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wseqyrku
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Yeah I should've asked why they are self-hosting in the first place. I was wrong in assuming that they wanted to host it themselves (that is, avoiding an external dependency).
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> If I was working for GH would I be selfhosting forgejo? Why not. But you are saying github as a dumb backup makes sense when you do self-hosting. I don't think you really believe that.
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> This way github is a "dumb backup" Eh? What GH department do you work in anyways? Training Data Sustainability?
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I mean a groundwork you can rely on for the rest of your code.
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> AI vibe-coding is probably filling in the middle-ground [..] and it is accretive in the sense that someone can build on top of it To me 'accretive work' means something you do at a lower level than your task at hand which by
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So many of the articles I've read are like this—some of them feel as though AI gets mentioned out of the blue. I think you need to separate the wheat from the chaff. The ideas are still good, the author is just distracted.
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Large corporations behave very much like a typical dictatorship anywhere in the world. And I mean they are playing the exact same playbook as much as they can. Actually sometimes I don't know which one borrowed from the other. The latt
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I think it's the different feeling you get from using an end-to-end streaming service (compute, not videos) versus the one that does a lot of intermittent buffering. It's quite subtle actually. Using a vanilla language model can f
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> You can ask the model to produce valid JSON Doesn't always work, for better performance you can kneel and start begging
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This made my day for the third time today for every time I checked the homepage.
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3mo ago
Servers used to be rooms as well. But they are now submarines.
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> working harder to avoid a layoff in a big company doesn't really work out If this is where you're at in relation to your employer, that doesn't avoid a layoff, it accelerates the next round, whether or not you're in
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3mo ago
I have watched people interact with chatbots. It's like watching someone pulling a guinea worm out of their leg. I don't know where all that confidence come from.
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> AI fans hail it as huge shift in whatever metrics the AI vendor has gamed this time Hint: Those are not AI fans. (See the top comment for context.)
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> how many times have we all seen marketing departments or sales departments in our companies [..] Trigger warning. Could not finish that sentence.
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3mo ago
> easy for a lot of companies to do automated filtering and for candidates to do a lot of automated applications I know this is as real as "a matter of fact" but it's so stupid.
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3mo ago
What happened 50 years ago?
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3mo ago
What's your redline download size?
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3mo ago
It's the equivalent of chatbots where they are reading too much into your prompt and you have to constantly tell em "don't worry about that"
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I think I made an implicit distinction there that almost always get overlooked in these discussions, between runtime inference (when you run a transformer in your product) and offline inference (where you use AI in any ways anytime before t
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> Non-determinism is not inherently bad. I would say it is unambiguously defined by the problem you're solving. For example a spellchecker is inherently probabilistic so you shouldn't need hard coded rules here like we did for
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3mo ago
Not much about being correct or incorrect, but I recalled myself in a meeting looking at the issue on the screen suggesting "at least leave a typo so it doesn't look auto generated right off the bat". I got laid off that year
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Stunning marketing campaign. I mean, if it's banned it must be good.
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>but I don't understand how it wipes away anyway about CS Because transformers is a mathematician's take on programming. Not your CS graduate.
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If I were working in marketing and I wanted to increase utilization of the nuclear power plant next door, I would wipe 50 years of computer science and introduce "agent programming" and pretend it's the future. What are the o
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This is not vibe coding though, it's just vibing.
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> It's clear which is a normal actor and which isn't. Just in case you read this, something I learned over time is that the truth you believe as reality is just as good as the information that reaches you. If you get your news
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My general point is not directed at Trump though, the general pattern I think is just the media turning every word coming from him into a weapon and it's kind of a tradition now. I'm more concerned about how people see the adversa
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Just, wow.
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I think no matter how much you hate the administration, it's probably not a good reason to defend a terrorist group taking a nation hostage. And it's everywhere too, most if not all western news outlets and the social media in gen
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