renegade-otter

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by renegade-otter 1mo ago
Well, isn't that an IRONIC spelling error.
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by renegade-otter 1mo ago
AI models do not live and learn - it's worse. They actually get DUMMER if you don't start with a clean slate. This is important. One has to curate the context carefully.
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by renegade-otter 1mo ago
Riddle me this. How does a company pay people a million dollars a year, and it occurred to no one to, I don't know, monitor outgoing packets if the model is supposed to be contained, when you know the set up is not really air gapped?
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by renegade-otter 1mo ago
The early dot com billionaires have so much money that they can keep making brain-dead decisions and get away with it - they have money printers to save them. Their companies perfected the addiction/extraction economy.
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by renegade-otter 1mo ago
How is that a language problem? Data scientists are not engineers. No matter what language you give them, they will hand you something you are going to have to polish for production. The fact that Python has become the language of choice fo
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by renegade-otter 1mo ago
Creating misleading data still took effort . Now there is none needed. Slop will simply flood the zone and good content will become increasingly rare. See the problem?
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
People did this in sports gambling since forever. Professional gamblers would cultivate a source (like a coach) to get inside information to get a leg up. That said - you are still placing a bet based on the best information you have. It&#x
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
Prediction markets are 100% gambling. It's just synonym acrobatics. I say this as someone who had a lot of fun GAMBLING during the World Cup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOptJl8Xkx0
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
You can be a seasoned engineer but making websites is still a major b**. The small tasks required to make it "presentable" site just compound, until you just don't even want to do it. Thank you Lordy for LLMs because I am goi
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
You need both, but skill-wise, I think you learn way more on the job.
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
The biggest impact I think will be when it comes to starting a career. Young people will be forced to live with parents for years while they are an unpaid "apprentice". In that sense, there is no need for college anymore - just sp
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
"SAY LOAD-BEARING ONE MORE TIME!"
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
"writes too elliptically" Was this written by Opus 5?
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
New requirement just dropped: "Switch to light mode during more than 50% solar eclipse".
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
I think for senior devs, some of us are legitimately jaded, especially if have been facing the same or boring problems. I am just tired of typing and looking up syntax for every line of code. This, however, is a slippery slope, and one has
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
These algorithms are supposed to be helping me discover new interests, but instead they make me cautious about what I click on. I watch two seconds of some video I ultimately don't care for and then get my feed chockfull of THAT shit f
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
I am still traumatizes from high school after almost 30 years. I had no extra-curricular activities but I had to travel far for the school of choice (I was an ESL student). Waking up at 5:45, 90 minute travel one way, then 8-9 periods endin
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
Pre-facebook, the barrier of entry was high enough that only fairly educated, students, and the nerds were driving the content. Once the barrier came down and the floodgates of "average intelligence" were opened, it was over.
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
In fact, he is blamed for spreading vaccination hesitancy in Samoa and the deaths of multiple children there as the result even before COVID: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/newly-obtained-emails-un...
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
COVID and anti-vaxxing explosion happened 6 years ago.
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
Anti-vaxxing goes back literally centuries, but the internet definitely made it a THING.
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
The Senate? He just issued an executive order overriding all science. It's a total farce at this point.
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
Good for you. We get explosive diarrhea as the prize in the States. Wanna trade?
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
If the Internet was nothing but the newspapers of record online, it would have been a good place to stop. The quality disappeared after the barrier of entry went - social media. At one time, running a blog post was also not exactly trivial,
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
The web was getting kind of useless before AI crashed the party. This is why now curated content is key - newsletters, for example, is how I find most of my content.
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
That is exactly right. This is a short pod episode where a former BLS director explains all this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhsLjmqse98
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
I am sure that's true if AI writes it, but what if YOU use AI to type it?
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
Back then we had constraints . That made us better programmers. We had to think about every database call and network call. No one cares about that now until it compounds to broken software - like Windows.
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
Most things get done in spite of management, not because of it.
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by renegade-otter 2mo ago
The numbers are as good as they can get with hard manual work that goes into compiling them. The problem is that small businesses lag by 1-2 months reporting them, so the initial number being reported is almost always irrelevant, as it most

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