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by imiric 9mo ago
This is great, but I don't see it being useful for most use cases. Most high-level charting libraries already support downsampling. Rendering data that is not visible is a waste of CPU cycles anyway. This type of optimization is very c
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by imiric 9mo ago
I've had the same experience. My IBM ThinkPads had great keyboards. Lenovo modernized them, but introduced a bunch of quality issues. Oh, and I forgot to mention the most annoying issue of all: the TrackPoint still drifts on every mode
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by imiric 9mo ago
"Tell me the reasons why this report is stupid" is a loaded prompt. The tool will generate whatever output pattern matches it, including hallucinating it. You can get wildly different output if you prompt it "Tell me the reas
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by imiric 9mo ago
True, but a better comparison is the dot-com crash. The effects of that were mainly contained to the tech industry and the stock market. People who weren't invested in either barely noticed the crash. This time around the ramifications
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by imiric 9mo ago
The survey was about operational costs and revenue. Water cooler and coffee machine manufacturers don't market their products to be "smarter than people in many ways" and "able to significantly amplify the output of peop
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by imiric 9mo ago
Why the doom and gloom? It's going to hurt those who jumped on the bandwagon hoping to cash out. I couldn't care less about them, but I would like for computer hardware to be affordable again, and for the tech job market to go bac
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by imiric 9mo ago
Umm no, your example is a backwards reading of the data. From the PwC survey: > More than half (56%) say their company has seen neither higher revenues nor lower costs from AI, while only one in eight (12%) report both of these positive
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by imiric 9mo ago
Considering that "AI" providers are now adopting advertising, I wonder how many of them are actually seeing lower costs and higher revenue from dogfooding. The hype train must go on, and I'm sure all employees are under stric
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by imiric 9mo ago
So human lives have a price tag, and companies can kill millions for decades as long as they pay for it. Gotcha.
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by imiric 9mo ago
I'm not talking about unpredictable tradeoffs and consequences. I'm talking about intentional actions that lead to deaths. E.g. [1] and [2], but there are numerous such examples. There is no plausible defense for this. It is pure
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by imiric 9mo ago
The people in these industries are collectively responsible for millions of preventable deaths, and they, their families, and generations of their offspring are and will be living the best lives money can buy. And yet one person kills a CEO
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by imiric 9mo ago
IMO the ThinkPad brand died after IBM sold its PC division. Lenovo has kept it alive because it is a cash cow, but the machines have shoddy build quality and are ludicrously overpriced. My previous X1 Extreme Gen 1 (2018) had annoying coil
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by imiric 9mo ago
There's no question that "AI" is the next advertising frontier. I've been saying this for years[1][2][3]. It is going to be the most lucrative form of it yet, and no "AI" company will be able to resist it. Give
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by imiric 9mo ago
I mostly agree with you, but I see what afro88 is saying as well. If you consider a human programmer as a "black box", in the sense that you feed it a set of inputs—the problem that needs to be solved, vague requirements, etc.—and
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by imiric 9mo ago
> You cannot appeal to trendlines while arbitrarily discarding the very history that defines them without committing selection bias. > When large numbers of analogous past events point in contradictory directions, individual anecdotes
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by imiric 9mo ago
> Kind of like how email and the postal service can be kind of the same if you look at it from a certain angle. But they're not the same at all, except somewhat by their end result, in that they are both ways of transmitting informa
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by imiric 9mo ago
> “We’ve seen this before and it didn’t happen” is not analysis. It’s selective pattern matching used when the conclusion feels safe. > If you want to argue seriously, you have to start with ground truth. What is happening now. What t
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by imiric 9mo ago
> You need to know what competitors shipped, what research dropped, what patterns are emerging across 50+ sources continuously. Generic ChatGPT can't do that. You're saying that a pattern recognition tool that can access the we
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by imiric 9mo ago
If you don't see a difference between a compiler and a probabilistic token generator, I don't know what to tell you. And, yes, I'm aware that most compilers are not entirely deterministic either, but LLMs are inherently nonde
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by imiric 9mo ago
Did you actually learn C? Be thankful nothing like this existed in 1997. A machine generating code you don't understand is not the way to learn a programming language. It's a way to create software without programming. These tools
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by imiric 9mo ago
> All of them are enabled by big tech That's not true. All of the examples you mentioned are possible without Big Tech. There are F/LOSS and community supported alternatives for all of them. Big Tech might've contributed t
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by imiric 9mo ago
Aha, so late-game Factorio. It's a nice fantasy, but I don't think that the rest of humanity will stand by and allow the entire system to function autonomously. It's more likely that heads will roll far before such system is
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by imiric 9mo ago
> big tech will inevitably make everyone's lives miserable "Will"? If you don't see how this is happening today , you're either a part of the problem, or blissfully ignorant. > It offers no constructive alter
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by imiric 9mo ago
I partly agree, but where this analogy breaks down, and what the neofeudal rulers are too shortsighted to realize, is that if lower classes don't have income to spend, there will be nobody to buy their products, and the entire economy
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by imiric 9mo ago
If in order to use a product as intended I have to punch myself in the face, I'll take the poor results, obviously.
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by imiric 9mo ago
Here's a proposal: app.md. A structured text file with everything you want your app to do. That way we can have entire projects with nothing but Markdown files. And we can run apps with just `claude run app.md`. Who needs silly code an
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by imiric 9mo ago
These are great, but the effect breaks down with digital fonts since every glyph instance is the same. There would have to be slight variations of each, and other imperfections caused by a typewriter or printing process. I'm not sure I
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by imiric 9mo ago
Ah, yes. Only chefs should be food critics, and every product reviewer should propose ways to improve the product. There is no alternative solution to greed. Better solutions will become viable when there is less greed. Current political an
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by imiric 9mo ago
You're referring to tools that fetch content from the web, read my data on disk, and feed it to the models? I can see how that would lead to a better user experience, but those are copouts. The reality is that the LLM tech without it s

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