DJHenk

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by DJHenk 1y ago
My guess: no-one needs it. Originally, iframe were the solution, like the posts mentions. By the time iframes became unfashionable, nobody was writing HTML with their bare hands anymore. Since then, people use a myriad of other tools and, a
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by DJHenk 1y ago
> More and more I start to realize that cost saving is a small problem for local LLMs. If it is too slow, it becomes unusable, so much that you might as well use public LLM endpoints. Unless you really care about getting things done loca
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by DJHenk 1y ago
Still, it burns money like nothing has in history.
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by DJHenk 1y ago
'Wildly optimistic' is a very fitting categorization for Altman/OpenAI.
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Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam(ewintr.nl)
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by DJHenk 2y ago
That is not relevant to the argument. Censoring limits possibilities. While that sometimes has its uses, the overly puritanical approach American companies generally take degrades the value of their products.
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by DJHenk 2y ago
The argument is that it simply improves the product. For instance, Github Copilot is apparently refusing to do anything with variable names like "trans" and anything related to sex or gender, regardless of the intended meaning. Th
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by DJHenk 2y ago
The regular forges have just as many obstacles. You have to register an account, figure out whether the button you need is 'Pull Request' or 'Merge Request', and what the exact flow is. The only reason things appeared si
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by DJHenk 2y ago
I think bundling links is better than just throwing one out whenever you find it. If you get one link at a random time, you probably skip it. Unless you are a dopamine addict, in which case I just broke your concentration and fueled a bad h
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by DJHenk 2y ago
> I do find it interesting that so many people have such great problems with their searches Even ignoring the quality of the results, the idea that people refuse to pay 10 dollars for something as essential to life as a search engine con
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by DJHenk 2y ago
Because you cannot freely say no to that. They have authority over you. Even if they promise it won't affect their opinion of you, you never know if that is actually true. So you are forced to play along.
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by DJHenk 2y ago
Ads are a cancer. They take valuable resources from legitimate functionality just to multiply and multiply, until the host is starved to death.
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by DJHenk 2y ago
Monero is nine years old, Bitcoin is fifteen years old. I looked up the history of the credit card on Wikipedia to see how fast that caught on. It seems it had a slow start as well. Things only changed when a big bank put all of its weight
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by DJHenk 3y ago
For extra fun, add a rewrite rule to change every result from reddit.com to old.reddit.com: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html
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by DJHenk 3y ago
> I thought that the dutch would be more ... modern? As a Dutchman: no, we are not when it comes to businesses software. Dutch companies are very conservative and always choose the safe option. They are modern in that they updated the sl
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by DJHenk 3y ago
> Ironic. Not at all. When you're the underdog, it makes perfect sense to be open because you can profit from the work of the community and gain market share. Only after establishing some kind of dominance or monopoly it makes sense
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by DJHenk 3y ago
> Is it really the same input? An argument could easily be made that as you’ve gotten accustomed to ChatGPT, you ask harder questions, use less descriptive of language, etc. I don't have logs detailed enough to be able to look it up
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by DJHenk 3y ago
> I'm almost certain this is because you're getting use to chat bots. How would they honestly be getting worse? People say that, but I don't get this line of reasoning. There was something new, I learned to work with it. A
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by DJHenk 3y ago
> I think this should be of particular importance to the US which has fudamental rights protecting freedom of expression. It is important for everyone in the world and most nations have already wrestled with this problem. The US is not s
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by DJHenk 3y ago
> Why is discord any different than other platforms like office365 or AWS? Do you feel the same about companies using those platforms as well? The difference is that Microsoft and AWS don't take on an active role in moderating what
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by DJHenk 3y ago
I tried something like this with the LinkedIn timeline, where they suggest a popular post from a stranger "Because you are interested in topic X". You can indicate that you are, in fact, not interested in topic X and tailor your t
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by DJHenk 3y ago
> What is this article about? It is not an article, it is an essay. Wikipedia defines an "informal essay" as: characterized by "the personal element (self-revelation, individual tastes and experiences, confidential manner)
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by DJHenk 3y ago
> Most of peoples' problem is watching the AI type, it's not instant, but then not all (or even most) applications need to be instant. You can also avoid that by having it return everything at once instead of streaming style. F
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by DJHenk 3y ago
> You’ll cave eventually, they know this. I caved in years ago and registered. Only to find out that the site was still horribly broken and it was impossible to get any information out of it. Truly a 'Fuck You' pattern.
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by DJHenk 3y ago
> This is insane. So that rain doesn’t destroy it? So that spilling a drink doesn’t destroy it? So that dropping it in the toilet doesn’t destroy it? If rain destroys your phone that is just plain incompetence from the design department.
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by DJHenk 3y ago
One advantage that I hope a paid version of GPT4 has (like ChatGPT Premium) over a free one (like Bing), is that it is a matter of time before the Bing answers will be polluted by whatever an advertiser is willing to spend its money on. Whe
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by DJHenk 3y ago
This is not about technical superiority. This is about big corporations using their size and money to abuse a market. Watching a movie is not a human right. Selling barely functional products (or non-functional products, or products that de
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by DJHenk 3y ago
Years ago I transitioned from a developer role to a manager role and suddenly I had to do a lot more talking. Not all the talking needs to be a deeply involved exchange of complex ideas, a lot of it serves a different purpose. Sometimes it
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by DJHenk 3y ago
Having lots of alternatives is not always beneficial for society as a whole.
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by DJHenk 3y ago
It goes beyond languages. Yesterday I was editing a markdown file that was to become a post on a static site with movies. After I entered the title of a Taiwanese movie from the eighties, I jumped to the frontmatter to add some metadata abo

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