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by ethbr1 11mo ago
The reason LLMs are viable for use cases that Watson wasn't is their natural language and universal parsing strengths. In the Watson era, all the front- and back-ends had to be custom engineered per use case. Read, huge IBM services im
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Watson was intended to solve fuzzy optimization problems. Unfortunately, the way it solved fuzzy was 'engineer the problem to fit Watson, then engineer the output to be usable.' Which required every project to be a huge custom imp
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>> Ok, so does anyone remember 'Watson'? [...] Why didn't they compete with OpenAI like Google and Anthropic are doing, with in-house tools? > Everything will make sense when you realize that IBM is a consulting c
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Yes. Because why would there ever be a problem with a devqaops team objectively assessing their own work's effectiveness?
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Being Microsoft, I'd guess it's less that and more Product Team A doesn't want to spend time building enabling features for Product Team B to look good. The org chart joke, etc: https://www.reddit.com/r/P
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Smoking and TSA are unrelated. You provided an example of where arguing against regulation was ill-conceived in hindsight. I offered an obvious example of the opposite (everyone against plane hijacking -> regulation -> air travel is m
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Doesn't quite translate in text. Figured those who could hear it in their head wouldn't need the extra prompting.
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I'd extend that a bit, in the same vein as TFA: you should always be aware of who you're taking freedom away from and who you're giving it to, in practical actual terms, when designing or deploying revolutionary technology. I
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'I'm shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.' https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/quotes/?item=qt0429972
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> it's very difficult to correctly estimate what it will actually cost to change something once you decided it's required - based on current reality where it is not. Mass production and clever cost reductions resulting from th
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As bad as (3) sounds, I'll strongman the argument: it's important to keep the economic cost of any regulation in mind.* On the one hand, you'd like to prevent the thing the regulation is seeking to prevent. On the other hand,
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For hypothetical conflicting changes (read worst case: unupgraded nodes/services can't interop with upgraded nodes/services), what's best practice for a partial rollout? Blue/green and temporarily ossify capacity? R
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4th gen 4Runner w/ a 2UZ-FE
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Slate?
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At this point, I can't tell if this thread is straight-faced or meta.
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Which was the other benefit of a formal QA org -- you had to be able to tell them what you changed and how it was supposed to work.
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I think the father figure of a developer who was bitten by a radioactive spider once made a similar quip.
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Part of QA used to be evaluating whether a change was actually helpful in doing the thing it was supposed to be doing. ... why, it's almost like in eliminating the QA function, we removed the final checks and balances on developers (re
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
Everything about Tribes was awesome. Such a shame the way the post-Dynamix/T2 development studios completely failed to understand what made 1 & 2 great.
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Eh... it was arguably more accessible back in the day, because it was (a) server side & (b) fully decentralized, so each server admin could run whatever they wanted. Some games come close now, but I'm not aware of any multiplayer g
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
UT1 was basically instagib by default: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm3m1sszTEs&t=6s So many sounds that will forever live in my head. I think I actually beat UT99 on a laptop trackpad a couple years later. (School dev
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
I don't buy the 'people need to be protected from things' argument. I lived both eras. Independent servers and self-modding were hands-down superior in terms of creativity and fun. The current locked-box 'as the develope
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* That's modern Microsoft's desktop product business model I hear tales of the before-times, when they had a QA department and took quality seriously.
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One of the characteristic of network effects is that you see growth, simply by virtue of being the first/biggest.
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Strongman: LLMs aren't a tool, they're fuzzy automation. And what keeps security problems from making it into prod in the real world? Code review, testing, static and dynamic code scanning, and fuzzing. Why aren't these thing
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
It's been happening in all spaces. There are reputable eBay sellers shipping decomm'd previous-gen servers for bargain basement prices. If you're fine running last gen (and you should be, for home lab use) then it's wort
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by ethbr1 11mo ago
> Moreover, the supply constraint isn't likely to be permanent, and whenever prices come back down then Micron would still own the brand and could start selling under it again, which they couldn't if they sold it. Why not jus
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The entire point of this thread is that there are many things that Valve could do to increase its profits over the short, intermediate, and long terms... that it doesn't (presumably because that's not the kind of company it wants
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Furthermore, PE ownership generally means (a) achieving ROI as quickly as possible (including by dismantling the company and/or mortgaging its assets), (b) installing leadership who has no ties to the business, and (c) cutting costs to
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Ponzi schemes work* too. *At a specific point in time and for certain investors

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