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by dsr_ 7mo ago
The problem: "containers that take far too long to start". Somehow, they don't hit upon the solution other organizations use: having software running all the time. I suppose if you have a lousy economic model where the cost o
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
READ CAREFULLY. YOU HAVE ALREADY AGREED TO THIS. 1. By reading the message that referred you to this page ("randomstring.org/~dsr/eula.html") you agree, on behalf of yourself and your employer, to release me from all obl
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
By way of contrast, I've seen so many corporations led by deranged idiots who used to make good decisions within their realm of competence that I have no trouble believing that Huy Fong decided that they could completely dominate Under
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
swapspace ( https://github.com/Tookmund/Swapspace ) does this. Available in Debian stable.
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
They miss more guns than they find. They miss more knives than they find.* They did, in fact, summon a supervisor, who lied to her. *I am of the opinion that, since 9/11, passengers should be encouraged to have knives rather than disco
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
In a sane system, it would not be a liability. QED.
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
Almost all email phishing attempts we receive come from GMail.
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
CocAIne is a hell of a drug.
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
In the USA, unless they have a contract, you can definitely fire someone for being an asshole. If you have any sense whatsoever, you'll simply say "we've decided not to continue your employment" and offer them a month of
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
So can I, and so can any man, but will they be useful lines?
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
An alternative hypothesis might be "Developers who consistently use AI become unable to work without AI". It used to be well known that after a year or two away from writing code, a new manager would be a much worse dev than previ
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
Also a Torment Nexus.
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
LLMs are fair to compare to cocaine because while there certainly could be ethical producers who follow reasonable laws and work to develop good uses, the market is completely dominated by organizations that don't. And in my experience
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
At the moment, I'm in the hospital. I've been here since 0500 Friday morning. I should be released tomorrow, Tuesday. During those five days I've had services from doctors, nurses, technicians and [everybody else necessary to
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
Which one will convince you to buy more Claude? Please answer honestly, it's for the sake of profits.
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
That would be a quality metric, and right now they are focused on quantity metrics.
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
Not until large-N research is done without sponsorship, support, or veiled threats from AI companies. At which point, if the evidence turns out to be negative, it will be considered invalid because no model less recent than November 2027 is
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
Self-regulation has a tendency to either work well for a few years, then gradually become corrupted... or be corrupt from the beginning. A distressingly high percentage of humans like zero-sum status games. More people are happier when stat
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
It's certainly price manipulation, but not likely to be intended price manipulation. Your arguments are flawed but you have reached the right conclusion. This is one of the many flaws of badly regulated markets. (There are no free mark
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
When it's not safe to drive, it's not safe to drive. I've been in zero-road-speed whiteout conditions several times. The only move to make is to the side of the road without getting stuck, and turning on your flashers. Low-li
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
Is it any surprise that the cocaine cartels really want you to buy more cocaine, so they don't focus on its usefulness in pain relief and they refine it and cut it with the cheapest substances that will work rather than medical-grade r
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
If anyone in the Boston area is interested in adopting a cat, I can heartily recommend: https://www.straypetsinneed.org/ and https://guardianangelscatrescue.org/ from which we recently adopted Grace Hopper
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
Inbound anecdote. Dad worked for Corning; when they hired him, he bought a house one town over. It came with a Corning electric range in the kitchen. This was effectively four electrical resistance grids embedded in a giant sheet of pyrocer
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
Many clever people would benefit the world more if they had other people doing the advocacy work for them.
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
Since LLMs are almost AGI, all you have to do is feed one a screenshot of a few UIs that you like and ask it to duplicate it for your own application, saying "Please style the application like this, while observing best practices for i
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
And minimum wage in my state is currently $15/hour, so you can even do that after-tax.
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Why Didn't AI Replace Novelists?(old.reddit.com)
2 points by dsr_ 8mo ago|0 comments
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
~99.995% of the computing resources used on this are from somebody else's servers, running the LLM model.
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
In fairness, they redefined it away from "just like a person" to "suitable for many different tasks".
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by dsr_ 8mo ago
You're looking at the technical capability, not the human behavior. A random non-techie human without particular urgency will not download a hundred old family videos in 60 days. They will watch some of the first one, try to fast forw

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