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by munk-a 2y ago
CEOs embracing the marginal gains of LLMs by dumping billions into it are certainly great examples of humans erring at scale.
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by munk-a 2y ago
Additionally, as someone who has been a part of the interview process for IT people, if you only have two people and you're not an expert yourself there's a non-neglible chance that neither of the two people you've got are pa
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by munk-a 2y ago
It's a hard problem for a computer to solve - a computer shouldn't be used to solve it... computers were never used to solve it before Amazon because it's clearly a hard problem (and it scales really well with human labor). A
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by munk-a 2y ago
I think the bigger issue Amazon will face is that you can edit items in a big way... it's not like just clarifying "Multi-socket extension cord" to "Three socket extension cord" but swapping out products wholesale o
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by munk-a 2y ago
PHP is a pretty strong language these days - don't knock it until you try it. There are definitely issues with getting fine grained memory control in a performant manner but for general processing it's pretty competitive.
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by munk-a 2y ago
We need to move above that before it kills the web though - if the end state is that you want to look at any old random adorable puppy pictures so you just ask your machine to generate them for you then we might have a way out of this inter
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by munk-a 2y ago
I don't know if you've been watching but the FTC has actually been extremely proactive during this cycle. Lina Khan is an excellent steward and has pushed for a lot of policy improvements that have been sorely needed - including
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by munk-a 2y ago
Because it wastes a lot of money catering to extrovert inclinations. If 10% of the workforce loves pizza and the other 90% is lactose intolerant should we order pizza for the office every day and just let 90% of it go to waste? This is onl
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by munk-a 2y ago
Those aren't layoffs - at least as they're commonly implemented - they're performance based firings. Layoffs are done in a mass manner and tend to be highly inaccurate - they're often based off of BS kpis.
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by munk-a 2y ago
That was due to cartel behavior (and now should be limited by the recent drug capping initiative) - elsewhere in the world insulin is extremely affordable. Insulin is an interesting case because the insulin you get today is manufactured in
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by munk-a 2y ago
I judge the beauty of math and code by the how concisely and simply they can model the object in question - if the math exists abstractly and isn't trying to model any actual thing or concept it isn't particularly beautiful to me
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by munk-a 2y ago
Just as a note on naming - the namespace of SPL is already incredibly overloaded so the searchability will be quite poor. It's used (IMO misguidedly) by Splunk and has an older meaning in "System Programming Language" whic
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by munk-a 2y ago
Honestly - even arbitrary variable names are more to my liking than positional references. LOC tends to be an extremely unstable thing to reference and would make refactoring a royal pain.
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by munk-a 2y ago
Was this not already highlighted by ContentID, automatic topic tagging/recommendations, and auto-caption? I honestly suspect this feature is just implemented as a side effect as the auto-captioning... and now I'm a bit curious if
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by munk-a 2y ago
I have suddenly gained a new appreciation of the wave of spam of the Turkish Olympian.
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by munk-a 2y ago
As a MUD enthusiast I think there's a pretty big gap between games that use an interesting story and meaningful choices vs. a game that is literally just role-playing. I think the labels "Choices matter" and "Character
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by munk-a 2y ago
This is technically interesting - but I think what you're looking for is a MUD. There you'll have far more interesting interactions with characters and you'll also have the possibility of having a story-teller that can intro
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by munk-a 2y ago
Thankfully you're not - thankfully we're all not NPCs in Counter Strike or Minecraft or any other game with a hint of possible violence in it. "Doing a GTA irl" is absolutely repulsive - so we've got video games wh
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by munk-a 2y ago
LLMs are absolutely a sandbox that can be cleared and purged at will with even less investment into the setup of individual tools. I am having a hard time understanding what distinction you're drawing and, if anything, I'd expect
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by munk-a 2y ago
I think, in your scenario, the initial "bland script author" is adding nothing of value. You'll get more quality quicker by writing it from scratch.
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by munk-a 2y ago
Can I ask for clarification about what you don't appreciate about their behavior? Some of the reasons I've seen have been focused on the MBA-izationation of the company leadership, the relaxing of quality controls and the lack of
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by munk-a 2y ago
> Tighter spreads, the difference between you buying and then selling again is lower. Which often is good for the "actual users" of the market. I just wanted to highlight this one in particular - the spread is tighter because H
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by munk-a 2y ago
Not if we disallow it. We have laws in place to try and prevent a lot of natural actions of markets.
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by munk-a 2y ago
You're trying to get quantitative about a qualitative problem.
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by munk-a 2y ago
Everything is conscious and nothing is conscious - we are all part of the universe but what we call conscious is, IMO, nothing more than a tool for trying to optimize food acquisition getting way out of control. Considering how many things
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by munk-a 2y ago
Your understanding is correct but you're underselling very very in this context. It is astronomically unlikely to hit a collision with the advised generation methods. If you want a possibly easier to grasp parallel git relies on SHA
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by munk-a 2y ago
To: > Am I wrong here and this is something that really matters and you should invest more time in? Specifically, no - you don't need to worry about it. Reconfiguring your tables to use a different style of unique identifier if you
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by munk-a 2y ago
Even enterprise windows versions don't have a side-dockable taskbar. Microsoft really seems to be begging to be out-competed lately.
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by munk-a 2y ago
A pretty accurate statement - and this, I think, is the realization most likely to kill a lot of consumer AI features. There's a large liability factor that I don't think we'll ever get over.
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by munk-a 2y ago
To clarify - a lot of advertisers have gone to the trouble of writing one stack that's GDPR compliant and an entirely different stack that's not GDPR compliant - if you're outside the EU you're not going to get the one t

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