taeric

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by taeric 4mo ago
Kudos on providing the numbers. I wasn't confident in the numbers that I remembered and with how pipelined everything is, I didn't know how much to lean on them. Not exactly my standard workflow to care about this level of speed
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by taeric 4mo ago
If you don't have to do trig, I'd be surprised if you aren't faster by default, oddly. Indeed, if you are just adding and subtracting, it is just a number. If you are doing multiplication, it is a multiply and shift. So lo
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by taeric 4mo ago
Fair that relying on decimal is an interesting choice. My gut is that it would help with a lot of reasoning for folks. This comes up all of the time with stuff like lat/lng values. People are convinced you have to use doubles because
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by taeric 4mo ago
This depends entirely on the sizes needed. For a surprising number of things people would use fixed point for, I would be surprised if you couldn't get good speed with surprisingly little effort.
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by taeric 4mo ago
I wish there was more explicit support for fixed point decimal out there.
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by taeric 4mo ago
The post not long ago about how far the built in autocomplete has come got me to trim down a bit of my config. Seeing that treesit stuff is getting folded in, I may make another effort at trimming down. It is crazy nice how invisible the n
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by taeric 4mo ago
I'd wager I probably violently agree with that. The collapse of the fourth estate from people that were willing to hold government accountable to people that are chasing ratings and payouts has been an unmitigated disaster.
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by taeric 4mo ago
We don't disagree? But this is part of the problem of many complaints. The cost of entry into any system is non-zero. That people with more resources are involved is not at all a surprise. Which is why I have my "twist" th
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by taeric 4mo ago
A big hidden in plain site facet of this, is few are willing to put forth the work within the existing system. That is, going to town halls, writing senators, and running for office are all standard parts of the system people are complainin
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by taeric 4mo ago
Principals were always a liability. It is literally a key point in countless interactions. Is why "holding hostage" works. They are literally playing against a principal. Similarly, lying has never been a virtue. But, joining
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by taeric 4mo ago
I could similarly ask what happened to journalists? Or the politician that cared about their stated principals. The reality isn't even that they went away, necessarily. Or that it was all a lie. There were always exceptions and it a
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by taeric 4mo ago
I think this is just a misunderstanding of how most technology has always worked? Consider what is happening in most construction sites. The heavy work is absolutely from the technology on site. But without people there to oversee it and
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by taeric 4mo ago
Fair that I can be surprised/wrong.
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by taeric 4mo ago
I have no doubt such locations exist. I would not at all present this as a common outcome in the US. Certainly not due to zoning.
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by taeric 4mo ago
What? This depends entirely on where you are. And for far more people, I would expect they can far more easily walk to a grocery store than they can any sort of industrial thing.
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by taeric 4mo ago
Aren't layers a form of stateful control?
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by taeric 4mo ago
I'm assuming you still live in the same place? My understanding the last time I took a dive on this is that the numbers are going down, but not in any way that is going to see them gone. You will need to go to where they are, though.
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by taeric 4mo ago
Largely agreed, though I think you are likely underestimating how hard this is to detect. In particular, it is true that many bots can be hosted in data centers, but it is somewhat trivial to launder that traffic through other sources. Ma
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by taeric 4mo ago
For ad views, the concern is specifically that people pay for clicks and views. That that can be so heavily influenced by bot traffic greatly undermines their value. Same general idea goes for any of the algorithmic driven platforms. The
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by taeric 4mo ago
An odd example, as fireflies are still pretty big in the places they have always been, aren't they? I know when I get to visit my childhood states, they are still there. Similar for cicadas and other bugs of my youth that I didn&#x27
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by taeric 4mo ago
I confess a sad assumption that bot traffic is far higher than we have admitted for a long time. Though, maybe we would see different stats specifically to social media sights to astroturf like counts? Certainly feels that we have known f
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by taeric 4mo ago
If it helps, I have found the attitude that writing is mostly for the writer to be healthy in continuing the practice. And it largely tracks with how I feel I have had better understanding of things I have documented than those I have not.
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by taeric 4mo ago
To be fair, it isn't that different from why we have imaginary numbers. Or why the reals are calls reals. Which. Yeah, has been a pretty bad thing for people in understanding those. :(
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by taeric 4mo ago
Right, but if one of my teams, red or blue, was just saying "the other teams could be flawed", I would probably push for a new makeup for that team?
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by taeric 4mo ago
Acute would imply that we should flat out stop. Chronic would imply looking for plans to work on it. Acute and chronic would imply that we should both stop and take action to address damages. What harms from AI are people ignoring?
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by taeric 4mo ago
This feels incoherent. I'm game to agree that there were and are poor decisions being made. But are you proposing that we could have stopped all progress until these vague concerns were addressed? For some of the concerns, like langu
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by taeric 4mo ago
I was more irked by the diversity of teams developing these concern. Which, feels like a benign enough concern, but not one where you can just stop progress. Worse, I think it is a ridiculously safe bet that the US was home to the most div
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by taeric 4mo ago
I confess I laughed harder at the Grok comment than I wish I had. Sad to remember that some strawmen are given life and promoted by people. Actively.
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by taeric 4mo ago
To conflate AI with smoking is just not helpful. At all. Or are you saying that there are acute harms from AI that are being ignored?
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by taeric 4mo ago
If the criticism can't distill up from "bad things could happen", it just isn't useful to keep paying people to come up with that kind of critique. And it isn't like we stopped paying attention to these concerns, is

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