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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
The machine god would still need resources provided by humans on their terms to run; the AI wouldn’t sweat having to run, for instance, 5 years straight of its immortality just to figure out a 10 years plan to eventually run at 5% less powe
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
The ripple effect will be felt hard, as American engineers are squeezed between offshoring and more engineers with Big Tech resumes being released into the market, and returnees go push back wages in their home countries in turn
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Circular investments were also a compounding factor in the Japanese asset price bubble. The practice was known as “zaitech” > zaitech - financial engineering > In 1984, Japan’s Ministry of Finance permitted companies to operate specia
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Well it has non-destructive editing finally this year, for all the claims that it was powerful that I had heard through the years, without it the Gimp was a wimp I may have to give it a go, is drawing a rectangle still a transformation done
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
Software is a line of work that has astounding amounts of autonomy, if you compare it to working in almost anything else. My point stands, company loyalty tallies up to very little when you’re looking for your next job; no interviewer will
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
We’re all passing through our jobs, the value of the solutions remains in the hands of the shareholders, if you don’t try to squeeze some long-term value for your resume and long-term employability, you’re assuming a significant opportunity
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
AGPL and non-compete licenses like SSPL and FSL have been steadily adopted —Redis, ElasticSearch and Liquibase notably switched to them—, pretty much motivated by not wanting to be screwed over by Big Tech one way or another. More than fine
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
Apparently the whole deal with Liquid Water is that it's so people don't give you crap for not drinking alcohol at parties or festivals. If they see you drinking water or soda off a normal can, people will feel self conscious and
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
Well the "hackers" jacking in to the "Hacker News" discussion board, where we talk about the oppression brought in by the corrupt AI-peddling corporations employed by the even more corrupt government, probably aren'
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
I’ve got great news for you: there are more girls with colored hair than ever before, and we got the Synthwave revival, just try to find the right crowd and put on Timecop1983 in your headphones Cyberpunk always sucked for all but the corru
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
I imagine that this makes it much less viable for hobby use, or as a dependency for other open source projects, but setting up a private docker registry and building this image nightly isn’t onerous for any business
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
13 years old me, back when Maddox offered a very fresh and novel form of content you could grab on your way through the Information Superhighway
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
That author uses it to mean “model”, as he calls a variety of programming models “spherical cows”. Well, for sure, a core tenet of computer science is that all models of computing are equally powerful in what inputs they can map to what out
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
Lying is a stupid way of selling something and making money
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
That was written in a world where “selling software” meant charging people money for Software that ran in their computers, like the famous example of Stallman mailing tapes with Emacs tarballs. The whole thing was thought up when residentia
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
That reminds me of the “paper clip maximizer” thought experiment about rogue AI fulfilling a particular goal, without being held to any consideration of human welfare I thought it was a very novel idea at first, until I realized that this d
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
It was developer experience that precipitated this fallout, a language usually needs to be growing in user base for the developer experience to improve as people complain and tackle problems they encounter. The old linked thread had some pr
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
Well in Sam’s ideal world you’ll be using bots to keep yourself distracted. You would like to learn to play the guitar? Sorry, that kind of money didn’t pass in the budget bill, but how about you ask the bot to create music for you? Elites
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
> Not necessarily. Such forces could be outvoted or out maneuvered Could. > So many assumptions. There is no need to just assume any particular distribution of boredom across the future population of the world. Making predictions abou
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
Because otherwise you'd have to convince AI-owners and select professionals to let go of their wealth to give a comfortable and fulfilling life of leisure to the unemployed. More likely it will look like the current welfare schemes of
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
Tinfoil's chat lets you do that, add a bit of context to every new chat. It's fully private, to boot, it's the service I use, these are Open Source models like DeepSeek, Llama and Mistral that they host. https://ti
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
BigQuery ELT, the org I went to was rather immature in their data practice, and I sold them on getting some proper orchestration (Dataform, their preference over DBT, and Airflow), and keeping the architecture coherent. I'd have rather
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
That does sound, as you allude, like IBM on its long downward spiral of globbing up products to stay relevant and touting them as an integral solution, while in-house development stuck to keeping legacy products alive for their Enterprise c
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by forgetfulness 1y ago
What is the lowdown on Databricks? Their bread and butter were hosted Spark and notebooks. As tasks done in Spark over a data lake began to be delegated wholesale to columnar store ELT, they tried to pivot to "lake houses", then I
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by forgetfulness 2y ago
RoR? If it's still like the RoR I used, it can never be considered "boring", just old. It was a framework where code you dump in "conventional" locations is autoloaded everywhere. With DSLs based on interpreting the
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by forgetfulness 2y ago
Your impassionate argument in favor of an ethnic cleansing with bombs, starvation and lack of sanitation lies in stark contrast to this outrage about the Uyghurs' culture being erased with development and draconian imprisonment for su
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by forgetfulness 2y ago
LLM companies aren't being funded by the hundreds of billions because investors expect science to be advanced by text and image generators. I find it very unlikely that the commodification of knowledge work will be for the betterment h
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by forgetfulness 2y ago
Zuckerberg would rather have them hooked on the "save europa" content in his platform, there's little more than that to this ban.
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by forgetfulness 2y ago
There's always the basic drives that his mental illness place in his actions. If nothing else, attention, validation and social status are plenty enough for someone of his condition, that of narcissism.
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by forgetfulness 2y ago
Data collection is a worry of the previous decade, the recommendation algorithm is the battle ground, the US has decided that it much prefers having Meta push its white supremacist and gender wars drivel non stop than what was being shown i

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