timcobb

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by timcobb 7mo ago
> But do we really have to wait for astronauts to die to re-learn the same lessons a third time? Humans don't seem to learn in the way we think or what them to
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by timcobb 7mo ago
"weird pbotons"
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by timcobb 7mo ago
Always appreciate people seeking clarity on positions that are not clearly elaborate/taken for granted. Kind of stresses me out sometimes.
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by timcobb 7mo ago
Dunno... with this setup it seems certain that the agent will discover a zero-day to escalate privilges and send your SSH keys to its handlers in N. Korea. P.S. Everything old is new again <3
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by timcobb 7mo ago
> ... isn't Ukraine also begging for the multi-million dollar weapons? Are Patriots ... Yeah they want Patriots but they want them for taking out relatively expensive Russian ballistic missiles. If those ballistics/hypersonics
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by timcobb 7mo ago
The onus is on the maintainer(s) to work on the project as much as they can and want to, if people are creeps who try to socially manipulate maintainers to do free work, I think we need mechanisms to help mitigate that. For example, I think
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by timcobb 7mo ago
But also does it even have to be a construed as charity? Why do we need to put it in economic terms? Why not just -- something you do because otherwise it wouldn't exist? And you want it to exist? In any case, +1, I find these posts to
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by timcobb 7mo ago
> I guess when I leave, I'll get it paid out? yeah in my opinion this is the big question on whether you're getting screwed by unlimited PTO. But I don't manage other aspects of my finances so tightly, so it's kind of
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by timcobb 7mo ago
FWIW at this job I don't feel like PTO days are a limitation. The limitation is my ability to plan and execute well, and I appreciate the flexibility of not having to deal w/ counting or thinking in terms of days in that way.
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by timcobb 7mo ago
That's what it seems like :)
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by timcobb 7mo ago
Can you give an example please. How do you do this without introducing bad vibes?
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by timcobb 7mo ago
What if you have "unlimited" PTO
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by timcobb 7mo ago
What kind of incentives are possible in your average tech work environment? A raise? A bonus? Raises usually come with more responsibility. I'm not familiar with tech companies doing bonuses.
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by timcobb 7mo ago
That is an excellent observation.
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by timcobb 7mo ago
I've played with this type of thing and I couldn't justify it vs just using a premium model, which seems more direct and error proof. Cheap models in my experience could really consume tokens and generate cost
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by timcobb 7mo ago
Yeah share for sure pls
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by timcobb 7mo ago
Is it web scale?
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by timcobb 7mo ago
Ah gotcha, thanks
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by timcobb 7mo ago
Who are these guys even competing with that they are going so hard with the deals? Like the 1M context window, is Gemini offering that? In any case, they seem to have no real competition today.
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by timcobb 7mo ago
This is the only problem but hopefully we'll be able to fix this issue, otherwise yikes we are doooomed.
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by timcobb 7mo ago
> The big players are just awful at marketing; too many SKUs and models and as far as I know, they do this on purpose!
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by timcobb 7mo ago
I think they were saying haskell is a production language
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by timcobb 7mo ago
> As such it’s unclear what the prize at the end of the present race to the bottom is. is it ever clear? pretty much everything seems to be a senseless race to bottom.
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by timcobb 8mo ago
I'm not op but I don't think op meant to shame, I understand the construction "tell me you're... without telling me" as a way to highlight that something is unexpected to people who haven't done something, that
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by timcobb 8mo ago
Grim
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by timcobb 8mo ago
> The gambling analogy completely falls apart on inspection. yeah I think the bluesky embed is much more along the lines of what I'm experiencing than the OP itself.
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by timcobb 8mo ago
> Just be honest since the start that your product will eventually abandon its FOSS licence. How does this look? How does one "just" do this? What if the whole thing was an evolution over time?
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by timcobb 8mo ago
I can't even imagine being such a prolific emailer, even just one liners. Damn
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by timcobb 8mo ago
Not bad not bad
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by timcobb 8mo ago
I think in the future this might be known as AI megalomania

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