dingnuts

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by dingnuts 5mo ago
there's a lot of evidence things do generally get better over time, though. Jon Haidt and his ilk... I forget all involved... have done research into it obviously it can be bumpy and maybe there's a Great Filter or you happen to l
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by dingnuts 7mo ago
Close, but it's actually Nixon and the end of Bretton Woods
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by dingnuts 7mo ago
deception implies intent. this is confabulation, more widely called "hallucination" until this thread. confabulation doesn't require knowledge, which as we know, the only knowledge a language model has is the relationships be
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by dingnuts 7mo ago
Arch and its wikin were already pretty good when it happened, but the real turning point was when the Gentoo wiki got hacked. After that, it never really recovered, and the Arch wiki must have absorbed a lot of that expertise because that&#
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by dingnuts 7mo ago
It is amazing in fact how willingly Europe seems to be running into the arms of the actual fascist dictator, Xi, at the first sign of turmoil in the US. The US is written off as a lost cause and you cozy up with a government that is everyth
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by dingnuts 8mo ago
You bought a relationship with a service company that locked you in and sold you out. That's absolutely a bait and switch, just one of service instead of goods, because it's a SaaS company. This is the real reason I'm tired o
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by dingnuts 8mo ago
Are you joking? It looks just as ugly as mountaintop removal to me. They could preserve all that scenery by just building out nuclear. That's without mentioning the horrible ecological impact of blanketing an entire ecosystem in panels
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by dingnuts 9mo ago
I understand this attitude but when I look back at my rural youth I just hear you telling me that I should have had no one to talk to at all about many things. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater
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by dingnuts 9mo ago
particularly ironic comment from an HN/lobsters celebrity account lol this website isn't turning into Reddit, this website has been a pretentious orange subreddit for well over a decade if not right from the get go and a link to t
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by dingnuts 9mo ago
I didn't see any complaints about any kind of artificial intelligence, research or otherwise, besides large language models, in this article. Large language models are a single kind of AI, and a particularly annoying kind when you are
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by dingnuts 9mo ago
This is an astute comment, despite "Arathorn" CEO of Matrix LLC's downvote ring pushing down the score. (Hey bud you know you can just read without commenting, right? Sit and listen for awhile) ActivityPub has the same proble
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by dingnuts 9mo ago
the issue is false advertising. you'll understand the first time you lose half an hour evaluating a library that has all the old signs of competent design and even the trivial examples don't work and you realize the project was ge
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by dingnuts 9mo ago
It's a mirror. Address it like it's a friendly person and it will glaze you; that's the source of much of the sycophancy. My queries look like the beginning of encyclopedia articles, and my system prompt tells the machine to
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by dingnuts 9mo ago
the reason they got defunded is because many people do not agree
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by dingnuts 9mo ago
I can't find the CPC certificate for this product. Children's toys are heavily regulated in the US and based on the thermal paper, the lack of display of their authorization to sell, the fly by night nature of a drop shipping webs
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by dingnuts 9mo ago
the faddish nature of these tools fits the narrative of the METR findings that the tools slow you down while making you feel faster. since nobody (other than that paper) has been trying to measure output, everything is based on feelings and
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by dingnuts 9mo ago
Honestly the comment is so poorly written I can't figure out what the GP is trying to say. They think agent coding is going to replace all existing coding because the only reason manual coding is hanging on is because engineers can&#x2
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by dingnuts 9mo ago
> Yes, I save an incredible amount of time. I suspect I’m likely 5-10x more productive The METR paper demonstrated that you are not a reliable narrator for this. Have you participated in a study where this was measured, or are you just g
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by dingnuts 10mo ago
Besides what Sam Altman wants everyone to believe, there isn't a lot of evidence what you're saying is true. My experience with LLMs hasn't borne it out, and I also don't think it's okay -- I LIKE writing software!
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by dingnuts 10mo ago
I shouldn't have to accept government surveillance just because 15% of the population is functionally illiterate. We should have support structures for those people as a society, but "dumb people exist" is a fucking horrible
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by dingnuts 10mo ago
at least it's possible to be a vegan. imagine trying to be a smartphone vegan. I hope we're not headed there with this abominable technology. I hate using it and don't want to be forced
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by dingnuts 10mo ago
> The gap between engineers using the tools and those not are continuing to grow Yeah, the ONLY place I hear this where it means "AI pushers are getting faster" is on this website, where half of your salaries depend on said bel
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by dingnuts 10mo ago
.. no, corporations raise prices in response to the falling value of the dollar which has been occurring predictably since 2020 when the money supply was increased 20% (remember the "printer goes brr" memes and the "stimulus
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by dingnuts 10mo ago
It is a Linux distribution, it just turned out that "let me interrupt for a moment" meme was actually correct and what you wanted was a portable GNU distribution with an open kernel, and instead you got a Linux distribution with G
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by dingnuts 10mo ago
the extra value in that bill comes from the collector and historical interest; I'm not sure the US government is really obligated to pay out rare metals for your bill, if that's the distinction you're making. Anyway, I think
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by dingnuts 10mo ago
Manufacturers should be required to actually take back anything with that logo. You can buy so much stuff that becomes a serious problem to dispose of and that stupid logo is all that's required of the manufacturer. Cost of disposal wo
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by dingnuts 10mo ago
it'd be worse, just longer
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by dingnuts 10mo ago
physically being in the office is irrelevant. I can and do have water cooler chats with my remote teammates in the same tz as me while Manglesh is asleep in his Timezone matters
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by dingnuts 10mo ago
sure but people on the other side of the world are harder to communicate with for practical reasons like time zones and also for cultural reasons that matter big time in many markets
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by dingnuts 10mo ago
a single fucking screenshot would go a long way to convincing me this is real. considering I lost an hour yesterday trying to use an open source library that turned out to be vibe coded non-functional slop, I have to ask for evidence that t

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