xigency

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by xigency 1y ago
Well, I guess democracy has spoken. And so has the market as the do-nothing people continue to get paychecks and I collect unemployment.
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by xigency 1y ago
Not only that, but the people working in this space still aren't reading the room, which is not encouraging.
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by xigency 1y ago
Well, that's a bit different. Laziness is a virtue in our field in ways that it is not in other fields. Math is a good example. Mathematicians are even more lazy than programmers. That's how they end up with shorter proofs than ou
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by xigency 1y ago
With all the unemployed tech workers, would it just make sense to hire someone who knows their salt to do recruiting and interviews? Recruiters always seem to have a blast moving between random high-level companies and ghosting people over
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by xigency 1y ago
This only applies to people who understand how computers and computer programs work, because someone who doesn't externalize their thinking process would never ascribe human elements of consciousness to inanimate materials. Certainly m
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by xigency 1y ago
I might be filing for bankruptcy soon so I'm definitely stuck with what I've got.
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by xigency 1y ago
My HOA should let me build a mudhut and a lot should cost $100. I sound sarcastic but I mean this unironically. This is a model that works in the developing world and what we had before private capital captured the real-estate market.
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by xigency 2y ago
Not a hoarder per-se but I bought a 24GB card on the secondary market. My privacy is valuable. I'm okay being a half-step or full-step behind in LLM or image diffusion if it means my data never leaves my machine.
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by xigency 2y ago
A smart society would give status to people who take jobs that are needed but undesirable. We do not live in a smart society.
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by xigency 2y ago
A meteor could select for the whole Earth to be gone, but I don't think I'm going to start praising disaster.
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by xigency 2y ago
> "Replacement" is only a problem for people who are dependent on someone else being dependent on them. Not so. Replacement is a huge problem for people who have people who depend on them to furnish the cost of living. Also it
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by xigency 2y ago
No wonder they beat my school, they have a whole class on the Putnam exam. Well, I'm still proud I got one question right once.
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by xigency 2y ago
It's just more hazing so the underclass of engineers don't realize they actually build everything big tech is selling and more.
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by xigency 2y ago
Amazing. As in, amazingly and horrifically awful behavior.
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by xigency 2y ago
Like a challenge to write better code that is still bad enough to throw away as soon as possible, I think there's something to scripting that feels enticingly ephemeral.
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by xigency 2y ago
It's not ironic that technologists use very barebones and minimal websites with minimal automation. It's telling. I already ditched my smartphone last month because it was 100% spam, scammers, and bots giving me notifications. App
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by xigency 2y ago
Ahh yes. Because that other AI model is 100% perfect. Gee whiz. Man the people working on these machines, selling them, and using them lack the very foundational knowledge of information theory. Let alone understanding the humanities and po
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by xigency 2y ago
I can't wait to see the future of randomly blundered tech as we continue to sideline educated, curious, and discerning human engineers from any salaried opportunity to apply their skills. I've been working as a computer programmer
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by xigency 2y ago
Arguably, Google divesting Chrome would be great for the web. This piece seems to be looking at Google at large (and I think all of Alphabet would be better scope there). Certainly this would be unpopular here but I would be all for aggress
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by xigency 2y ago
With thinking like that it's not a far bridge to, "not leaking all your private keys will soon be an unacceptable risk."
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by xigency 2y ago
I've been slacking but yeah it's on my list.
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by xigency 2y ago
The comparison with the original minesweeper is a little bit unfavorable. That's a game that you can win more consistently with skill rather than luck until you crank up the number of mines to an excessive level. This game is punishing
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by xigency 2y ago
This reads like an AI hallucination. I'm willing to steak-out this ground even if I'm wrong because of the glaring lack of skepticism. I don't even know when dollars became a concrete compute measure. We used to use FLOPs bef
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by xigency 2y ago
This is a great and well-constructed game but the difficulty scaling is almost comically bad, like, incredibly frustrating. I would recommend adding a tutorial level and some easier difficulty settings. Then the game would at least have the
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by xigency 2y ago
Please scan your can of participating Mountain Dew or Starbucks to unlock the next 150 key presses on your keyboard. (Yes Thank You) (Remind Me Later)
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by xigency 2y ago
Ollama definitely is a strange beast. The sparseness of the documentation seems to imply that things will 'just work' and yet, they often don't.
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by xigency 2y ago
This begs the question, is this wave of LLM AI anything more than a fancy mirror? They're certainly very good at agreeing with people and following along, but, as many have noted, not really useful for anything acting on their own.
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by xigency 2y ago
The thing that shocked me about doing Swift app development was despite all of the syntactic requirements for types and null-checking, the program would crash with runtime errors as if I were still using C.
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by xigency 2y ago
I won't deny that religion has been beneficial to my life in certain respects, but at the same time, I would be burying my talents if I gave up my rational skeptical side. I'll add it to my reading list for when I need an alternat
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by xigency 2y ago
The clips of him rolling his eyes and head around in boredom at the inauguration definitely looked like he was suffering from some kind of withdrawal symptoms.

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