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by imiric 10mo ago
The issue is that many problems aren't easy to verify, and LLMs also excel at producing garbage output that appears correct on the surface. There are fields of science where verification is a long and arduous process, even for content
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by imiric 10mo ago
I have a very vague familiarity with how it works, but I don't think there are alternatives. If you're using Wayland, you either have to rely on a distro or DE to configure it for you, or do it yourself. To be fair: I don't t
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by imiric 10mo ago
Oh, it works for me too, but unless you're using a distro or DE that preconfigures it for you, you have to do it yourself. Which I'm used to on Void Linux and usually don't mind, but it's a horrendous UX that I just didn
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by imiric 10mo ago
> Back when I was writing xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland Ah, yes, XDG "portals". The reason file selection and screencasting is broken on every new Linux/Wayland installation I do, forcing me to try to understand the insane m
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by imiric 10mo ago
I love this so much. I'm envious of the level of nerdiness and genius at display, and hope some of it rubbed off on me by watching that demo.
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by imiric 10mo ago
Unfortunately, companies prioritize profits over everything else, and sometimes that is at the expense of what should be the morally right thing to do. They can only be pursuaded against this by regulation, which they're also in a posi
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by imiric 10mo ago
I like the look of this a lot! Especially how condensed it is, similar to my favorite monospace TrueType font Iosevka Term. The ANSI color rendering looks phenomenal. I'll definitely give this a try in my Linux TTY. Thanks for sharing!
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by imiric 10mo ago
> Dosage matters. Lots of folks take psilocybin and lsd on a daily basis. Microdosing is not the same as recreational usage. Not many people take LSD or psilocybin recreationally that often. Cannabis recreational usage is much more commo
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by imiric 10mo ago
While that's true, I don't consider psychedelics to be within the same realm of safety as cannabis. Cannabis does have psychoactive effects, of course, but it doesn't induce visual and auditory hallucinations with the intensi
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by imiric 10mo ago
I'm of the opinion that the claimed negative effects of cannabis are correlations, not causations. I've yet to read a study that empirically proves cannabis causes health issues beyond those caused by e.g. smoke inhalation. I subs
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by imiric 10mo ago
Way to split hairs. Something being against the ToS can still be legal. Prostitution obviously cannot physically happen on an online platform, but it sure is a convenient way to advertise and attract customers, and serve as the payment proc
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by imiric 10mo ago
Because safeguarding user privacy is not a goal. Scoring political points with "think of the children" agendas, while getting kickbacks from companies salivating at the opportunity to gather even more personal data, is.
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by imiric 11mo ago
Whatever works for you, but I don't believe that your mail flow on the Mac is "effectively unchanged for 20 years". Wikipedia lists many UI and functionality changes over the years for the Mail app.[1] As recently as this yea
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by imiric 11mo ago
Shouldn't the next stop be to improve general accuracy, which is what these tools have struggled with since their inception? Until when are "AI" companies going to offload the responsibility on the user to verify the output o
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by imiric 11mo ago
> I don’t really feel I need to follow people’s cake recipe for success. That's great, but then what's the point of this article? The author is seemingly offering advice about why and how software should be built, but then clai
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by imiric 11mo ago
The nice thing is that once things are setup in Emacs, they usually work without much maintenance or surprises for years to come. How many times have mainstream email clients changed UIs and featuresets in the last 10 years? How many of the
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by imiric 11mo ago
Playing devil's advocate, many people die using all kinds of tools. It doesn't make the tools any less useful for people who use them responsibly. That said, the idea that a pattern recognition and generation tool can be used for
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by imiric 11mo ago
It's not a "take", but an accurate assessment of "AI" tools.
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by imiric 11mo ago
Not a problem. We can call it HTML6 and make browsers interpret it correctly.
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by imiric 11mo ago
> LLMs aren’t guns. Right. A gun doesn't misfire 20% of the time. > The problem with using them is that humans have to review the content for accuracy. How long are we going to push this same narrative we've been hearing sin
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by imiric 11mo ago
Indeed. The narrative that this type of issue is entirely the responsibility of the user to fix is insulting, and blame deflection 101. It's not like these are new issues. They're the same ones we've experienced since the int
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by imiric 11mo ago
> It's a smart satire with kinship to Falling Down or a Mike Judge project, but with the audience-engaging emotionality and physicality of Rowan Atkinson or Sasha Baron cohen. I'm a fan of the projects and people you mentioned,
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by imiric 11mo ago
I have a slightly different take on it. Creating software is indeed fun, but the most enjoyable aspects are the "a-ha" moments after you overcome a tricky problem, the confidence boost from creating something that works in an effi
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by imiric 11mo ago
I agree with that. But the problem is the narrative around this tech. It is marketed as if we have accomplished a major breakthrough in modeling intelligence. Companies are built on illusions and promises that AGI is right around the corner
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by imiric 11mo ago
The difference is that we know how LLMs work. We know exactly what they process, how they process it, and for what purpose. Our inability to explain and predict their behavior is due to the mind-boggling amount of data and processing comple
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by imiric 11mo ago
It's curious that you would choose NixOS for a system that "just works". As much as I like the core ideas of Nix(OS)—reproducibility, declarative configuration, snapshots and atomic upgrades/rollbacks—, having used it fo
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by imiric 11mo ago
> They can't remove it. They gave it to you. They just don't have to keep giving you more stuff. Who is "they" in this context? A permissive license allows anyone to take someone else's work, profit from it, and
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by imiric 11mo ago
This looks neat, thanks for building and sharing it. I do agree that observability stacks are usually a deep pit of things to configure and services to run, but there are tools that simplify things considerably. I can personally vouch for O
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by imiric 11mo ago
Atuin seemed like an interesting way to sync shell history across machines. That wasn't a problem I personally had, but I could've seen myself giving it a try. These recent developments with the Desktop tool, and now what seems li
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by imiric 11mo ago
No, but if someone takes the free food and builds a business by selling it to others, without giving anything back to the original places, it harms everyone other than the person doing that. F/LOSS is not a charity or a gift, so your a

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