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by novok 4mo ago
Yes we do, continue keeping it a faux pas to reduce the over verbose LLM speak put elsewhere and ask people to just share the original prompt and save us all time. Label your LLM usage to respect other people's time.
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by novok 4mo ago
If you've used UIKit to any large degree, how bad SwiftUI is, almost a decade later, continuously punches you in the face. About 20% more time to write initially, for 90% less bugs and potholes, and I've tested this with iOS dev
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by novok 4mo ago
Also many have power even cheaper or even free unused surplus power with solar. I don't do local inference other than hobby & learning reasons because electricity is so expensive where I am at.
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by novok 4mo ago
I have an M1 Pro, and a M4 & M5 max to play with at work and the speed difference is very significant between all 3 machines, the M1 Pro is far slower, and the M5 is significantly faster than the M4. And a windows 3090 beats all of the
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by novok 4mo ago
I played with classifying and summarizing my entire email history (per email) with small models, but that only took about 12h of GPU time at most. Using a coding agent cli wrapper in that case is far slower because of all the spin up cost
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by novok 4mo ago
whats funny is if it looked up the source code on github it would've figured it out faster
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by novok 4mo ago
I have a younger family member who is AuADHD and is under AI & other doomer delusions. It's effected her life to a large negative degree at this point. It doesn't matter if Yud is autism leaning, as a movement it's far
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by novok 4mo ago
He is implying he doubts the accuracy of that 'match'.
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by novok 5mo ago
Anthropic is the AI doomer / safetyism lab, and Hinton is one of the patron saints of 'rationalist' AI doomerism. AI doomerism is psychologically attractive to "people with autistic cognitive traits, including dichotomou
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by novok 5mo ago
Just like how you significantly increased the difficulty of exams in "open book" exams in the past where the only way to pass the open book exam was to know the material well, you similarly need to increase the difficulty of other
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by novok 5mo ago
These things will keep on popping up until they destroy the careers of the politicians and civil servants who do. This is how you stop it. And you make this happen by getting organized and acting.
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by novok 5mo ago
He is talking about energy costs.
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by novok 5mo ago
10/10
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by novok 5mo ago
Stalin & Mao would like to have a word with you.
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by novok 5mo ago
homebrew voluntarily applies the quarantine flag on casks (ex: apps) so you still need to pay the apple dev tax to distribute your mini app that way, itch.io does not so you don't get the lying scarewall
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by novok 5mo ago
you need to pay the tax, they are doing the 'pay money to reduce spam' solution
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by novok 5mo ago
can they also not buy tea, coffee or coca cola then? oh no, they might drink the caffeination amount of... 2 cans of pepsi!
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by novok 5mo ago
With AI agents and how good they are in doing "language translation" tasks against an identical target with a comprehensive test suite, you end up doing these things out of curiosity. The AI agent has the originals to test it&#x27
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by novok 6mo ago
Ruby doesn't have to be the slow part, bazel uses starlark which is mostly python and it's very fast.
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by novok 6mo ago
IMO instead of age gating everything, it should've been the other way around, which is making unrestricted smartphones or similar an 18 or 16+ device, much like cars.
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by novok 6mo ago
When financial institutions in the USA are not even adding basic things like... approve transaction on phone, keeping most things pull based based on knowing a few magic numbers vs. push based and other really basic things, this really does
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by novok 6mo ago
But why is it a tough job? Partially it's the shift hours, they could offer it with less hours and more nurses for example. But they don't due to undersupply, and on it goes.
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by novok 6mo ago
When you really dig into the difference it's metabolic health that is driving most of it, and that will be fixed by agricultural and food regulation for the most of it, starting with going with the whitelist system that japan and the E
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by novok 6mo ago
IMO the fact that spam detection has devolved into reputation management vs. being able to work on the content themselves makes me think there is a lot of alpha between an llm process vs. the most traditional processes we have now.
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by novok 6mo ago
IMO if you want a metadata registry of how actions work so you can make complicated, fragile, ACL rule systems of actions, then make that. That doesn't need to be loaded into a context window to make that work and can be expanded to g
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by novok 7mo ago
iMessage lives as a sqlite db at ~/Library/Messages/chat.db , I wouldn't call a sqlite db proprietary per say.
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by novok 7mo ago
Man if the EU made GDPR a 45M+ user platform thing most of the issues with it would've gone away.
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by novok 7mo ago
I did a research project of cars that actually have decent auto lane following distance keeping cruise control for my 1hr highway commute, and tried out a few in a rental cars (hyundai and kia) and a tesla model y and tesla really is the be
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by novok 7mo ago
Oh man you just gave me an idea to use something like qwen 3.5 to categorize a lot of emails. You can keep the context small, do it per email and just churn through a lot of crap.
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by novok 7mo ago
From what I've seen, the bad effects don't necessarily just come from free access to the internet, but that everyone around them in their social group has a video camera that can covertly record, they're all immature children

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