beej71

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by beej71 3d ago
Our class sizes have tanked. But I'm looking forward to working with students who are in it to become excellent engineers!
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by beej71 3d ago
I absolutely agree with you. Unfortunately, those decisions are above my pay grade. But here's hoping the moms can drive the point home!
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by beej71 3d ago
The opposite is true for me. Using LLMs to write things that I can easily write by hand is the most fun use case for LLMs. It's when I use them to write things that would be difficult to write by hand (e.g. for me, a video encoder, com
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by beej71 4d ago
Given the tremendous variety of answers here, one has to wonder how much it matters. Reminds me of when you ask a bunch of motorcyclists what oil to use
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by beej71 4d ago
> No, I think the industry is hopeful that AI is helpful to their bottom line. Practically speaking, what's the difference? :-/
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by beej71 4d ago
The Bobs are coming. "What is it, would you say, you actually do here?" :)
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by beej71 4d ago
> Yes. You are falling behind. And yes, it will reduce your value in the job market. Eventually it will be a dramatic reduction. I think this cuts close to the heart of it. "That knowledge has no value" isn't an easy pill
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by beej71 4d ago
That's a definite maybe. You can bet there's a general movement afoot to replace teachers with AI because it's cheaper and always available, etc. Also, measuring the human advantage is difficult.
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by beej71 4d ago
> you guys speak as if you have infinite time and no goals besides just the act of writing code, with no consideration about what the code you're writing is supposed to do Can't speak for the OP but I definite care what my code
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by beej71 4d ago
I don't have a concrete example, but it's probably the stuff that starts taking longer to describe in English than to code. "Make me this thing there are a million examples of" vs. "make me this unique thing in this
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by beej71 6d ago
It never bothered me a bit. Used to watch them on my 55" TV before we gave it away. Now they're even sharper on my computer screen! :) Plus no more buffering or streaming artifacts.
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by beej71 6d ago
If I can generate the site myself with an LLM, it's a lot less compelling. Maybe just share the prompt in that case.
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by beej71 6d ago
I still find the old Internet in a few ways. Mastodon, Signal group chats, quiet local (geographically) or private Discord servers, RSS, email, XMPP or IRC if I feel like it. Definitely use uBO. I sometimes even surf Neocities. Stay away fr
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by beej71 6d ago
I don't understand. Your comment seems to imply that the Internet has no effect on the ability of groups to organize?
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by beej71 7d ago
Very cool. I love that, as someone steeped in digital programming, such solutions would not have occurred to me. It's a good argument for breaking out of ones shell now and then.
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by beej71 8d ago
Great. Time to relive the glory days of mini USB, micro USB, and carrying a pile of different cables around to charge your stuff.
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by beej71 8d ago
Not quite. If you abolish copyright, then some place like Google or Amazon will be the only one who will make money. Authors will get zero, relatively. The second you publish your book, Amazon will instantly republish it and collect 100% of
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by beej71 8d ago
15-25 million is too small a number in this context. We're taking about 8 billion people suspectable to a new virus or collection of viruses far more lethal than polio. :(
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by beej71 8d ago
But they have been trained on data that was created by people who do have motivation, and they tend to mimic their training.
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by beej71 8d ago
> If you don't think the problems are real, make the case to the voters. Let's say we could demonstrate the problems aren't real beyond any shadow of a doubt. Do you think that would change votes appreciably?
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by beej71 8d ago
I called it quits about 8 years ago (I'm 55), mostly due to the fact that I couldn't get excited about anyone's "next big thing". Got into teaching, which was a new, rewarding skill to work on mastering. (I've
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by beej71 9d ago
Good to know. Still wish it wasn't another connector, though.
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by beej71 9d ago
I actually like the magnet and use it to stick the reader to my phone. :) I don't consider it a thing that keeps me from using my phone; it's just a way to carry it in my pocket.
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by beej71 9d ago
I have an X4. I've read about 15 books on it so far, and I carry it everywhere. I used to read books on my phone (Moon Reader), but it wasn't as compelling. I think it was a combination of the screen and the fact that I'm use
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by beej71 9d ago
What kind of access can the government get, I wonder...
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by beej71 9d ago
Morally, the net gain of data preservation and access outweighs the copyright issues. This is especially true for abandoned works. And, morally, the current copyright duration is unacceptable. Depends on ones morals, of course.
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by beej71 10d ago
They can't hear you over their loud and non-ideological renaming of Lake America.
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by beej71 10d ago
Never forget the one goal of the corporation, and that everything is said and done in the furtherance of that goal.
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by beej71 10d ago
Yet we did, indirectly.
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by beej71 10d ago
Unless the US government ripped parler off the Internet, this is not a sensible comparison.

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