoning or source of belief that ”extracting as much valie as they can” is against TSMC’s nature? Is there some charity charter or non-profit governance arrangement I’m not aware of? Or are you saying that geopolitic
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by djhn 4mo ago
Yes, and they’re bound to abuse it. There’s a similar thing going on with emails. Dozens of services ”decide” that you need to update your email address, because ”they can’t reach you”. Many of them even stop sending you emails you explicit
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by djhn 4mo ago
Casual games ≈ IAP gambling addiction abuse
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by djhn 4mo ago
Surely a big part of the reason is steering leverage relative to the kerb. You are able to one-shot reverse parallel park into a much narrower gap without hitting the bumpers of the cars around you or getting onto the pavement.
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by djhn 4mo ago
This sounds a lot like ignoring the Bitter Lesson , and expending a lot of effort rebuilding slightly better Expert Systems .
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by djhn 4mo ago
I find SQL and data(bases) in general to be LLM’s Achilles’ heel. Databases are rarely under version control, so the training data only has one half of the knowledge. My comments are more in the context of OLAP queries and other non-normali
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by djhn 5mo ago
I think I know the examples you’re talking about. They don’t show much in terms of reasoning. The Erdős problems have turned out to be largely brute force or finding older results. The Feb 2026 GPT-5.2 theoretical physics paper was a result
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by djhn 5mo ago
I’m afraid your numbers, all over 99%, are anchoring the conversation to an unreasonably high quality level. I would have personally gone for 75%, 85% and 95%, which are all still best case scenario answers. Had I taken on chatbot advice
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by djhn 5mo ago
I’m genuinely interested in someone countering the following evidence that supports the authors. Plane of words: broadly correct. Everything is flattened to tokens and token sequences, and the training data is dominated by text tokens. Reas
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by djhn 5mo ago
That is certifiably insane if that code touches anything that’s exposed to the internet or any PII. What kind of industries is those acceptable in?
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by djhn 5mo ago
Ok, fair. I incorrectly assumed you meant resizing static images to create a lower resolution preview image. Video thumbnails are a different beast altogether. And you might want to double check your assumptions about security consideration
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by djhn 5mo ago
But a thumbnail generator is a 1 hour task at best if you’re on a solo greenfield project and it’ll still be a 6 week project at an enterprise, even with AI.
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by djhn 5mo ago
I think I should also clarify, I work in the training of encoder-decoder transformer models. Before the ChatGPT era I worked on on encoder-only transformer models. I'm not unfamiliar with the literature and general discourse. I just
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by djhn 5mo ago
I can take on a slightly weaker form in good faith: professionally it’s a non-starter until private, open source inference can be self-hosted and the ROI is clear enough to invest in that. And on the ROI side, trying things out regularly, I
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by djhn 5mo ago
What kind of code is infrastructure in this context? Devops in a software company? Internal tooling in a software org?

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