enneff

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by enneff 5d ago
Do you really think that computer skills are available to everyone on an equal playing field?
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by enneff 7d ago
You don’t have to be smarter than your opponent to beat them in chess. You need to be better at chess, that’s it. Sure you need some degree of intelligence to be good at chess but being better at chess is not an indicator that you are smart
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by enneff 8d ago
Maybe you should think through the consequences of living in a society where anything a person can do is allowed lmao
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by enneff 8d ago
You don’t think it should be illegal to hack a telecom network and take control of it?
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by enneff 26d ago
Have you considered that by adhering to the arbitrary rules of grammar you are forgoing a realm of poetic opportunity?
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by enneff 26d ago
What does OK stand for?
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by enneff 2mo ago
I think the point is that tremendous complexity can arise from relatively simple mechanisms. That is what life is, at many levels. I’m not at all convinced that the current LLM approach will yield something we can broadly call consciousness
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by enneff 2mo ago
What’s the point of books? Can’t you just watch a movie?
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by enneff 2mo ago
The equation is different if the life saving surgery couldn’t be performed otherwise. Still pretty crazy and I don’t know how comfortable I’d be with it if I were the patient.
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by enneff 3mo ago
I’m horrified to imagine a blood pump or any life support system being network connected, or to rely on the precise time of day in order to function correctly. Accurate time keeping for anything in this realm can and should be done without
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by enneff 3mo ago
I had a great evening with a friend playing through TIS-100 together. We plugged in two keyboards and mice so we didn't have to pass them back and forth.
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by enneff 3mo ago
I used to run tomsrtbt ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomsrtbt ) from a floppy on an old 486 hooked up to a monitor and keyboard for use as a terminal. Was nice and silent, pretty convenient to be able to just turn the
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by enneff 3mo ago
I don’t understand why you wouldn’t like raisins? They’re pretty much just sugar.
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by enneff 4mo ago
Or you could dump the power into a realllly loud horn
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by enneff 5mo ago
For one thing it’s statically typed and has many fewer foot guns than Python, so the llm-produced code is more likely to do what you expect.
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by enneff 5mo ago
Haha thank you! This had been mildly bothering me for a while actually.
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by enneff 5mo ago
I have been writing my own custom software for myself for over 30 years. But in the last six months I have written a lot more of it because the language models make it so much faster and easier to do so.
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by enneff 5mo ago
It’s not that the calculator was more than what students need, it’s that even for what it was the TI83/84 was way overpriced. It could have been like $20 at the scale they were produced.
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by enneff 5mo ago
This is why you have modern circuit breakers.
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by enneff 5mo ago
I think perhaps I was unclear. I don’t mean the entire dev environment should mirror prod (although it’s great if you can do this for end to end testing). I just mean it’s desirable if the process you’re working on operates the same way in
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by enneff 5mo ago
In my experience having different serving paths for dev vs production is a recipe for annoying issues. I try to make dev as similar to prod as possible. I’m not sure, I don’t dismiss fcgi outright here, I find the arguments for it compellin
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by enneff 5mo ago
I think it’s helpful to try to use words that more precisely describe how the LLM works. For instance, “intent” ascribes a will to the process. Instead I’d say an LLM has an “orientation”, in that through prompting you point it in a parti
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by enneff 5mo ago
Presumably you’re also using a browser to view this web page. There have also been vulnerabilities in that. You have to draw a line somewhere.
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by enneff 6mo ago
Yes and if they copy and paste code they don’t understand then they should disclose that in the commit message too!
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by enneff 7mo ago
It’s a quote from the movie Kindergarten Cop.
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by enneff 7mo ago
I haven't yet - just generally I have found it a bit of a hassle to figure out which packages to install whenever I use a different distro. I'll let you know how it goes!
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by enneff 7mo ago
Thanks for doing this. I had basically the same experience with Lima. It is very nice but the defaults are not what I want, and I don't like having to wonder whether I turned off the stuff that I don't want enabled. Better that
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by enneff 7mo ago
> part of the polygraph test involves a blood pressure cuff which is put on EXTREMELY tight, far more so than any doctor or nurse would ever put it on. It is left on for the entire duration of the test (approximately 8 hours). My entire
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by enneff 8mo ago
I don’t know. I wouldn’t have thought of myself as proxying other people’s traffic by carrying my iPhone around. (For one thing, it’s my own phone that initiates all the activity- it monitors for Apple devices, the devices don’t reach out t
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by enneff 8mo ago
By “your traffic” you mean device location reports? Or something else?

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