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by Salgat 27d ago
It's a catch-22 because juniors need AI to be competitive, but you need to do the grunt work yourself for a few years before you really build the skills necessary to advance. I can't imagine learning how to do math by simply readi
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by Salgat 2mo ago
I don't like the UX but the extra controls on ebook rendering was worth the pain for me, since almost all of my time is just reading the ebook anyways.
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by Salgat 2mo ago
My assumption is that it exacerbates it, by keeping the primary predator of rats well fed. Are you saying that cats have no impact on rat populations?
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by Salgat 2mo ago
When I lived in Chicago I'd see rats and cats eating cat food left out alongside each other. I'm not against helping wild animals as long as it doesn't come with a rat infestation issue.
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by Salgat 2mo ago
Thankfully as of now it appears they're very explicit about what content they share that is sponsored. They might be worried about the legislative backlash if they don't.
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by Salgat 2mo ago
Regressions is a meaningless metric to me. Every app has bugs, and most are either rarely encountered or aren't breaking the app. All I care about is interruption of service.
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by Salgat 2mo ago
Yeah it's a real catch-22. I think you're right though, LLM tech will keep up just enough to replace that lost workforce, till some day development as we know it will no longer exist, perhaps when the code becomes too abstract and
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by Salgat 2mo ago
The difference is that you already learned how to write code. New devs that go straight to genai are missing that.
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by Salgat 2mo ago
LLMs are perfectly capable of translating between programming languages at this point. The main bottleneck for them is logic, not language.
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by Salgat 2mo ago
You do get a public IPv6 IP, which is fine for most people (and with a simple script on a cron can keep a AAAA up to date, not that it changes often). And like someone else said, if you insist, you can use something like tailscale to punch
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by Salgat 2mo ago
Starlink is a problem that solves itself. If enough fiber rolls out that there's no more customers, they'll scale back satellites (since they only last 3-5 years).
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by Salgat 2mo ago
Kind of refreshing though that the "throw more processing at it" scaling we saw in the 90s has returned in a different way. For a while we were really bottlenecked in our advances by relatively low levels of parallelism (most soft
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by Salgat 2mo ago
Anthropic wants companies that use API billing. Their growth period through hooking individual users who bring it to the business is over.
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by Salgat 2mo ago
Lots of small moving parts that build up into a large architected platform, which requires careful design, otherwise you get a big ole ball of "it mostly works when we first created it but don't touch it". And yes, bad develo
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by Salgat 2mo ago
This is a genius way to farm ebooks while providing a useful service. I personally just use Google drive though.
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by Salgat 3mo ago
That's not what is happening. Claude isn't charging for the tokens it generates from the OCR on its side, but it's still processing the same number of tokens as if you had sent the text, just with the extra step of OCR on Cla
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by Salgat 3mo ago
Using only Fable, if I do /usage it will show both Fable and Opus usage, so I don't think it's charging Fable prices for Opus code gen.
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by Salgat 3mo ago
This is a misleading statement. The "private data" is still largely publicly produced data that has been curated through private agreements instead of scraping, such as reddit posts/comments (this is the "third-party dat
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by Salgat 3mo ago
Supposedly memristors would be ideal for this (and it would be reprogrammable), but then again, memristors seem to be the carbon nanotubes of the computing world.
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by Salgat 3mo ago
This is signaling to non-US companies that Anthropic cannot provide reliable access to their models.
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by Salgat 3mo ago
It also signals that Anthropic is a bad choice if you need stable access to their product outside the US.
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by Salgat 3mo ago
It's ironic isn't it? All the marketing of how dangerous and powerful Mythos is and the government went "bet".
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by Salgat 3mo ago
The whole point of async/await (besides allowing synchronous style code instead of callbacks) is that it lets you yield the thread efficiently back to the executor (OS threads have a massive overhead in comparison). And if you're
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by Salgat 3mo ago
You're still cutting your annual income in half though. That's pretty big no?
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by Salgat 3mo ago
To this day I do not get why Intel doesn't just offer massive memory options for their cards. Just charge what it costs to add the extra memory, no upcharge, and they will never be able to keep up with demand. Cheap VRAM is enough to j
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by Salgat 3mo ago
That was the main reason for the big hype around Memristors 15 years ago. High density, high speed persistent memory to completely remove the need for hdd/ssds, potentially even removing the need for external memory altogether. So frus
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by Salgat 3mo ago
We're planning to go to Valkey for exactly that reason.
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by Salgat 4mo ago
Religion relies on assumptions that cannot be proven physically, secularism just avoids those assumptions (I say this as a Christian who finds secular biblical scholarship fascinating and helpful).
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by Salgat 4mo ago
Even without encoding, as long as decoding is supported for AV2, streaming sites like Youtube can always transcode uploads. The encoder on mobile hardware is more of a nice bonus as long as we have an AV1 encoder available in the meantime.
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by Salgat 4mo ago
My hope is that hardware improvements (better node densities every 2-3 years, better designs, etc) will pick up the majority of the savings for these companies in the future, assuming LLM performance starts to taper off with diminishing ret

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