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by vladms 5mo ago
But not all "capitalist" societies have the same percentage in "abject poverty". So that makes me think that capitalism by itself is not the only major determinant of some of the bad things that we see, but rather the la
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by vladms 5mo ago
"Capitalism is the problem" by itself is like saying "unix operating systems are a problem". There are so many flavours, so many parameters (laws, tax, etc.) that I do not see value in generalizations. I think morality i
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by vladms 5mo ago
> Given the above predicate: Isn’t everything described in the article as it should be? I think the real trick question is "as it should be for whom?". Reading the comments I think people underestimate the complex interaction b
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by vladms 5mo ago
When I compare different foundational models on the problems I solve with AI, the differences are not that large to prevent a switch if the price gets too high. I do this like each 6 months, just to assess what is the risk of getting depend
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by vladms 5mo ago
You could say so. Over the years I paied for a couple of courses that would include the classroom lecture at some known universities and did the course homework as well. Some of the companyes I worked for also sent me to ~1-week courses whe
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by vladms 5mo ago
Did an LLM teach you a topic you did not feel like learning? For me the best human teachers were the ones that managed to make me interested on topics that I thought are boring/useless (many times my opinion being stupid, mostly due to
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by vladms 5mo ago
> Instead the pressure to consume alcohol comes at a grassroots level. Lately the trend seems to be slightly decreasing, see : https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-alcohol-1890 (of course heavy dependent on
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by vladms 5mo ago
> To them it's still a cost/benefit analysis, and history has shown short term benefit trumps many other things for these companies. Doesn't that depend on the company though? Not all companies are focused in the same amou
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by vladms 5mo ago
Completely agree. My point is that they will start realising it not when vibe coding (as you say, nobody will ask them for clear specifications) but as soon as they will try to use it for more than one happy path demo. Then they will "
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by vladms 5mo ago
In my experience people that did not hand code enough imagine that the hard part is coding, and not clearly defining all the possible edge cases and use cases. So, in my view, more people will (or should) understand now what is hard when bu
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by vladms 5mo ago
True if you use only chatGPT to do something and accept the generated stuff as the final output. Probably not the case for anime pictures, but in other domains, you can use chatGPT as a first level and then go on the improve it from there.
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by vladms 5mo ago
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/927/ - and to avoid confusions: everybody has good intentions and think they know better. We definitely should try to improve and experiment with any system, including education, but I re
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by vladms 5mo ago
The problem with "learned everything ourselves" is that you might have niche interests and you miss things. Things I learned that probably I wouldn't have by done by myself: computer architecture (memory, buses, cpu-s, instru
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by vladms 5mo ago
The more I think of it I thinkt that secrets are a tool of the rich and powerfull to keep the weak and poor subjugated. I for one think that a society with lots of transparency (think at least on financial transactions and wealth) would rea
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by vladms 6mo ago
So does Bluesky app have control over what data it aggregates and can decide (without checking with a user) not to aggregate data from a host? I am trying to understand what are the implications for a user, and a bad scenario where one woul
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by vladms 7mo ago
Deeper than that, it might be food for thought if someone can't stop doom scrolling. It does not matter the platform, if people are "addicted" to "bad news" it might be the person at the corner of the street ("
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by vladms 7mo ago
For voice conversations the issue can be more latency than filling the context. Without knowing the site is hard to say, but if he had multiple pages worth of text (dunno, type of cars, procedures, some emotional story, etc.) and a "sl
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by vladms 7mo ago
There is an adapter 3.5mm jack to USB-C which works great, so from my perspective there is no option removed. I keep the adapter with my wired headphones (which I bought many years ago), and I did not encounter any issue (falling, heavy, et
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by vladms 7mo ago
The total number of people working on the project might remain similar no matter if it's one company or many smaller companies. Writing clear documentation and API, well thought from the start is harder the larger the project. Maybe th
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by vladms 7mo ago
> Unfortunately, the public tender process encourages awarding contracts to these giants that repeatedly fail to deliver on even basic opsec and still believe in security-by-obscurity So what you think would be the solution ? From what I
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by vladms 7mo ago
Irak war seemed to me reasonably "in plain sight". And there were other blunders as well. What I find amazing though is that more people passionately believe very strange reasons. 30 years ago people were like "meh, sure we d
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by vladms 7mo ago
Technology can change things but people that profit today from something will oppose a change. Case in point: switching from oil to renewables - which can lower dependency to external actors a lot as solar panels and windmills have life spa
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by vladms 7mo ago
It depends a lot on how accessible those services are. I tried to host some git repos 5 years ago and it was a hassle (needed mostly private git and reviews nothing fancy). I tried again this year and using forgejo was extremely easy. I don
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by vladms 7mo ago
> Now, in the western countries surveillance has been legalized, so the governmental agencies no longer bother to hide their activities. Hiding or not 20 years ago the west was trying to surveil it's population as much as they could
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by vladms 7mo ago
> Is judging a PR harder than making one? Depends on the assumptions. If you assume good intent of the submitter and you spend time to explain what he should improve, why something is not good, etc, than it's a lot of effort. If you
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by vladms 7mo ago
> It's negatively impacting people and servers that have no interest in having anything adult on them. So who should police that? I am in certain communities that try to be stricter on moderation (which I love!) but it's hard w
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by vladms 7mo ago
> Now your countries are little different from Russia or China or Dubai etc where the old money cabals run everything If that's what you strongly believe then "western countries" are definitely quite bad at communication a
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by vladms 7mo ago
Very reasonable stance. I see reviewing and accepting a PR is a question of trust - you trust the submitter to have done the most he can for the PR to be correct and useful. Something might be required now as some people might think that ju
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by vladms 7mo ago
Depends where you take the train to London, it is a much nicer experience anyhow than going to airports and people should consider that as well (ignoring climate stuff)! On the price, the very annoying thing is that fuel for planes is not t
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by vladms 7mo ago
That's an optimistic view. Maybe they really are 10x slower on any task without a LLM.

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