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811.
by the_af 11mo ago
What do you mean?
812.
by the_af 11mo ago
I don't know whether that use of the em-dash is grammatically correct, but I've seen enough native English writers use it like that. One example is Philip K Dick.
813.
by the_af 11mo ago
You should read Stallman, because what you said (container vs content) is his actual beef with it. It's looking at it from the perspective of companies who own the platform (the container) rather than from the more human perspective of
814.
by the_af 11mo ago
I think generating assembly with an LLM would be like copying from a magazine back then: nothing learned. But I wonder, do LLMs help explain chunks of 6502 assembly code, in your experience? Say, if one was learning.
815.
by the_af 11mo ago
> A citizen and a person doesn't have to be defined as what they consume, do they? I find this is at the core of Stallman's criticism of the term "content". We speak of media "content", of "content au
816.
by the_af 11mo ago
While acknowledging the truth of what you're saying (the first sentence, anyway), the problem is going into a cynical, defeatist "that's the way things are". A kind of learned helplessness.
817.
by the_af 11mo ago
I suppose back in 2010 it gave different results. I think Ursula's point was how opaque it was...
818.
by the_af 11mo ago
Another example: r/AskHistorians is so heavily moderated almost every comment gets deleted. Their standards of quality are very high. It's not a sub to push your views or argue, it's a sub for historians or people who can bac
819.
by the_af 11mo ago
It's ok in wild bushes (as long as children don't usually play there), but what's the justification for dumping it in other people's bushes and gardens? They probably would say "no" if you asked them, so you pr
820.
by the_af 11mo ago
You can easily disable the pop-up ads.
821.
by the_af 11mo ago
Any tweaks for Proton that you think were helpful? I tried stuff from ProtonDB but it hangs during the initial cutscene and never recovers.
822.
by the_af 11mo ago
They are ads for games in a store that sells games, right? I'm very anti-ad, but if there's one situation where I don't have a beef with it, it's the Steam app.
823.
by the_af 11mo ago
I cannot speak for the Steam console and I don't care about playing PC games on my phone: it's not the form factor for me. But I'm really grateful for Valve and Steam. Increasingly, more and more Windows-only games "just
824.
by the_af 11mo ago
I don't follow why it's hard to build in Seattle. Do you mean before this "AI summer" they struggled, or that with AI they have become too slow because they won't adopt it?
825.
by the_af 11mo ago
Out of curiosity, did you redact this with AI? It has all the telltale signs: lots of em-dashes but also "punched up" paragraphs, a lot of them end with a zinger, e.g. > Amazon folks are slightly more insulated, but not by muc
826.
by the_af 11mo ago
> One of those absolutely true statements that can obscure a bigger reality. To be clear, I'm not misquoting Knuth if that's what you mean. I'm arguing that in this case, specifically, this optimization was premature, as
827.
by the_af 11mo ago
To be clear, I don't think it's a huge sin. It's the kind of mistake all of us make from time to time. And it got corrected, so all's well that ends well.
828.
by the_af 11mo ago
Go figure: people are downvoting me but I never once said developers must be stupid or lazy. This is a very common kind of mistake developers often make: premature optimization without considering the actual bottlenecks, and without testing
829.
by the_af 11mo ago
But this means that before they blindly trusted some stats without actually testing how their game performed with and without it?
830.
by the_af 11mo ago
But if I read it correctly (and I may be mistaken) in actual practice any improvement in load times was completely hidden by level generation that was happening in parallel, making this performance improvement not worth it, since it was hid
831.
by the_af 11mo ago
> Given the volume of material these streamers are handling, I expect QA is minimal Yeah, I expect QA is minimal for these shows that are past their prime. Only fans will really watch them again, it's probably not worth it to spen
832.
by the_af 11mo ago
If it can be fixed in post, what's the problem? The only flaw here is that they completely screwed up and forgot post for these scenes (in the remaster).
833.
by the_af 11mo ago
I think the only thing that's unclear, and what LLM companies want to fine-tune, is how much sycophancy they want. Too much, like the article mentions, and it becomes grotesque and breaks suspension of disbelief. So they want to get it
834.
by the_af 11mo ago
I think at this point it's intentional. They sometimes get it wrong and go too far (breaking suspension of disbelief) but that's the fine-tuning thing. I think they absolutely want people to have a friendly chatbot prone to praisi
835.
by the_af 11mo ago
Tangent: the analysis linked to by the article to another article about rhetorical tricks is pretty interesting. I hadn't realized it consciously, but LLMs really go beyond the em-dashes thing, and part of their tell-tale signs is inde
836.
by the_af 11mo ago
I use the Mac app for session related reasons (personal vs work) and I don't see anything particularly good about it. It feels a bit clunkier than the browser, if anything.
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by the_af 11mo ago
I don't agree. Even the US suffers (their veterans do, anyway) but that's the country that in general least suffers from their constant involvement in warfare. They have this industry down to a "T". However, you cannot g
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by the_af 11mo ago
> Not saying you shouldn't be able to buy videos of whatever your heart desires. You can pay for PornHub, you know. You did mention "avant garde porn", which is an extremely weird turn of phrase. As if I was talking abou
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by the_af 11mo ago
Why? What's the difference? I mean, there was plenty of explicit sex in those magazines.
840.
by the_af 11mo ago
To be honest I think incels as a full-blown phenomenon came after my generation. In any case, as my sibling commenters point out, there are so many variables you cannot really isolate which one is responsible for the incels. Did porn play a

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