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by fhd2 3y ago
The prerecorded message seems sufficient for that use case. If I had a relative in that situation, I'd want her to be able to talk to a human - it might be an actual emergency or problem, but even if not...
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by fhd2 4y ago
In my experience, GPT-4 does get lots of textbook/common problems right in common languages on first try. But when I tried to solve a just mildly complex problem (finding a ring of cells in a Godot GridMap using GDScript), it produced
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by fhd2 4y ago
I feel there are no "idea guys". There surely are "money guys" - people who can _sell_ an idea and get investors, customers, loans, ... Those are important in my experience, and lots of famous CEOs are just that. You can
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by fhd2 4y ago
Wouldn't it potentially leak everything you send it? ChatGPT that is, I heard with the API it's different.
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by fhd2 4y ago
Presumably. Vicuna was fine-tuned on ChatGPT responses, but from a quick glance through the examples in the blog post, there are none asking it to find a bug: https://vicuna.lmsys.org/ I've found Vicuna 13B to be quite
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by fhd2 4y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted - I also have the experience that Linux on the desktop now vs 10 years ago is a much better experience, both UX wise (at least in general, though it's a bit subjective), but also in terms of stability. Fr
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by fhd2 4y ago
I live in Germany, and have been more mindful of how high I turn the heaters and how much electricity and hot water I use. Honestly, all I did was stop wasting it mindlessly. Certainly wouldn't call it living in cold and hardship. The
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by fhd2 4y ago
In 18 years, I've yet to see someone use telemetry in the interest of the user. I've seen it be used to save money, earn more money, and quite a bit for mental masturbation. What I've seen actually work in the interest of use
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by fhd2 4y ago
SEEKING WORK I'm based in Germany, used to syncing with US timezones. Been building software for a living for 18 years now, 8 of those as CTO for two different companies (one I grew from 7 to 250 employees). Went into consulting to bec
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by fhd2 4y ago
Agreed - even if there's a vastly superior search engine released tomorrow, so many people grew up with Google and learned how to deal with it, it's the default in most browsers - a space owned largely by Google - etc. It's e
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by fhd2 4y ago
Location: Cologne area, Germany Remote: Yes, preferred Willing to relocate: No, but don't mind some travelling Technologies: Generalist, most recent experience with web, mobile and game development, but I'm building sof
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by fhd2 4y ago
LLM assistance tooling is only just starting out from what I see. And since this means fewer people will be needed to do what's being done right now, some of them will need to find new things to do. Whether humanity needs these things,
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by fhd2 4y ago
The difference is that the person that (accidentally or not) killed another person will suffer consequences, aimed to deter others from doing the same. People have rights and are innocent unless proven guilty, we pay a price for that. Machi
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by fhd2 4y ago
I'd love to live in an AI powered utopia. Where everybody just does what they find valuable, regardless of whether there's someone willing to pay money for it, or whether an AI could do it more effectively or efficiently. By follo
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by fhd2 4y ago
Me too. If they had done this before the acquisition, I would have supported this and paid. Musk's behaviour made me leave Twitter for good a few months ago though.
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by fhd2 4y ago
I find this mostly pays off in debugging: Having written code usually means I know it better than code I've reviewed, which I know better than code I've never seen. Finding a weird bug in code I know well is a _lot_ easier.
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by fhd2 4y ago
I've been in this field for 20 years and I'd say no. Compared to back then, the market for software seems incredibly saturated, there's more people making (or trying to make) money from these kind of hypes now than in the pas
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by fhd2 4y ago
I'm fascinated by people saying they use GPT for boilerplate. Whenever I find myself doing simple/repetitive stuff, I tend to stop in my tracks and make that go away. Usually following the rule of three: If I do something for a se
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by fhd2 4y ago
I started as a programmer right during the dotcom crash - it sure felt like that.
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by fhd2 4y ago
"Humanity has an uncanny ability to devour any excess capacity" Well put! You could also see the pressure on lower skilled jobs as a positive thing in that light, I suppose: Right now it's not super cheap to run a terrible ca
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by fhd2 4y ago
Possibly. But things have a way of not working as intended. A good chunk of my time as a programmer is spent dealing with things that don't work the way I thought they would, especially at the threshold between APIs and layers of indir
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by fhd2 4y ago
Not a fan of the analogy, I like to think that would be her own decision, not her partner's. Anyway, companies are capitalist entities, so all that ultimately matters for them is to make more money. The majority of decisions happen alo
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by fhd2 4y ago
One might argue self-driving cars are the serious safety issue, but maybe that's a controversial take.
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by fhd2 4y ago
I'd say a fundamental expansion in how much people use computers is what made smartphones a big shift. Maybe conversational generative AI will have the same effects, though I'm not too sure about that, people already use computers
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by fhd2 4y ago
I used mostly macOS for the last few years, with the occasional Linux. Recently I switched back to Linux (System76 laptop) completely, and only now do I realise how complacent I've been with macOS. There's stuff like iTunes openin
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by fhd2 4y ago
Been working with Godot for a couple of months now and can highly recommend it. Maybe it's just the mental model that matches mine well, but I have to spend very little time reading things up - in general stuff turns out to work how I
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by fhd2 4y ago
Or in other words: Conway's Law makes single developer code bases less complex, since there's no communication and responsibility boundaries reflected in it. That said, I've seen a lot of small teams create a ludicrous amount
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by fhd2 4y ago
I probably have to fiddle with the settings to stay within 3 CPUs, but since it was heavily recommended as an alternative to Heroku's free tier, I'm a bit disappointed I have to. Maybe they never intended to be recommended for tha
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by fhd2 4y ago
CPU - I would assume it's not a mistake, maybe if I dig some more I can figure out how to keep within the allowance, but on Heroku I never had to deal with this kind of thing for free apps.
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by fhd2 4y ago
I'm pretty happy with fly.io, except for one thing: I moved over two apps from Heroku, lured by the free tier. But you do have to enter your credit card details whether or not you intend to pay. And then they do charge me a few bucks p

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