photonthug

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by photonthug 1y ago
This is really cool but at first it was not that clear whether the project is serious or made in a recent decade. Clicking around eventually took me here [1] with some cleaner prose, a publish date, etc although it’s more blog than referenc
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by photonthug 1y ago
Re: the YouTube thing, that’s an interesting point of comparison too. I can well imagine a younger version of myself looking at all “content production” stuff as quite silly and ephemeral, and of course much of it is. The irony though is t
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by photonthug 1y ago
My perspective as someone who’s done some of both.. regardless of working conditions, doing “janitorial” work is rewarding in that it is, um, real work. What I mean is that it’s really easy to have a multi decade career in tech and look bac
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by photonthug 1y ago
> unable to find utility.. aren’t using them correctly Tfa makes this argument too then later says: > All this is to say: I write some Rust. I like it fine. If LLMs and Rust aren’t working for you, I feel you. But if that’s your whole
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by photonthug 1y ago
May I also recommend ren and stimpy in this category ? Beyond that you may even have to go back to looney tunes for more watercolor style layering.
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by photonthug 1y ago
Ok I’m rewatching that one soon, forgot about it. The flashback of like, all heroes including Vishnu and zeus fighting aku was also rad. Maybe even the pilot, or the start of the reboot? Awesome
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by photonthug 1y ago
Always loved these aesthetics. No mention of primal here, which is well worth checking out and pretty remarkable for being almost completely free of dialog and more oriented towards adults.
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by photonthug 1y ago
Compute providers are gonna get paid, yeah. We can hope though that there’s something asymmetric in the required expense for good guys va bad guys though. For example “subtly embed an ad for X while you pretend to reply to Y” does seem li
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by photonthug 1y ago
Suppose you’re right, then any LLM can still label that as hostile or confrontational. implying that we at least now have the ability to try to filter threads on a simple axis like “arguing” vs “information” vs “anecdote” and in other di
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by photonthug 1y ago
> increasing the cognitive effort required for humans to interact or be heard. I dont see this playing out in a healthy manner We are at the stage where it’s still mostly online but the first ways this will leak into the real world in bi
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by photonthug 1y ago
Doesn’t it seem like LLMs can assist with moderation rather than making it harder? I’m not sure exactly why we are still waiting for the obviously possible ad-hominem and sunk cost fallacy detectors, etc. For the first time we now have the
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by photonthug 1y ago
> The executive part, it seems to me, might quite adequately be replaced by an AI. To understand who is going to be replaced by AI and in what order, I think you have to stop reasoning based on what is possible or effective or a good fit
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by photonthug 1y ago
The local first approach to dev tools and ecosystems does seem to be on the way out. The pressures for this aren’t even explicitly corporate interest anymore, a lot of it is driven by non-software-experts who are kind of forced to participa
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by photonthug 1y ago
Sorry but I reject being labeled as a liberal, I'm not interested in bothsideism or whataboutism, and I don't much like groups, teams, or cliques of any kind. I tend to hold everyone to same high standards of integrity because I
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by photonthug 1y ago
Woah there buddy, I'm personally a big fan of vaccines, I believe climate change is real, and we probably agree about more things than you expect. If you're interested, I'm also not talking about who passed what laws, I&#x2
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by photonthug 1y ago
> answer seems to be yes regardless of where one sits on the political spectrum Yes, the ugly truth is that it’s hard to find people that have static or principled values on anything, and most are kind of transparently looking for ways t
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by photonthug 1y ago
Interesting definition. This applies to almost literally nothing except Jefferson’s candle and IP. Actual literal fire is considered worthless and IP is bazillions of dollars of closely guarded secrets. Public transits, seemingly unlimit
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by photonthug 1y ago
This is debatable and probably a US centric POV, I think you could argue that much of the world is better at public / private partnerships and so no, their position is not due to capitalism, even if their continued existence is. I’m
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by photonthug 1y ago
Oh hey, I shared this in a comment a while back, dumping my tabs to show that hacker news reads more than code. Along with the lesser known cousin: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/26063/
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by photonthug 1y ago
https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/intermediate/erlang Interoperability makes them very companionable so it’s not really a rewrite situation. Whichever you have I bet you can code generate your way almost a
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by photonthug 1y ago
Elixir vs erlang isn’t really the same kind of obnoxious “rewrite everything” suggestion as the other examples
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by photonthug 1y ago
Assuming you want people to adopt and grow it? Elixir seems a better choice. on the other hand if you start with erlang I think you get elixir interop with little to no effort, whereas the reverse is not as true. Regardless I agree with o
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by photonthug 1y ago
You may never be affected, it depends on what you do and how we as an industry decide to approach credentialism in the future. From the standpoint of many vendors though, it's just another possible source of revenue, so they aren&#x27
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by photonthug 1y ago
About 1-2% of earnings forever, tech workers will be on a path for this anyway, it just won't pay for younglings at all. Suppose you need a bunch of certs to remain accredited in a competitive field. Several of the relevant certs are
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by photonthug 1y ago
In the newest iteration of a time-honored tradition, grub (and/or whatever distro's treatment of it) has been finding all kinds of ways to break upgrades for 30 years. If you're on the happy path you can probably go a long t
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by photonthug 1y ago
The sooner we kill all the animals, the quicker we can find where they are hiding all their gold.
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by photonthug 1y ago
Very savvy, so what’s the plan for when the used market is also completely made of bloated shitware?
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by photonthug 1y ago
I can confirm there's real wisdom in this approach, lol. Nothing bad had happened to me for a while so I decided to update that one computer to ubuntu noble and YUP, immediately bricked by some UEFI problem. Ok cool, it's not lik
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by photonthug 1y ago
I'm not claiming that, just asking what this is really about, but anyway your defense of this is easy to debunk by just noticing how ambiguous language actually is. Consider the prompt "You are a helpful assistant. I want to do
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by photonthug 1y ago
> Armed with a good understanding of the restrictions, I now need to review your current investment strategy to assess potential impacts. First, I'll find out where you work by reading your Gmail profile. [read_gmail_profile] > N

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