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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Like all technology before it AI will improve most people's lives. 1. Let's be clear: what you're describing is faith. 2. And what are you smoking to assert " all technology before ... AI [improved] most people&#x2
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Society is better if we sacrifice one horse and buggy driver job for two engineering jobs. That's a "statistic" you're pulling out of your butt, and it's doing a lot of work. No one ever knows if something like
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Well, IoT traffic peaked "human traffic" already long ago, Netflix etc. eat a lot of bandwidth, etc., so I am not sure where the news is exactly. I think there's different kinds of traffic: raw packets and user-like inte
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Reddit will require "fishy" accounts to verify they are run by a human(arstechnica.com)
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by palmotea 7mo ago
Decommission. It's not AI ready.
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> In the grand scheme it's good to invent things that replace human labor. It frees up people to do more interesting things. The goal should be to put everyone out of a job. To a point. Then it just frees up people to do nothing. &g
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by palmotea 7mo ago
>> Another way to look at this is that AI coding agents take the fun out of a software engineer's job. > Completely backwards - the fun in the job should be to solve problems and come up with solutions. Aren't the coding
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> If LLMs are so good that you no longer have use for the skill, why do we care about skill atrophy? That skill isn't that useful to most people. There are so many examples of this in human history where it was completely fine and w
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> The role change has been described by some as becoming a sort of software engineering manager, where one writes little or no code oneself but instead supervises a team of AI coding agents as if they are a team of human junior software
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> The work on self-driving cars would not be done if there were not a way to profit from it. If it isn’t expected to earn more than it costs, it wouldn’t be done. I disagree. "Expected" is hiding a lot of the work there, and th
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by palmotea 7mo ago
>>> This is exactly what I do with telemarketer scammers. I have no limit of depravity that I draw from in attempt to offend them. No limits. And exactly for the reasons you describe. Get them to crack and quit the company. >&gt
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> This is exactly what I do with telemarketer scammers. I have no limit of depravity that I draw from in attempt to offend them. No limits. And exactly for the reasons you describe. Get them to crack and quit the company. Have you heard
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> From the perspective of the effect, if you make life of an employee miserable, the employee is more likely to resign or ask for a raise, this does apply some pressure. No, all you're accomplishing is being an ass to that person.
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by palmotea 7mo ago
This reads like fiction. > I opened my preferred internet faxing service. This is a tool that allows me to send a fax purely through digital data. It would cost $20, exactly the amount someone had donated to the blog last week, but if I
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> The best anyone can hope for is a free market, with everything properly priced. But for decades, the American market has not been free. It’s used purposefully added friction to exploit a time asymmetry between the business and you. And
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Perhaps your assumption should be that your efforts were inadequate rather than others. I think it's pretty clear your efforts were inadequate. Don't make others jump through hoops to find the information you're citing.
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> A USA company bought an Indian OS to turn into it's SOHO router/firewall product. The results are exactly what you would have expected: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4COrX9YHcU You're linking to
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Assembling them in Latvia, or the US, from internationally sourced components isn't a solution to anything. I disagree. It's the first step. I mean, how did China do it? They started with assembly and low-value manufacturing
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by palmotea 7mo ago
But the fact that a company can manufacture consumer(ish) routers in Latvia means it's very practical that another company could manufacture consumer routers in the US. Usually the argument is that X can't be made in the US becaus
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by palmotea 7mo ago
Well of course. The whole point of AI is devalue human intelligence (one of the last things someone can use to pull themselves up by their bootstraps) in favor of something a rich guy can buy more than you can imagine with money.
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> If someone needs a phone like this for email and job searching and has no other option, 2G speeds will work. 2G EDGE was 384 kbit/s (48 kB/s) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G ). That means 21 seconds to
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> If one removed the country names and just looked at where investment (focus, planning, and money) was, we would see two greatly different pictures. > ... > The difference in these approaches will be obvious in a decade, and in tw
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> "… by making them necessary entry points! Muahahaha!" Starting with Windows 11 26H2, the Start Menu will be removed and replaced with Copilot. In order to use a locally hosted app, an externally hosted LLM will need to be ins
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> It also doesn't seem like it should be a crime to disagree with your state on who deserves what service... Seems like that's a pretty obvious and straightforward power for a state to have. The state has to make foreign and do
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Yes, yes, workers of the world unite. It worked so great the last few times it was tried. You are very smart. No, I guess I wasn't smart enough to realize there are only two options: the present day status quo or Soviet central pl
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> you need enormous VRAM laden farms of GPUs to do inference on a model like Opus 4.6. It's probably a trade secret, but what's the actual per-user resource requirement to run the model?
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> If you don't want your lunch eaten by a private equity firm, make sure whatever tool you use is GPL licensed. 1. For the record: the GPL is entirely dependent on copyright. 2. If AI "clean-room" re-implementations are al
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> By the time we're maxing out the 64-bit underlying representation we probably won't be using Ethernet any more. We will be using Ethernet until the heat death of the universe, if we survive that long.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Of all the possible criticisms that's the one you chose? If that's the worst of the problems you can see The point is there is little benefit to these technologies to the consumer, especially in relation to likely harm in oth
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> What consumer benefits is ai driving? The intrinsic satisfaction of increasing the wealth of shareholders. We should all be happy to devote ourselves to getting them more, nothing is more important than that.

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