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by vohk 1y ago
I think I agree with the general thrust but I have to say I've yet to be impressed with LLMs for web search. I think part of that comes from most people using Google as the benchmark, which has been hot garbage for years now. It's
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by vohk 1y ago
That's a two year old release now. I think Notion may have a fair point on this one.
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by vohk 2y ago
I think you're anthropomorphizing there. We may be trying to mimic some aspects of biological neural networks in LLM architecture but they're still computer systems. I don't think there is a basis to assume those systems shou
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by vohk 2y ago
> There, the phone addiction crisis solved. I think you're putting too much emphasis on The Algorithm. It's a problem, and I agree it's probably the worst offender, but similar problems were observed decades ago with child
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by vohk 2y ago
The justification is Trump wants to do to Canada much what Putin is doing to Ukraine. Russia being allowed to take Ukraine legitimizes world powers engaging in conquest within their sphere. It's really that simple. The talk about fenta
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by vohk 2y ago
> That's 5,273 people like me getting $15,000,000. That's also each American citizen getting... $23.27 each year for 10 years. People are just awful at conceptualizing large numbers. Assuming that number is accurate, $7.9 billi
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by vohk 2y ago
Not having headlines like "Claude Gives Stalker Instructions" has a significant value to their business I would wager. I'm very much in favour of removing the guardrails but I understand why they're in place. The problem
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by vohk 2y ago
Insurance premiums suggest there is a big difference between 5 and 50 years of a safe driving record, not of driving experience. The implication isn't that drivers get steadily better as they age but that the longer your history of saf
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by vohk 2y ago
They're referring to the subscription plans that give you unlimited access to their catalogue (or at least most of it), like Spotify versus buying an album. Both Kobo and Kindle offer individual purchases as well.
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by vohk 2y ago
What's really unfortunate is how archaic licensing models makes this nearly impossible to even attempt to address. Historically radio worked because their was actually money in the advertising, but also because radio was inherently reg
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by vohk 2y ago
> Models from American companies at least aren’t surprising us with government driven misinformation Is corporate misinformation so much better? Recall about Tienanmen Square might be more honest but if LLMs had been available over the p
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by vohk 2y ago
From a purely technological standpoint, a boring database does everything an NFT could for transferable digital assets. This is the classic "solution looking for a problem" you see so often with NFTs and blockchain generally. The
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by vohk 2y ago
Bluesky is a lot more like old, early algorithm twitter. Reddit is a cluster of independently operated communities that occasionally get signal blasted onto the main feed. The top moderator of a subreddit owns it and sets any standard they
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by vohk 2y ago
Which part of this having actually been done in Canada and other regions, and what you're claiming not happening is unclear to you? American Exceptionalism at work...
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by vohk 2y ago
You are wrong, empirically. We tossed that bollocks out in Canada seven years ago. Miraculously, carriers simply started offering "tabs" or other language where you pay the subsidized phone cost as an addition to your plan bill fo
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by vohk 2y ago
Any recommendations for an entry point into Elixir? I've been teaching myself Rust through resources like Rustlings and 100-exercises-to-learn-rust, and I've found that approach to be pleasantly accessible. I've yet to find s
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by vohk 2y ago
I don't have a problem with the subscriptions. I've tried out a number of options over the years, including KeePass, LastPass, 1Password, and most recently Bitwarden. KeePass was a great bit of software but managing the vault sync
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by vohk 2y ago
I think that might be survivorship bias talking. We tend to forget all the shovelware and only remember the gems. I remember playing a ton of awful shareware games as a kid, on floppies and disks packed with a few dozen each. Same thing lat
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by vohk 2y ago
The title appears to be inaccurate. The tool suggests the "repair" of resetting the default search engine in Edge back to Bing. Still slimy but it does not appear to have any thoughts about using other browsers. Yet.
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by vohk 3y ago
I really dislike the trend of making everything a subscription service. I can imagine a niche market that wants to continuously delete content older than an arbitrary window but isn't this the sort of service that most users would need
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by vohk 3y ago
Dracula is a bit neon for my taste but I really do appreciate how the creator took the time to make a theme for damn near everything. The consistency makes for a great selling point.
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by vohk 3y ago
I think that's the largest factor. You started with Hotmail, Gmail, or iCloud depending on when you made your first account, or what phone you chose, and then... why change? The UX is typically better, and that was especially true back
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by vohk 3y ago
While I somewhat agree with that take on copyright, I think you have to pick a lane to keep that position coherent: Either you insist that copyright must be respected at every level, and the creators of material used for training deserve ap
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by vohk 3y ago
Kagi Ultimate now includes Assistant (still nominally a beta feature) with access to GPT-4, Claude 2, and Bison at the moment. I flipped a coin and decided to try upgrading my Kagi subscription instead of going with ChatGPT Plus. I've
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by vohk 3y ago
Not the same user, but I've found the most relief from pink noise like rain or a waterfall played through decent speakers. I find it to be easier on the ears and less distracting than white noise. I'd recommend anyone suffering pl
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by vohk 8y ago
What cost isn't eventually pushed to the consumer? You pay more upfront, you pay more for disposal, you pay more in tax so the government can handle it, or you pay with a degrading environment in which to live. Forcing producers to acc
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by vohk 8y ago
Interesting. That fills a niche that's been empty for me since I left Facebook, and I love that it's open source and can be self hosted. The pricing for the hosted version seems a little steep though, especially for something base
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by vohk 10y ago
It's getting bit dated but as of 2011, about 65% of metro Vancouver commutes by personal vehicle[1]. [1] https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-012-x/2011...