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by nxtfari 6mo ago
This makes a lot of my experience with Qwen make sense. I’ve watched all the benchmarks imply how close it should be to various GPT or Claude releases, but in my own use chatting with it or trying to get it do agentic tasks it was nowhere n
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by nxtfari 7mo ago
Perennially relevant: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Jq73GozjsuhdwMLEG/superstimu... Also in comic form: https://stuartmcmillen.com/comic/supernormal-stimuli/
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by nxtfari 7mo ago
not anything new. people have been taking up “old timey” hobbies to get away from screens since the late 2000s. you’ll remember the hipster javascript baristas of portland taking up leatherworking and blacksmithing between launching meteorJ
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by nxtfari 7mo ago
In his entire screed he never realizes the reason Apple got their transition to work was they genuinely worked hard to make it happen on both ends: they forced developers hard AND still shipped Rosetta 2 to make it seamless for user anxiety
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by nxtfari 7mo ago
it’s not ZIRP anymore but it might as well be. you can truly get funded to make anything right now
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by nxtfari 7mo ago
I believe you’re late to the “ash shell” name by about 36 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almquist_shell
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by nxtfari 7mo ago
very interesting article but i was surprised pg’s conclusion was the opposite of what i expected. to me it was like oh this is brilliant, instead of trading effort linearly for money you can just control image and be paid outside for it. re
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by nxtfari 7mo ago
you never know what’s going on in someone else’s claude max plan
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by nxtfari 8mo ago
i do robots for work (formerly drones, now self driving cars). pick a type of robot that interests you. self driving rovers, industrial manufacturing machines, drones, humanoids, underwater pipe inspecting subs are all robots with very diff
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by nxtfari 8mo ago
To be fair, writing a takedown blogpost on a maintainer for closing its PR is the most human oss dev thing an agent could do.
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by nxtfari 8mo ago
there are so many special cases that this game responds to, i was shocked that it didn’t involve an llm at all at the end. very cool.
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by nxtfari 9mo ago
I’m a fan of what Comma is working on, but to say it’s about as good as FSD (!!) would be a big misunderstanding of both products. Comma is L2 assist: basically in a lane it will keep the lane, and if a car stops ahead it will stop. It’s eq
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by nxtfari 9mo ago
Good context, thank you. I think this changes my view, you’re more likely right.
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by nxtfari 9mo ago
My guess is Tesla is desperately in need of Q1 revenue and they want people to scarcity buy FSD lifetime @ $8K. Otherwise the strategy doesn’t make any sense. They’re saying FSD and basic Autopilot will go behind subscription and that subsc
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by nxtfari 9mo ago
Big fan of Arendt. I will check this out, thanks!
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by nxtfari 9mo ago
I hear what you’re saying, there are definitely just amoral engineers who truly don’t care. I think the plurality though (and this goes for all disciplines, not just engineering) will start to feel queasy if the impact is too clear and visi
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by nxtfari 9mo ago
Believability aside (I do think it’s believable personally) this is pretty much how “evil” (from outsider perspective) is done at every company, including mine. Inside it’s all sprint meetings, KPIs and terminology that are either intention