swatcoder

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by swatcoder 4mo ago
Regardless of what their hiring process screens for, it's safe to say that people able to pass screening for Meta are able to get work elsewhere. It is never an engineers only option, although it may be the only one in a certain luxu
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
The shifting sands of commercial models or pay-per-use managed models are just really not appealing to a lot of people. Most come with huge privacy concerns, total costs and availability are impossible to forecast very far out, and the spec
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
Same with many and their shop tools in other trades. Most hobbyists and many professionals could end up far ahead financially by leveraging makerspaces, tool rentals, and co-op shops or even by hiring out a professional to prep certain in
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
> engineering seems to matter so little to a business's success That's because your engineering career coincides with a race to the bottom, where advertising-saturated, FOMO-afflicted consumers demonstrated a preference for acc
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
> Software developers in the US are seriously expensive, using them for data labeling would be a waste of resources. The frontier work is on labeling and training expert content, by experts. It's unglamorous work and almost certain
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
With its IPO, SpaceX secured its role as the vehicle for consolidating Musk's vanity businesses into one closely held public organization that can more easily convert publicity into investment and internally reallocate funds and debts
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
The assumptions are that * "better models" will remain so signficantly more profitable for firms that have access to them that that they're effectively a "must have" for big orgs, rather than a grossly overpriced ma
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
Sure, but it's also not really out of scale with the cost of a shop tool in other trades. If you're a professional that's confident in a positive return on the investment (optimal or not), or just a hobbyist with the luxury b
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
What are you actually providing here? What makes this more useful for someone than just uploading a their lawn images directly to their favorite frontier chatbot? Did you craft a rich prompt template that's untuitively helpful? If so
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
Indeed. It's promising technology, but the tools are far from mature yet. And as they do mature, the ramp up will decrease and their won't be any particular benefit to being an early adopter. For reasonably bright people, there&#x
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
> Eventually I’ll reach a point where I am forced to choose between the useful aspects of the model and the limiting ones instead of just picking the most capable model out there No, the choice will be whether or not to to upgrade to &qu
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
Neat effort. You may already know this, but the voice engines implementations have a lot of room for performance improvement, and you could probably squeeze out even more voices, routing patterns, secondary features, etc if you tighten them
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
> Would you categorize this particular style of rhetoric to be persuasive or annoying? Why are those the choices? Essays are situated along countless dimensions: tone, vocabulary, author, zeitgeist, publication context, intent, subtext,
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
Unless you made the mistake of having your question be something you knew about, in which case you would be forever cursed to see the janky contraption tucked behind the curtain.
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
Modern data centers are effectively mines, but without even the upside of supporting a local economy. They extract local resources (land, power, grid capacity, water, etc) and sell that as compute. As a rule, the mine operators are national
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
> Most video is going to be AI in the near future That's like saying all fine art would be photography, all film would be CGI, or all music would be synthesized electronica. That's not how aesthetics seem to work. Artists will
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
Sure, and like CGI, it will change the nature of the media entirely. Different stories shown with different treatment. With CGI, scenes zoomed out to wider shots and effects swelled even louder over lighting, intimacy, acting, etc. Old styl
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
> It is probably better if you value slower life, more vacation, and working less. That's exactly it, right? Self-sorting among those suitably positioned to emigrate and who have tastes more aligned with European norms? That sounds
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
Even if you do want datacenters built in your country, you probably don't want them built at the maximally explotative locations that their developers pursue. They don't provide appreciable community value and they effectively min
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
The lean startup "feedback loop" was with customers (not coworkers ). The idea was that you iterate on your viable product (not vibe prototype ) with the market that derives value from it. The slow part is finding those cust
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
> and yes ofc, I used LLMs to help reformulate some sections ??? Why in the world would that be an "ofc"? If you're trying to establish yourself as a writer and communicator, LLM's are the last thing you want to color
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
Sure there are. Population measures of morbidity, days of lost work, patient satisfaction, etc are all captured and studied. Do you have indications that those are worse where wait times happen to be higher, or so you just take it for grant
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
> experiment What is the experiment? What are you hoping to learn from all this? Or do you just mean you've made a dynamic dollhouse that you think is cool? The Sims on your own terms?
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
Not my experience. Maybe it's your presentation that earns downvotes, not your message. You can be a very principled person resisting and spotlighting norms you strongly disagree with, but how you do it tends to matter a lot. It make
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
There are more silos in the software engineering industry than you might expect as a "Big Tech" kind of engineer (assuming that's where you're speaking from). Gaming, embedded, audio, aviation, defense, automotive, medte
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
It's not as widely promoted, but if you're genuinely interested, there are more of those histories written then you'll ever have time to read yourself. There's a classic five volume series "A History of Private Life
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The article is specifically about a strategy to improve on that (or rather a satirical exposé on how AI answers are the next spiral down into isolation).
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> If I do not have a friend who's into fly fishing, or if I need an answer quickly, am I...just out of luck? So much to unpack here! First, one of terrible contemporary social fallacies that AI's convenience reinforces is that
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
??? Mature workflows for those kinds of tasks have been mostly ubiquitous across professional-grade engineering tools like those from JetBrains or Visual Studio itself for longee than many people here have even been working in the trade. I
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by swatcoder 4mo ago
You should talk to your union rep about that, because renegotiations like that won't happen on the individual basis just because you think its right. And almost all lack the leverage, individually, to make it happen. Of course, until j

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