dTal

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by dTal 7d ago
Linguistic lineages are not the same as genetic lineages. Populations can switch languages, or die out completely while their language lives on. And in this case, genetic studies show no clear genetic relationship between the Celtic-speakin
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by dTal 9d ago
Hence, objects; keep alternating between functional (stateless) and imperative (stateful) as you ascend the abstraction tower, so that the hairiness does not leak between layers and hence accumulate.
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by dTal 9d ago
I am not the author, sorry!
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by dTal 9d ago
I have never understood how it is that "Ollama" manages to stay some sort of de-facto standard local hosting solution when all it does is wrap llama.cpp poorly. It's not as if llama.cpp is hard to use - it offers pre-compiled
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by dTal 9d ago
Yikes, thanks for letting me know. That seems like a clbuttic case of buttumptions - Of course the text is indeed AI-generated, but it's being quoted! We shall all have to get used to AI-assisted summaries of software, I'm afraid.
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El Yayster – a resident LLM that inhabits Emacs(github.com)
37 points by dTal 9d ago|6 comments
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by dTal 9d ago
I thought this looked interesting: "Most "LLM in Emacs" packages make Emacs a mouth that talks to a model: you type, it replies into a buffer. El Yayster inverts that. It makes Emacs a body the model inhabits — the agent perc
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by dTal 10d ago
Not true by any stretch, though parent didn't mention any competitor MacOS's current Finder dates from 2001. Earlier versions of "Finder" were a completely different piece of software - different code, different interfac
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by dTal 17d ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/me
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by dTal 18d ago
Right. We must only talk about how to build the Torment Nexus. Never why - too upsetting.
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by dTal 20d ago
Is a "truly intelligent home" something I should want? None of the current generation of "smart" addons are true value adds - their entire purpose is data collection. The pretext is always absurdly thin. I just thought &
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by dTal 22d ago
Gonna make this real short and simple: it's totally unclear what you're on about. You've described nothing, merely complained, infuriatingly, in the vaguest possible terms.
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by dTal 22d ago
That's a very long-ass way of saying "I disagree with this comment, I can't be bothered explaining why (too much work), so instead I think this user should be banned". I extracted nothing useful from your comment, which
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by dTal 22d ago
Difficult and also solves nothing, since you can just point the camera at a screen.
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by dTal 25d ago
"Doomscrolling", as an addictive technology, was invented by the Hacker News commentariat. I understand you don't enjoy being told that your "little geek corner" is making the world worse, but you don't really
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by dTal 25d ago
Hacker News summarized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdhwTXwhA4c
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by dTal 25d ago
It's not "neutral machine-based enforcement", it's a general purpose panopticon that tracks and logs everything, ready to be queried later by arbitrary people for arbitrary reasons.
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by dTal 29d ago
useful heuristic: every comment I've seen with excessive 9s was nonsense You really think if I asked 200,000 people in my city, only one would have heard of Meta RayBans? when there are billboards, magazine ads, and window stickers in
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by dTal 29d ago
I respect your overall point but I think the picture is more nuanced than that. "Computer" as a term is simply unpopular, in favor of something referencing the intended application, as determined by things like the form factor: Gr
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by dTal 29d ago
Microsoft sell locked down PCs today . Secure Boot cannot be disabled, nor new keys enrolled, on Windows PCs that ship with an ARM processor (yes they exist). It's as if Apple decided to lock down Macbooks when they switched to M-seri
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by dTal 1mo ago
>Camera saw red, you didn't. But, again, you cannot consider flawed human perception to be the ground truth! Photonically, the red eye is the ground truth. If you were looking through the viewfinder, you should also have seen the
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by dTal 1mo ago
Is that a desirable state of affairs?
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by dTal 1mo ago
It could be Mister Rogers himself for all I fucking care, no cameras in the bathroom please.
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by dTal 1mo ago
Not "banned" per se, but functionally impossible to run on hardware that's powerful enough to be useful. It's not a stretch to imagine GPU drivers that refuse to run unless installed on a fully "attested" syste
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by dTal 1mo ago
That's precisely the point - with AI, "a few geeks" turns into "everyone".
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by dTal 1mo ago
That doesn't seem like a very sharp line (hah). "Abstract geometrical or statistical features like edges" have semantic meaning . An "edge" is just an area of the image with a high derivative, but as soon as you u
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by dTal 1mo ago
The layperson also doesn't really consider the result of their smartphone app to be "processed", until they get slapped in the face with it. The layperson's intuition isn't reliable.
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by dTal 1mo ago
Hah. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all American companies.
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by dTal 1mo ago
What constitutes a "meaningful" difference? If you replace flash-induced red eyes with a more plausible (yet inaccurate) eye color, people are perfectly happy with that, even though the camera indeed saw red photons. They're
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by dTal 1mo ago
I don't think it's intentional. This behavior is a straightforward consequence of training something on pairs of "real" and "degraded" images. It learns what images look like and does the best it can. Philosoph

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