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by gdulli 8mo ago
The tool when working as intended makes up quotes. Passing that off as journalism is either malicious or unacceptably incompetent.
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by gdulli 8mo ago
You're asking what's the alternative to this? A chance for real connection and healing that isn't vulnerable to the whim of a tech giant and its compulsion for profit. A chance at counsel that isn't vulnerable to a rando
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by gdulli 8mo ago
That's great, will you also add the category field to the text file in the repo? These projects are often heavy on tech blogs and I'd like to filter those out.
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by gdulli 8mo ago
"Agenda" has become code for "ideas I don't agree with", used by people who mistakenly believe it (politics) can be compartmentalized from other everyday topics and only trotted out at election time.
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by gdulli 8mo ago
I can picture the entire hierarchy telling whoever's next up the chain what they're demanding to hear. I'd be scripting the consumption of lots of credits and sending the output to /dev/null to get a glowing perform
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by gdulli 8mo ago
Credit cards provide convenience and cash back benefits. Some might prefer to pay cash for everything for ultimate privacy, and that's fine. But credit cards are the compromise I make. I can still pay cash when I think it's approp
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by gdulli 8mo ago
I use my credit and debit cards the same way today as I did before smartphones existed. I never invited the extra surveillance middleman of Google/Apple into my transactions. And the convenience of tapping or swiping a plastic card is
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by gdulli 8mo ago
And when your local model generated video gets uploaded, YouTube will just remove it then. Local models will always be disadvantaged on compute power anyway. Hobbyists can do what they want locally but the culture will be dominated by what
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by gdulli 8mo ago
This is the future of creation that many want to see. The only ideas allowed will be ones that corporations aren't afraid of being sued about.
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by gdulli 8mo ago
Right, this article overlooks the difference between a first encounter and regular encounters. The concise representation pays off when you do learn it, as long as it's executed well. And I'm fine with a bit of cognitive explorati
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by gdulli 8mo ago
Amazon has successfully trained the population to turn all of their shopping into impulse buy mode.
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by gdulli 8mo ago
Why is this so cringe? That's not the typical way AI writing is bad.
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by gdulli 8mo ago
Women getting to vote was woke, integrated schools were woke, interracial marriage was woke, unmarried women getting a credit card was woke. Spending your life being mad about progress that's going to happen no matter how much you figh
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by gdulli 9mo ago
I'm grateful that I spent a significant part of my life forced to solve problems and forced to struggle to produce the right words. In hindsight I know that that's where all the learning was. If I'd had a shortcut machine whe
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by gdulli 9mo ago
If you told me this was a verbatim cautionary sci-fi short story from 1953 I'd believe it.
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by gdulli 9mo ago
If people are feeling entitled to a certain pace of spectacle and action as they write off everything in between as virtueless boredom, that's more damaging to the culture than a certain percentage simply no longer watching movies. Tha
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by gdulli 9mo ago
Exactly. This is the holy grail of advertising. Seamless and undisclosed. That, and replacing vast amounts of labor, are some of the only uses that justify the level of investment in LLM AI.
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by gdulli 9mo ago
It sounds like the Walmart approach has two fewer middlemen, which sounds nice to me. Walmart's interests are aligned with ours here. Whatever profit they have to give up as payment overhead will be passed along to us as higher prices.
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by gdulli 9mo ago
I was asked for a web app for two business users to be able to create arbitrary/flexible data driven rule sets through a custom UI. I quickly gave them a "temporary" Django admin app where they could upload Excel spreadsheets
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by gdulli 9mo ago
Geopolitics aside, tech dependence in general has tipped from net helping us to hurting us. AI dependence is going to make social media dependence look like nothing.
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by gdulli 9mo ago
But you can have a surprisingly large amount of data before the inefficiency you're talking about becomes untenable.
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by gdulli 9mo ago
I was gifted $250 pro airpods that stopped working after a few months, and then the replacements they gave me stopped working again after a few months. I went back to using the $10 wired earbuds that have always worked fine.
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by gdulli 9mo ago
I know, I was adding on the joke that LLMs can't get the year right.
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by gdulli 9mo ago
Sounds like you're using an LLM as your calendar.
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by gdulli 9mo ago
Would I keep showing up to the job I had in 2015? Yes, not forever, but at least for a time. It was enjoyable socially and practicing the craft is enjoyable. At jobs like that, the ability to enjoy the craft outweighed the downsides of havi
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by gdulli 9mo ago
Writing code is so much easier than reading it! What an unforced error to transform the field from the former to the latter.
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by gdulli 9mo ago
If you're deciding whether to dress and prepare for rain you're more curious about whether it will rain or not than the amount.
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by gdulli 9mo ago
No, that sounds right. First you don't know how to write something, then you know one way, then you know multiple ways, then later you know multiple ways and have the instinct to pick the best one first.
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by gdulli 9mo ago
Maybe a good difference between "senior" at ten years and senior at twenty years is whether you think amount of code produced is a positive metric or a negative one.
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by gdulli 10mo ago
There's rarely a bullet point advantage that some new language or tech stack can offer me that would outweigh ten years of observation of how a familiar setup behaves in production, such that the space of unknown unknowns is reduced to

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