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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Sadly that mess had a political component, any attempt to regulate US big tech results in howls from over the Atlantic. Frankly, I'd prefer it if we just let them howl and said fuck it more but it's probably a good job I'm
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Looks like they lifted that from BigBench. https://github.com/google/BIG-bench/blob/main/docs/doc.md Don't disagree with the sentiment though.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
I ignore my impending death and remember that I regard any day I didn't learn something new/do something interesting as a wasted day. Sometimes you just have to live in the now and let the future (and past) take care of themselv
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
It's going to take time to unwind that and it's going to be a slow process (unless they do something so utterly stupid they make it a fast process).
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
I mean it's expected behaviour in one sense but in another it's becoming a bigger geopolitical risk to rely on the US for defence components/technology in the current world, the risk always existed, it's just shifted mor
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Same, it’s been nice if I’m honest, them doing something to old.reddit.com was always going to be the final straw. Outside this place it was the last of the “social” media’s I used.
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Mostly reasonable moderation does it, I’ve seen a noticeable uptick in green accounts posting slop/weird stuff but I just flag them and move on. HN isn’t perfect but it’s doesn’t have to be to still have value and yeah it does feel a l
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
Agreed, I like the Oxide podcast as well, even though it’s hardware I’m unlikely to ever see never mind use, it’s nice that someone somewhere is still trying to be what they are trying to be. Having dealt with Enterprise Hardware(TM) in a p
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by noir_lord 1mo ago
You folks over the pond really do think we think about you that much don’t you, prior to Trump I didn’t give much of a shit what the US did (except when you were destabilising the Middle East but I guess everyone needs a hobby), was literal
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Yeah, in the same way that as a home owner I’d be “obsessed” with my neighbour if he was showing a predilection towards arson. I’d love to be able to go a day without having to see whatever the latest stupidity we’ll have to deal with the f
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
> I don't know. I'd ask to see the code but since you didn't write it you can't really discuss it. Brusque but not inaccurate, Welcome to our future I guess.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Planning only/mostly for a limited conflict when both parties are well armed, large industrial powers is pretty short sighted (not to mention both nuclear powers). Conflicts escalate in unpredictable ways across history because once
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
another `git status` then `git add .` folk here, it's a quick sanity check and then quicker and frankly it's just the habit I got into when I first started using git. I've never managed to get on with any UI for basic git t
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
High power to size (weight) efficiency, very fast start up/shutdown and you can run them on a variety of fuels, quite cheap (relatively to other fossil fuel plants, fuel cost obviously varies on where you live) - if you use the waste h
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
In one sense it's a golden age (more indies than ever) but in another it seems like the triple AAA's have lost any attempt at originality. Graphics have kind of flat lined as well take this for example - https://www.you
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
They are generally dangerous but they are truly dangerous when what they believe is itself dangerous.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
I think it's simpler than that, I think Hanlon's Razor applies here. Not sure there has been a less capable Secretary of Defence in my lifetime than who they currently have in the role. Note: not saying less objectionable, I'
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
As someone in Blighty just add it to the pile of existing issues with the US and its current government. Unless the US gives significant military aid (or outright joins them) the Argentinians can't take the Falklands, They are much m
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
At least a generation and that's if they truly clean house and out right apologise.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
> Project Zenith devices come with a preconfigured Windows setup for development, and a set of tools curated for what developers reach first. Did they proofread this with an LLM? Joking aside that reads as incredibly clunky and I think w
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Which at some point the developers who actually still do know how to program are either going to have to clean up or in terminal cases rewrite. In a way all we've done (currently) is drastically expand the amount of technical debt acro
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Pretty much, The one thing I use it for is as a sanity check, pretty much "Look at <SomeFile>, point out issues you see, summarise them tersely" and it'll spot stuff a code review by a human might have spotted (in the
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Except that “crazy old man” (I’d have gone with corrupt criminal malignant narcissist to be honest) isn’t just shouting at pigeons in the park he already screwed up the world economy by starting a war he can’t figure out how to exit and doz
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
That’s certainly a headline. “Silicon Valley swagger” I think we could do with a little less of that if I’m honest.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
I don’t disagree, two or more things can be true at once. That said I still use Firefox for other reasons. I simply don’t trust google, I don’t trust Mozilla either but I do trust them more than Google and you do kinda have to have a browse
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Not doing better than most at routine IT/platform stuff, they seem to be doing fantastically at co-opting the US Gov into their "vision" and ramming through DC's getting built.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
> She was born and died at 2 of bubonic plague. Yeah that does accurately sum up the 15th century. Still slop coded bollocks though.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
That's really the rub isn't it? We take their claims at face value then we should probably stop them training any more SOTA models til they figure out what they already built is safe or we assume theu are lying to juke the compa
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
If anyone was going to make a configuration system so complex it achieves self awareness I wouldn't bet against it been Microsoft.
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by noir_lord 2mo ago
Indeed, a good example Private Equity is (in the UK) buying out all the small vet practices or small groups of practices. With the expected outcome when those vampires touch anything.

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