zahlman

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by zahlman 2mo ago
> I asked Claude make me an interactive visualization for how I perceive these relationships of coding, comprehension, and burnout: ... And what exactly is the underlying mathematical model supposed to be based on?
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by zahlman 2mo ago
It is my comment. The point of my comment is to make two observations: one that there is indeed still a vocal anti-AI crowd here, and another about their usual conduct. It did not in any way assert that they don't have a point, just th
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by zahlman 2mo ago
How does the saying go, again? "You may not be in the ad business, but the ad business is in you"? Something like that? That sounds wrong, but sometimes it seems like the double entendre may as well be the reality.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> Perhaps your awareness is lacking if you think that is the main thing to be aware of in this world. I don't think that's what GP was saying at all.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> But you are proving my point: what do I do now with this information? I would use it to question the premise > we should divest from companies and organisations complicit in genocide which in reality I decided was obviously wrong th
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Okay, and what happens at the register?
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> Over time the concept of search has mutated from 'locate the exact item I'm looking for' to 'show me a list of semantic search results'. Somehow nobody noticed. It's been noticed, just not put into words v
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by zahlman 2mo ago
The solution doesn't have to be perfect.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
... Why would you be running Chrome and Firefox simultaneously?
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by zahlman 2mo ago
This seems like a big problem for AI as long as Nvidia is so deeply financially involved the way they are.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> It's got to be an edge case for Wayland to be used with a 2GB VRAM card? I had thought that one of the biggest "selling" points of Linux is the ability to extend the useful lifetime of older hardware. And if the distros
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by zahlman 2mo ago
If you can't trust the intended recipient, a secure communication channel is pointless.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> Olo was discovered on April 18, 2025 by scientists at UC Berkeley.[1][3] The color is named after its theoretical LMS color space coordinates (0, 1, 0), which spells "olo" in leet speak.[4][3] I presume "loo" and &q
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Just out of curiousity, do people here have non-business-related need for GHA? I've never really seen the use of it for anything I wanted to make on my own time; it's more than easy enough to run tests locally, even on my 12-year-
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by zahlman 2mo ago
That page shows today (and every day since the 14th) all green, though.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
I don't even see a whole lot of emotional worked-up-ness, though. Just continuing disappointment.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
I thought "the diff viewer doesn't show files this large" was supposed to be that limit?
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> This is the same technology that prevents you from accidentally screenshotting your password manager Yes, and I would say it's a bad thing that the OS tries to prevent this. > seeing “follow” on every screenshotted post is just
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by zahlman 2mo ago
Turn on showdead and look at the killed comments on this thread. (Every thread remotely related to LLMs seems to attract this behaviour.) If it's so easy to get it right, how is there such a high fraction of failures?
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by zahlman 2mo ago
By this standard, the Turing test was also passed by ELIZA, but nobody serious actually gave it that credit. Aside from which, the understanding of that concept in popular media (both the nature of the test itself, and its supposed signific
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by zahlman 2mo ago
At the bottom of this very submission are a bunch of dead comments that are very obviously LLM-generated.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> Not if an LLM over chat can fool most people they're talking to a human (which it can) I keep hearing this claim, and yet I keep seeing LLM output which is trivially distinguished from human writing. I really can't understand
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> Where is the problem with using LLM generated text? In the fact that you didn't write it. > You could use your own hypothetical house elf to do it for you, or pay someone to do it. Yes, and those would be similarly problematic
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> People get angry about DRM schemes in video games, even if the slowdown these cause is practically imperceptible. Any potential "slowdown" doesn't even come close to making the list of top reasons people get upset about
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> The very fact that there is generally no "best next token" with 100% certainty Indeed. It's frankly bizarre to see the assumption to the contrary being made by someone who's been passionately blogging by hand for ye
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by zahlman 2mo ago
> One could also use butterflies to write ;) https://xkcd.com/378/ This comparison is frankly absurd.
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by zahlman 2mo ago
It took me a while to realize that this is not from "lowtechmagazine".
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by zahlman 2mo ago
There isn't any actual problem. People who want to use the character can still do so. If you're referring to > was not added to JIS or Unicode until much later then TFA is simply inaccurate; 𡚴 has been in Unicode since 2001. Mo
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by zahlman 2mo ago
...What has that got to do with anything I said?
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by zahlman 2mo ago
I've just been developing the skill of mentally skipping past that, on the assumption that having it in the context window will be net positive for the results of the next step. I could be wrong about that, though.

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