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by xienze 1y ago
I would imagine it's because it makes for a lot more fun support possibilities when all the underlying stuff in the stack (kernel, ZFS, Docker, Python, etc. etc.) is subject to the whims of the end user. When you ship the entire OS you
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by xienze 1y ago
They’re non-deterministic, remember? So it’s not always the case that an LLM will get stuck in this sort of loop. Hence why people get frustrated when it happens and continue to think that perhaps it should be working on a more consistent b
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by xienze 1y ago
> The money train assures that AGI/FSD will always be 6-18 months away I vividly remember when some folks from Microsoft come to my school to give a talk at some Computer Science event and proclaimed that yep, we have working AGI, t
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by xienze 1y ago
> I see so many people get stuck "arguing" with a model over this, getting more and more frustrated as the model keeps repeating variations of the broken answer Maybe because people expect AI systems that are touted as all-know
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by xienze 1y ago
> We are in a trajectory for mass extinction Birth rates are below replacement nearly everywhere. That’s going to cause extinction far sooner than climate change will.
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by xienze 1y ago
> A gallon of water used to cool a data center is creating thousands of times more value than if that gallon were used to water a cotton plant. This completely neglects that the cotton is sold for a profit and Anthropic is doing the equi
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by xienze 1y ago
Ignoring the usual baiting about how those brown people are illegal aliens and that’s the underlying reason they’re being rounded up — European countries are always held up as the standard the US should strive towards. So yes, it’s fair gam
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by xienze 1y ago
> Arrests are up, but sentences are down — i.e. fewer convictions/criminal records Well that’s certainly a relief! People are only being _arrested_ for """offensive""" speech, not convicted!
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by xienze 1y ago
> Southern states generally have no set minimum wage, so they mostly default to the $7.25/hr set in 2009. You may be shocked to learn this, but just because they follow the minimum wage doesn’t mean companies are _actually_ paying m
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by xienze 1y ago
Doesn’t changing even one word in your prompt affect the output?
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by xienze 1y ago
I get your analogy, but LLMs are inherently non deterministic. That’s the last thing you want your compiler to be.
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by xienze 1y ago
> and often the body's response to calorie restriction is to reduce the amount of energy used. Presumably the point at which it's VERY difficult to expend more calories than you're consuming is something of an equilibrium
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by xienze 1y ago
Well that's where the "discipline" part comes in.
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by xienze 1y ago
> don't try to tell me I failed because of a lack of effort, understanding, exercise, "discipline", etc. Not to be _too_ rude here, but clearly you missed the mark on at least one of those things. If you're burning mo
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by xienze 1y ago
Let me guess... Flappy Bird or Pong. Whoa, it one-shotted it, amazing!
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by xienze 1y ago
> This is what a good IDE brings to the table, it'll show that $result is of type string. I think the parent is referring to what the result _means_, rather than its type. Functional programming can, at times, obfuscate meaning a bi
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by xienze 1y ago
A federal-level minimum wage doesn't make sense, precisely because what is considered minimum wage in LA isn't the same as what's considered minimum wage in rural Louisiana, and vice-versa. The fact that 98.9% of workers mana
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by xienze 1y ago
> No, you exaggerate. It’s a large number of people. It's 1.1%, an incredibly small portion of the entire working population. There's never any follow up like "where in the country does this occur?" which may reveal t
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by xienze 1y ago
Doesn't the fact that 98.9% of all workers earn more than the minimum wage kinda highlight that it's really not necessary for the federal government to increase it? Clearly it's nearly impossible except in limited circumstanc
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by xienze 1y ago
But is anyone _actually_ getting paid the minimum wage these days? Might want to check what the grocery store you worked at in 2010 is really paying these days. I’d bet good money it’s significantly more than $7.25/hour.
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by xienze 1y ago
I think you’re missing the point. Modern societies with things like welfare, free healthcare, the concept of “retirement”, etc. require a growing population in order to function. But if the natives aren’t reproducing, either the natives hav
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by xienze 1y ago
They email you said documents or a link to an employee services website.
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by xienze 1y ago
Does anyone remember how much mocking Mike Pence received over his personal rule to never be alone with a woman other than his wife? Very wise, as it turns out.
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by xienze 1y ago
> A lot of sexual misconduct happens behind closed doors and is (I would imagine. IANAL) difficult to prosecute. Well that’s why so many cases are civil and not criminal. The bar is much lower (“preponderance of evidence” versus “guilt b
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by xienze 1y ago
> It's also not really the point, the point is more that the claim in the paper that humans would be unaffected is unsubstantiated and highly suspect. I think the question that adds a random cat factoid at the end is going to trip u
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by xienze 1y ago
> What am I missing about their calculation for this saving money? It’s a psychological thing I think. People will balk at paying $400 upfront to cover their Macbook for three years but $20 per month? No problem!
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by xienze 1y ago
> Exactly. The inability of people to extrapolate towards the future and foresee second-order effects is astounding. On a related note, many people also assume that just because something has been trending exponential that it will _conti
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by xienze 1y ago
Spring’s corporate steward is VMWare, and Broadcom bought VMWare, ergo Spring is subject to Broadcom’s whims.
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by xienze 1y ago
Probably a bit of overreaction given that Broadcom is now in charge of Spring. At the end of the day it’s a wildly popular open source project — it has a path forward if Broadcom pulls shenanigans. That said, I have noticed that the free su
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by xienze 1y ago
> LLMs are not being trained for personal use, they're being trained to be sold to the masses. Come again? Deepseek and numerous other smaller models can be run locally, for free. I think what’s really behind this attitude is that “

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