dmz73

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by dmz73 20d ago
Humans are special in that we have achieved more than any other species on this planet in every aspect you can experience. That does not mean that most people are smart or that they are utilizing their potential. LLMs, as they are currently
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by dmz73 5mo ago
LLM cannot reason about anything. It can provide text that can be plausibly interpreted as reasoning by someone reading that text. When human provides a plausible explanation then it means they either had someone else provide it to them or
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by dmz73 7mo ago
I hate losing access to software just because it is "unmaintained". If module is "endorsed" now, since it is included in current version, and there is no maintenance, so no changes made to it, why is it suddenly not good
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by dmz73 9mo ago
As a pedestrian I find cyclist are worse than cars for obstructing my path. Riding on the footpath (illegal here) even with bike lane available right next to it, not respectig the traffic lights (mowing through pedestrians on crossings or b
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by dmz73 10mo ago
I would like for Linux to be able to replace Windows. I run Linux on some of my computers with various levels of success. But even with Windows 11 being as annoying as it is and Ubuntu/Mint/Cachy/Fedora/etc having some r
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by dmz73 11mo ago
Having seen LLMs so many time produce incoherent, nonsense, invalid answers to even simplest of questions I cannot agree with categorization of "thinking" or "intelligence" that applies to these models. LLMs do not under
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by dmz73 11mo ago
If the payload expands to something too large then it is easy to detect and ignore. Serve up thousands of 10kb or 100kb files that expand to 10s of MB with random garbage inside...possibly the same text but slightly modified. That will wast
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by dmz73 11mo ago
We currently don't really know what intelligence is so we don't have a good definition of what to expect from "AI" but anyone who has used current "AI" for anything other than chat or search should recognize th
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by dmz73 1y ago
UTF8 is a horrible design. The only reason it was widely adopted was backwards compatibility with ASCII. There are large number of invalid byte combinations that have to be discarded. Parsing forward is complex even before taking invalid by
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by dmz73 1y ago
Runtime flexibility is not restricted to dynamically typed languages, it just happens to be less available in some of the popular statically typed languages. Error handling, expressiveness, testing culture, meta-programming and gradual typi
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by dmz73 1y ago
I don't know what I am doing wrong but nothing written in Python has ever worked for me. I download the .py repo from from github or wherever and try to run it - errors. I try to install missing libraries pip this and that - errors. I
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by dmz73 1y ago
I don't like to be seen as defending Microsoft, they definitely have their share of faults, but as far as business goes, I think Microsoft is the least likely company to screw you over as a (business) customer. Microsoft has kept old s
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by dmz73 2y ago
They always had that option but somehow it was cheaper to ship there and back than to manufacture in US. So either you get 2x the tariff increase in price or you manufacture locally for something that increases the price by more than 2x shi
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by dmz73 2y ago
>Can we all stop pretending that they don't abuse of their power and hold your deepest darkest secrets indefinitely? Even though most of us are law abiding citizens. I don't anyone know who thinks powerful don't abuse thei
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by dmz73 2y ago
What is currently advertised as AI (LLMs) cannot replace all software developers. It is a tool that can make software developers more productive so there will be less need for low level positions but there will still be a substantial need f
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by dmz73 2y ago
I have a really hard time understanding why people like 0 based indexes. They are a relic of C style arrays that are based on and interchangeable with pointers which use offsets that are naturally 0 based. Use in later languages gives us e
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by dmz73 2y ago
Like everything in life, it depends... For example: Storage has 5 items that need to be processed. 5 items need to be split equaly between available processes. There are currently 0 available processes so 5 / 0 = 0 items to be processe
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by dmz73 2y ago
"Fixable" in computer hardware has for many years meant that the computer can be disassembled without having to melt glue and that memory, network card, and disk can be replaced without having to replace the motherboard. GPU and C
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by dmz73 2y ago
Why should all other companies and developers spend money to help $2T company make even more money when it was that company that broken all the existing software? Apple users will through their money at Apple every opportnity they get but w
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by dmz73 2y ago
LLM can only provide statistically most likely diagnosis based on the training data. If used by the experienced doctor LLM can be a valuable tool that saves time and maybe even increases accuracy in majority of cases. The problem is that LL
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by dmz73 2y ago
There is something disturbing about your take on this: 1) People who did the work do not deserve to be compensated. 2) Advertising is more valuable than the product being advertised. I am struggling to understand this mindset.
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by dmz73 2y ago
Mac OS calls home every time you execute an application. Apple is well on its way to ensure you can only run things they allow via app store, they would probably already be there if it wasn't for the pesky EU. If you send your compute
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by dmz73 2y ago
Isn't this how generative models are supposed to be used? Instead of generating a sub-par (no pun intended) logo myself, I get a model to build one for me. It is the same as using any computer software to achieve the goal - human is p
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by dmz73 2y ago
If you look at the history of the last 2000+ years in Europe and Asia, invading sovereign nations (or whatever you want to call the equivalent over that period) is pretty much the norm...so not crazy. Is it violating the standard of human d
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by dmz73 2y ago
Look, either you force everyone to be open to competition and interoperable or you allow everyone to lock down. How would you like all other manufacturers to do the same as Apple? BMW, VW, Ford, Mercedes, GM ec all have their own petrol sta
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by dmz73 2y ago
There has been a major shift in IT culture between 2010 and 2015 where the general mindset went from "Let's see if we can make computer do this" to "How can we stop the computer from doing that". This is most obvio
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by dmz73 2y ago
The biggest plot hole is why would machines need to stay on or below the surface of the Earth. They could launch themselves into space and get all the (solar) enery they could want that way.
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by dmz73 2y ago
The problem is with smoking, you can go "cold turkey" and the cravings will go away after a while and you just have to avoid starting again. Not easy but achievable. With food, you cannot stop eating so no "cold turkey"
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by dmz73 2y ago
If Apple was honest they would tell users that if/when they buy things on the iPhone it will cost them 30% more. Then we would see how many people would go out of their way to save some money and how many would keep paying 30% more for
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by dmz73 2y ago
Unfortunately their strategy of being the smartest involves making sure no-one else can make better system on a Mac. I you are the only game in town, you are by definition the best.

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