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by turtletontine 10mo ago
Many people are, indeed, being forced to use AI by their ignorant boss, who often blame their own employees for the AI’s shortcomings. Not all bosses everywhere of course, and it’s often just pressure to use AI instead of force . Given h
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by turtletontine 10mo ago
Source?
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by turtletontine 10mo ago
Perhaps someone thinking “all publicity is good publicity”
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by turtletontine 10mo ago
On the RISC-V vector instructions, could you elaborate? Are the vector extensions substantially different from those in ARM or x86?
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by turtletontine 10mo ago
Framework 16 owner here, had mine for a year and a half. While most of this post is also true in my experience, I just don’t care. These are largely small cosmetic nitpicks that you need to look for to notice. The only complaints here that
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by turtletontine 10mo ago
Have you turned off this setting too? Just curious if you’ve tried messing with the settings, and whether they actually change the TV’s traffic patterns you see in the DNS sinkhole. Good experiment at the very least
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by turtletontine 10mo ago
I’m the kind of nerd who enjoys the surprising nitty gritty details, so I enjoyed the rest of the article and I’d recommend people read it. But I agree with you: the AARP is 100% right to be running PSAs like this. I’d be curious to hear mo
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by turtletontine 10mo ago
I don’t necessarily think you’re wrong, but I’m skeptical that the curious will really meaningfully learn from LLMs. There’s a huge gap between reading something and thinking “gee that’s interesting, I’m glad I know that now,” and really do
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by turtletontine 10mo ago
Source..? What exactly are you referring to?
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by turtletontine 10mo ago
> Will… I think “won’t”. I could be wrong of course, but I imagine efforts to put servers into orbit will die before anything is launched. It’s just a bad idea. Maybe a few grifters will make bank taking suckers’ money before it becomes
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by turtletontine 10mo ago
What you’re describing sounds a lot like the Department of Energy national labs. They have (or had) many permanent-track research roles without teaching obligations, where scientists can have long stable research careers. The problem, as al
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by turtletontine 10mo ago
When the LLM code bases are too complex for the humans on deck to understand and debug… that sounds like the turning point when companies go back to real developers IMO. Any serious mission critical code needs knowledgeable humans on deck w
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by turtletontine 11mo ago
99% of people have no clue what “HDR” and “tone-mapping” mean, but yes are probably weirded out by some videos being randomly way brighter than everything else
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by turtletontine 11mo ago
Yup. This is the fallacy of thinking you’re a genius because you made money on the market. Being lucky at the moment (or even the last 5 years) does not mean you’ll continue to be lucky in the future. “Tech line go up forever” is not a viab
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by turtletontine 11mo ago
> I don't understand why investors are excited about getting into a negative-margin commodity. It makes zero sense. Long term, yes. But Wall Street does not think long term. Short or medium term, you just need to cash out to the nex
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by turtletontine 11mo ago
I’m not sure I see how each example improves on the previous (though granted, I don’t really know Zig). What happens if you call append() with two different allocators? Or if you deinit() with a different allocator than the one that actuall
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by turtletontine 11mo ago
I think what’s clear is many people feel much more productive coding with LLMs, but perceived and actual productivity don’t necessarily correlate. I’m sure results vary quite a bit. My hunch is that long term value might be quite low: a
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by turtletontine 11mo ago
They’ve already secured Microsoft as a customer, they’ll be making the next Maia AI accelerator for Azure on 18A. Apple would be a much bigger catch for sure, but they have in fact secured one big customer.
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by turtletontine 11mo ago
> Since Google doesn't sell TPUs, they are extremely well-positioned to ensure no one else can profit from any advantages created by TPUs. First part is true at the moment, not sure the second follows. Microsoft is developing their
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by turtletontine 11mo ago
If the writer’s entire process is giving a language model a few bullet points… I’d rather them skip the LLM and just give me the bullet points. If there’s that little intent and thought behind the writing, why would I put more thought into
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by turtletontine 11mo ago
That’s called antitrust, and is absolutely a cause you can vote for. Some of the Biden administration’s biggest achievements were in antitrust, and the head of the FTC for Biden has joined Mamdani’s transition team.
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by turtletontine 11mo ago
I’ve been using Linux distros daily for >10years now, and I only get more confident that I made the right choice. Pretty much the only things I miss out on are Microsoft Office and Photoshop. Gaming works astonishingly well on Linux thes
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by turtletontine 11mo ago
Is there any way to tell if the SMART has been reset/tampered with in any way? If you have a drive that claims to have 0 hours of use, but it quickly starts to rack up failure indicators… how can you tell if it’s spurious failures or a
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by turtletontine 11mo ago
We even have a name for this now… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification?wprov=sfti1
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by turtletontine 11mo ago
Including the former CEO of Uber. I’m somewhat curious what these people even think they’ve discovered, what outstanding problem they think they’ve actually solved… but I’m not curious enough to actually dig through their slop. https:&#x2F
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by turtletontine 1y ago
Basically, it’s an open question that courts have yet to decide. But the idea is that it’s fair use until courts decide otherwise (or laws decide otherwise, but that doesn’t seem likely). That’s my understanding, but I could be wrong. I exp
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by turtletontine 1y ago
What does this even mean? How can we say a definition of “AGI” is “correct” or “incorrect” when the only thing people can agree on, is we don’t have AGI yet?
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by turtletontine 1y ago
perceptual distance is quite different from Euclidean distance in this RGB space. Like if put two swaths of color side by side and said “how similar are these?” to samples of people, the groupings would not much resemble this cube. They’v
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by turtletontine 1y ago
We’re not supposed to take anything from it, it’s a simple legal liability thing. (And maybe actually mandated by law?) It’s like mandatory workplace trainings: they do almost nothing to prevent people from acting badly, but they let employ
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by turtletontine 1y ago
These are great examples of how LLMs are great at writing code , but pretty bad at software engineering

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