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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Yes, that too
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Admittedly I have nowhere near the flight hours, training, or expertise of these pilots, but having flown airplanes myself I can totally imagine in an off-nominal situation (which I have been in before) conscious focus is fully on flying
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Earlier today Siri notified me over and over again to message a particular contact on the GMail app. I have no earthly idea why this was important enough to notify me about, I can figure out whether I need to message people. It provided no
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
If the Internet is to be believed they're not actually more expensive than an F/A-18, and as far as military aircraft go.. not the most expensive. But a ~$150M accident is nothing to sneeze at.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Arms and legs can take a serious beating too. Airplane cockpits are pretty tight spaces, and to be explosively shot out of one with little notice is.. yikes.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> acquire gently-used older models, keep them working, and run Linux. Even as a financially secure mid-career engineer this is still an excellent formula. Buy a "retired" Thinkpad on Ebay, upgrade RAM and NVMe if needed, replac
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
I could have kept running the ca. 2015 T460p as my primary laptop--it has 32GB RAM, and decently powerful CPU and GPU--but the T14 is lighter, has much better battery life, generates less heat, etc. etc. Maybe I don't "get it&quot
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
I still have my x61s, T460p, and currently running a T14 Gen 3. The x61s is just sitting there awaiting some future project. Hopefully it happens someday. The T460p has become a homelab server. I never should have sold my W500, that thing w
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Yeah I think moving forward one of the questions I'll be asking companies I interview with is "what does your seniority distribution look like and how do you intend to maintain it?"
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
I'm sorry but both of these are false equivalences. CNC isn't about making general machining operations faster or necessarily better. It's about making a single machine more versatile. Instead of needing an assembly line of m
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Couldn't have said it better myself.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Nor is the LLM output tightly coupled to the training data. They'll "eagerly"[1] fill in the blanks wherever it sounds good. [1] here I don't mean to imply agency, just vigor.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Crocodile tears, just like the fake "fear" of its capabilities. Anything to raise another round of dumb oil money.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach%2C_Missouri Scrape off all the soil, put it in casks, and bury it in a concrete bunker for 10000 years. Then relocate everyone and attempt to rebuild.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
jfc lmao
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> Somewhere in the future, the new software engineering will be primarily about principles to avoid this in the first... It's really nowhere near as complicated as making distributed systems reliable. It's really quite simple:
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> because that’s not how LLMs work It's almost impossible to have a rational discussion about the effects of this technology because this point is so easily lost. Even super smart, credentialed, expert people easily (and often!) fal
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
They'll often exploit a power dynamic. If you're less senior than them, in some organizations it can be very difficult to stand up to that behavior. I experienced that at my previous employer as a relatively senior engineer, even.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Right, so the Github "open contributions" model where anyone can open an issue or a PR or otherwise waste a maintainer's time is broken. Fundamentally insecure under this type of attack. Now that the exploit is being used wid
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> forget about the shutting it down and think of something actually realistic. Why is it not realistic? Small teams do excellent work. Keep your team small and trusted. Only accept contributions from your team, and people outside your te
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Web3 is the closest analogue in recent memory, but if you go back further to the pre-enlightenment era (and some pockets of more recent history, particularly in isolated rural/colonial regions) you can see similar behaviors. It's
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
Interesting article, thanks for the link.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
This capability-reliability gap (excellent term btw, more people need to think in these terms or we'll be in real trouble) is also infecting LLM assisted outputs . I just tried VSCode again tonight after a ~3yr hiatus and goddamn ha
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> I expect soon we will see Rust forks with a pro-LLM policy I sure hope so. I expect the end result will disprove the following: > The Rust team will never be able to catch up to them The AI jackasses have been braying in this key fo
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
OK.. but what would you have all this "automation" actually do ? What is Siri failing to do that you want it to do? How would customizing an assistant (for whatever definition) help?
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> Something like this could help enable the "ever present" phone assistant, without scraping all your personal data and sending it off to Google/OpenAI/etc OK so show me what that's for. Show me something useful
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
> people make stuff to make stuff. There don't need to be product use cases. OK. Great! So it doesn't need to be a commercial product. But does it do something (anything?) interesting ? I'm interested in your games exampl
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
TBH the 1999 visionary documentary The Wild Wild West is the foundational pedestal upon which I emplace technology writ large.
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
I get that, but I still can't imagine what it might be for . TBH I don't have a smart watch, because I can't think of anything I'd want one for--my mechanical watch keeps time to within a few seconds per month and the l
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by jcgrillo 5mo ago
I mean.. Siri basically works? When I'm driving I say "Hey Siri, find me a gas station along my route", and it does. Or I say "Hey Siri, call Joe Bob mobile" and it does. Or I say "Hey Siri, play me a podcast&q

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