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by huygens6363 2y ago
I agree. Likewise, early AI models to GPT4 is breathtaking progress. Regular people shrug and say, yeah sure, but what can I do with it. They still do this day.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Not saying it’s going to be the same, but I’m sure computing progress looked pretty unimpressive from, say, 1975 to 1990 for the uninitiated. By the 90s they were still mainly used as fancy typewriters by “normal” people (my parents, school
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by huygens6363 2y ago
I found The Ad to evoke feelings of crushing power and being demolished by an actual moloch. I don’t care for the instruments, but the sheer physicality of it, the dominating, destructive awesome power does linger. It captures Apple and all
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by huygens6363 2y ago
WASM is a totally different path that’s also viable (I think). You can build whatever you want, as long as it compiles down to WASM you should be fine. I’d like the standardization to be slightly lower in the abstraction tower. If people wa
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by huygens6363 2y ago
If only there was some kind of magic device that has basic input facilities coupled with some kind of simple graphics output. I jest, but I think a very basic computational platform - think 6502-style - with simple graphics could be standar
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by huygens6363 2y ago
We have got: master/slave, blacklist/whitelist, master and now person-in-the-middle. I’m sure we’ll find a few others. You’re telling me these few changes and new terminology are too confusing? It’s not like we are rethinking all
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Dutch people demand to know what is fishy about making a black face, dressing up in colonial clothes and acting childish. They think this is “empty talk”. There is a long, long list of these kinds of “cultural” behaviors. Especially the rur
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Guys, I know you hate change, but if these terms were all so innocuous and innocent, why the hate against this small change? I’m from Holland and we have this weird thing called Sinterklaas where we dress up as black people and basically ma
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by huygens6363 2y ago
The same is true for basically everything in Africa. Just pointing out that Boeing pulled the same trick with the MAX and I think it’s in bad taste to start off with this line of reasoning. We don’t know. So we don’t know if it’s Africans b
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by huygens6363 2y ago
One, that’s not that old and shouldn’t be crashing on take-off and two, the narrative that it’s shady African carriers that are to blame is getting old. In fact, it’s exactly what Boeing always says right before they are in fact to blame.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
On what grounds? Do they have a patent on spreadsheet-looking interfaces? It leaves a bit of a bad taste IMO to blatantly copy a startup that’s working its ass off to create a good product and then releasing it as open source, but I have a
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by huygens6363 2y ago
I thought it was common knowledge that it is in fact euphoric. Happy to be told I’m wrong though. (Think of nitrous oxide and .. the thing with asphyxiation and a certain pleasurable activity)
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Comparing fairly with Go would mean adding the JRE to the lib, because the lib itself is useless. Go produces executables.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Perspective matters IME. I held both perspectives, this org is dysfunctional and healthy, at the same position, organization and exact same circumstances. In one I was sure I was right and in the other I entertained the notion I actual migh
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Well, good sir, you actually got through my thick skull. I have a soft spot for the Irish. I understand.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Yes, me too. If it could somehow remember the “structure” instead of the instantiation. More “relationships between types of token relationships” instead of “relationships between tokens”.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
That’s a design issue and a small and easily fixable one at that.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Agreed. Some flag, US, Chinese, I don’t care, signifies “language” in the context of software . That is an easy, universal UI pattern. I don’t see the need to upend this for some notion of offense or other type of PCness.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Having a vague, conceptual understanding of a topic is often confused with expertise. Also known as knowing enough to be dangerous. What worries me is that AI code is getting complicated and harder to correct. I recently noticed that after
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Little snitch[1] can help you out when self-hosting. When not self-hosting, all bets are off and my default stance is "expect the worst". [1] https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html Edit: L
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by huygens6363 2y ago
If they could, they would. What’s stopping them?
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by huygens6363 2y ago
You are glossing over very fundamental issues here. If you want to be pragmatic about it, sure. Don’t worry about it. At the macroscopic scale this discussion does not matter and of course I can choose what to focus on, I hope we all can. B
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by huygens6363 2y ago
It is hard to find direct comparisons as the tech is truly novel, but I have heard people say we don’t need to learn math because your calculator can do “university level math”. I don’t know how close that argument is to yours, but there is
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Compared to not doing fancy forms and partial refreshes? I know, I’ll let myself out.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
You are literally nonplussed.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Proceeds to assist with the most unimaginably complex system known to man to solve fancy forms and partial refreshes.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Same here. I remember the days I was new and hip fondly. I work with frontends among other things so I am semi-aware of the current state of insanity. I try to not talk too much and go with the flow. The older I get the more software (and b
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by huygens6363 2y ago
I love learning high-level knowledge using conceptual overviews and I remember them very well too. I’m just not wired to remember the nitty-gritty of things and I found drills are the only way forward provided they are implemented intellige
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by huygens6363 2y ago
I agree, but I have to admit that once we have to invoke mysterious one-off miracles and unknowable states of existence to explain something so radically basic like “free will” we have IMO gone off track. This feels like a God of the gaps t
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by huygens6363 2y ago
> Companies are amoral This is a feature, not a bug. We are system creators and let those systems do the work. We dislike getting our hands dirty and not just physically. Companies are thinly veiled machines ran by grinding oiled up huma

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