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by gortok 11mo ago
The "They" here are the folks who are currently investing in 'selling' AI solutions to other companies. OpenAI, Microsoft, Google's Gemini, and a slew of AI-backed startups are good examples. They don't need A
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by gortok 11mo ago
Thank you for following up. As I said, this magazine is wonderful. One caution I have, taking what you said that you only intend to charge for prints, is that I don’t think it’s a great idea to self-devalue the PDF version by not charging f
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by gortok 11mo ago
How you treat others says everything about you and nothing about the other person. In this case, the unnecessary insults detract from the otherwise important message, and reflect poorly on Zig. They were right to edit it.
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by gortok 11mo ago
That sort of friction is just enough to keep folks from giving money. And that’s not me saying this, there’s an entire cottage industry devoted to pricing and buying decisions, and how friction reduces revenue. If I take your suggestion to
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by gortok 11mo ago
I think this is great. I love this. I immediately went to the menu to see how I could buy a subscription, and there isn’t a place, as far as I can tell through my search, to do so. This goes for all new startups (non-profit or not!) if you
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by gortok 11mo ago
If we can't agree on a definition of AGI, then what good is it to say we have "human-in-the-loop AGI"? The only folks that will agree with you will be using your definition of AGI, which you haven't shared (at least in t
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by gortok 11mo ago
> The verification ability is especially important in the case of AI, which is presently a lot more fallible in a great variety of ways compared to calculators. Um. yea. This is the first time a non-deterministic technology has achieved
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by gortok 11mo ago
None of this looks good for either side. Eric wants the App Store data. Rebble doesn’t want all their work used to enrich a company that has already failed once at the expense of the work they have put in. It seems like both parties somehow
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by gortok 11mo ago
The writing is laughably bad. I can’t tell if it’s someone that over relied on AI or if they just mimic the structure and mannerisms of AI produced writing because that’s what they see. A few choice examples: > Checkout part one of this
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by gortok 1y ago
The wild thing about this is that for the longest time, URLs were the mechanism for maintaining state on a page. It is only with the complete takeover of JavaScript-based web pages that we even got away from this being "just the way i
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by gortok 1y ago
I’m not assuming that at all. When windows has a problem, I am confident there will be a driver fix and windows/the manufacturer will update the driver and I download an update and I’m fixed, and I’m confident in this for a few reasons
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by gortok 1y ago
And if the game isn’t supported? What then? Not buy it? Buy another PC and use windows for that? Last time I tried a dual boot UEFI system with windows and Linux on separate drives, I spent three weeks trawling message boards for half ans
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by gortok 1y ago
I use Windows for one reason only: Steam and best performance and compatibility for high resolution gaming. If I didn’t want that, I wouldn’t be on windows at all. The issue I have with Linux is that it’s 2025 and every single time I’ve cre
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by gortok 1y ago
“Quality Control”? Outside of the absolute bare minimum to check this box for a plurality of observers, I can’t imagine anyone actually saying the App Store has a quality control process with a straight face, especially not one that would b
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by gortok 1y ago
Two events each having a low probability is not the same thing as the events not happening. Despite our best efforts, folks still win the lottery, and you’re more likely to get struck by lightning than win the powerball jackpot. So while it
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by gortok 1y ago
Why has Tesla depreciated so much since 2023? Could any of the depreciation be due to the character that is Elon Musk and his antics? As someone who bought a 2023 Model Y 7 seat Long Range, I can tell you my desire to sell the car was 100%
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by gortok 1y ago
It’s not the technical expertise that is the concern. It’s what the UK government has shown time and again when they ask for more data: they use it for previously denied-aims to expand their surveillance state. https://en.m.wikip
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by gortok 1y ago
> Why is this app even needed/desired? The methods ICE is using currently to detain people for deportation look a lot like secret police tactics for disappearing folks and resemble kidnapping, when a van full of armed men with face
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Developers reluctant to use AI: 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey results(stackoverflow.blog)
2 points by gortok 1y ago|0 comments
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by gortok 1y ago
Perl was the first language I learned, because my local books-a-million, in the year 2000, had basically the entire O’Reilly Perl series deeply discounted ($5.99 to $9.99, a steal for a college freshman), and so I learned Perl. The writing
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by gortok 1y ago
So until about 2013? 2014? URL-driven state was just the way everything worked . One of the major complaints of `cgi-bin` was that you had to manually add back to the URL to manage state (and of that time, there were a good number of cgi-b
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FDA's artificial intelligence is supposed to revolutionize drug approvals(cnn.com)
1 points by gortok 1y ago|1 comments
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by gortok 1y ago
You're not going to get one. You reach out every few months with updates, especially if those updates include the KPIs they're looking for to invest. If you don't know what those KPIs are, then your initial conversation with
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A.I. Can't Understand Dice(meta.jlericson.com)
3 points by gortok 1y ago|0 comments
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by gortok 1y ago
In the comments here there are basically two schools of thought illustrated: 1. This is how MCP and LLMs work. This is how non-deterministic systems turn out. You wanted agentic AI. This is a natural outcome. What’s the problem? 2. We can d
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by gortok 1y ago
If "a lot" of MCP servers let agents input whatever they want; then at what point do you consider the standard itself faulty?
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by gortok 1y ago
I am baffled by the irrational exuberance of the MCP model. Before we even get into the technical underpinnings and issues, there's a logical problem that should have stopped seasoned technologists dead in their tracks from going furth
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by gortok 1y ago
No one is “requiring perfection”, but hallucination is a major issue and is in the opposite direction of the “goal” of AGI. If “don’t hallucinate” is too much to ask then ethics flew out the window long ago.
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by gortok 1y ago
Is it your argument that the folks that make generative AI applications have nothing to improve from this example?
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by gortok 1y ago
I think folks have taken the wrong lesson from this. It’s not that they added a new feature because there was demand. They added a new feature because technology hallucinated a feature that didn’t exist. The savior of tech, generative AI, w

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