FridgeSeal

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by FridgeSeal 4d ago
You’re not alone, I’ve been keen for something like this for a while. It’s fine to keep apprised of, but I really do miss the actually-genuinely-interesting topics and projects which used to pop up here, pre ai days.
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by FridgeSeal 4d ago
Yeah those games exist, and most gamers don’t want them. We’ve not been able to convince the industry to stop bothering to make them, so they still do dumb stuff like, making Concorde, then realising nobody wants it. Indie and non-triple-A
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by FridgeSeal 5d ago
I _want_ to agree, but I fear this is too close to the old “do what you love for work and you’ll never work a day”. It didn’t lead to a lot of people having a wildly successful career, it lead to a lot of people getting burnt out, exploited
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by FridgeSeal 8d ago
If ~~someone gives you a hint about an approach~~ you steal someone’s notes about a promising approach, and then you hire 10,000 people to brute force the problem basically everyone would consider that “shitty behaviour”, “theft”, and “poor
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by FridgeSeal 8d ago
Building on them without fundamentally understanding is akin to putting on robes, calling yourself a Tech-Priest, worshipping a machine god and doing your best Warhammer 40k impression.
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by FridgeSeal 8d ago
What do you mean “we won’t need mathematics as it is today”? To further human understanding is itself a goal that single-handedly justifies our efforts. Jumping straight to the “answer” and therefore missing both the understanding of the ac
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by FridgeSeal 10d ago
I have extraordinarily bad news for you about the state of the environment right now.
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by FridgeSeal 10d ago
It’s Python, you’ve already sacrificed performance, what a little bit more?
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by FridgeSeal 15d ago
Technically correct, but not in a functionally useful way. The “L” in LLM’s generally refers to human-language specifically. You’d expect to feed it…human text. Nitpicking that the human text also constitutes a mathematical language is like
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by FridgeSeal 16d ago
I couldn’t tell you what colour my functions or structure syntax is, but I can tell you when I look at code, that the presence of the colour instantly lets me straight to whatever part of the text I care about at that moment.
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by FridgeSeal 17d ago
It doesn’t have to be fully sound, it’s there to provide _some_ degree of interim protection. Evidently, it makes _enough_ of a difference for the people running it. Criticising it is just letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. The a
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by FridgeSeal 17d ago
I’d say “wow, how have they gotten away with such blatant corruption?” But the US really seems to be full-sending into “mask off corruption meltdown”.
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by FridgeSeal 21d ago
Ibis’ are fantastic creatures, and don’t deserve the scorn you’ve heaped upon them! Their bin-chicken status is testament to their adaptability, but it’s essentially our fault they’re that way.
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by FridgeSeal 24d ago
I suspect this is partly a function of your organisation. Some places, do not care terribly, about what you _could_ achieve, or they have garbage internal practices which prevent you from doing this work effectively no matter how much you _
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by FridgeSeal 25d ago
That only helps the assets, does nothing when they run their actual backend servers in one of the US aws regions and your traffic has to traverse the planet anyway.
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by FridgeSeal 1mo ago
> Many a time, a share button simply works It works! Unless: - the person you’re linking it to doesn’t have an account on that platform - you’re posting it in a chat, and the site doesn’t implement unfurls correctly - the site shows a th
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by FridgeSeal 1mo ago
Feel free to link it if it does…
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by FridgeSeal 1mo ago
Whichever devs implemented the Instagram behaviour ought to have their computer taken off them. 100% the worst experience. “Oh you don’t have the app? No big deal, let’s (maybe) play the video anyway but remove the audio, obscure half the s
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by FridgeSeal 1mo ago
MS Authenticator used to dispense codes on the watch app, but since about ~2022 MS decided that they would disable this feature. No reason was ever given, especially as they actively removed an otherwise working feature, so I can only assum
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by FridgeSeal 1mo ago
Because they don’t want to sign up for 10 different providers and subscriptions/etc, especially if some models are just going to receive light, or rare usage?
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by FridgeSeal 1mo ago
Where do you work? Mostly so that I can know to never apply, because that application process sounds awful and degrading.
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by FridgeSeal 1mo ago
Yeah but instead of “hostile OS, hostile applications, subpar applications”, you can reduce it to just “occasionally subpar applications”. Getting off a hostile OS should be such an obvious choice we oughtn’t need to specify it, but here we
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by FridgeSeal 1mo ago
And one of them is always something just completely out of scope and the other is something obvious it missed. “One thing worth your attention, if you were to detonate a pipe bomb in your house, it would have a negative effect on your livin
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by FridgeSeal 1mo ago
Which would be fine, but the parents also just smeared tomato sauce over the walls too, so let’s not get too ahead of ourselves.
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by FridgeSeal 1mo ago
Because new stuff instantly makes anything prior bad and incapable and garbage of course! Did you forget the hype-machine speaking notes??? /s
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by FridgeSeal 1mo ago
Human-somewhere-nearish-the-loop!
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by FridgeSeal 1mo ago
They were VC-backed, and had some kind of sign-up/account system for the early invites.
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by FridgeSeal 2mo ago
This smells an awful like a post-hoc justification of why you can’t answer it yourself. If you _could_ do that and hand the information to Claude, you could also just…give the person that information directly, and avoid wasting their time a
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by FridgeSeal 2mo ago
Management/exec have also decided that this is a desirable form of “stupid and lazy” and are actively encouraging it, and discouraging the “old way”.
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by FridgeSeal 2mo ago
Just ask Claude to fix it, what’s the problem??????? /s

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