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by fragmede 2mo ago
Hang on! What's the proposed causal chain from AI to famine here? Inference -> energy prices -> fertilizer/food prices? Or are you referring to the war?
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by fragmede 2mo ago
We have to make the distinction between specification and execution. LLM programming is great because I can underspecify and the machine will infer the rest. Usually reasonably. People want fuzzy specification but deterministic outputs
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by fragmede 2mo ago
Mine's funky.nondeterministic.computer
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by fragmede 2mo ago
What you see here, is the iterator, i! For i, less than - a million black people killed by racist genocide, call the function save_lives(), i++
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by fragmede 2mo ago
Oracle has a free tier that you can self host a git server on, if that's what you're looking for.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
They do. Talk to your account representative for the alternate domain name to hit.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
It's not a red herring, every commit necessitates a database hit.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
Except that was the whole problem with the CCP having hooks into TikTok. It's thing to be "oh it's just the algorithm", but if China's involved, they're gonna have a finger on the scale, but then when it's
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by fragmede 2mo ago
Where is "we"?
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by fragmede 2mo ago
> the receiver has no idea how much thought the sender invested in the communication. That's an interesting thought. The message can have metadata that says the sender's spent 1/5/10/60/120 minutes or some o
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by fragmede 2mo ago
To your point, consumer computer memory has stagnated at 8/16 GiB of RAM for a while.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
As far as that part goes, you're right. However, someone wanting to make $APP work on raspberry pi 1 level of hardware, and complain to the LLM that electron is so laggy as to be unusable, then I also imagine the LLM is capable of sugg
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by fragmede 2mo ago
> people want fuzzy analog machines with digital controls, it's impossible people would love it if LLMs were deterministic and never hallucinated. It's just that the technology to do so isn't possible, so we make do with f
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by fragmede 2mo ago
ELI5, please. I'm not good at the people stuff.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
I mean this genuinely, good luck! It's a tantalizing project to work on, I've bought a couple of domains for it but haven't followed through due to other projects taking precent. Maybe the costs will be small enough for the s
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by fragmede 2mo ago
naively, isn't that how you end up with a pyramid structure with layers of management? You have an engineering manager managing a dozen or whatever is the right number that they are able to identify the high output engineers, and the
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by fragmede 2mo ago
Which the article can state, but the headline needs to fit.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
How about > Why did Microsoft Entertainment Pack announce that it had Tetris
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by fragmede 2mo ago
It's similar to why taxicab distance is better for distance measurement on limited hardware where sqrt() costs precious cycles. The reason to use sin() though is because it's a lookup table (where it counts) and not a bit of math,
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by fragmede 2mo ago
The case of Therac-25 is required reading for a computer science ethics course. (How requisite a CS ethics course is a different story entirely though.) It's not a fantasy for more regulated medical devices eg pacemakers.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
Probably take more than $100k, X11/Wayland is a bit more complicated than the usual bit of software.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
I mean I can link a conversation with Claude that says it knows about materials and various details on their various strength but I don't think that'll convince you of anything.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
I don't think they actually wanted to. That's just where the technology is, unfortunately.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
But think of the stories you'll be able to tell!
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by fragmede 2mo ago
I mean if you define anything using web-based technology as crap then sure, but someone could just as easily define Linux GTK apps as being old and janky and then where will we be? LLMs can write Zenity bash scripts just fine, it's up
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by fragmede 2mo ago
If you go up a level and read the other parts of that discussion, it's quite rewarding.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
What a good find! Makes me feel better about my projects that get zero traction here.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
I mean, there's fiscally responsible but the welfare department is never gonna make money at the end of the day spending is a political football. Trump's ICE got $10 billion, because what? So now in addition to DEA we have ICE an
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by fragmede 2mo ago
Pictures are worth a thousand words, and oh man those diagrams. I could have used them back then!
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by fragmede 2mo ago
It's technically a crime in America too, but I guess Americans are more outlaw than Australians in that rather specific regard.

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