bigstrat2003

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by bigstrat2003 7d ago
I mean kinda, yeah. Since that's literally the only kind of smartphone you can get nowadays.
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by bigstrat2003 7d ago
> Then Apple finally released the iPhone mini and nobody was buying it, so they had to kill it after a couple of iterations. And by "nobody", you mean "actually a lot of people, just not as many as the bigger model".
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by bigstrat2003 7d ago
They sold just fine. They just didn't sell a billion million units, so in Apple land that was considered a "failure". Most manufacturers would've been stoked to get the sales figures the iPhone mini got.
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by bigstrat2003 7d ago
LLMs can't even figure out how to do basic things. They can't program well despite billions being poured into that effort. I'm not worried they will suddenly develop intelligence out of nowhere and kill us all.
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by bigstrat2003 7d ago
I mean yeah, there are a ton of people who are stupid enough to disregard all kind of safety precautions. That doesn't mean the safety precautions are invalid though.
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by bigstrat2003 8d ago
> We don't grant copyrights to give authors a kind of royalty-based pension for their old age and their heirs. "We" is doing a lot of work here. I realize that it's basically impossible for an entire population to hav
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by bigstrat2003 8d ago
Which is his loss, because it's a great book. I really enjoyed Heinlein's exploration of what is needed to sustain a healthy democratic form of government.
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by bigstrat2003 8d ago
Even if others won't act right, that doesn't mean you have no responsibility to act right. I think his premise is flawed - the idea that we will get an actual intelligence out of the slop machine that is LLMs is laughable - but if
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by bigstrat2003 8d ago
I don't think the 75k number is what's shocking. It's a house that costs 7 figures. That is not remotely attainable for most people in this country.
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by bigstrat2003 8d ago
Also, there's no such thing as being able to give birth and not being female. Many argue that "woman" refers to an internal sense of gender and not the physical reality of one's body, but even in that framework the term
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by bigstrat2003 8d ago
What's wrong with making a friend an account on your server so they can log in? I've done it, it works fine.
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by bigstrat2003 8d ago
Yep. You should never let an LLM have access to the system. It's irresponsible as all get out.
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by bigstrat2003 8d ago
So you recognize that your users will dislike these features. And your solution is to try to hide it, rather than removing the features you know your users won't like? You do you, but that doesn't seem like good product design to
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
I don't recall the folder names being different, but by default Jellyfin uses different metadata providers than Plex. That means that things like numbering of specials (think BSG and the webisodes), or shows which have a different aire
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
> I don’t think it’ll work because Plex gates everything with a sign in to their online accounts... That isn't true. You can configure the server with which subnets are trusted, and do not require auth.
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
For music, I use Navidrome + Symfonium. Not quite as smooth as Plexamp was (and there's nothing on par with Symfonium on desktop), but I disliked having my music and video commingled so it's been worthwhile for me.
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
Fair enough, but I honestly have not had a single issue with Jellyfin. It really has been on par with Plex for me.
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
I (also a lifetime Plex Pass user) decided to try it out ~6 months ago, and I've switched over. I haven't had any gaps in functionality yet, though YMMV of course. While it isn't better than Plex (which is still fine for no
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
People who were not hobbyists learned to use computers, in large numbers, so I don't think your conclusion is accurate. Anyone can learn this stuff with a bare minimum of effort.
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
> Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice, and should be treated accordingly. I disagree with this as stated. Maybe in the right context you could make a case for it, but in general? Heck no. Intent matters a
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
"Assembly is the lowest level language we have" is not tantamount to "assembly is low level", so you're ascribing something to the article which it doesn't actually say.
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
Yes, and you know damn well they are. Stop trolling.
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
Because that's been the playbook of every tech company for a decade or two. It should be our expectation that this stuff will get an expensive rug pull the instant the companies can get away with it.
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
Humans do produce errors. But they produce far fewer than LLMs, and they can also learn. Once a person makes a given mistake and realizes what he did wrong, he will take steps to prevent that mistake in the future. LLMs do not do this and t
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
In my experience, the people who are enamored with LLMs for programming fall into one of three categories. Shills, people who could never program decently to begin with, and people who don't care about the quality of their work. Everyo
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by bigstrat2003 9d ago
Because they haven't changed yet (despite AI bros claiming that they have every 6 months), and therefore are unlikely to change as we move into the future. It's not impossible, of course. But when the "this new model is total
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
I'm really glad to read this. Thanks for putting in the effort to make quality software, far too few people are willing to do that these days.
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
There's nothing unsanitary about it. The bottoms of your shoes simply are not that dirty unless you're walking through abnormally dirty situations.
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
I can envision a reasonable case that Star Trek is space fantasy, sure. But I think it's significantly overstating things to say that Trek is just as much space fantasy as Star Wars. There's nothing in Star Trek remotely as fant
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by bigstrat2003 10d ago
> Especially in art, the anti-AI hate mostly reduces to arguing that art is the process not the outcome. It's both. The outcome is bad (boy is it ever bad), and even if it were good I still would rather enjoy art produced by humans.

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