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by geon 7mo ago
> The Chinese law enforcement official used ChatGPT like a diary But why? It’s like using photoshop for spreadsheets.
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by geon 7mo ago
Is there a similarly simple implementation with tensorflow? I tried building a tiny model last weekend, but it was very difficult to find any articles that weren’t broken ai slop.
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by geon 7mo ago
I think the hard part is improving on the basic concept. The current top of the line models are extremely overfitted and produce so much nonsense they are useless for anything but the most simple tasks. This architecture was an interesting
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by geon 7mo ago
That’s exactly what chatgpt etc are.
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by geon 8mo ago
Nice. The ligature ← for << was a bit confusing. And a nitpick; Finding a match in a bloom filter isn’t a false positive, it is inconclusive. Since bloom filter are only designed to give negatives, never positives, the concept of a fa
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by geon 8mo ago
The "below average" engineers are largely the juniors and the programming non-programmers. The juniors can't be replaced because all senior engineer were once junior. The non-programmers won't be replaced because they ar
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by geon 8mo ago
No. Natural language is vague, ambiguous and indirect. Watch these poor children struggle with writing instructions for making a sandwich: https://youtu.be/FN2RM-CHkuI
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by geon 8mo ago
> The code that LLMs make is much worse than what I can write: almost certainly; but the same could be said about your assembler Has this been true since the 90s? I pretty much only hear people saying modern compilers are unbeatable.
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by geon 8mo ago
repl.wasm is 1.6 MiB Seems a bit much. How large would the todo example be?
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by geon 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_(ship)
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by geon 9mo ago
Your reasoning makes no sense. It is the output that could be copyrighted, not potential future output. Otherwise anyone could allready claim copyright on everything.
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by geon 9mo ago
And since the developers who have to do the last 90 % were not involved in the first 90 %, they will have no clue how to do it.
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by geon 9mo ago
I moved because Ghostty feels just like the native terminal but allows me to set the color scheme. I have it set to match the vscode Monokai theme. No, macos Terminal will not let you use whatever colors you like. It will helpfully adjust
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by geon 9mo ago
Reads more like it makes fun of trans people to me.
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by geon 9mo ago
Regular compliance would be be to stop tracking users. A ton of websites don’t even track users but have the cookie popup because they think that’s what you’re supposed to do.
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by geon 9mo ago
> the strong aversion people have for things not being "proven" by western science What does “western” have to do with anything? There is plenty of pseudoscience, snake oil and magical thinking in the west. I’d wish people were
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by geon 9mo ago
> Every meal must prioritize high-quality, nutrient-dense protein from both animal and plant sources Are they saying Real Food™ is incompatible with vegetarianism?
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by geon 9mo ago
> If scrappy Firefox Because ie at the time was dogshit . FF was such an indisputable improvement that people just had to switch. Chrome great. There is nothing a newcomer can do to compete.
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by geon 9mo ago
Cows and horses are opportunistic omnivores.
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by geon 9mo ago
Presumably he spent years working on it. His own time should be subtracted from the revenue too.
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by geon 9mo ago
Can you give an example? I think we are talking past each other. This is not my experience at all.
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by geon 9mo ago
According to the creators, the models are on a phd level of intelligence, but they can’t get the simplest thing right.
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by geon 9mo ago
I tried asking for a list of the most common gameboy color games not compatible with the original dmg gameboy. Chatgpt would over and over list dmg compatible games instead. I asked it to cross reference lists of dmg games to remove them an
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by geon 10mo ago
That’s the whole point. You do it properly, so there IS no conflict.
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by geon 10mo ago
The master branch never gets merged, so it is linear. Finding a bug is very simple with bisect. All commits are atomic, so the failing commit clearly shows the bug. If you want to keep track of what commits belongs to a certain pr, you can
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by geon 10mo ago
To get a commit history that makes sense. It’s not supposed to document in what order you did the work, but why and how a change was made. when I’m knee deep in some rewrite and realize I should have changed something else first, I can just
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by geon 10mo ago
> EU governments now take in more revenue from fining US tech companies than from taxing local tech companies Do you have a source for that, or did you just make it up?
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by geon 10mo ago
> I had to find names that would allow the variables to appear in the correct order. So after some trial and error, I wrote a small throw-away program that generated a bunch of variables with random names and ran that list of variables t
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by geon 10mo ago
I can't quite understand the article. What does the lidar have to do with medium format cameras?
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by geon 10mo ago
A lot of people suggest that. So many that it has become an idiom. "Don't reinvent the wheel."

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