serf

13 ms·

211.
by serf 5mo ago
>the One country that dropped an A-bomb. i'd like to point out that the soviet RDS-3 was an airdropped A-bomb. I get that you mean 'in anger', but I don't feel that bad being a pedant against a propagandist statement
212.
by serf 5mo ago
a lack of existential threat in the form of pay-seeking and remediation from the people you stole training materials from that allows for an intrinsically different pace of operation than the Western competition
213.
by serf 5mo ago
why are we pretending these are equivalents? yes, single gpu open models exist. Now show me the one that can keep up with a SOTA api model on more than short code block evals.
214.
by serf 5mo ago
>Frankly, it concerns me that people think vomiting their thoughts onto the internet could possibly benefit from computational assistance it concerns you because you have a good authority over your spoken language, and like most people w
215.
by serf 5mo ago
busy streets rarely have cars that are moving fast . rural roads and 2 lane highways have fast traffic that a) doesn't expect other traffic, especially pedestrian b) are long and constant, breeding inattention and c) have few or limit
216.
by serf 5mo ago
it's hard to argue that decreased genetic diversity will help humans. Maybe we don't need hundreds of thousands of new exotic huge bovines to shit methane into the air all day every day, but it should be seen as fairly vital that
217.
by serf 5mo ago
other bovines didn't get to near-extinction and spring back after years of remediation and lobbying efforts, the American bison did.
218.
by serf 5mo ago
... well and they want to twist whatever knives they have in oAI -- if they can help the competition with their silly over-spend more the better.
219.
by serf 5mo ago
it's a huge red flag for me if I hear that without an origin. "Am I speaking with X? This is Y from Z Corp." is okay. "Am I speaking with X?..." is a spammer, a complaint, or someone trying to serve me papers. (in
220.
by serf 5mo ago
write it on paper and don't announce to the world you have it. two things greg brockman didn't do effectively.
221.
by serf 5mo ago
>Yeah I know, sure, fake information on the internet. It's so prescient I guess, but the actual story is incomprehensible. apply this logic to john carpenter movies and they fall apart, too. Escape from LA is just about as absurd, j
222.
by serf 5mo ago
40c is miserable to be in, but it's not really that hot compared to fire or combustion. The record hot day in Phoenix was 50c; miserable but livable w/ precautions. wet pipe burst temps are between 57c-75c .
223.
by serf 5mo ago
it's not that simple. llms can handle greenfield stuff fine; it's just more important at that stage of development for the operator of the LLM to specify constraints where possible. If the operator is unaware of what constraints s
224.
by serf 5mo ago
ask was cool because the appeal initially was to allow people to better form search queries with natural human language questions. as far as weird search engine traits I still think ChaCha is king; it's just sort of intrinsically funny
225.
by serf 5mo ago
i've had an experience at the cross section of the two where I dreamt factorio optimizations after obsessive play. generally they don't work out.
226.
by serf 5mo ago
just because it's an article about techie stuff doesn't mean all the photojournalism has to be color-graded like a Matrix movie. .. but it's kind of funny to read the fluff PR about saving humanity while juxtaposing it agains
227.
by serf 5mo ago
My guess : the engineer got the older model Reason : making due with more scarcity increased independence and critical thinking. I don't know if that was your point...
228.
by serf 6mo ago
my anecdote : I can have an agent harness run every tool that github provided an interface for on my own machines, and I used GH primarily as a git host rather than a collab tool. To be clear : I could have done this before -- the agent&#x2
229.
by serf 6mo ago
the harness or the model? I don't use the harness anymore, but it was fine. I switched to an agnostic harness that uses a multitude of models -- often the GPT ones. Anyone that cares about quality first and foremost switches harnesses
230.
by serf 6mo ago
is telling non-sexual partners about ones' own proclivities a means to seek validation for behavior that the person internally defines as socially fringe or uncommon?
231.
by serf 6mo ago
self hosted honcho (or other memory systems) and an api agnostic harness gets you most the way there.
232.
by serf 6mo ago
theres no water-testing here, they've been operating this way for years -- that's why I am a former customer.
233.
by serf 6mo ago
lol ok but where does it stop? I got into programming long before LSPs and MCPs. The only craftsmen are the ones at the edge of the lingo tree? To use your own analogy, as a machinist myself : I can master the concept of the lathe and bow d
234.
by serf 6mo ago
>I am still baffled by the fact that we have collectively agreed to use agentic harnesses by the same companies that are selling access to their APIs. the best performing and capable ones are all the ones that aren't tied to a speci
235.
by serf 6mo ago
me too. used codex to convert a bunch of riggings between lots of models via blender api. it felt weak at it , like the corpus wasn't strong with blender/python work to look through , but it got going at it fairly fast with some c
236.
by serf 6mo ago
isn't this just sort of turning chicken-or-egg? if an AI uses static analyzers to do work ,is it the tool or the ai ? if AI is using grep to do the work, is it the AI or grep? I mean essentially all agent work boils down to "cat o
237.
by serf 6mo ago
36ish hours a charge w/ HR stuff enabled.
238.
by serf 6mo ago
in my car circles the 968 was seen as a total pos that was really just sort of trying to compete with the RX-7 and Fairlady, do a worse job at being a good sports car than them, and push the brand into further cheapened territory towards th
239.
by serf 6mo ago
>Such as? it's crazy that the experiences are still so wildly varying that we get people that use this strategy as a 'valid' gotcha. AI works for the vast majority of nowhere-near-the-edge CS work -- you know, all the stu
240.
by serf 6mo ago
same story her with different context. my father has cardiac issues, serious ones. When a doctor asks what he wants to do he routinely says "Sail around the world, solo!" because that's about the stupidest most risky thing a

More ›