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by wavemode 8mo ago
Details?
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by wavemode 8mo ago
> It's not a business. Selling art is a business. Making art isn't a business. Many artists would rather blow up their careers than make work solely for business reasons. Again, you're arguing a distinction which the aut
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by wavemode 8mo ago
It doesn't sound like you're refuting the central claim. Artists still have to be concerned about marketing, sales (i.e. I made great art, but now need to find someone to buy it if I want to eat), revenue, profit (i.e. I made mone
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by wavemode 8mo ago
Probably here: https://store.fnnch.com/ In the blog post he also mentioned doing commissions. As for the public art, I don't think he was directly paid for the initial honey bear, I think it was just marketing - that i
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by wavemode 8mo ago
If there were some mundane reason for the shutdown (e.g. ATC staffing, or volcanic ash) it wouldn't be a secret, and if there were an emergency (one severe enough to ground all aircraft for so song) we would've heard or seen somet
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by wavemode 8mo ago
One of the big things people don't appreciate enough is the importance of thick, layered, solid winter gear. When reading reviews online "these gloves are so warm!" you really need to interrogate whether the reviewer is from
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by wavemode 8mo ago
False dichotomy. One can believe that LLMs are capable of more than their constituent parts without necessarily believing that their real-world utility is growing at a hyperbolic rate.
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by wavemode 8mo ago
You're putting a bunch of words in the parent commenter's mouth, and arguing against a strawman. In this context, "here’s how LLMs actually work" is what allows someone to have an informed opinion on whether a singularit
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by wavemode 8mo ago
I agree with you wholeheartedly. It seems like a lot of the work on making AI autocomplete better (better indexing, context management, codebase awareness, etc) has stagnated in favor of full-on agentic development, which simply isn't
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by wavemode 8mo ago
> If you have a web application with more than one server, you have a distributed system. Even if you have a web application with only one server, and an embedded database, and no other components, you still have a distributed system. Th
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by wavemode 8mo ago
If you're in the US, look into relevant court cases[0][1][2]. The courts tend to hold that algorithms are not patentable - what is patentable would be an invented machine which uses a software algorithm as one of its components. But ev
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by wavemode 8mo ago
What are you delivering? A physical product into someone's hands? If so, a patent can make some sense. If not, don't bother - patents for software are rarely worth the paper they're printed on.
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by wavemode 8mo ago
Slop existed before AI came along. It's often lamented that the World Wide Web used to be controlled by indie makers, but now belongs to a handful of megacorp websites and ad networks pushing addictive content. But, the indie maker era
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by wavemode 8mo ago
Most companies, and most jobs, aren't in big tech / silicon valley.
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by wavemode 8mo ago
> The testing that would be required to support toggles would be for 2^n I don't think that's really true, unless the behavior of each toggle is tightly coupled to the behavior each other toggle. Case in point - most mature app
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by wavemode 8mo ago
Well see, that's why I keep my "password" memory stored snugly next to "breathing" and other such. If I'm walking around conscious, then I must still know my password.
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by wavemode 8mo ago
No, you're overestimating how complex it is to write an unoptimized C compiler. C is (in the grand scheme of things) a very simple language to implement a compiler for. The rate probably goes up if you ask for more and more standards (
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by wavemode 8mo ago
Well, the person who vibe-coded the banking app also vibe-coded a bunch of test cases, so this will only affect a small percentage of customers. When it does and they lose a bunch of money, well, you have a PR team and they don't, so j
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by wavemode 8mo ago
Okay, and Windows is by far the most popular desktop operating system. Discussions are pointless when the parties are talking past each other.
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by wavemode 8mo ago
Art still requires technique, and technique takes practice. Words like "prodigy" and "virtuoso" are typically reserved for techniques which take a large amount of practice to get right, like playing a violin. (You would
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by wavemode 8mo ago
I think "quite", "well", and "now" are the objectionable parts of the quote.
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by wavemode 8mo ago
The steelman argument is that super-intelligent AGI could allow any random person to build destructive technology, so companies on the path toward creating that ought to be very careful about alignment, safety and, indeed, access to weights
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by wavemode 8mo ago
Setting aside whether paying for store exclusives is right or wrong (personally I don't see anything wrong with it), what does that have to do with the Apple discussion? The problem with Apple is specifically that they use their domina
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by wavemode 8mo ago
yeah, I thought they were going to provide some sort of rationale as to why they've never implemented this. instead this post just basically goes "yeah, you guys have been asking for this feature for 10 years, and... it's a g
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by wavemode 8mo ago
One thing I dislike about the syntax of Tomo is that the return type is annotated inside the parentheses. e.g. this function returns Text: func greeting(name:Text, add_exclamation:Bool -> Text)
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by wavemode 8mo ago
Maybe it's a typo for 512. I'm not even sure how you would achieve 564 in this context.
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by wavemode 8mo ago
Most people want a lot more out of life than basic necessities.
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by wavemode 8mo ago
For every 1 LLM applicant that this idea would deter, you would also deter 50 humans who simply don't feel like having to send a letter to apply to a job.
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by wavemode 8mo ago
It would be very useful if AI could do it (though I kind of doubt something high-performance can be created this way). It's economically unfeasible for humans to develop a browser engine from scratch anymore. Microsoft and Opera gave u
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by wavemode 8mo ago
Any SRE who does that is really filling a QA role. It's not part of the SRE job title, which is more about deployments/monitoring/availability/performance, than about specific functional requirements. In a well-run org,

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