Fr0styMatt88

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by Fr0styMatt88 5d ago
I think it was Dr K of Healtgygamer that explained it something like non-toxic shame is a useful signal — “I did something wrong and this is a signal telling me so; I need to correct my behaviour” vs toxic shame as in “I am fundamentally a
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by Fr0styMatt88 6d ago
Yeah. It’s also far too tempting and far too easy to keep adding features if you don’t make yourself disciplined about it (which is okay if you’re in a position to control that, not so good if it’s the higher-ups demanding it).
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by Fr0styMatt88 6d ago
I think this is something we’ll see AI very meaningfully impact — the threshold needed for “Get this thing working on a tech stack we might not be familiar with” has gone waaaaaaay down.
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by Fr0styMatt88 8d ago
But that's a lot more words than "I found these issues". I also don't particularly care that 'Tool x ran for x amount of time', I don't want it re-telling me that -- I've probably been sitting there
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by Fr0styMatt88 8d ago
I have fond memories from back when Pixels were actually flagship. The Pixel 2 is my nostalgic pinnacle. I'd totally forgotten about that squeeze gesture until I got my old Pixel 2 out to erase.
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by Fr0styMatt88 10d ago
I've found that LLMs are specifically bad at a certain kind of debugging, though I can't quite put my finger on what that is. "Spot the bug in this code" when the code can be looked at and pattern-matched against buggine
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by Fr0styMatt88 10d ago
I'd love to know if there's a documentary or something that has been done about this, that I could point non-techie people in my life to.
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by Fr0styMatt88 10d ago
It’s a tiring YouTube formula: “Model X CHANGES EVERYTHING!” (surprised Oculus Rift face without the headset) Some one-shot prompts for quick impact. I get it with the incentive structure — honestly not trying to shit on any creators (hate
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The Joke That Perfectly Explains AI(youtube.com)
2 points by Fr0styMatt88 11d ago|0 comments
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by Fr0styMatt88 14d ago
I have some memories that I know for a fact are wrong in a pretty particular way. They’ve either become attached to the wrong place or the wrong time. Like I remember a good friend picking me up from my childhood home, yet I didn’t even kn
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by Fr0styMatt88 14d ago
Oh damn that BASIC :) I remember as a kid going to the library and devouring all the microcomputer books and trying to enter their BASIC programs, only to find the C64 severely lacking. Everyone else's BASIC was better! I wanted to ge
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SimMR – Sim racing Passthrough with Apple Vision Pro [video](youtube.com)
2 points by Fr0styMatt88 17d ago|0 comments
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by Fr0styMatt88 18d ago
I get the nature thing, but people just don’t ‘play the tape until the end’. It’s all nice until you get a minor cut and die from a simple infection.
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by Fr0styMatt88 1mo ago
I’ll dig up the references but I believe they were studying what happened to LLM performance as the complexity and verbosity of the code went up (ie- just letting the LLM rip without doing explicit code cleanup and simplifying).
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by Fr0styMatt88 1mo ago
I feel like we also miss something related to #2 (Discipline). I never needed discipline to sit at a computer coding as a kid for hours on end — if anything I’d have needed massive discipline to NOT do it. I wonder if what we call discipli
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by Fr0styMatt88 1mo ago
I often think “what will ‘maintainable’ code look like in the future?” given this kind of thing. Much of ‘good coding’ is about optimising the codebase for workability for a human intellect with human working memory. Though having said tha
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by Fr0styMatt88 2mo ago
Reminds me of when Windows security problems hit critical mass in the early-2000s and Microsoft went all-in on addressing it (this started in the XP days IIRC).
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by Fr0styMatt88 2mo ago
On the specific no/low-CGI bent — I find the obsession with using this (mostly false) claim so utterly disrespectful to the people in VFX that have poured thousands upon thousands of hours of their lives into the craft, only to be acti
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by Fr0styMatt88 2mo ago
Or like me where you get two SSDs in your pool that happen to likely be from the same batch and both decide to permanently disappear at roughly the same time :(
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by Fr0styMatt88 2mo ago
I have the F8 Plus, great little unit. It did need a BIOS update when I first got it to enable Proxmox/other OSes to work properly. Recently replaced the internal USB boot drive with a small NVMe USB enclosure; using a 90-degree USB c
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by Fr0styMatt88 2mo ago
I’m running an 8-drive ZFS RAIDZ2 pool. I’m wondering if you know — are the free space recommendations around ZFS cargo or real? Like I’m already giving up two full drives for redundancy (which saved my ass - I recently had two drives fail
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by Fr0styMatt88 3mo ago
When I find myself feeling like that, a good reframe I like using is to turn those comments into commiseration; “What about trying A?” — “Yeah it’s f*ked aye, I tried A, B and C and it STILL didn’t work!”.
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by Fr0styMatt88 3mo ago
I think I have a similar style, I can sound like I’m ‘arguing’ with a person but really I’m arguing with my own internal model. If I say “but what about….”, “what if…..” or “then how….” I probably mean it literally as a question, not “I’m
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by Fr0styMatt88 3mo ago
The most unexpected thing for me was kind of philosophical in a ‘holy shit’ way. Cloud models still feel ‘magic’, like you send a request off and get something back, like it’s something ‘special’. I used to joke that ChatGPT might be some
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by Fr0styMatt88 3mo ago
What kind of speed in tk/s do you get with the MacBook?
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by Fr0styMatt88 3mo ago
Your see this in coding agents too. The only times so far I’ve really seen Opus tie itself into a knot is where I’ve asked it to fix something that I thought was broken but actually wasn’t in the way I had described. It will bias towards
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by Fr0styMatt88 3mo ago
Actually, I would be really pleased if a member of Parliament asked that. That shows a level of deeper consideration. Isn’t there a saying about there being no stupid questions, only stupid answers or something?
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by Fr0styMatt88 3mo ago
I think it’s the combined depth AND breadth of knowledge that can be captured by AI models that is going to make them way better than most humans at this kind of stuff.
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by Fr0styMatt88 3mo ago
Exactly. I was about to reply to the comment with “perfect example of not knowing what you don’t know” in terms of self-diagnosis. My internal model is/was “if the scan wasn’t set up / can’t detect the thing, why would the statem
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by Fr0styMatt88 3mo ago
I guess ‘per GB’ doesn’t really capture it, because the base number of gigabytes available to people (ie- the smallest compatible RAM kit you need to build a computer) and the base number of gigabytes you really need (OS bloat, feeling resp

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