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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
> Impossible. I anthropomorphise my chair when it squeaks. Humans anthropomorphise everything. Would you consider that perhaps that depends from person to person? What you just said is not universal I can assure you, because I myself don
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
We're in the same boat. I would rather have NO llm, than an llm that collects my data (which you should assume is all of them, unless you've been asleep for the last 20 years). Fortunately, I don't have to pick one or the oth
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
> I'm not as anti-AI as the author of the piece, It's not about being anti-AI, it's about being anti-distractions in education. These companies don't want to raise "AI literacy", they want to get to their fu
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
> Why was it fraud and simply not irresponsibility? I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Are you saying that you don't know the difference between the english words "fraud" and "irresponsibility&quo
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
> It looks like critics of Tron's visual effects mistakenly thought the computer was generating it all for them, with little human input, I no longer remember the details but I certainly didn't get the impression that "hum
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
Prediction: AI coding will be a boon for Free software. Eventually people will get tired of the novelty of "each person can write his own desktop environment made for one" and coalesce around a few instances which become popular.
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
How often do you hit against bugs that stop you from being able to do something and then you have to stop what you're doing and go fix the bug? For me, I've used i3-wm exclusively for 4 years now, and it has always felt instant. I
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
Remember when they tried to ban computers from winning best special effects? Tron, famously.
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
There's many theories of why the Roman empire fell. It's very complicated [1] But one popular theory is the accumulated effect of corruption of the leaders - people who saw being in leadership as a way to enrich themselves by taki
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
Speaking of which, why does anybody use VS Code? https://vscodium.com/ I do at work because nobody listens to me, but at home never ever have I used VS Code. Use just Codium.
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
May I ask respectufully if you understand how these models work? They're not continuously trained. They have a context window, and the previous user's request is not inside the second user context window. Is your claim that when t
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
How do you explain other people on these chats making similar claims? Everybody is making the same mistakes?
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
> My take away was that he actually made everyone a boat load of money. What point are you trying to make? Should he not be prosecuted for fraud as long as a lot of people benefited, is that what you're suggesting?
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
> IDK, not really a fan of redefining computer to make a rhetorical point. Yes! This reminds me of Stallman who is in my opinion a visionary decades ahead of his time, but in terms of marketing he did that a lot and it ended up just dist
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
I've noticed it's become fashionable to HN over the past few years to advocate for working less.
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> Your users might not notice, but you know, and it gnaws at you. The users WILL DEFINITELY notice if the screenshots don't match what they have in front of their eyes.
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
Yes. This is Trump signaling that insider trading is for actual insiders only.
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He said he can send a Tesla from a car park in New York to a car park in California, and he "this is something we can do today".
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
Does anybody else find it super suspicious that all the percentiles declined by similar amounts?
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
I don't. My very vague recollection is that I was alarmed and either deleted it or blocked them. So it either no longer exists, but even if it does I have zero interest in digging it out. I'm always anonymous on social media like
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
I did this with a pocketbook. I wish I could recommend it strongly, but in fact the USB port is extremely finicky (often can't charge, can't get Calibre to detect it). As it is I can only recommend it as the cheapest ebook reader
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
Stallman was right https://stallman.org/amazon.html
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
LeCun is playing the game, Amodei is playing the meta game. Amodei's intention is to signal to the corporate world that his product is extremely valuable because they might be able to fire half of their entry level people. Amodei doesn
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
I'm not saying "go out there and hurt billionaires". But I am saying that if billionaires ocasionally got hurt by someone who was being oppressed by their actions, they would be a lot less unhinged.
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
> "at least we don't have death panels deciding who gets to have life-saving treatment" They do, it's just that in the western world the death panels work for the government and optimize for "given a certain leve
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
My (admitedly superficial) understanding is that in the USA because the welfare state is mostly private, it optimizes for profit. So just because you put a lot into it doesn't mean you get much out. I have no first hand experience of t
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
You think that Europe is more homogeneous than the USA? First time I my life I hear that argument.
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Literaly old man yells at cloud.
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GOOGLE is an advertising platform.
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by ekjhgkejhgk 6mo ago
Complete nonsense. For example: > Our old architecture was scattered across multiple independent systems. A single change might require touching three or four repositories. From a human engineer's perspective, it is manageable. From

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