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by eschaton 9mo ago
Crimes against humanity are subject to universal jurisdiction.
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by eschaton 10mo ago
That literally *is* what they’re doing though, just not at sentence granularity—they’re doing it at both larger and smaller scales. Sometimes they may give you a plagiarized paragraph, sometimes they’ll give you a plagiarized phrase, someti
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by eschaton 10mo ago
That’s excellent, more respectable groups need to take this kind of strong stance.
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by eschaton 10mo ago
More like whether one is correct in giving it any epistemic weight. Not everything is opinion, some things really are clearly right and clearly wrong and attributing thought, reasoning, and analysis to an LLM is one of those things that’s c
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by eschaton 10mo ago
They’re absolutely right, and you’re wrong. In the moral sense. You’re treating it as a moral imperative that (to be charitable) all able-bodied adults in a society must be somehow self-supporting, and using that as justification to either
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by eschaton 10mo ago
Depends on whether you’re building with Xcode; when I worked on it, I ensured that the templates included with Xcode would have the right setup to declare appropriate run path search paths for applications, and appropriate install names for
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by eschaton 10mo ago
They probably mean that they don’t like the way the “install name” (as it’s referred to) of a shared library is embedded in the library and then copied to whatever links the library, and is then used to find the library at runtime. I suspec
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by eschaton 10mo ago
AI is the field. Machine learning is one of many specializations within the field. “Generative AI” is the colloquial term for using various machine learning models to generate text, images, video, code, etc.; that is, it’s a subfield of mac
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by eschaton 10mo ago
Yes, keep AI slop “fixes” to yourself and only create PRs for your own work.
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by eschaton 10mo ago
Nice deflection. Did you use ChatGPT to come up with it?
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by eschaton 10mo ago
Or maybe it indicates that the person looking at the LLM and deciding there’s not much there knows more than you do about what they are and how they work, and you’re the one who’s wrong about their utility.
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by eschaton 10mo ago
You have clearly entirely understood exactly what I was saying and don’t look like a fool at all with this reply.
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by eschaton 10mo ago
We don’t need more software, we need the right software implemented better. That’s not something LLMs can possibly give us because they’re fucking pachinko machines. Here’s a hint: Nobody should ever write a CRUD app, because nobody should
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by eschaton 10mo ago
I produce a lot of shit every week too, but I don’t brag about my digestive system on “Hacker” “News.”
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by eschaton 10mo ago
There’s not a huge amount of _explicit_ dependency on the bit width of the system in either the 3600 or Ivory. Of course there’s still plenty of _implicit_ dependency in terms of hardware interaction, object layout in memory, collector impl
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by eschaton 10mo ago
I suspect something like this happened. - He attended a nearby church’s youth group in hopes of meeting “marriageable” women, in his mid-late 20s or older; - Was bothering the girls or young women in attendance by being straightforward abou
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by eschaton 11mo ago
The environment lasted a long time as the basis for other Xerox products, such as their office automation system and as a front end for their printing systems. However, it wasn’t so much ported as the virtual machine was. (Just like Symboli
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by eschaton 11mo ago
Symbolics’ big fumble was thinking their CPU was their special sauce for way too long. They showed signs that some people there understood that their development environment was it, but it obviously never fully got through to decision-maker
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by eschaton 11mo ago
The 68030 really only dropped the Call Module and Return from Module instructions, which nobody used anyway since relatively few developers wanted to write code only for 68020 and higher around the time the 68020 and then 68030 shipped.
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by eschaton 11mo ago
They did this in the 1970s and 1980s too, then they were called “forms libraries” but were often full application frameworks in ways that would be familiar to modern developers of native graphical apps.
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by eschaton 1y ago
“Just BSD” is effectively NetBSD; while a lot of BSD contributors work on FreeBSD, in terms of continuity of development NetBSD is the clearest direct successor to 4.4BSD.
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by eschaton 1y ago
There’s an explanation of how to implement a perfect hash generator in “Hacker’s Delight” that you can read to take a known set of keys and produce a consistent perfect hash at runtime. It’s a very worthwhile thing to keep in your back pock
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by eschaton 1y ago
Yes, the idea that the problem of “oil” (fossil fuels) has been “solved” by fracking. That’s another right-wing tell, because it ignores the broad environmental destruction caused by the use of fossil fuels and presumes that the only proble
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by eschaton 1y ago
I would suggest that you need to look at context in order to determine whether a phrase is being used as a dogwhistle. For example, if someone is also repeating other far-right propaganda (“fracking has solved the oil problem”), what are th
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by eschaton 1y ago
“Demographic transition” has become a white supremacist dogwhistle. They’re not upset about declining birth rates in general, they’re upset about declining birth rates among specific populations.
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by eschaton 1y ago
There’s a reason for that. It should tell you a lot about the person you’re replying to.
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by eschaton 1y ago
Why do they need reasoning to back it up when the LLMs being promoted don’t actually do any reasoning?
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by eschaton 1y ago
It depends who your application is for. You obviously think building an application is about maximizing your profit, and your users are just a means to achieve that. If you were approaching your application from a “what’s best for my users”
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by eschaton 1y ago
Do they actually like it or do they like that it’s new ? So many people treat things that just work and are stable as “stale” and “unexciting” and demand change for change’s sake, rather than actual measurable improvement.
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by eschaton 1y ago
You were wrong to even attempt to share design language across platforms. You should make your applications good native citizens if you have any respect for your users, because yours isn’t the only software they use.

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