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by pdntspa 2y ago
Everyone says this, but nobody backs it up.
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by pdntspa 2y ago
Photoshop had a pretty steep learning curve. "Users" had to spend some time getting to know the workflow. GIMP also has a steep learning curve. But these same "users" turn their noses at spending some time getting to kno
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by pdntspa 2y ago
It's just another foreign-sounding word in a language full of kidnapped vocabulary
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by pdntspa 2y ago
Vista was absolutely unusable at that minimum configuration, but 7 was at its. Time has probably colored my memory some. But pound for pound 7 ran better than Vista on equivalent hardware.
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by pdntspa 2y ago
7 had very clearly optimized what was bloated and inefficient in Vista. It wasn't just that PCs were more powerful, there were many cases of 7 running better on systems that Vista would struggle with. The minimum requirements for 7 dro
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by pdntspa 2y ago
Their software, as of right now, is still pretty great!
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by pdntspa 2y ago
This isn't quite accurate... some games were based on Windows NT, but many others did not use that abstraction layer. The console itself didn't have an OS in the 'Windows' sense of the word.
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by pdntspa 2y ago
Shit like this is what turns a manager into an annoying, insufferable pointy-haired boss. It's so easy to just archetype everyone and throw it in a blog post for some of that lucrative "thought leader" (cue mega eye-roll) cre
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by pdntspa 2y ago
I work on web crawlers and data mining at scale and well over 50% of my code output is written by AI. I use mostly o1 (copying and pasting isolated snippets) or Jetbrains' AI service. I also have access to a full-service "junior d
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by pdntspa 2y ago
That's probably exclusively because pro cameras still use SD cards
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by pdntspa 2y ago
> why do the details matter? This statement encapsulates nearly everything that I think is wrong with software development today. Captured by MBA types trying to make a workforce that is as cheap and replaceable as possible. Details are
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by pdntspa 2y ago
This has always been the case. Laws are only as good as their enforcement. This is why the business class is so aggressive about tearing down regulation until they can wield it as a weapon. Do as I say, not as I do, etc etc If you as an ind
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by pdntspa 2y ago
I would be very interested in your research on compressing HTML pages!
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by pdntspa 2y ago
I haven't played with the distillations extensively, but I think the internal monologue helps the LLM produce a higher quality output, even if its just Qwen or Llama
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by pdntspa 2y ago
It's so cute how people think anyone obeys robots.txt :)
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by pdntspa 2y ago
All censorship is evil and must be stopped. So, no.
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by pdntspa 2y ago
I do :( It's a great and concise way to write!
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by pdntspa 2y ago
I would think the CEO of an American AI company has every reason to neg and downplay foreign competition... And since it's a businessperson they're going to make it sound as cute and innocuous as possible
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by pdntspa 2y ago
From what I've read, DeepSeek is a "side project" at a Chinese quant fund. They had the GPU capacity to spare.
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by pdntspa 2y ago
Ah, good ol' Expert Sex Change I don't miss that site one bit!
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by pdntspa 2y ago
I remember reading Atwood's blog around the time he launched it, and from his writing, he seemed genuine in his desire to build a tool that would help developers write code. This was also right in the middle of the original gamificatio
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by pdntspa 2y ago
Because ads suck and they need to die
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by pdntspa 2y ago
As someone who inherited a codebase where we make liberal use of a monkeypatched `Object.const_missing`, and which breaks the code in frustrating and mysterious ways, thank you!
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by pdntspa 2y ago
WinZip isn't about to drop a paragraph explaining what it might think it is to you, though. Following your logic anything with an electrical circuit is potentially conscious
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by pdntspa 2y ago
"Idiopathic"?
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by pdntspa 2y ago
That's for stuff that requires 24/7 support, not some harebrained project management technique that will make all your teams hate you
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by pdntspa 2y ago
It also means that, as a customer, you are utterly fucked because almost everyone you want to do business with or buy things from could potentially disappear in a few years because bootstrapping isn't exciting enough for the VC fucks.
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by pdntspa 2y ago
What's the progress on real, Star Wars style holograms? Or have we determined those to be a technical impossibility?
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by pdntspa 2y ago
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
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by pdntspa 2y ago
Maybe it just strokes the egos of those desperate for some validation

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