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by dpark 6mo ago
That sounds like name.com was squatting on your expired domain and extorted $140 from you to get it back.
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by dpark 6mo ago
Agree with fwip here. You’re engaging in an unhealthy anthropomorphization of an LLM. > It turns out that when you treat it like a real person, it acts like a real person. Correct. Because it’s a mirror of its input. With sufficient p
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by dpark 6mo ago
This is the first time I have encountered this, yes. LLM training has really been a drain on the general internet :(
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by dpark 6mo ago
My issue was not with criticism of the money being spent or how it’s being obtained. I was specifically commenting on this statement: > “Im convinced none of these people have any training in corporate finance. For if they did they&#x2
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by dpark 6mo ago
Sounds like they did train in corporate finance.
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by dpark 6mo ago
> fully secured against attackers, of which the mere existence of a hypervisor layer is proof of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine_escape
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by dpark 6mo ago
Do you really think companies have started spending millions on tokens and no one from finance has been involved? You could argue that all the spending is wasted (doubtless some is), but insisting that the decision is being made in complete
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by dpark 6mo ago
That’s probably not an intern. Doctors with enough pull can get dedicated scribes like this, but they aren’t cheap, which is why most doctors don’t get them.
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by dpark 6mo ago
What the hell. Kernel.org is mining in my browser to “make sure I’m not a bot”?
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by dpark 6mo ago
> things built in the 80s tended to be pretty solid Survivorship bias. We built a lot of crap stuff in the 80s, too. Most stuff built in the 80s is probably in landfills now.
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by dpark 6mo ago
I understand the concerns with telemetry, but I can’t bring myself to care if La Marzocco can track how often I backflush my espresso machine. But if it’s a principled thing for you, I get it.
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by dpark 6mo ago
You don’t actually have to use the app to backflush. You can just do it manually. The app is more convenient than flipping the lever a dozen times though.
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by dpark 6mo ago
> when I went to school you could return that $300 book for $200 to the bookstore once the semester was done. This is not my recollection at all. My recollection was that I could buy a book for $300 and sell it back for $75 if it was i
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by dpark 6mo ago
I cringe watching my daughter dogear her books. It hurts me deep in my soul to see her nice books damaged that way. But objectively my reaction is wrong. Books are not mystical objects to be revered. They are objects to be used. Nearly all
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by dpark 6mo ago
I suspect that’s exactly what they did. And then they “solved” it with a Captcha. Conveniently I bet human unsubscribes also dropped when that was instituted.
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by dpark 6mo ago
I think this is extremely unlikely. Firstly because I almost never subscribe to newsletters or marketing lists. But also because I don’t believe my security software is submitting POSTs on random forms it finds links to. That would be insan
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by dpark 6mo ago
It is ironic how AI is rapidly swinging the pendulum from “corp speak” to “typo filled drafts” in an attempt to look human. But AI to make your hand written messages “look human” is just a cash grab. This has to be like 8 hours worth of vib
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by dpark 6mo ago
If I didn’t specifically opt in to receiving marketing emails (and no, failing to opt out is not the same), they are spam. I’ve never heard anyone say “I’m sure glad this company added me to their email list without my request.” The fact th
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by dpark 6mo ago
Are you saying that email scanners were not only fetching the unsubscribe link but also submitting the “unsubscribe” button/form on the page? I find this hard to believe since everyone else seems to manage this without a Captcha.
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by dpark 6mo ago
Eh, there are a lot of cases where teams A/B test their way into a product that sucks.
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by dpark 6mo ago
Telemetry doesn’t tell the “why”. You never clicking in Stargate in Netflix is apparently true, so the telemetry isn’t wrong. It just doesn’t answer why.
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by dpark 6mo ago
> Don't take what people say at face value, but think about it together with your knowledge and experience While you’re comparing different information sources, you might even want to consider telemetry, too.
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by dpark 6mo ago
I don’t know if the author here is intentionally clickbaiting or somehow ignorant about the scale Uber is operating at. This was particularly egregious: > If you’re building a system that makes the economics of your company impossible,
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by dpark 6mo ago
> I am consciously altering my designs such to be as far away from AI as I can I don’t think this is a productive choice, but it’s certainly yours to make. > but a geometric shape which is all oddities is a lot of work for an ugly
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by dpark 6mo ago
> What’s the mechanism that makes an AI ‘better’ at looking non-AI? I don’t know. Better training data? More training data? The difference over the past year or two is stark so something is improving it. > Even if that image had no
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by dpark 6mo ago
I hear what you’re saying and at the same time I don’t agree with some of your criticisms. The gradient, yep, it slipped one in. The imperfect stars? I have seen artists do this forever, presumably intentional flair. The few real “glitches”
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by dpark 6mo ago
Yes, but… https://imgur.com/a/cYn68Cp
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by dpark 6mo ago
Apple sold more Vision Pros in the first year than it sold Lisas during its entire run. > Except the iteration on it. It’s only 2 years old and they’ve released version 2. I’m not sure the Vision Pro has enough market to keep making it
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by dpark 6mo ago
> If we had the innovative Apple of yore it would push out crazy new and very expensive products and iterate Vision Pro sells for >3 grand. Their strategy still seems consistent with exactly what you describe.
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by dpark 6mo ago
> It doesn’t have any discriminating power. That was exactly my point. The presence of bugs in a product (in this case Apple Maps) does not mean it should not ship. “No open bugs” cannot be the criteria for whether a product is ready t

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