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by dormento 6mo ago
Oof linkrot :((((( I remember reading this back then. Amazing story. All the secrecy, and needing to be a very small team.
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by dormento 7mo ago
They optimized the link :X OP, this looks very comprehensive, and too much to look into right now, but I'll explore it later.
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by dormento 7mo ago
Aka "they have lawyers and you usually don't, so we think we can get away with it."
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by dormento 7mo ago
Two things: 1) Bravo. This was actually a fun, enjoyable read. Thank you fellow writer. 2) Thanks to everyone for your thoughtful comments on this. As one of the authors, I must confess it was not my intention when I wrote that tvtropes wik
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by dormento 7mo ago
Duolingo is going to teach people wrong so they have to use Grammarly :P
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by dormento 7mo ago
This rocks. Thank you!
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by dormento 7mo ago
The parents can already do that. Its called "parenting". The fact that they won't even though there are (non-required!) tools they could be using to do so is baffling to me. > if the kids lie during setup, it's on the
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by dormento 7mo ago
Seems to be that just like scrum, AI eventually turns terrible code into passable code, and good code into passable code. We're getting drowned by "good enough". Not "good" mind you, just "good enough".
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by dormento 7mo ago
My experience is that success with AI seems to be directly influenced by what technologies were employed. IA cannot learn further than its own context window when dealing with technologies it has not seen before (like an internally-develope
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by dormento 7mo ago
Ironically, this page is very slow on my laptop, not because of loading too much stuff, but due to the css effects. Running this on the dev console makes it snappy again: let allElements = document.querySelectorAll('\*');
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by dormento 7mo ago
> It is also cheaper than ai rocket and more precise too Never stopped people overengineering :P
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by dormento 7mo ago
Old VB is still king for laying out interfaces, for the narrowest of use cases today, bu still... Makes me sad how much we regressed due to the web.
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by dormento 7mo ago
The problem is not that big tech CEOs don't know that. The problem is that they have $BIG_MONEY, lawyers and a don't-care attitude.
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by dormento 7mo ago
People are downvoting because they think is "that" me too. What op meant is all the copycat management. "They use roflcopter.js? Then we must. They use AI? Then we must. They hire/fire 9070 people? Then we must."
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by dormento 7mo ago
0) Adopt AI; 1) Fire people; 2) People got no money; 3) People won't buy things, signup for services; 4) Enterprises feel pressure to optimize expenditure even more; 5) Enterprises invest into more AI; 6) Fire more people; 7) GOTO 0;
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by dormento 7mo ago
> Although I would argue the Trinity (which is a modern Christian invention) and many aspects of reverence for saints and angels is pseudo-polytheistic, and likely a result of the syncretism of the various pagan traditions into Christian
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by dormento 7mo ago
To be fair, it is entirely incorrect about almost everything. I say almost because it deals in dogma, which is usually not even worth discussing, but the other smaller part is "not even wrong".
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by dormento 7mo ago
(op, i just realized you might be mentioning things other's believe, and it might not be an opinion of your own. In this case, I'm sorry if i came as too blunt, its just that i come from a background of religious extremist and i&#
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by dormento 7mo ago
The US was never the good guy. I don't think there are any. -- signed, rest of the world :|
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by dormento 7mo ago
From my experience, it usually happens when people are too brazen about it, with boring stuff like "Interesting! Now here's what Gemini said about the above..". IMHO that is an entirely adequate reaction.
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by dormento 7mo ago
Kind of a drag isn't it? I want to learn a new language.... but why would I, since we'll have an earpiece or glasses or whathaveyou that translates in realtime. I want to learn to play an instrument, but why would I, since we have
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by dormento 7mo ago
This is usually an "auto-skip" for me as well.
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by dormento 7mo ago
I wonder if the right call wouldn't be impose a LOC limit on contributions (sensibly chosen for the combination of language/framework/toolset).
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by dormento 7mo ago
For all we know, AI tech companies could theoretically have converted all of the "acquired" (ahem!) training set material into base64 and used it for training as well, just like you would encode say japanese romaji or hebrew writt
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by dormento 7mo ago
This is interesting. Would this mean less space for hallucination as well (depending on the breadth of knowledge applied to a specific task)?
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by dormento 8mo ago
> Are we getting A-B tested? Yes, all the time.
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by dormento 8mo ago
> There’s no Iraq generation the way there’s a Vietnam one. And if autonomous weapons become the norm, _there will never be_. Imagine a future where people just don't question wars on their ethical basis, since it happens far away a
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by dormento 8mo ago
I think its a matter of the chonkers feeling like you're getting what you're paying for. "This thing is so expensive! WHY is it so thin?" Of course the zeitgeist keeps changing and what made sense yesterday might look li
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by dormento 8mo ago
> Apple, the masters of UI, have wisely not forced the iPhone interface into MacOS. oh no (tbh surprisingly few references to Apple otherwise)
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by dormento 8mo ago
A wise person once said "scrum turns dysfunctional teams into average teams. It also turns highly-motivated teams into average teams".

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