groby_b

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by groby_b 2mo ago
It does. It's called a PWA.
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by groby_b 3mo ago
In retrospect, I think my wording might be misleading - I didn't mean to imply the US is doing significantly worse than developed world, just that none of the developed world does significantly worse than the US either. I.e. I was resp
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by groby_b 3mo ago
So, KYC propaganda?
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by groby_b 3mo ago
Haven't yet seen a developed nation do worse than the US. If you prefer to compare against developing countries only, sure, winning by lowering the bar to the ground is an option.
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by groby_b 3mo ago
This project was likely not written just to be convenient for you. And if it's got value for you, hey, it's open source. Spend the 15 minutes and 10 cents, it's a bargain.
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by groby_b 3mo ago
Write an LLM script to review them. Tell it to find at least three severe issues. Set to auto-reply. He who brings the slop cannon shall be drowned by slop rain.
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by groby_b 3mo ago
They're not just "too zealous", they're ludicrous. I've had it reject looking at pages served from my local network because it "can't find it with my search tool" and had "ethical concerns about
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by groby_b 3mo ago
I mean, you don't have to annotate them :) Would I love to read annotations? Sure - but it's a boatload of work for you, and if it's just meant as a repo for you and your friends, no need to do a ton of work just because an
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by groby_b 3mo ago
Good for China. Society cannot work with too many corrupt civil servants. Yes, "autocrats", "civil liberties", and yet - the guy slurped up $325M to put his finger on the scale, not to change the model of governance. I w
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by groby_b 3mo ago
"Truly robust engineering isn’t about what works for most; it’s about gracefully handling the edge cases" Not really. Truly robust engineering includes a cost-benefit analysis of which edge cases you handle. We don't live in
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by groby_b 3mo ago
Yes, but we've traded LLM psychosis for agent psychosis, followed by loop psychosis. (Or was it the other way round? Also, we did dark software factories already, right?) Turns out that if you try to be "15 minutes into everyone e
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by groby_b 3mo ago
I think it'd be interesting to hear what you think the goal of the site is. Is it just rehosting the list, plus a reformatted copy of the papers? I was hoping you'd have at least annotated them with what you'd learned?
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by groby_b 3mo ago
The thing is that most architectures aren't amenable to emulation by things you wrote stoned and drunk.
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by groby_b 3mo ago
I think this misses a few crucial steps. Assuming you discover a capsule from the 21st century chances are overwhelmingly that either things have gone great, and you could just ask your AI to create an environment for that old binary (or re
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by groby_b 3mo ago
"Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest cold-related excess death rate" That's an interesting choice. It conflates cold-related excess deaths in the equatorial lowlands (which struggle to ever get below 70F/20C) and the sout
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by groby_b 4mo ago
Given it's Meta, I'd put roughly zero trust in the opt out actually being respected.
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by groby_b 4mo ago
Pangram is basically a made-up number. I've tried it on large docs I've written well before the AI times, and that are nowhere available on the Internet (so it can't be a corpus issue) - and it is happily classifying me as 60
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by groby_b 4mo ago
Ah, but you only tell them the things they already know and want to hear . That filter is crucial in any kind of advisory/consulting work. You're there to confirm biases, in 95% of the cases.
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by groby_b 4mo ago
It's not quite that clear-cut. Franklin was pretty clear on the helical structure in both research notes and papers, but she didn't quite nail the overall structure (2 strands with opposing winding, complementing bases). Fundame
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by groby_b 4mo ago
> He's under the building doing plumbing or electric one day. I believe I've encountered that guys electrical work, and it ain't sage :) (I.e. there are a few of those "fix it all" guys, but they're not alwa
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by groby_b 4mo ago
You understand there's a difference between human lives and the value of a stock, right? Because otherwise, I don't think this conversation is going to lead anywhere.
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by groby_b 4mo ago
It really doesn't. Same as we don't say "written with vi" or "written by Emacs", even if it is intuitively clear one of the two is better.
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by groby_b 4mo ago
Relatedly, is it OK with you if somebody bets a few million dollars on your early demise?
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by groby_b 4mo ago
What those organizations miss is that they drown their teams in organizational red tape. The way to the future isn't tokenmaxxing - it's cutting back on process noise.
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by groby_b 4mo ago
And oddly, Germany has the same pollen clouds, France has the same pollen clouds, the West Coast has them. (The three places I saw this year, at least). It's odd the BBC chose to anchor on Japan when it's really a widespread issue
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by groby_b 4mo ago
"not correctly aligned (probably meaning on an address that’s a multiple of sizeof(int), but who knows)" I stopped reading there. If you have decades of experience in C/C++ and don't know what that means (and that it&#x2
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by groby_b 5mo ago
Obviously. Any European nation that doesn't treat America and companies ultimately under US political control a strategic risk would have to be asleep at the wheel. "Perfidious" is the word. Palantir doubly so, since it has c
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by groby_b 5mo ago
Every single fucking employee contract in the US mentions that the company has the right to any work done on company equipment and/or on company time. This is such a bad idea, it's impressive.
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by groby_b 5mo ago
8 layers of management??? At gitlabs team size, that means every manager has 2-3 reports? Yeah, I'd be cutting layers too.
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by groby_b 5mo ago
That's the thing - you can have it as a lived value, or you can have HR run programs. Very few places have/had both. Given the choice, I'd pick door #1. (Saying this as a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, lest ther

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