SomeCallMeTim

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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
No, and Jeffries' analogy suffers the same strawman fallacy. The proper analogy would be if no one knew the rules of football/baseball and everyone ended up playing Calvinball instead, then you could say that football/basebal
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
Ha. Just did almost exactly that, but with a Go script--I wanted my Docker Compose to auto-update when I built on my CI server. I found Watchtower, but polling just struck me as the Wrong Answer. Both too much overhead to keep pinging for t
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
In Colorado you get an email when they mail a ballot to you, another email when they receive your ballot, and a third when it's counted. Colorado came out way against Trump, though, despite having been a swing state in recent memory.
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
It's easier to know where you're going when you've gone to similar places a hundred times. I just think about a problem for two seconds and then have the entire path mapped out.
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
Nah, it was something unrelated to databases. I can't even remember the details. It's like trying to remember nonsense sentences; they don't stick because they don't really make sense. To the best I can remember, it was
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
Funny that you should say that. Just met with a group of very senior engineers today and two of them said they weren't using VS Code any more. Instead they used: 1. https://www.trycursor.com/ 2. https://zed.
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
I saw some code in a job I was just starting where they had added several abstractions that I found...confusing. After taking an extra long time to understand what the code actually did, I realized that some junior engineer had been using s
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
I am actually surprised that there are thousands of people working on Alexa. WTF are they all doing?! It's pretty much unchanged from the outside in any way that's relevant to me compared to where it was in 2014. And the few chang
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
It's not a TypeScript mistake. You could argue that it was a C++ mistake. It makes parsing harder, but otherwise seems to work as expected, so I don't consider it a mistake, but you could at least argue that way. But regardless if
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
As long as Node understands to use the project-specific version of TypeScript (i.e., the one in node_modules or the PNP equivalent), that should be fine. But it would be a step backward to need to globally upgrade TypeScript (as you do with
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
Agreed with pretty much everything. I couldn't agree with the article on almost any point. One additional point: You can get "mildly dynamic" websites by using services. I have a completely static web site that's 100% on
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
> Which version of node? Latest LTS. Why wouldn't you? > Which version of npm? The one that comes with Node? Duh. Or just `npm update -g npm` to bring it up to the latest. > ...a dependency that only works on node 3.14 So I kn
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
Well, I think you could say I've worked in games too. [1] In fact, it's in games that the artists, especially when working with 3d, had the hardest time getting the precise kinds of changes that I would need. But even in 2d, if th
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
No company I've worked for in the past decade has told me what kind of computer I should work on. Even the W2 gigs have allowed me my choice of Mac/Linux/Windows. I work for tech-savvy companies, though. I'm sure there a
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
I'm stuck with CorelDraw X8 which dates to 2016. If they were selling a buy-it-once license in 2020, I wasn't aware of it. I swear they had switched to subscription-only by then? But maybe it happened that year and I missed the la
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
> I don't know why you wouldn't ask the artist to make the edit. Have you ... worked with artists? To get them to produce technically precise artwork? The point would be that sometimes it takes 4-5 turnarounds with an artist to
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
> ask them for the files exported into a format you can open They already do that. That's not the problem. If the original Photoshop file has 200 layers, and 60 of those layers have effects that use advanced Photoshop-only feature
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
Realistically, I'm looking for artists that are good first. And 98% of them use Photoshop. Not going to restrict myself to non-Photoshop artists.
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
But not all of us make a living off of Photoshop. I'm a programmer. I periodically need to make a tiny tweak in a file that's been created by a real artist, or I want to edit a photo I took, or whatever. It's insane to spen
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
CorelDraw is great, but for years they were also subscription-only. In the last six months or so they finally started offering a single-price license again--at a prohibitive level. I bought the previous single-price version years ago, and i
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
I'm not confusing anything. I'm familiar with the Chinese Room Argument and I know how LLMs work. What I'm saying is arguably philosophically related, in that I'm saying the LLM's model is analogous to the "r
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
> LLMs can form new memories dynamically. Just pop some new data into the context. No, that's an illusion. The LLM itself is static. The recurrent connections form a soft-of temporary memory that doesn't affect the learned beh
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
There's no way brains have the "right answers" fed into them as required by backpropagation.
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
No. We know how current deep learning neural networks are trained. We know definitively that this is not how brains learn. Understanding requires learning. Dynamic learning. In order to experience something, an entity needs to be able t
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
LLMs are good at tasks that don't require actual understanding of the topic. They can come up with excellent (or excellent-looking-but-wrong) answers to any question that their training corpus covers. In a gross oversimplification, the
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
Your link re: Fair Dealing guidelines does NOT make it 100% legal. For one, the ENTIRE works are encoded into the model--not a part of them. For another, those are just guidelines, not explicit exceptions, just like Fair Use in the US. It&#
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by SomeCallMeTim 2y ago
> If ChatGPT verbatim reproduces Copyright covers "derivative works." Verbatim is absolutely not a requirement for infringement. If you take a copyrighted image and modify it, even to the point where it's unrecognizable, i
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
> How could they prevent the framework become over bloated with semi baked plug-in? ...not sure how they plan to, but how they COULD do it is by making it easy enough to directly access native resources directly from the script language
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
> Very few people both have a ton of exposure to a language and actually study the grammar and stuff as adults. Very few people actually learn to speak a language as a native speaker by "studying the grammar." I remember people
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
People are also prone to love doing things that they're good at, so it's hard to know which came first. :)

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