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by salawat 7mo ago
It'd also require completely different refineries. Most U.S. oil is Sweet light vs the Heavy stuff we import and refine from overseas.
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by salawat 7mo ago
The problem isn't X domain of business is more scummy than Y. They all are. That's kind of the problem. Tech is just egregious though in it's non-reliance on physical matter, meaning anything that can be digitally rendered is
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by salawat 7mo ago
God, there's always that moment when you see the most shit code on earth, just as you're typing "git blame" and you just start chanting "please don't be me".
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by salawat 7mo ago
Or even just running their own tests...
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by salawat 7mo ago
See, here's the thing. All the planning and whatnot for the human facing part of the org was done years in advance, and nobody factors/designs in bottom-up change from the consumers of the process. If you aren't willing to co
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by salawat 7mo ago
To act as a safety valve against foreign companies acting as proxies for an adversary. Not for use against an American company that won't let you retroactively violate already agreed to terms. Anthropic isn't jeopardizing the supp
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by salawat 7mo ago
...And the old Engineer was just saying that that was the area on the spectrum they aimed for, so they found a light that emitted in that wavelength that could be technically implemented and scaled. Way better work than whoever it is handli
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by salawat 7mo ago
You have to remember that LLM's don't have any persistent capacity to hold a "judgement". You ask for something, it provides an attempt at a completion for it. No fact checking, no reasoning, just a plausible looking out
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by salawat 7mo ago
It isn't popular, but they have a name and address right? Not talking violence, but the number one way of dealing with these sorts is to usually talk things out. If you're really concerned about, get a group of similarly minded pe
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by salawat 7mo ago
As the parachutist says to the pilot: "I'll stop jumping out of perfectly good airplanes as soon as they start making them." I've fiddled with enough hosted ones enough to know the hosted solution's value add is alm
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by salawat 7mo ago
>Why is it an illusion of productivity if you work faster with it than without it? You don't work faster if you're just slipping out the wrong code. >Who decides whether or not the code is right? You, no? When was the last t
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by salawat 7mo ago
Physicians need to have it pounded into them that every hallucination is downstream harm. AI has no place in medicine. If they insist on it, then all transcripts must be stored with the raw audio. Which should be accessible side by side, wi
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by salawat 7mo ago
The drive-thru restaurants of the world have all unanimously adopted an AGI today. Wait... I'm getting something. Breaking news: for the first time ever, every person on earth ordered the exact same thing. Agri stocks have gone way, wa
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by salawat 7mo ago
So... Question. Seeing as Zuck is the majority voting shareholder and highest ranked executive, why isn't there a piercing of the corporate veil going on? This isn't some distributed blame case. Ultimately, his decision making l
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by salawat 7mo ago
>Besides people don't want to be on corporate welfare anyways, they'd rather be part of a company where they can add meaningful value. Funny. Those companies don't seem to be hiring. Everyone is doing layoffs. Maybe you sa
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by salawat 7mo ago
>Anyone know why it didn't get market traction? Oh gee. Maybe because no one sane looks at an industrial product adversarially built to confine and prevent the end user from doing anything to it and wants anything to do with it? It
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by salawat 7mo ago
>If I were the creator of an LLM, I would forbid the use of 'my' technology for horrific purposes like warfare. Again. Cool. You'd use a license right? Or terms and conditions? Jussst like the ones in GPL, Apache, and most
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by salawat 7mo ago
I'm just chuckling how every single thing I've said devs needed over the past decade is going to end up repeating itself, but AI this time.
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by salawat 7mo ago
>Officials can arrest someone for protected activity, decline to appeal a trial court’s decision declaring the statute unconstitutional(so no precedent is created), and then use qualified immunity to avoid liability by citing back to tha
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by salawat 7mo ago
Here's the thing. You're kind of dopamine hacking yourself. Using current LLM's is something akin to using a slot machine, and one specifically tuned to work on/predate on knowledge workers. The fact is, while it can tal
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by salawat 7mo ago
Well congratulations my friend, do you thing me some FAANG-er? No. I've undersold myself my entire damn life out of some misguided notion that supporting someone else's mission required sacrifice on my part because it was at least
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by salawat 7mo ago
You think execs don't know that? You think politicians don't know that? You know, there's a reason why in primary education we covered the Gilded Age, the Robber Barons, The Labor Movement, all that jazz. "We the People&
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by salawat 7mo ago
Do you not realize the existence of LLM's as all pretty much invalidated any practical recognition of there being a reciprocal acknowledgement of a creator's sovereign claim on how a thing is to be employed? That these models exis
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by salawat 7mo ago
The thing you two are missing is "solidarity" and our industry sucks at it. In fact, it's been relied upon and conditioned into most IT/tech types we're "special" somehow in a way blue collar workers aren&
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by salawat 7mo ago
The world over more like. None of those models would even exist if they had made a good faith attempt at licensing data, and I'm still not convinced what we now have to deal with was worth the ongoing massive ethical compromise. I&#x27
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by salawat 7mo ago
In an "I can't use the platforms I'm familiar with". Yes, he can. Can he shut off the ability to Internet with non-U.S. countries? No, not really. With the way he's burning bridges with allies, we're not even g
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by salawat 7mo ago
>i am absolutely positive, without proof of course, that this is an extremely common practice. my isp does the exact same thing with basically the same wording. "sorry, high call volumes right now. but hey, did you know you can do l
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by salawat 7mo ago
Oof. At least they had backups. I know at least a couple places I've been that didn't where that would have screwed the testing team for weeks.
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by salawat 7mo ago
AI is to Software what CNC was to machinists. It's turning it into something more commoditized and less tilted in favor of skilled labor. The more you actually use these AI setups, the more training data you're giving these compan
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by salawat 7mo ago
Oh, stow it. Claim on you by the body politic doesn't end because you shove your fingers in your ears, or cover your eyes and go "Not listening! I see nothing!" Welcome to the real world, where grocery and fuel prices will be

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