jcgrillo

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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
In the context of the rest of the piece, I read this as sarcasm. The author is making fun of the species of narcissistic silly con valley techbro who actually believes such nonsense.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
If someone hooks up an LLM (or some other stochastic black box) to a safety critical system and bad things happen, the problem is not that "AI was unsafe" it's that the person who hooked it up did something profoundly stupid.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I'm super curious to see if Nvidia turns out to be Enron 2.0..
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
wat EDIT: more specifically, nuclear weapons are actually dangerous not merely theoretically. But safety with nuclear weapons is more about storage and triggering than actually being safe in "production". In storage we need to
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Part of what made Blender accessible around 2001-2002 when I was using it regularly was a really great paperback book[1] that served as a tutorial and reference. The UX was strange to be sure but after reading through the ~200 pages and g
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I just learned about build123d from another comment here, very excited to try it out!
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Wow this looks awesome! Thanks for the link.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I believe there's a cadquery workbench for freecad, I messed around with it about a year ago but ran into similar struggles as you describe. I'll have to give it another try.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I don't know how being empathetic to users correlates with market dominance, but I'd like to believe that doing sociopathic things like putting ads in the start menu or what you've described with your TV firmware would have a
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Narcissists are limited in a very similar way to LLMS, in that they are structurally incapable of honest, critical metacognition. Not sure whether there's anything interesting to conclude there, but I do wonder whether there's som
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Whether the victim is upset or not, the story here is that some clown's uncontrolled, unethical, and (hopefully?) illegal psychological experiment wasted a huge amount of an open source maintainer's time. If you benefit from open
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
"Safety" in AI is pure marketing bullshit. It's about making the technology seem "dangerous" and "powerful" (and therefore you're supposed to think "useful"). It's a scam. A financial f
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Do you have any more information/sources to share on this? I have an Eastern 18 powered with a Yamaha 60hp 4 stroke and I've been struggling to dial the prop right. I don't know off the top of my head what the specs of my cur
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
It's a casting which was machined to final dimension
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
> a non-technical person Otherizing your users like this IS THE PROBLEM . Every technologist was once a "nontechnical person" (for whatever definition of that useless term you like) who learned and grew and thereby became &quo
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Once we settled on the steering wheel, though, we didn't keep trying to make tillers work. That's what I was trying to get at--in other examples of human-machine interfaces we generally don't regress once we've figured i
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
A system which embraces the abilities of the mouse and keyboard without pandering to the limitations of the touchscreen. To wit, you have the ability, with a 3 button mouse + scroll wheel, to trivially select any nearby point in 3-space and
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
For me it's the difference between "this is a computer" vs "this is a computer trying to be a cell phone". I think that's what everything from the last 15yr is trying to be--a phone. And not everything is a p
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
This one is a fancy G4 instead of the normal G3. I still have the husk of my Ti PowerBook G4 which is the "macbook pro" analog of the era. It was a fantastic machine, I got about 12 solid years of use from it before it finally die
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Fresh meat!
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I feel the same way about Unix desktops. The newer stuff just.. looks gross? And it's difficult to use. I'm very thankful for Mate, especially the Alt+F2 behavior, but also the simple menu layout vs some horrible combination of se
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I've made bowdrills for fire starting with hand twisted hickory cordage. Soaking the bark makes it easy to separate the inner bark, which you then tear into long strips and twist into rope with a "reverse wrap"--basically twi
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Apologies for the delay, this site appears to be rate limiting me. Yeah used correctly they're great. But they're almost never used correctly in practice. I agree this is bozotry in the extreme, but it's widespread . To avoi
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Absolutely! Forward and backward compatibility are one of the wonderful things about protobufs. And that all goes wrong when you try to define the interface in more than one place. EDIT: also, although the wire protocol may tolerate unknown
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I personally really like gRPC and protobufs. I think they strike a good balance between a number of indirectly competing objectives. However I completely agree with your observation that as soon as you move beyond a single source of truth f
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
One could argue that failing to catch errors in AI generated code is a basic dereliction of an engineer's core job function. I would argue this. That is to say, I agree with you, they used AI as a crutch and they should be held account
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Not just the reporter, anyone who had eyes on it before it was published. And whoever is responsible for setting the culture that allowed this to happen.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
The difference is that (mostly) in a deadly airline incident the pilot(s) aren't around to take the blame (or credit!) for their actions. In the case of a computer operator running a computer program irresponsibly, almost always said c
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I agree directionally that Tesla should be held accountable for marketing something called "full self-driving" when it clearly isn't. But ultimately it's the motor vehicle operator's responsibility to keep the vehic
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
That is a good point, we're definitely lacking in regulation (because there isn't any), but those regulations can never account for an irresponsible or malicious user.

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