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by klabb3 2y ago
Not sure why you’re downvoted. I think this is completely true. To add more examples, I’ve seen a lot of debates about async IO and “non-blocking” where people talk over each other because they clearly mean different things. I tend to avo
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by klabb3 2y ago
I don’t think anyone cares about other people’s cheap pleasures. What people do care about is the displacement of quality and craft. For instance, you could say the same thing about the state of the web - say when searching for recipes. May
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by klabb3 2y ago
Might be hard to spot if you’re American in the US, but LLMs feel very American even outside of region and language. Concretely, I have to constantly ask for recipes to be changed to metric. Less concretely, the undertones and mannerisms of
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by klabb3 2y ago
When the same corporations own the infrastructure they are service providers of, competitors are in for a bad time. And when competitors have a bad time, consumers get a bad time. There’s no reason MS or Google can’t become Comcast.
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by klabb3 2y ago
I agree with the sentiment but GitHub issues is not a good replacement. First, it’s also owned by a corporation and is available on the open web today because they let us (is it even scrape/api available today? Can people build tooli
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by klabb3 2y ago
> I love web dev using rust! I use sveltekit and proxy all requests to /api to a rust backend I think this most people would call this backend-, api- or service development. Especially if your api endpoint does not do anything web s
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by klabb3 2y ago
> And the code is just 3 for loops, with a multiplication, a sum and an exponential. All invented/discovered and formalized by humans. That we found so much (unexpected) power in such simple abstractions is not a failure but a testa
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by klabb3 2y ago
> I don't need concurrency or multithreading Famous last words. Ever needed a timeout? Cancelation? Respond to Ctrl+C (SIGINT)? Your UI has an event handler? Client server architectures? All of those things need concurrency, somewhe
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by klabb3 2y ago
Sibling already gave great pointers to structured concurrency in general. For rust specifically the links in the post were good, some I hadn’t seen that came up in the last 2 years. Perhaps someone from deep PL background has more rigorous
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by klabb3 2y ago
> The Rust async book mentions three more methods: […] Hah, I wrote this section and was deeply aware of these problems at the time. Let’s just say it didn’t fit in the introduction. In fact, a lot of the understanding of this issue has
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by klabb3 2y ago
Plus it’s not even defined what superhuman AI means. A calculator sure looked superhuman when it was invented. And it is! Another analogy is breeding and racial biology which used to be all the hype (including in academia). The fact that hu
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by klabb3 2y ago
> In a few minutes I could whip up a VSCode plugin that sends me your browser session storage and have access to all of your everything. Yeah I know but I’m saying despite that Linux is more secure in practice. Most software is not distr
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by klabb3 2y ago
Parent means that your desktop OS is not sandboxed and your editor has permissions to read any file you have access to, including mounted Cloud Drives, as well as showing a custom file explorer (which both Vim and VSCode do, btw) and does n
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by klabb3 2y ago
I swear the reason why we have so many sociopaths is because how goddamn easy it is to fool people, it’s like stealing candy from kids. Just put on the pseudo intellectual mask and say that you care deeply about grandeur issue X, and people
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by klabb3 2y ago
> No idea what you mean by this but I would assume that the cost of running things is lower I meant that light rail must be much more expensive, but now I’m not so sure. I hadn’t considered you can have more passengers per driver and if
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by klabb3 2y ago
While I agree this is an improvement, and that it respects the agency of the worker, it’s not enough. Pushing true boundaries may in rare cases be catalyzed by an inspirational leader, but that’s exceedingly rare even if survivorship bias m
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by klabb3 2y ago
Yeah, I know but with a puck, which isn’t feasible for consumer. A phone already has sufficient compute, but Apple and Google would need to provide/open up radio- and pairing protocols.
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by klabb3 2y ago
> The problem is that these companies keep wanting to put processing in the glasses. I agree. The obvious choice is to offload to our insanely powerful phones. Unfortunately WiFi is too disruptive on mobile OSs and raw Bluetooth is.. wel
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by klabb3 2y ago
> AI will automate it and we can let go of knowledgeable humans I used to be upset when people said these things based on pressing a button and watching a computer generate a word salad like a slot machine hitting the jackpot. Until I re
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by klabb3 2y ago
Fellow European here. My understanding is street cars started out as futuristic marvels of modernity, but unlike their cousins trains & subways, they aged fairly poorly and don't generally do well in mixed city traffic today: First
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by klabb3 2y ago
Yeah that’s what I meant. Capital can be used for non-zero-sum games and increase the size of the pie. That’s certainly the narrative of the current central-bank-inflationary-fiat hegemony – some fisherman who wants to buy a boat, or a fa
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by klabb3 2y ago
As an outsider: sounds like the main value lies in the AI extracting detailed and accurate (but heuristic) metadata from video: audio transcriptions, text, people, environment and objects. Once that’s there, you can use it for organizing, s
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by klabb3 2y ago
> Building productive capital in the West has typically been somewhere between discouraged and illegal in favour of playing games with numbers. You clearly have a different view of capital than me. Games of capital are exactly playing wi
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by klabb3 2y ago
> A government that has been purchased by banks, insurance companies, drug companies, and defense companies cannot act in the market fairly and therefore should not act at all. Yeah but this is a problem in any system except anarcho-capi
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by klabb3 2y ago
Right you could go against the rest of the world and continue with privatized care. I’m sure it could work much better if free markets were enforced, but it’s very much the opposite. US markets are extremely entrenched, especially in high
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by klabb3 2y ago
> you can still have multiple This can’t be for real. The only reason you pay for insurance is in case something happens. It has no value outside of that. That’s why it’s called insurance. And medical insurance in the US is very expensiv
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by klabb3 2y ago
> Buy v1.x and you can use v1.x forever, but if you want v2.x, pay again. Yeah, but that has a few logistical and incentive challenges. Someone buying right before an update etc. And you may not want to create conflicts between semantic
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by klabb3 2y ago
> Maybe I misunderstand what you're suggesting, but aren't containers pretty much that application platform? That’s right. And for UI, web is the obvious choice. But it’s not an application platform alone. You need at the very
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by klabb3 2y ago
> it wants to do everything and does none well On that topic, it’s amusing to see when the “are we a product or a platform?” confusion jumps from its native host (publicly listed tech corps) to FOSS projects – different species altogethe
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by klabb3 2y ago
To be clear I’m not saying it did happen for sure. Only that it’s realistic and not exactly far fetched given everything that’s publicly known. > they can also interpolate in latent space? How does that actually work? I don’t know. I ass

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