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by totallymike 1y ago
If nothing else, it gives maintainers a sign to point to when closing PRs with prejudice, and that's not nothing. Bad faith contributors will still likely complain when their PRs are closed, and having an obviously applicable policy to
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by totallymike 1y ago
I’ll grant you that, but at least a new contributor who actually writes the code they contribute has offered some level of reciprocity with respect to the time it takes to review their contributions. Trying to understand a problem and takin
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by totallymike 1y ago
Unrelated to my other point, I absolutely get wanting to lower barriers, but let’s not forget that templeOS was the religious vanity project of someone who could have had a lot to teach us if not for mental health issues that were extant ea
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by totallymike 1y ago
Onboarding a new contributor implies you’re investing time into someone you’re confident will pay off over the long run as an asset to the project. Reviewing LLM slop doesn’t grant any of that, you’re just plugging thumbs into cracks in the
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by totallymike 1y ago
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by totallymike 1y ago
Eh, this doesn't strike me as wrong-headed. They aren't doing it because they feel duty-bound to be polite to the LLM, they maintain politeness because they choose to stay in that state of mind, even if they're just talking t
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by totallymike 1y ago
I understand what you're saying, which is that the response it generates is influenced by your prompt, but feel compelled to observe that LLMs cannot want anything at all, since they are software and have no motivations. I'd proba
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by totallymike 1y ago
I do agree that just being nicer is a good idea, even when it's not required, and for largely the same reasons. Incidentally, I almost crafted an example of whispering all the slurs and angry words you can think of in the general direc
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by totallymike 1y ago
Citations eight and nine amuse me. I readily and merrily agree with the articles that deriving slurs from existing racist or homophobic slurs is a problem, and the use of these terms in fashions that mirror actual racial stereotypes (e.g. &
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by totallymike 1y ago
I beg your pardon?
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by totallymike 1y ago
Is CBOR as popularly supported as JSON? Also, to answer your question with a guess, I would suppose it’s because they wanted to use JSON and they wrote the feature.
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by totallymike 2y ago
No, that’s the correct thread. It looks like the comments I saw have been deleted, but folks were accusing the author of the article of terrorism and anticipating the author’s arrest for having written it Edit* turns out the comments are st
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by totallymike 2y ago
See this other HN thread for concrete examples of how the climate is currently fucked. I genuinely can’t tell if the commenters are trying to be satirical, but the point seems moot. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43506
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by totallymike 2y ago
Wait, what important work are they doing?
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by totallymike 2y ago
I’m unfamiliar with the additional context, I think. Any pointers on what’s happening?
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by totallymike 2y ago
So you’re saying that the problem with education is not funding, structural inequality, uneven or poor curriculum, or any number of other realistic complaints about American education. It’s simply that the kids are bad. I mean, rock-solid t
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by totallymike 2y ago
This is gross. The person who made it and pitched it this way disgusts me.
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by totallymike 2y ago
Can’t keep working to improve an app if nobody downloads it because nobody knows it exists because nobody ever leaves reviews because nobody reminded the user that reviews are important. I also don’t like review popups but, excepting egregi
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by totallymike 2y ago
If you’re wondering what “semantic macros” means, it’s just llm bullshit. Not worth looking at.
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by totallymike 2y ago
I sincerely hope this never happens
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by totallymike 2y ago
We have a handful of containers in our house for such purposes. Flour and cat food are the first two that come to mind, and using them is exclusively a better experience than leaving these products in their original container. That said, th
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by totallymike 2y ago
I remember a few years ago when we started to see sour cream in similar squeeze bottles and what a revelation it felt like. No more watery separation or dried out clumps, and no need for something to scoop it out with. Now a number of brand
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by totallymike 2y ago
Hi there. How are ya?
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by totallymike 2y ago
I always felt that the beauty of film is in the collaboration between all the people involved to create something larger than themselves. Everybody in the credits brings something irreplaceable to a film, and together they transcend a singu
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by totallymike 2y ago
But wouldn’t you want to know that something you made affected actual people in meaningful ways? I’d hate to have LLM bots drown out real people with actual opinions and experiences, and never know if I was actually reaching anyone.
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by totallymike 2y ago
Ridiculous and arbitrary points of failure is a gigantic pet peeve of mine. See every charger unit that has the cable hardwired to it. For any one thing, it feels like not a huge deal. Oh well, a thing is broken and needs replacement. But a
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by totallymike 2y ago
Do you ever wonder where that electricity comes from? It might be worth checking out if you’re not convinced that finding ways to stay efficient in the face of enormous technological growth is worthwhile.
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by totallymike 2y ago
You’ve piqued my curiosity. What would you say is the primary risk of being an employee at a gambling company?
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by totallymike 2y ago
It doesn't matter which. The concept of understanding is entirely orthogonal to what an LLM is and how it works. It has no such thing, and can't.
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by totallymike 2y ago
Isn't an ultimatum just a firing with extra steps?

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