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by dijit 25d ago
How do they know that something will be a “substantial piece of work” then?
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by dijit 25d ago
Often LLMs seem to be aware that work is heavy, but knowing: a) if something is possible b) if something has been requested to take a long time ( a signal of abuse, like requesting illicit pictures in image generation) is actually somewhat
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by dijit 25d ago
Yes. But just so we're both entirely clear on what an LLM is... it's a token prediction system. it genuinely can't do things except recall things that have already existed. People are having great success composing things tog
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by dijit 25d ago
Hahahaha, I think you’ve misunderstood what LLMs are.
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by dijit 25d ago
“I can take current sources and tell you how solved this is, but I am not willing to work to a timeframe or to solve things that aren’t yet solved by mathematicians or science” These safeguards already exist when they get a whiff that you m
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by dijit 25d ago
Charge on the input tokens, then you will naturally optimise for fewer output tokens. Theoretically. In reality, one sessions output tokens become the next sessions input tokens (at least if you continue the topic) so, its not as aligned as
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by dijit 25d ago
I know sadly very little about otel, it feels “heavy” in a way I am not used to, I am used to simple systems - configured and composed in a way that makes a larger system. 20 years ago, we were doing (what I think) OTel is doing: with “hit
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by dijit 25d ago
rust-analyzer taking 2GiB of RAM per instance definitely hurts. And I agree that efforts to reduce this are noble and warranted, but I worry about what doesn’t happen because of those optimisations. The rust tooling is just so-so good (an
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by dijit 26d ago
But I consider what the US/UK are doing to be invasive, and if the governments fell I might be proven right (hell, Snowden already proved it over a decade ago- yet here we are). He was not a “normal person”, normal people are like your
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by dijit 26d ago
You might not realise it, but you're proving my point to some extent. We don't look at the deaths of our own people as "oppressive" despite the fact that the circumstances that caused them to die was our system. I'm
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by dijit 26d ago
its only with the benefit of hindsight (and being on the winning side- thus the propaganda was never dispelled) that we consider the stasi and so on the way we do. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck.. might just be a duck. I do
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by dijit 26d ago
If you have a business relationship with Apple, it's same-day service. You don't even have to be a large corp for that, my org was 60 people with like 20 Macbooks and we had it. FWIW if you live in a major metro area, Dell also do
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by dijit 26d ago
it's pretty common to be running a 4 year old computer in most companies I've worked. I think they plan for 3 years but in reality it becomes closer to 4 (because they don't plan the refresh during the actual hardware refresh
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by dijit 27d ago
All browsers are memory hogs. It's the price you pay for having an application delivery platform that also needs to be hugely sandboxed running one of the most difficult languages to run efficiently in such large amounts as so the plai
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by dijit 29d ago
> What makes Github special is the ecosystem and integrations. Sentry, Linear, and so many other tools […] github didn’t start with those things. Those things came with adoption. Its like all those people who bemoan their favourite softw
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by dijit 29d ago
I've seen every single component of a system fail, the least I've seen fail has been the CPU itself (I've only seen one fail out of thousands). Memory seems to fail pretty commonly overall, less common than harddisks but mo
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by dijit 29d ago
Also the way memory allocation in Windows works is that if it doesn't actually have the physical RAM (extended by pagefile) then the program will crash. If you disable pagefile (like I did for some of my servers) and your program mallo
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by dijit 1mo ago
Anecdatum, but mine still works :D
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by dijit 1mo ago
I'm quite sure he's being sarcastic. "The best good ever is to maximise shareholder profits" is a tired and cliched caricature that some people unfortunately take seriously. But this is too on the nose.
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by dijit 1mo ago
I’m aware. IIRC this was a response to Microsoft being forced to use some “open” protocol or something.
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by dijit 1mo ago
“Great”. No offence to anyone, but I would not consider the performance of MS office to be great. I guess it's comparative, but then I compare to its previous editions which used a sliver of the resources to accomplish 95% of what mode
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by dijit 1mo ago
Nah, fully down. > You've hit your org's monthly spend limit · run /usage-credits to ask your admin for a higher limit
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by dijit 1mo ago
meta: there seems to be a lot of... "spam"? in this thread? I'm paranoid enough to have the thought that it's shills trying to use HN's "hotness" downranking against negative publicity... ... maybe I'
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by dijit 1mo ago
the requirements to be a dentist are vastly different than that of a brain surgeon. Yet, both have to have medical degrees in order to be called doctors. That you specialise after the fact doesn't really mean what you imply, not everyo
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by dijit 1mo ago
HN does comply with the law, theres no tracking cookies set. The only cookie is a functional one.
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by dijit 1mo ago
Because they want to track people and they need consent for that.
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by dijit 1mo ago
you don’t need to track users by giving them an ID they send with every request. in fact. you probably don’t need to track users.
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by dijit 1mo ago
Don't set a tracking cookie, use of IP addresses is allowed for legitimate purposes (Art 6(1)(f)) as long as they're not stored. At least for GDPR... The only ways to actually track without a consent pop-up are: (1) stay off the d
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by dijit 1mo ago
it's an example of malicious compliance by some, and herd mentality by others. I had a discussion with my CFO about removing the cookie banner from our website (because we don't set any tracking cookies, and cookies for things lik
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by dijit 1mo ago
yes, it's possible. That's why there's no Software "Engineers" without degrees in Quebec.

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