surfingdino

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by surfingdino 17d ago
Too late https://www.reddit.com/r/Planes/comments/15fh5js/a_us_air_fo... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59299101 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2
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by surfingdino 18d ago
Must have been a contractor. The permies would wait for the procurement process to pick someone to move those stones for them. /s
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by surfingdino 23d ago
I'm still waiting for Apple to rediscover the Psion 3a or 5 format and Applefi it. when they do, I'm in.
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by surfingdino 1mo ago
I am still recovering from a project where everything that could go wrong, did. People without experience coding in Python vibing Python code. People cosplaying software architects. People vibing specs, Jira tickets based on the code they v
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by surfingdino 2mo ago
Indeed, there may even be a whole lot of code that depends on it.
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by surfingdino 2mo ago
I have 3+ years of experience working on projects that integrate LLMs into the "old" approach to building software. Overall, whenever clients used LLM to analyse inputs without expecting them to be accurate, we were getting decent
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by surfingdino 2mo ago
The correct way to do it would be to force Anthropic to remove content and the results of training based on that content from their models at copyright holder's request.
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by surfingdino 10mo ago
aka. "It's not our problem now."
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by surfingdino 10mo ago
Brilliant. This reminds me of (but is way more advanced) a single-file Python NoSQL key-value DB that used pickling to store data. It was FAST. Can't remember what happened to it. Anybody?
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by surfingdino 11mo ago
What a wonderfully visual example of the crap LLMs turn everything into. I am eagerly awaiting the collapse of the LLM bubble. JetBrains added this crap to their otherwise fine series of IDEs and now I have to keep removing randomly inserte
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by surfingdino 11mo ago
A few years in corporate managerial role will turn you into a bot.
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by surfingdino 11mo ago
I used to work with manager who told us to "have balls, deploy straight to prod" We spend a month cleaning this up. The other time when another manager demanded I "run this script" from the iphone he shoved in my face a
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by surfingdino 11mo ago
A similar thing is going on at Amazon. Their AI is rewriting perfectly good product descriptions provided by manufacturers and I noticed that I stopped buying there, because I cannot find out what it is that I am buying or how much of it I
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by surfingdino 1y ago
I'd love to see Dennis Ritchie commemorated as one of the greatest Americans.
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Can you not install Parallels and use it to run Linux under Mac OS X?
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by surfingdino 1y ago
I wish they published CPU and graphic performance comparisons vs M1. Apart from coding I do a lot of large photo (100MP) and video (4K+) file processing and I am interested in core graphics performance. Talking centipedes or flying trains a
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Props! I hope they keep it and don't use it as a play to get a better deal from a commercial provider. I am jaded after seeing too many "digital transformation" projects running on a 3-5 year cycle of switching from Offie 365
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by surfingdino 1y ago
A remnant of their 'Linux is a cancer' phase and the famous fight against Open Source that started with the "Halloween Document" then helping SCO https://yro.slashdot.org/story/21/04/01&#x2
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Not as much as it used to be. Before cloud computing became a thing, if you wanted to squeeze the last bit of performance out of hardware, FreeBSD was the way to go. Yahoo! used it when Yahoo! was the biggest site on the internet. Over time
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Given that governments want to move to 100% digital government and economy, denying someone access to the internet will strip them of ability to take part in society, use government services (accessible via digital id), or pay (living expen
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If this is the best AI can do, Hollywood is safe [video](youtube.com)
2 points by surfingdino 1y ago|1 comments
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Find at least 10 things wrong in that video...
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by surfingdino 1y ago
The solution is to ban drone deliveries in built-up areas. We do not need them.
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by surfingdino 1y ago
or Kinder Surprise ;-)
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Estonia (and now Ukraine) have worked on being able to do a "backup" of the country and a "restore" elsewhere if needed. (I am oversimplifying, but contingency plans have been part of the overall design that eID is a par
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by surfingdino 1y ago
It's interesting how an idea almost nobody wants to see implemented in practice keeps coming back thanks to the efforts of the person most of the country, including his own party would rather forget.
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Amazon are no longer the golden standard of e-commerce. I think 5-10 years from today we're going to look back at 2025 as the year Amazon started to destroy itself from within. They are pushing AI to "update" and "optimi
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by surfingdino 1y ago
I started building on Cloudflare, but after their "pay us 120k or else" tactics they got famous for I decided to move code elsewhere.
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Managers on AI projects need to show "mass adoption" in order to survive the next annual review. That's why you have pointless AI stuffed into every orifice of Google/YouTube.
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by surfingdino 1y ago
That's a lot of words to make oneself feel better about manipulating others.

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