mpalmer

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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Multiple threat vectors. One pattern. A "threat vector" is the path a surveillance harm takes to reach you. They look unrelated on the surface. The shape underneath is the same. With Bill C-22, the government
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
The appetite for Rust is the appetite for higher guardrails. Automatic memory management in safe Rust makes it less likely your app bloats even as its source balloons. The people "writing" agents are not themselves experts in how
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Completely useless generated crap.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
All the copy is entirely generated. I can't find any actual human associated with this thing. At this point, it doesn't really matter what the language does, because the author and I have mutual respect. There is none.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
it’s highly unlikely OpenAI/Anthropic are not making decent amounts of money from inference. Based on what ? Why are we all whispering about how profitable all this is? It is the absolute last thing these firms would keep se
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
This is the sort of uncritical thinking that inflates bubbles in the aggregate.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Love the Culture books, wish I could wipe my brain and discover them again. It's not too much like Banks' stuff, but I must recommend Glasshouse by Charles Stross. Far-future humanity, really interesting ideas re: war, identity,
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
You know the tests "all pass" because the LLM changed a lot of them, right?
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Yeah... The amount of people who confidently tell on themselves in these discussions continues to bum me out.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
> have it flag possible wrong (second sense) citations for human review And then what, we're done? How have we avoided the need for the same exhaustive human review? It only saves human review time if you trust the LLM not to miss t
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
> It is impossible to be made less smart by not manually writing code. If it were possible, you would be stupider every time you go on vacation. Your brain's neuronal connections do not die from talking to a chat bot. What if everyt
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
> Eventually it gets reviewed if they are serious. So they just merged it for fun in the meantime? Hope we find out if they're serious soon.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
> AI was given the answer, it just repeated it back in a slightly different format. Ridiculous.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
You should really make sure to take your own advice when you're being this discourteous.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Tauri, but without the memory safety, funding, governance model, or human maintainers.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
Thankfully my work applies inside vi.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
A novel has a very specific definition, and these texts do not qualify. The gulf between 75 paragraphs and a novel (even a novella) is vast. AI is nowhere near being able to produce a novel worth reading. The author's already heavily q
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
I’ve been a long time vim user, and I honestly never really bought into the efficiency claims. That gets repeated over and over, but If you’re a slow typer then no editor can really make much of a difference. Little by little yo
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
They don't have to reliably assess whether a plugin is malicious. The checks are a filter so they can apply manual review only to those plugins which pass the baseline (and automatable) requirements.
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
It's the usual terse LLM voice that makes everything sound dramatic. Nails on a chalkboard
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
We're talking about democratic republics. How does the one map to the other?
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by mpalmer 5mo ago
I would think that quite a few powerful new ideas have come purely from abusing and bashing around older ideas.
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by mpalmer 6mo ago
> I think you are confusing the spec as "this is how it must be built", as opposed to, "this is what the software must do and must not do to be acceptable". You are confusing code with application code. The latter thi
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by mpalmer 6mo ago
"Taking you at your word..."
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by mpalmer 6mo ago
See my comment in this thread for what jumped out the most to me.
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by mpalmer 6mo ago
Taking you at your word, your A.I. revision process nonetheless seems to have yielded content which may as well have been generated at the start for how difficult it is to get through it. The valuable engineer is the one who sees the
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by mpalmer 6mo ago
Clicking the image expands it. Looks like the real thing to me (and easy enough when you've got the rights; to use AI for this would have been idiotic)
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by mpalmer 6mo ago
> it feels analogous to someone being mad that someone isn’t being carried via palanquin through the market after the motorized scooter has been invented. It would be more accurate if for the entire journey, the scooter driver also extol
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by mpalmer 6mo ago
What hypocrisy is there in distinguishing between the qualitative value of prose vs code? They serve entirely different purposes; your failure to recognize that is no one else's fault.
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by mpalmer 6mo ago
This is not only average. This is actual magic. So let's be real: the SQL is average. The joins are average. The chart is average. And that took us less than 5 minutes and that was amazing, that is the entire point. Yo

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