birdsongs

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by birdsongs 3d ago
There's been a lot of changed titles recently, and it is quite annoying. I feel like that used to get corrected.
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by birdsongs 14d ago
Oh I already posted elsewhere here about this! Hah. I absolutely hate the font.
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by birdsongs 16d ago
People get really upset/defensive about this topic, I've discussed it IRL with colleagues and in other spaces. I don't know really why I said that, probably just hedging against crummy replies.
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by birdsongs 17d ago
I've gotten the same advice and I hate it, I agree with you completely. My brain can't tell the difference between this and a person, regardless of what's actually there (humans anthropomorphize everything, this is in our nat
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by birdsongs 17d ago
> These things are like teenagers who just discovered Ayn Rand. They're infuriating. I mean, look at their creators. (tongue-in-cheek)
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by birdsongs 17d ago
> The other day, it was a little like Claude was trying to find a loophole for ignoring my instructions, and being punchy about it: This is exactly how it works for me. Rules and requests are constraints and it will take every unconstrai
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by birdsongs 17d ago
> Yesterday Claude Code made 5 large edits to my codebase in planning mode (claims it used a bash script instead of standard read/write tools so the guardrails didn't trigger) it's why I put agents in containers. More and
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by birdsongs 17d ago
Thank you, should be top comment.
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by birdsongs 17d ago
I loathe how difficult Matrix is for normal people though. It's a nightmare to find a client, get an account, connect to your server, set up push notifications, and then navigate to a chat, much less set up encryption. Fine for us, m
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by birdsongs 18d ago
We used to degauss the CRTs because it looked cool and there was nothing else to do. Very adjacent to watching the defrag window maximised. I did it in computer lab and showed others and the teacher lost it, thought we were breaking things.
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by birdsongs 23d ago
I don't need to provide anything, I'm not the one making claims. (Especially ones as wild as this.) That's... That's not how discourse works.
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by birdsongs 24d ago
> See: modern liberal society and feminisim which leads to population collapse and destruction of the civilizations that embrace it. I would absolutely love any kind of reputable source on this.
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by birdsongs 24d ago
Fine. We're already meeting the goals for free by virtue of building a secure product and infrastructure from the start. (Read: a good product.) When risk assessments and certs are required and roll out (1.5 years from now), we'll
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by birdsongs 24d ago
This is so disingenuous. I've been part of two Norwegian hard tech startups in the past few years (one as a founder, one currently as an embedded lead) and all it took was our mech engineer (which you will always need) making an access
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by birdsongs 24d ago
Reason number xxx that I never plan to return permanently. The longer I'm away the more bonkers things seem there.
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by birdsongs 25d ago
Does it matter whether it meets the criteria of what you define as "intelligent" when the "next token predictor" throws a backdoor into openssh?
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by birdsongs 27d ago
Yeah, exactly.
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by birdsongs 27d ago
That's fair. My internet bubble is intentionally very small.
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by birdsongs 28d ago
> My company has excellent culture. > Zero tolerance > We’re a business not a daycare Okay man, I'm sure it's great.
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by birdsongs 28d ago
You misunderstood my reply. I'm talking about culture, not engineering or coding. I'm just grateful I don't work with people that say "good riddance" to blanket foreign talent bans, and "catch up or get left be
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by birdsongs 28d ago
> Good riddance. > Coding is solved. Engineering is not. Catch up or be left behind. I'm really grateful for my company's culture. Reading replies like this, I remember how easy it is to forget how atrocious that can be else
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by birdsongs 1mo ago
This was a really great listen, thank you!
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by birdsongs 1mo ago
I really don't need you to tell me the reality of my past, like I don't already understand these things. It's also not the topic we're here to discuss. Go be mad elsewhere, please.
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by birdsongs 1mo ago
Yeah. To be clear I don't think anything mystical happened, it was just my brain doing very odd thing outside of its default state.
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by birdsongs 1mo ago
This is obviously just anecdotal, but when I was 6 I got very ill with the flu and was in bed for days. Super high fever and was quite out of it. I had a, idk, spell one afternoon where I saw this quilt we had on the wall open up at all the
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by birdsongs 1mo ago
I started noticing this with smartwatches in 2019-2020, with my coworkers. They would just stop mid convo, check watch, and resume talking. It's only about 5 seconds but it feels so weird on the other side. Like, sure, I'll wait f
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by birdsongs 1mo ago
> Apart from that, republicans are ridiculously inept. They're not. They're really not. They're incredibly capable and are currently executing long term plans successfully, one after another. This goes all the way back to
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by birdsongs 2mo ago
Agree. I've just decided that I'm limiting my reading to pre-2021 books. There's still many lifetimes of a backlog there, even at my relatively high rate.
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by birdsongs 2mo ago
> The US is already under an authoritarian regime Yeah, I know. That was my point, the irony in that statement.
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by birdsongs 2mo ago
"My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use

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