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by jachee 4mo ago
They literally can’t go full-transparency. I know a high-level insider, and the fact is that even the folks implementing things don’t actually know how it works, only that it does, and how to get it to generally behave.
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by jachee 4mo ago
…which is why it’s led to more than zero suicides.
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by jachee 4mo ago
That is a management failure. And a management failure should not result in unpaid (slave) labor.
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by jachee 4mo ago
This is an inherently human problem. Those are exceedingly difficult to solve via technology.
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by jachee 4mo ago
No. Management will take and take and take during “crunch time” then immediately layoff large chunks of staff before they give anything back. It’s happened scores of times. No company is as loyal to its labor as it expects labor to be to it
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by jachee 4mo ago
Easy: No one should do unpaid labor. Period. “Crunch time” has traditionally been deployed by games management as a license to free slave labor from game developers. Failures of management’s planning are imposed as emergencies on the devs.
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by jachee 5mo ago
Nono, parent was asking “They’re bad and inefficient at that, so why have an LLM do math? Why not just use some code and the CPU/GPU that’s already good and efficient at basic math?”
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by jachee 5mo ago
Heh… Wait ‘til I tell him that his beloved macOS is Unix underneath.
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by jachee 5mo ago
Out of pure curiosity, what do you “very much dislike” about it?
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by jachee 5mo ago
You’re already looking at it, buddy.
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by jachee 6mo ago
Any method of “fingerprinting” and invading a browser’s privacy is inherently an exploit.
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by jachee 6mo ago
That “pointing out” is, itself, “not useful either.”
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by jachee 6mo ago
Incorrect. William Gibson does. And he’s definitely worth listening to.
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by jachee 6mo ago
Bluesky has a default feed that is just the posts/reposts of the people who you choose to follow, in reverse chronological order. No need for an algorithm to decide what is worth seeing.
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by jachee 6mo ago
Hmm… this started as an admonition for using then and than interchangeably. I see folks get it wrong unintentionally a lot… then i re-read your parenthetical and pulled up etymonline and had my mind blown a bit.[0] Seems everything old is n
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by jachee 6mo ago
Because it’s just fancy auto-complete.
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by jachee 7mo ago
Yeah, but a $5 VPS won't suddenly surprise you with a five-figure bill.
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by jachee 7mo ago
Also, let's see if we can get the power and compute requirements brought down. Having to spin up a gigawatt power plant to achieve the same intelligence we humans power with sandwiches is a futile approach, imho.
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by jachee 7mo ago
Pilot Unions should go on strike until ATC is properly staffed at every level, since Regan made it illegal for ATC themselves to go on strike.
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by jachee 7mo ago
“Impossible to get a man to understand a thing, when his paycheck depends on his not understanding it.”
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by jachee 7mo ago
Oh, and I forgot to mention the ironically-named ( so much of their stuff is ironically-named…) “SAVE” Act, that’s set to disrupt the process even further by having “AI” purge voter registration rolls.
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by jachee 7mo ago
The ones where they’re going to send brownshirts to intimidate voters in blue states? The ones they’re going to try to disrupt like Dallas County last night? The ones they’ve trying desperately to Gerrymander to lock down their dictatorial
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by jachee 7mo ago
Less-so if you do it in Safari than using a non-Apple browser.
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by jachee 7mo ago
As an American, I’m really starting to feel that way.
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by jachee 7mo ago
SpaceX also has a nepo-billionaire’s disposable hobby budget, while NASA’s has been cut to the marrow.
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by jachee 7mo ago
I’m not the one saying “you lot only do words”, this one is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193041
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by jachee 7mo ago
The first 17 of those are all variations on “make words”. :P
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by jachee 7mo ago
First Time NASA did that was how we got Apollo I and lost three astronauts. They learned a few lessons, but then 1986 they let “getting things perfect” slip a bit more. It’s happened a few times since. Personally, I’d rather not lose any mo
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by jachee 7mo ago
It’s 5am on a Saturday. What millions of actions do you suggest, O just-as-wordy-yet-holier-than-thou HN commentor?
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by jachee 7mo ago
Okay, if you have big actions to show off, then show us how it’s done. You step up and start shooting at the heartless monsters running the first (US armed forces) and second (ICE) most well-funded militaries in the world. Go ahead. We’ll b

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