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by otabdeveloper4 18d ago
Caveat: I have zero experience with USA government agencies. The spying tech from other countries I'm familiar with are beige box routers made by network engineering types with embedded firmware written in C inside. I think spying on t
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by otabdeveloper4 18d ago
> The Internet runs on tens of thousands of massive datacenters. "The Internet" would require 1000 times less servers if it wasn't running off Python scripts in Docker containers in VMs in a virtual overlay network. (I&#x2
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by otabdeveloper4 18d ago
Are you nuts? Excel is great, but it's an arcane beast rivaled only by Emacs configs. People pass down Excel formulas by word of mouth like they're magic spells.
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by otabdeveloper4 19d ago
Your jimmies seem rustled. Am I wrong tho? Is music "theory" actually a theory? Can it be used to predict or construct something? Even just a two-note steady-pulse acid bass beat. I'm not asking for much.
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by otabdeveloper4 20d ago
There's nothing magic in it. Any two pitches that have a rational number ratio with a small denominator sound "correct". It's just a quirk of human physiology. The real creativeness and ingenuity comes from rhythm and th
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by otabdeveloper4 20d ago
There's no such thing as "music theory". Music theory was originally a tool for music critics in the 19th century to talk about conservatory music of the time. There's nothing rigorous, systematic or scientific in it; it
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by otabdeveloper4 22d ago
We also can't prove that our minds aren't machine elf meat puppets. Come on. Please.
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by otabdeveloper4 22d ago
> It’s true It's not. "Brains as electrical circuits" is a gross simplification based on our ignorance and prejudices. (In the 18th century they spoke of brains as "clockwork mechanisms".) LLMs, in contrast, are
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by otabdeveloper4 22d ago
That's literally what LLMs are. No amount of cope and anthropomorphizing is gonna change that cold, hard fact. P.S. The perceived magic of LLMs comes from the way they cross-correlate all the probabilities of tokens on their context
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by otabdeveloper4 23d ago
> Well, obviously we're talking about Default Language people from Default Country and Default Social Strata No, it's not really a given. :)
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by otabdeveloper4 23d ago
Well, for one thing, Mr. Beast is originally an anglophone thing. That alone makes him kinda niche globally.
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by otabdeveloper4 23d ago
Not really. Mr. Beast (whatever that is) may be big in your bubble. In my bubble that's a literally who, I doubt even 1 child out of 100 knows what that is. Cross-cultural (acultural?) memes like sixtyseven have much wider appeal.
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by otabdeveloper4 23d ago
By "ad tech" they apparently mean AdX, the part of Google that used to monetize the old open third-party Internet we used to have. (That old Internet that Google itself killed in favor of their walled-garden ecosystem.)
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by otabdeveloper4 25d ago
> Saying Apache is where software go to die is just wrong. ...and yet you proceeded to list all the ways that dead projects are being kept undead by Apache? I'm getting conflicting vibes here from your post.
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by otabdeveloper4 26d ago
Don't worry about it, Apache is the hospice where software projects go to die.
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by otabdeveloper4 26d ago
"Database" implies there's some sort of data aggregation or query primitive under the hood.
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by otabdeveloper4 28d ago
dbm isn't a database either, and people who call it that are simply wrong.
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by otabdeveloper4 28d ago
A file-backed hashtable isn't really a DB.
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by otabdeveloper4 29d ago
Erm, but what about saying mean hateful words?? That makes them, like, the bad guys, don't you think?!
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by otabdeveloper4 1mo ago
Do I understand this right? As long as you can prove that a real human "approved" sharing the God-mode long-lived token with the keys to kingdom with an LLM, it's all good and we're secure? This is the state of the art o
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by otabdeveloper4 1mo ago
It came to me in a dream.
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by otabdeveloper4 1mo ago
Wow, that sucks balls.
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by otabdeveloper4 1mo ago
There's zero evidence to support the notion that LLMs help deliver software quicker.
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by otabdeveloper4 1mo ago
Source code transpilers were a thing since forever. We'd guess that LLMs probably make them cheaper, but there's no real world data on this.
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by otabdeveloper4 1mo ago
Egyptian and Sumerian writing predates oracle bone script by about 2000 years.
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by otabdeveloper4 1mo ago
1. Whatever was happening in Zhou. (Not sure it was really a "dynasty" pe se.) 2. Proto-Indo-European and Ancient Egyptian cultural norms and patterns are still very much alive in "Europe" today, so probably the inventio
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by otabdeveloper4 1mo ago
$30T seems like a lot, but Anthropic and OpenAI will need to be making ten times that to match investor expectations.
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by otabdeveloper4 1mo ago
> A timely reminder that, damn, China is olllldddd. China proper starts about 1000 BC, so China is quite a bit younger than Europe. (Whatever "Europe" is.)
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by otabdeveloper4 1mo ago
Are you reinventing SPIFFE here?
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by otabdeveloper4 1mo ago
Don't worry about it, the very best Claude tokens designed, implemented and tested it. What are you, some sort of luddite?

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