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by imiric 9mo ago
Spoken like a true advertiser. The reality is that psychologically manipulating people into buying things by forcing yourself as a middleman into every business transaction and industry on the planet is not just morally despicable, but oppo
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by imiric 9mo ago
> kinda getting mixed messages here Did you really expect a corporation to be transparent and consistent with their messaging? It should be obvious by now that the word "open" in their name is pure marketing. I'm surprised
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by imiric 9mo ago
> No matter how advanced the model gets, you'll get better results if you can clarify your thoughts well in written language. Imagine what we could accomplish if we had a way of writing very precise language that is easy for a machi
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by imiric 9mo ago
> In my experience Claude is like a "good junior developer" We've been saying this for years at this point. I don't disagree with you[1], but when will these tools graduate to "great senior developer", at th
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by imiric 9mo ago
> Being able to type quickly and accurately reduces LLMs can generate code quickly. But there's no guarantee that it's syntactically, let alone semantically, accurate. > I feel that I'm learning faster because I'm
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by imiric 9mo ago
The word "open" in software names has completely lost its meaning.
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Sure, that's one part of it, but this technology is also used by highly intelligent people in tech and other industries, some of whom are singing its praises. I would expect to see amazing products and innovations from them, and yet pr
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by imiric 9mo ago
It would certainly make an interesting anthropological case study. Humans have always been performative with those outside of their immediate social circle. Politics is effectively the art of performance, and using it to gain influence and
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by imiric 9mo ago
I'm still waiting for all these remarkable achievements produced with this new technology to provide tangible value to the world. Surely we should be seeing groundbreaking products and innovations in all industries by now, improving th
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by imiric 9mo ago
Tinc is a fantastic piece of software. Very easy to use and configure, and it just works. These days I lean towards WireGuard simply because it's built into Linux, but Tinc would be my second choice.
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by imiric 9mo ago
Your fridge and other home appliances likely use much more power than whatever a small server would. The mini PC in the article is very power efficient. You likely won't notice it in your power bill, regardless of your budget. You coul
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by imiric 9mo ago
Cars have similar UX issues as well. See the whole touchscreen saga. It's also an issue on Linux, to an extent. GNOME has a tendency of forcing UIs on users, and Ubuntu with Unity, now GNOME again, etc. Though, thankfully, since the us
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by imiric 9mo ago
All of that is a far cry from elements not being allowed to be closed. Please point to where the spec mentions that. MDN is not the spec.
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by imiric 9mo ago
This is the first time I hear sentiments against "AI" hype be referred to as hype itself. Yes, there are people ignoring this technology altogether, possibly to their own detriment, but at the stage where we are now it is perfectl
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by imiric 9mo ago
Wrong.[1] > if the element is one of the void elements, or if the element is a foreign element, then there may be a single U+002F SOLIDUS character (/) If you're going to be pedantic, at least be correct about it. [1]: https
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by imiric 9mo ago
The author has a point, but I object to this mischaracterization: > XHTML, being based on XML as opposed to SGML, is notorious for being author-unfriendly due to its strictness This strictness is a moot point. Most editors will autocompl
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by imiric 9mo ago
It's not about building a wall. It's about ensuring that the terms of the license chosen by the author are respected. This is why I think permissive licenses are a mistake for most projects. Unlike copyleft licenses, they allow us
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by imiric 9mo ago
It can. The problem is the practice of using open source as a marketing funnel. There are many projects that love to brag about being open source (it's "free"!), only to lock useful features behind a paywall, or do the inevit
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by imiric 9mo ago
Changing modes is a single key stroke away. That's hardly a reason to be slow. Readline settings depend on what you're already used to. If you're comfortable with vi key bindings, then being in normal mode, navigating with `w
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by imiric 9mo ago
In an Org document that contains Org examples (e.g. if this article had been written in Org), even Emacs gets confused about rendering it. So you might find that sections in example text are evaluated as being part of top-level sections and
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by imiric 9mo ago
You have a strange definition of "signal" and "noise". Code completion models can be useful because they output the most probable chain of tokens given a specific input, same as any LLM. There is no "signal" th
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by imiric 9mo ago
Ah, yes. You mean technology like "AI" that creates a positive impact on people?
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by imiric 9mo ago
No, I think you're confused, and doubling down on it, for some reason. Base models (after pre-training) have zero practical value. They're absolutely useless when it comes to separating signal from noise, using any practical defin
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by imiric 9mo ago
> The absurd value of LLMs is that they can somehow manage to extract the signal from that noise. Say what? LLMs absolutely cannot do that. They rely on armies of humans to tirelessly filter, clean, and label data that is used for traini
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by imiric 9mo ago
> No, this is honesty. No, it's bullshit. From Wikipedia[1]: > Corridor Digital LLC is an American independent production studio based in Los Angeles, known for creating pop-culture-related viral online short-form videos since 20
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by imiric 9mo ago
That's flat out wrong. They have produced several web series, and their videos feature a lot of visual effects. Just because their career focuses on producing web content doesn't mean they're any less talented than someone wo
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by imiric 9mo ago
That is a losing battle. Even if you manage to make bot usage more expensive, which is all a captcha can do, the content posted by humans in discussions and shared links is increasingly generated by machines. It's ironic having a commu
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by imiric 9mo ago
Yeah, I've read similar complaints, but I haven't had any issues. The only data I need—my bookmarks and tags—are already backed up in a JSON file. You can get this via the API. It would be good to have the crawled archives as well
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by imiric 9mo ago
Not just old games. There is a trend of modern "boomer shooters" that have similar visuals and mechanics as these classics. They're fun for a while, but none of them capture me as much as these games did back then. Part of it
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by imiric 9mo ago
> this whole "ai is theft" argument is just pure cope. tailwind was always just a thin abstraction over css standards Both of those can be true.

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