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by woah 2mo ago
I heard they invented the GIF
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by woah 2mo ago
It's sad. For all the lamenting that the US is losing industrial capacity (or lost it long ago), we can't even handle some of the lightest industry possible. A big building that hums and releases slightly warm water, and the only
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by woah 2mo ago
Might actually try this
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by woah 2mo ago
Why is this "for the AI era"? Isn't it kind of not for the AI era since an LLM can create a gnarly python or js chart of whatever you want in seconds?
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by woah 2mo ago
hosting and distributing binaries to one person, who is also the person who created the app is free
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by woah 2mo ago
Not everything is a conspiracy
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by woah 2mo ago
They inflamed an online programming language fandom. It's kinda like if they dissed BTS
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by woah 3mo ago
Just gotta make it a few more months now to the IPO
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by woah 3mo ago
Man rebels against capitalist system by living off of proceeds of ownership shares of capitalist system
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by woah 3mo ago
This is a news article about a dumb publicity stunt where a crank put his "AI" on a patent application, and the court said "you have to put your own name on it". It has no bearing whatsoever on debates about whether AI i
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by woah 4mo ago
> Why would a carpentry shop buy hundreds of thousands of dollars of power tools without consulting with their employees to see what they actually need to get their job done more effectively? Are you suggesting that changes to new produc
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by woah 4mo ago
Previous piece from this genre: https://short-edition.com/en/classic/story/mark-twain/a-tele...
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by woah 4mo ago
Is that why it's so hard to get capital, credit, loans, and investment in the USA?
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by woah 4mo ago
This is a core difference between common law and civil law. In common law systems, things tend to get sorted out after the fact, with a judge's discretion, only if things go really wrong. In civil law systems they try to design a perfe
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by woah 4mo ago
I did some software consulting years ago. Were we overpriced? Probably. But I also saw why we were brought in: - A TDD loop where the Indian QA team played the role of the tests. The engineers would yeet some broken code at the end of the d
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by woah 4mo ago
This is less insightful than what people might want to read into it. The democratic party has adopted an anti-ai stance as a position in the partisan football game. NPR tote bag carriers read with great concern about AI's terrible wate
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by woah 4mo ago
Wait... are you saying that talking about an ex-colleague with anyone (without filing a bunch of paperwork or something) is a "giant loophole in the Fair Credit Reporting Act"?
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by woah 4mo ago
I've simplified it and made it more flexible 3._ 1 _415926535897932384626433832795_ 0 _288419716939
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by woah 4mo ago
In terms of aeronautics, went from the Wright brothers to the moon in 40 years. After that, everyone understandably thought that we'd be living in space and flying everywhere with personal jet packs in another couple years. Little did
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by woah 4mo ago
Lol I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not
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by woah 4mo ago
At the same time, the only things that get built and sold are the things that someone is capable of building and selling
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by woah 4mo ago
I believe that the issue was that the EU wanted Apple to open up their new AI agent interface (the ability to control every app on your phone so Siri can call you an Uber or whatever), and Apple thought that it was too risky of a capability
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by woah 4mo ago
> There are 2 potential outcomes: either the sky really does fall, and there's a meaningful uptick in bad things happening to iPhone users, in which Apple can easily point the finger at the EC and say "they made us do this&quot
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by woah 4mo ago
> I won’t deny they are useful tools, but the hyperbole from the tech CEOs about them replacing all white collar workers in 12-18 months set the expectation so high that I’m still in the “fancy auto-complete” camp. Why would someone else
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by woah 5mo ago
These guys may actually just be angling to sell off the training data. diverse training data is more valuable
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by woah 5mo ago
does it even work?
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by woah 5mo ago
From my back of the envelope analysis for my own projects, paying per token on OpenRouter is competitive if not cheaper than running the same open weight model on a rented GPU. Per-token pricing is in the same ballpark (although more expens
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by woah 5mo ago
"If all you are is a proxy to an AI, exactly what value are you adding to the organization?" Prompt Engineering
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by woah 5mo ago
Thanks for your response-- it's really load-bearing.
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by woah 5mo ago
you can do this easily with the api or with codex

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