troupo

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by troupo 2mo ago
Stable fast software that doesn't make the supercomputers we have feel like remote terminals from 1960s.
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I do read AI code(dmitriid.com)
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by troupo 2mo ago
The company that pirated books [1], and is unconditionally opting in all their users into training their AI [2] is releasing "open" models. Awwwww. [1] 82 TB of books https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry&#x2F
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by troupo 2mo ago
Yes, and they've spent extraordinary amount of time snd resources to be as maliciously compliant as possible.
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by troupo 2mo ago
> It's enough of an improvement that they will likely still exist somewhere. lol. A belief that a for-profit company will retain some data in its storage forever is somehow "enough of an improvement", but the proof that th
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by troupo 2mo ago
> on the chance there is some actual lost media in there. But if they keep the scans, or even the transcripts, that's probably an improvement on the status quo Where can I see the scans and the transcripts in this "better statu
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by troupo 2mo ago
Unless you're one of the 15+ million who are disenrolled from Medicaid. Or you're one of the 8.1% uninsured in states who didn't expand ACA: https://academic.oup.com/healthaffairsscholar/article/2&#x
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by troupo 2mo ago
> EU life expectancy was 81.7 in 2024. Two years makes one of them OK and the other not? No. We call the place with higher maternal mortality, higher infant mortality, huge number of medical bankruptices, higher untreated chronical disea
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by troupo 2mo ago
> but there's a pretty big gulf between a significant minority who can face massive financial burdens from medical care "significant minority".
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by troupo 2mo ago
Now add in all the Americans that don't go to doctors to get treated because their insurance doesn't cover it or it's too expensive, and you're again arguing my original comment for me
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by troupo 2mo ago
> Should people with shit jobs have shit health care? No, and it's very unfortunate that this is how things work. Coming back to my original comment.
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by troupo 2mo ago
The US is a great example of why GDP is a largely meaningless metric. Yes, the States' GDP is ginormous, and yet it's basically a third-world country masquerading as a first-world one on most metrics that actually matter to people
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by troupo 2mo ago
Technically correct. However, it's so closely aligned with and integrated into the EU that it's quite convenient to include it in comparisons. Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein (EEA), and Switzerland ("Special Relationship&qu
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by troupo 2mo ago
> It is actually pretty easy to keep alive URLs if there is a will to do so. Just have tests in place "Just". Maintaining and keeping these tests (and the oriinal link) running is also probably easy. "Just" keep maint
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by troupo 2mo ago
And this has been shown time and again to be quite detrimental. Yes, you have to disconnect. No, disconnecting for a few hours is not a problem just because "these are messaging apps".
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by troupo 2mo ago
> The problem is, what if one of these apps is being used as a messaging app? How is this a problem? We've had messaging apps 24/7 for 15 years. For many millenia we didn't have them, and it was hardly ever a problem.
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by troupo 3mo ago
Question: Any benchmarks showing if this actually improves problem solving? Or reduces errors? "Answer": a word soup that in no way, shape, or form addresses the question, but does sound jargony and vague enough to be an LLM.
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by troupo 3mo ago
Depends on how the harness injects those files. All harnesses these days auto-discover "skills" and read them anyway, and inject their descriptions, at the very least. Which leads to this anyway: https://news.ycombinato
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by troupo 3mo ago
Search itself pollutes the context. With the need to maintain the tools, the search, the search results etc. in context. And wasting tokens while interpreting results.
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by troupo 3mo ago
And all those "names and one-line descriptions" live in an .md file and of course pollute your context. And then the model will randomly decide to load the .md file that is the "skill" randomly at any point. Again pollut
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by troupo 3mo ago
> Skills don’t pollute the context window Of course they do. Do you really think that there's a magical bag of holding for the potentially infinite amount of skills?
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by troupo 3mo ago
Illusion of choice forced onto you by the tracking industry. Again, if consumers didn't care, the tracking industry wouldn't need to present users with this "choice".
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by troupo 3mo ago
Onve again it's been shown that consumers do care when they are properly shown the extent of data collection and/or are allowed to opt out. E.g. when iOS introduced "ask apps to not track", 96% of users clicked "
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by troupo 3mo ago
> Discussion about nuclear reactors aside, energy in germany became expensive when they cut off russian gas and they had no good alternative. Why aside? Germany had to burn gas and coal to compensate for the nuclear reactors they shut do
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by troupo 3mo ago
> I strongly disagree. You strongly disagree with what? That new tools shouldn't just make simple things simpler? > Make me write less code, make me spend less time fixing it. But that's exactly where SwiftUI fails, doesn&#x
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by troupo 3mo ago
Where "bespoke" is anything beyond master/detail and endless lists upon lists apparently.
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by troupo 3mo ago
> But 1/ it’s much simpler for doing simple things and 2/ we can drop down to AppKit when needed. New things (especially 12 years on) shouldn't be "do simple things simpler, and drop down to old ways for complex stuff
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by troupo 3mo ago
> Unless your app is a trivial master/detail data-viewing app (as pretty much every SwiftUI example is), And it's pretty much incapable of making anything that is not a master/detail with endless lists within lists within
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by troupo 3mo ago
I'd kill for tight UIs now. Everything insists on having 15000-mile wide margins, and at most two items visible on an 8K screen. We are at a point when TUIs from 1990s running in 12" screens with at best a 480x240 resolution disp
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by troupo 3mo ago
And there's nothing wrong with that. Many languages attempt to do the same thing. Why bother with 15 different languages if you can leverage one? See also LiveView and Hologram for Elixir.

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