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by dosisking 2mo ago
You've hit on an important insight.
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by dosisking 2mo ago
There are two 'camps' with respect to AI. One camp already knows that Neural Nets don't work and are a dead end. The other camp hasn't yet figured out that Neural Nets don't work, but are convinced that they do (or
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by dosisking 2mo ago
FreeBSD yes, Linux no
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by dosisking 2mo ago
> This is very different from Python, where training data is polluted (I presume) with tons of code written by non-software engineers and demonstrating many different ways of doing the same thing. Python's philosophy is there is one
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by dosisking 2mo ago
2 weeks to flatten the curve
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by dosisking 2mo ago
> Did the US reach 450k deaths in a single year? Wow, and there are still those who call it a hoax? Miraculously, there were 0 flu deaths that year
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by dosisking 2mo ago
San Fran, who turned out to be a man Flo had to go, I couldn't go with the flow
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by dosisking 2mo ago
> Legal departments are ironically very much like LLMs. Replacing legal departments with LLMs is probably the best use-case for LLMs. Using LLMs for coding is a waste of time and a dead end, however using LLMs for legal stuff would make
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by dosisking 2mo ago
Hey, that rhymes
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by dosisking 2mo ago
The only thing that is hard to cook is Creme Brulee. Pretty much every chef I have ever worked with did it wrong.
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by dosisking 2mo ago
> the internals seem remarkably well thought out You could not design a worse system than Android, even if you tried to design the worst system possible
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by dosisking 2mo ago
> If we’re gonna go for a witch hunt then we better hack off Microsoft’s head as well, for instance, since even their Xbox controllers are used in military subs. Sounds like a great idea! I'm all for it
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by dosisking 2mo ago
> And ? Are you upset that Google/Microsoft/Oracle sells their tech to the military? Yes > Xbox controller is used on nuclear subs too. I have never played an Xbox, nor do I have any interest in doing so. There is nothing in
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by dosisking 2mo ago
The difference is probably that you are not that good at programming, and that the LLMs are better than you.
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by dosisking 2mo ago
> Agents are effectively a full McDonalds kitchen, yes. You just insulted everybody that works at McDonalds.
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by dosisking 2mo ago
LLMs are more like having someone else microwave something for you, rather than having someone else (who knows what they are doing) cook for you.
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by dosisking 2mo ago
> Is he forcing people to login to Instagram or Facebook? Are you referring to the Facebook pixel?
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by dosisking 2mo ago
> Like telling a foodie, "Good news! I built a robot to eat your food for you." Also like building a robot to cook food for you. Sure, it's fine for mass produced meals, but it won't replace a top-notch chef.
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by dosisking 2mo ago
I put the blame on AI and data centers. The Powers That Be want the AI surveillance state. Funny how they don't care about the Climate Change agenda anymore, now that they have AI.
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by dosisking 2mo ago
I use "Queen to queen's level 3" and then wait for the appropriate response.
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by dosisking 2mo ago
> but I feel it's a far way from our typical AI/LLM surge I think they are about the same. Both work about as well as autocorrect
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by dosisking 2mo ago
> Would they want to? The point is that they cannot, they do not have the technical skills to do so, whether they want to or not.
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by dosisking 2mo ago
In a technical sense. Do the remaining NeXT employees still at Apple have the technical skills to create Mac OS X and Cocoa?
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by dosisking 2mo ago
He left after the Apple acquisition in 1999, then came back around 2009. During the time he was gone was when Apple did their best work (Snow Leopard and iPhone).
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by dosisking 2mo ago
The Objective C at StepStone was completely different than the one at NeXT. It was very primitive. Steve Naroff did pretty much all of the heavy lifting, and turned Objective C into a language that could be used to create NeXTStep, and then
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by dosisking 2mo ago
Forcing Swift instead of Objective C caused the good programmers to leave, and attracted the mediocre developers
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by dosisking 2mo ago
Since macOS and iOS would not exist without Objective-C, the answer is No, it was not a failure.
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by dosisking 2mo ago
> Why should I need to do any testing ? I'm just going to keep on not believing you until you back up your claims. And why should he care what you think, because you have already made up your mind and don't care at all about fa
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by dosisking 2mo ago
So you think that they would be able to build MacOS X and Cocoa today if they didn't already exist?
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by dosisking 2mo ago
> Despite all the trends, I still really like HTML for structure, CSS for styling, and JavaScript for logic. I guess I'm even older, because I prefer HTML4, without CSS. And I like using tables for layout instead of divs. I always h

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