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by efitz 11mo ago
Yeah, I was hoping that AI would make games more exciting, not play them for me. On the other hand, it opens new worlds for farming…
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by efitz 11mo ago
This is not a criticism of the author of the article; I can feel their frustration and the pain of their loss but I don’t have anything to say that can ameliorate that. I’m coming up on 60 years old. The mindset that many people have now se
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by efitz 11mo ago
Why does the successor to the terminal need to be text oriented at all? Maybe it is an API. Maybe the kernel implements this API and it can be called locally or remotely. Maybe someone invents an OAuth translation layer to UIDs. The API
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by efitz 11mo ago
Why is this news?
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by efitz 11mo ago
Microservices embody a concepts that the article overlooks or downplays: 1. modularity - yes - but even better than what the article describes, there is little or no ability to cheat the modularity - the microservice has an api as a contrac
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by efitz 11mo ago
Building software is usually a craftsmanship task. Software can be engineered, but It’s rare and expensive so it’s only built that way when the cost is justified, as when building life critical systems (manned aircraft/spacecraft fligh
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by efitz 11mo ago
Non sequitur. If you are a software engineer, you are going to be expected to use AI in some form in the near future. A lot of AI in its current form is not intuitive. Ergo, spending a small effort on building an AI agent is a good way to
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by efitz 11mo ago
https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_mea...
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by efitz 11mo ago
There is a general problem with rewarding people for the volume of stuff they create, rather than the quality. If you incentivize researchers to publish papers, individuals will find ways to game the system, meeting the minimum quality bar,
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by efitz 11mo ago
Ubiquiti is awesome, but their IPv6 support leaves something to be desired. I have two ISPs, one with IPv6 (Starlink) and one without (Frontier). I want to use Frontier for all IPv4, with IPv4 failover to Starlink, and I want to use Starli
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by efitz 1y ago
They absolutely saw it coming and warned against it, but couldn’t figure out any durable way to prevent it.
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by efitz 1y ago
So there is no other way of reporting such abuses? This one web site that nobody had heard of before today, was our sole way of hearing complaints of this type? Why is it that eliminating one particular web site is somehow a failure of the
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by efitz 1y ago
Yeas ago, I thought- why not both? Use a catapult/trebuchet/cannon to launch the drone as close as possible to the target area - maybe use a discardable biodegradable sheath to improve aerodynamics. At the optimal distance and he
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by efitz 1y ago
Lots. Anything involving standing at the least, but also many of the “unauthorized people changed the rules without the authority of the state legislature”. https://election-integrity.info/2020_Election_Cases.htm You’ll fi
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by efitz 1y ago
Great, so I’m sure that you will not complain at all if Democrats lose in the future where a single company controls so many voting machines, unless they are able to prove fraud beyond a reasonable doubt in mere days after the election, rig
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by efitz 1y ago
+1000 I should not have to vote on judges and dog catchers and stuff. I like officials being accountable, but voting for an unopposed “nonpartisan” candidate has negative value - it wastes time and resources and lends legitimacy to an esse
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by efitz 1y ago
Two thoughts: 1. It is crazy that we are using machines in any way in the voting process. 2. Which is it? The MAGA people tried many lawsuits and many appeals to voting authorities for investigations. The unanimous response “safest electi
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by efitz 1y ago
I definitely got a strong vibe of “engineered to be viral”; I didn’t consider that it might be AI. I don’t dispute that. But I want to raise one point: Em dash does NOT mean “AI”. Em dash is trivial to generate in most word processors- t
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by efitz 1y ago
I’m flagging this post; the discussion went off the rails. I don’t understand how “government ends dubiously legal program that was abused and weaponized” can in any way be perceived as tyrannical.
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by efitz 1y ago
Are you so nakedly partisan that you can’t accept a win at face value? Gabbard et al were targeted by Quiet Skies. It was mentioned many times during the campaign and during the administration. I don’t think Noem is Machiavelli; the admin
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by efitz 1y ago
For truly colossal amounts of data, fedex has more bandwidth than fiber. I don’t know if any cloud providers will send you your stuff on physical storage, but most will allow you to send your stuff to them on physical storage- eg AWS snowb
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by efitz 1y ago
The lack of backups makes my blood boil. However, from my own experience, I want to know more before I assign blame. The very first "computer guy" job I had starting in about 1990/1991, my mentor gave me a piece of advice th
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by efitz 1y ago
Reinventing? No. Using? Yes, for a lot of good reasons. LLMs are expensive. Spending tokens to do something in bulk that is well suited to existing tools and algorithms, is wasteful and slow. And the main reason is that, using LLMs, th
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by efitz 1y ago
This was exactly my thought. Rather than feed the table directly to the LLM, build agents that extract the data and have the LLM act on the extracted data items. Then it’s a preference issue. The author didn’t see much more than 60% accur
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by efitz 1y ago
I believe that there is a lowest common denominator for accented English, and it sounds like “sung” English - which sounds like non-regional American English if the singer is singing and doesn’t naturally have a very pronounced accent. Thi
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by efitz 1y ago
I don’t think it’s etymology and irregularity that make English “fun”; I think that it’s English’s large number of concepts because we freely appropriate words and their ideas from other languages (“schadenfreude”, “Deja vu”, etc), the smal
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by efitz 1y ago
I want to see English become mor fonetik and mor regular. As I watched my son learn to speak, then later to read and write, I paid attention to his misspellings and they all made perfect sense if you approached the language phonetically. Th
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by efitz 1y ago
Please post again when you get the cease and desist letter!
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by efitz 1y ago
I don’t want to have to replace my entire computer just to get a TPM. Whoever thought this would be a good idea, needs to be fired. (Full disclosure: I used to work at Microsoft in the Windows team; obviously the culture there has shifted
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by efitz 1y ago
Just guessing, but likely “clinical success rate” here doesn’t mean “didn’t make it worse” but actually means “improved the underlying condition significantly”.

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