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by zmgsabst 2y ago
So? I too can write made up criticism if that’s what my boss wants in the workplace — but that doesn’t suddenly invalidate my ability to criticize my own work to improve it.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Why wouldn’t you use LLMs to write even more open source? The cost of contributions falls dramatically, eg, $100 is 200M tokens of GPT-3.5; so you’re talking enough to spend 10,000 tokens developing each line of a 20kloc project (amortized)
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
You can usually even ask the same LLM: - do a task - criticize your job on that task - redo that task based on criticism I find giving the LLM a process greatly improves the results.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
There’s scanners at 100+ pages per minute and you can fit a (half) dozen maxed out QRs per page. I’m okay with it taking a minute or two to install software on a high security system, eg, the root cryptography for our military radios. …mayb
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I haven’t seen a company outsource a core competency and succeed, eg Boeing outsourcing airplane manufacturing.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Why not use “degradation of software services” when you want to be staid — and let everyone else use the term they want? Inventing jargon with the intention of being boring is just hiding the issue with euphemisms.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Okay — what makes it more complicated?
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I don’t think monopolies are in-and-of-themselves entirely legal. Eg, if you have a monopoly on ads, you’re likely committing an offense. But the enforcement of that has varied substantially over time: strongest at the end of the Gilded Age
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
And now inserting every middleware is an exercise in retyping the system, rather than piggybacking on the parameter dict.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
You also make a nightmare of dynamically adding middleware — which can piggyback on a generic dict and have no meaningful way to insert themselves into your type maze.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
People enjoy the flexibility and many Python systems rely on duck-typing via dicts, etc. So people are trying to force Python to be something it isn’t in adherence to their ideology — but it fails to gain consensus because there’s a sizable
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Right — but the question isn’t CD/DVD versus nothing. It’s CD/DVD versus USB; and which has a smaller attack surface. I’d argue that read-only CD/DVD has a smaller attack surface than USB, so of the two, it’s preferable. I’
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
You disagree — perhaps I’m wrong. But that you responded with rhetoric rather than pointing out where I’m wrong suggests you don’t have an answer to what would change the outcome. Not even his allies believe in the “Victory Plan” — and seve
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Cauchy’s main work was under 200 years ago; and there’s been quite a lot of work since. Again, I’m unsure that calculus existed at sufficient level 200 years ago — it didn’t appear in modern form from either Leibniz or Newton.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
This is embarrassing. But denigrating an old institution for fashion is trendy these days — just look at their Olympics behavior.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I don’t think anybody serious questions the outcome of the Ukraine war — as evidenced by the international realignment caused by NATOs defeat, increases talk about Ukraine relinquishing ground, etc. What event do you believe could change th
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
What are you talking about? Kursk was stopped after small gains and prior to any major captures — with Ukraine losing their best units. That loss has led to cities along the line of battle being captured, including the fortress city of Vuhl
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I don’t think calculus existed at sufficient rigor 200 years ago. Computer science wasn’t even a thing 100 years ago.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
The US is already investigating that, eg, with targeting drones backed by larger craft carrying large numbers of missiles.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> Additionally, precision weapons typically have a much smaller logistical footprint, and logistics can make or break military campaigns. Only if you exclude manufacturing. > This "precision versus quantity" argument played
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
This is common in mountains in WA too. To replace the AM in cars isn’t just the cars - it’s all the signage and transmitters, for regional information.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I’d argue the people born 1970-1990 are stronger at that than those born 1990-2000. I think you have the age range of people who wrote their own MySpace pages versus those in pre-structured gardens like Facebook slightly wrong.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I would comment to drop the preposition: “…only contend two things” I think the trouble in the phrase is that “contend” has an active sense to it whereas “on” creates a more passive tone. Your solution is to swap to a more passive phrasing,
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
You’re injecting that “ie” — Wikipedia doesn’t say it as such. They’re describing collating and you’re describing evaluating.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Or they have a way to measure your removal, eg, they don’t count leaves but branches without leaves (in the hypothetical tree example).
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
What animals have theory of mind?
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Do animals not have needs?
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
How many humans can sit down and linearly write a coherent, interesting story? — zero backtracking or revisions! I’d bet very few if any. By contrast, when you let the AI do its job in multiple steps and plan ahead, it seems to do much bett
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
But my subscription at $20/mo is a fraction of my API usage at $5/day (about $100/mo). You can sell a lot more GPT services through a higher bandwidth channel — and OpenAI doesn’t give me a way to reach the same bandwidth thr
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Okay, but why does what you want matter? I find a lot of teams are so focused on their vision that they fail to integrate their tool into my workflow. So I don’t use them at all. That’s fine for art, but I don’t need opinionated tools.

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