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by eschaton 1y ago
It should not even be able to communicate with the local network at all, it’s a goddamn web page. It should be restricted to just communicate with the server that hosts it and that’s it.
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by eschaton 1y ago
The simplest explanation is that they perceive “violating immigration law” and “saying something publicly that the current administration disapproves of” as being the same thing and are completely comfortable with that.
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by eschaton 1y ago
Folks who believe themselves to be at the top of the bell curve.
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by eschaton 1y ago
That’s a meme created and spread by pseudo-journalist Declan McCullagh specifically to tar Al Gore in the lead-up to the 2000 election. Specifically, Gore said in an interview that he “took the initiative in creating the Internet” by introd
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by eschaton 1y ago
If they didn’t say that the rah-rah-AI crowd would come for them with torches and pitchforks. It’s a ward against that, nothing more.
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by eschaton 1y ago
I know some of the people involved in those releases; Apple has been extremely diligent about keeping all of those artifacts in perpetuity. They use geologically-stable offsite storage and so on, and keep that stuff for IP protection reason
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by eschaton 1y ago
Apple almost certainly has both the raw ROM image and the source code in their archive. Remember, in the past they’ve shared things like the original QuickDraw, MacPaint, and Lisa operating system and Office System source code.
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by eschaton 1y ago
How do you square this with the fact that LLM-based tools aren’t actually doing any analysis whatsoever, but are just pachinko machines that produce statistically likely output tokens when given input tokens?
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by eschaton 1y ago
It’s producing statically likely next tokens based on its training corpus and prompts. That’s what it’s doing. It’s not analyzing your code, it’s not considering approaches, it’s not theorizing about behavior, it’s just producing statistica
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by eschaton 1y ago
Producing tokens is all it does, it’s not thinking.
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by eschaton 1y ago
For one thing, on most modern systems there isn’t a framebuffer, there’s only a simulation of one created by GPU compositing. For another, security. Your application doesn’t get to scrape other applications’ windows and doesn’t get to put
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by eschaton 1y ago
Actually the Korean War hasn’t ended yet.
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by eschaton 1y ago
Exactly—plenty of people said exactly what would happen. Why did you not believe them? Will you believe them in the future?
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by eschaton 1y ago
Sounds like you bought the hype about LLMs without any understanding anything about LLMs and are now upset that the hype train is crashing because it was based on promises that not only wouldn’t but couldn’t be kept.
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by eschaton 1y ago
Yeah, Amiga 1000 only had a bootstrap ROM, which is what led to having a Kickstart ROM with part of the OS in it—same with the original Atari 260ST/520ST. Apple’s Lisa also had only a bootstrap ROM, which is why it originally had two T
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by eschaton 1y ago
It’s pretty interesting how Amiga and Atari ST followed Macintosh down a bad path of having large amounts of the OS in ROM, which may have made some sense when a single few-hundred-kilobyte floppy was the only storage most users would have,
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by eschaton 2y ago
Cross-platform frameworks are inevitably crap. If you really need to run an application on multiple platforms, write a cross-platform core and implement the human interface atop it for each platform using each platform’s native frameworks a
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by eschaton 2y ago
I suggest you examine the state of the industry and the garbage that’s passed off as reasonable these days and ask yourself whether what you perceive in my comments is bitterness.
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by eschaton 2y ago
Nah.
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by eschaton 2y ago
That’s too bad, but not unexpected given that Qt’s itself a non-native toolkit anywhere other than Linux that developers on those other platforms shouldn’t touch.
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by eschaton 2y ago
Yes, apps, which web pages aren’t no matter how much web designers want to pretend they are.
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by eschaton 2y ago
And that’s a bad thing, and the people involved in making those sites should feel bad and do something about their mistakes rather than just shrug. And we should call them what they are: Mistakes, abuses of the web.
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by eschaton 2y ago
Sure they are, they’re just not sexy. And making this change will ultimately save orders of magnitude more than the cost.
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by eschaton 2y ago
A web page’s behavior should be independent of any particular styling of the hierarchical elements used to represent the document it’s presenting. Just like any web page should work perfectly with JavaScript disabled, it should work perfect
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by eschaton 2y ago
Why are you using an LLM at all when it’ll both hamper your learning and be wrong?
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by eschaton 2y ago
“Severance” is exactly how Apple’s New Product Security and Public Relations organizations would like all employees to be, to an absolute T. However, the rest of the company is much more pragmatic and understands well the value of collabora
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by eschaton 2y ago
They were BSing you or working in a different part of the company than SWE. Back in the day Keynote files would just be passed around via a shared server so you and the people you were collaborating with could make and merge changes between
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by eschaton 2y ago
You’re not making the argument you think you’re making when you ask “Where was the [I]ntwenet 2 years into it?” You may be intending to refer to 1971 (about two years after the creation of ARPANet) but really the more accurate comparison wo
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by eschaton 2y ago
Why would you expect it to “get some kind of reaction?” That strongly implies that you perceive what the LLM doing as “understanding” the tokens you’re feeding it, which *is not something LLMs are capable of*.
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by eschaton 2y ago
This was the basis for IEEE-1275 Open Firmware, which nobody uses any more but was the standard for SPARC, PowerPC, and post-PowerPC POWER. It’s where device trees came from and frankly is how everything should be booting these days, not u-

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