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by xigoi 6mo ago
We all know the answer anyway.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
All programming languages I know of provide at least some guarantees about the program’s behavior.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
> Picking a pre 1.0 language to build your product always seemed like a bad choice to me. Such as React Native? :D
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by xigoi 6mo ago
The main difference is that the input to an LLM is in an ambiguous language.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
I’ve never had a problem with running a Steam game on Linux.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Exactly, that’s my point.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
If it’s asked to generate an image, it should to everything in its powers to make the image good.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Every decent human artist knows to draw a sketch before painting something.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
In this case, the problem wasn’t with Flock, but with a police officer entering the number incorrectly.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
It’s not really about determinism, but about the fact that the input to an LLM is inherently ambiguous, unlike the input to a C compiler.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
The standard objection: if the LLM is supposedly intelligent, why can’t it figure out on its own that this two-step process would achieve a better result?
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Anonymous telemetry is allowed – and I don’t have a problem with that.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
> No one _wants_ to be tracked Plenty of people seem to genuinely believe that “personalized ads” are good for them.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
> my dad and his printed out sheet of password next to his desk is still beating every company out there. Until your house gets flooded or burns down or you hire a really curious janitor.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Unfortunately, Rust made the great decision to copy most of its syntax from C++.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
The difference is big. I want my home directory to be clean, whereas .config is meant to be littered.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Good thing there are safe languages that compile to C, such as Nim.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
You forgot the part where you have to read an 800-page document that costs 250€ to access.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
How does building a data center, which benefits a single company, compare to building a school, which benefits the general public?
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Having to create an account adds friction and requires you to agree to shady “terms and conditions”.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Patches allow people to contribute without having an account on the forge.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
The job that a compiler does is just a boring mechanical process, which makes it well-suited for a computer to replace. Also, I can use a compiler for free without relying on an evil company.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
> It can put out code much faster than any software dev. Judging a programmer by how much code they write is like judging an airplane engineer by how heavy their planes are.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
> Good luck finding any objective distinction between HN, Reddit, WhatsApp, Signal, or email + listserv and "social media"! Hacker News: • doesn’t have a personalized feed • encourages intellectual discussion rather than brainr
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by xigoi 6mo ago
> But also, I don't think that "computing freedom" means you get to use other people's computers without consent. Who said anything like that? This is about being able to install software on your own device.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Somehow my computer has not become part of a botnet despite having a free OS.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
I would guess DAVx⁵.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Because in order to use Graphene, you have to financially support the same company that is making Android less free.
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by xigoi 6mo ago
Are you comparing installing apps on your phone to theft?
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by xigoi 6mo ago
What vulnerabilities do you have in mind?

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