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by sam0x17 3y ago
> It's not about speculating whether a given company would one day be big Indeed, I think a lot of people miss the fact that the point of most small businesses is not in fact to become a billion (or even multi-million) dollar compan
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Well the fact that they do nothing becomes a lot more obvious when they aren't breathing down people's necks in the office.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
90% of the people I do video calls with are either calling from a literal closet or do an animated/replacement background anyway. Like you I spent a lot of time and effort preparing my (real life) background behind me, and most people
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by sam0x17 3y ago
> It's also clear that some people feel real benefits from being in the office. I'm so tired of this equivocation. These aren't two neatly swapable things like some sort of cute little "preference" that each comp
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by sam0x17 3y ago
> A lot of their job is "intangible" I think for many executives it's so "intangible" as to be worthless bordering on detrimental ;)
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by sam0x17 3y ago
But not enough that if they stopped paying you you would keep working, presumably Everything beyond the core financial relationship is just mythology and propaganda employers have beaten into you since birth to make you a good serf Similarl
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Was hoping for something like htmx based on that description, oh well
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Legal departments at big orgs like this tend to just throw everything at the wall until something sticks, as a matter of course
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Such an evil pattern. We need to eliminate this at all costs. Luckily I think if Chrome were to move forward with this they'd face extreme anti-trust stuff as a result
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by sam0x17 3y ago
> they don't care about anything other than keeping those paychecks coming for a while Don't forget this is all employment really is. Any employee-employer relationship boils down to this regardless of what you have deluded you
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Yeah but what's to stop me from spawning a hidden instance of edge, sending keys etc to it to get it to visit some page, and using either window sub-classing (to hack it's memory space and read the request directly) or a local pro
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Right but how does edge prove itself to the TPM, what's to stop [insert alt browser here] from performing the exact same actions [insert blessed browser here] performs when it interacts with the TPM. It could even emulate a legitimate
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by sam0x17 3y ago
> That is not always a bad thing Sure and that's reasonable, but in the cases where performance/throughput/training time/RAM usage is the main limiting factor of a field, suddenly this stuff matters a lot. There'
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by sam0x17 3y ago
But signing necessarily is happening on the user's device... what is to stop brave/etc from also signing their outgoing requests with the same key your local Chrome install is using? On a mobile device I can see how this would wor
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by sam0x17 3y ago
turing computability makes no guarantees about constant factors affecting execution time. If I say "do X in less than X nanoseconds", some languages can, and some cannot, regardless of what hardware you run on. If our bar for usab
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Right but how many of those man-centuries could have been better spent just writing X in a suitable language where you get that for free, and how many subsequent man centuries will be wasted before everyone switches? Imagine where the AI co
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Right, but we're comparing languages, not their ecosystems. It's not a language's fault if the community hasn't yet realized it is better for some purpose and overcome the market effects of tons of existing packages alre
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I hang out on one of the unofficial rust community discords mostly https://discord.gg/rust-lang-community but we talk about all kinds of stuff
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by sam0x17 3y ago
This is honestly very 2010s brained. With modern LLVM-based compiled languages, we really can have our cake and eat it too in terms of doing most if not all of the productive things scripting languages will do, without the slowness of said
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I'm extremely excited to see if Elon Musk can actually pull off driving twitter into the ground to the point where his entire purchase becomes an utter waste of money.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I unfortunately switch between HN, Slashdot, CNN, and my GitHub feed. I also try not to go to reddit and usually succeed these days. Most of the interesting stuff I see though is on Discord to be honest
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Hope they open source it, but probably not
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GoXLR Is Basically Dead(old.reddit.com)
1 points by sam0x17 3y ago|1 comments
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by sam0x17 3y ago
See I think what we all want though is the person who knows basic plumbing _and_ can model fluid dynamics. Gotta look for those rare CS devs who were already devs before they went to school
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Could have been a really good opportunity for Valve to take a stance here. Shame.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
That's also a blessing in disguise though, we don't want an LLM trained on closed source stuff, so ignoring sources it can't access is probably a great thing
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by sam0x17 3y ago
AFAIK the training works by just selecting random words in sentences to have the LLM "fill in" until it generalizes to being able to write entire sentences. The training data can be completely unstructured.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Yeah, it's officially dead
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by sam0x17 3y ago
So somehow the electron app is faster than the browser experience? Seems dubious
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by sam0x17 3y ago
You know you could probably get really far just training an LLM on wikipedia and all linked citations, and nothing else The whole problem of wikipedia only being an "inch deep" on any given topic is basically solved if the LLM als

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