croon

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by croon 5d ago
Not GP, but IME it's not fixable by model selection, but being zealous about guiding output and vision, and pushing back on all the bad habits LLM in general has (eg verbose output as a band-aid for emergent intelligence). As soon as s
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by croon 5d ago
The machine code generated by a compiler is deterministic and reproducible (assuming using same chain/tool versions), which is why reading the human readable pre-compiled source is sufficient. Reading a prompt but not reading the non-d
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by croon 5d ago
>> but I look at those same people’s code and it’s horrific, and then I find they haven’t made it far past a proof of concept phase. > Work on small projects (< 500k lines of code). > Work for business people who want fast re
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by croon 5d ago
Where does "Flock tech might currently be illegal pending adjudication" land? Just because someone is doing it, does not make it legal. For reference, US v. Jones was a 9-0 in the SC, in favor of Jones, though bipartisan split on
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by croon 5d ago
The alternative would be keeping a permission granted for an app that might have had an update introducing nefarious behavior, whether intentional or not. Annoying yes, but least bad.
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by croon 5d ago
Well, by definition they were proven innocent when they drowned/burned up.
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by croon 6d ago
> Then none of his work after June 29 will be included in the training data. What are you basing this on? The linked threads already acknowledged his opting out, and they don't look as settled as you claim.
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by croon 6d ago
>>Did the transcripts of any of the agents include a tool call whose result including user data? > They have already explicitly denied this. AFAICT they only denied accessing data through a request targeting a user, not that they a
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by croon 6d ago
IANAL disclaimer. Police do need a warrant to place a GPS device on your vehicle. Data continuity is a function of data point frequency [0]. If all public space (and some participating private space) is monitored, the practical difference b
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by croon 7d ago
It's the same reason I can't watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia or Rick & Morty anymore, despite them being great shows. The parts they're lampooning are the parts most celebrated. Or another example is Springst
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by croon 8d ago
> While some stuff are legit issues such as ADR, people now think they are wire-tapping. Because somebody used a rooted device to show-case recording silently through their device. > Can you blame corporations having this control-frea
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by croon 8d ago
I own an LG TV as well, and while I assume the Mi TV Box 4K tracks me instead, at least it's unpowered while the TV is off, and the TV itself is not connected to my network. I have updated TVs/soundbars/etc, but only through
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by croon 8d ago
That's good to know. I am very happy with the screen on my current one (kobo clara hd). It's just that the usability and lack of sync is annoying enough that I'm tempted to switch. Perhaps a bit of itchy tinkerfinger too. I g
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by croon 8d ago
> So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. Now just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog boxes. > Doesn't Windows update know some key to talk to Windows? >
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by croon 9d ago
Much to my wife's chagrin I never have anything on my wishlist since I'm not a huge fan of (receiving) gifts in general, but I did put the X4 on my list a couple of months ago, since my decade+ old Kobo is getting long in the toot
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by croon 9d ago
While some misalignment is due to core principles, I think the vast majority is down to information dissymmetry, and that part could be solved. Ie, would me and this random other person disagree if we had the exact same data.
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by croon 9d ago
> some kind of admin panel where employees can easily CRUD some updates In my experience this is usually the crux. That software always rots, and needs whatever (minimal) on-ramping for employees, as well as access management. If I could
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by croon 9d ago
Me too, because I hear a lot of experiences like yours as well. It might be opinionated architecture not fitting the training norm, size of legacy repos/projects, language, or whatever else. For what it's worth I/we do much l
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by croon 12d ago
Just wanted to say I appreciate your response being both nuanced, clear and with no attempts at misrepresenting any of my points. It's rarer than it should be.
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by croon 13d ago
> If you have a set of opinions and people who vehemently oppose them start pushing a bandwagon where they twist your words to make them sound more extreme and typify them with the worst descriptors they can think of (nazi, antivaxer, et
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by croon 13d ago
I've been using Bitwarden for close to a decade now, and it still works, but given silent documentation changes and increasingly opaque communication following the CEO change, I started considering self-hosting. While vaultwarden exist
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by croon 13d ago
Feature #8 in Umberto Eco's essay Ur-Fascism: > The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more fr
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by croon 15d ago
If it were to happen I don't think Amazon would sell any books to begin with. And even under the current system, I only buy books to pay writers, and even then they only get very little of the amount I pay. I'd much rather pay the
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by croon 15d ago
I'm not going to pile on since there is already a handful of comments stating the same, but I think we can all be guilty of "This thing exists/happens specifically where I and most people I interact with live, so it must be c
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by croon 15d ago
I don't hate it if it's text I asked for, in which case it's also easier to glance through looking for the points relevant to the topic. I hate it if the assumption is that I'm communicating with a human, and I then get
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by croon 15d ago
That's not what logically follows from my statement. It's a conclusion you can make if you believe my premises are false though. It could also be a third possibility of a bug/issue affecting many of these specific batches.
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by croon 15d ago
I just used Fable to thoroughly review a PR, and it came up with 5 "Findings that block approval". I went through each one through the code path (a couple were already considered during implementation), and while all 5 were theore
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by croon 15d ago
Yeah, we've had our CI only run pipelines on proper branch prefixes for many years, so if you for whatever reason had a wip/branch you wouldn't clog up our runners.
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by croon 15d ago
You vote out the worst party. Then the remaining party splinters into groups and you vote out the worst half of those two. Rinse, repeat. Are they both bad? Probably. Are the equally bad? Not even remotely.
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by croon 15d ago
Not only care about; a mistake is unlikely to be repeated, a motivated attack is very likely to be attempted again.

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