einpoklum

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by einpoklum 3d ago
> Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? Because you're using an application which presents those ads to you. Avoid Google/Alphabet application as much as is possible, and you'll see a lot less / none of this kind of
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by einpoklum 3d ago
I read your first sentence as: > Everyone who writes enthusiastically about AI already has the benefit of not having worked with AI ... because if you really do, and you actaully a capable developer, you become much less enthusiastic.
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by einpoklum 3d ago
So, more people are excited for the vision of Idiocracy to be fully realized.
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by einpoklum 3d ago
"Write me a blog post about AI make no mistakes!"
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by einpoklum 3d ago
That looks like a very useful way to convert one's obsession with holding on to old computers and tinkering with them to a socially-education experience. But who will keep the keyboards clean from all of the crud that collects over the
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by einpoklum 3d ago
> no special compulsion to be helpful or truthful. I'd phrase that even more strongly: It's not just the lack of compulsion, they do not have a conception of truth. Nor do they gain it, really, after post-training.
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by einpoklum 4d ago
Regardless of NVIDIA and LLM/AI, the claim that inflation is caused directly, or without-fail, by an increase in money supply - is not well founded. A significant money supply increase may very well have a tiny or possibly even negativ
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by einpoklum 5d ago
I have a couple of questions: 1. Wouldn't writing everything from scratch mean a huge waste of effort? And can they really expect to replicate a lot of functionality for C++, Java, Rust, etc. that in other IDEs relies on libraries and
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by einpoklum 6d ago
> Most software, when you strip away the branding and architecture diagrams, is remarkably boring. Lost me right there.
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by einpoklum 7d ago
I thought that title belonged to bombing campaigns and coups by shady guerilla groups.
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by einpoklum 7d ago
> Your personal AI agent that gets things done More like: "Our personal spy on your life that can manipulate you much more deeply than we ever could with just Facebook."
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by einpoklum 7d ago
Crazy idea: Just get a regular round watch :-P Even better idea: Get a Casio FX-91 [1]. You'll get used to its shape pretty quick - like the 100 Million other humans who already have. Good chance it will still be produced 30 years from
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by einpoklum 8d ago
> This problem doesn't arise with C++ lambdas because you pass them around as special objects, not as bare function pointers. If they don't capture anything, I believe you _can_ pass them as bare function pointers.
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by einpoklum 8d ago
> It is certainly heading down the same route as Wikipedia with all the problems that entails. Can you elaborate on what that means? i.e. what aspect of Wikipedia, and in what way Fandom is heading there?
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by einpoklum 8d ago
> Way to help your users Dear Jim, At Google, our intent is to help our stockholders, not our users. Sincerely, Alphabet inc.
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by einpoklum 9d ago
> gaining a direct border with Russia If you mean EU borders - it's had direct border with Russia since 1995. If you mean in the sense of placing NATO troups on border with Russia, that is indeed recent, and definitely a concern,
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by einpoklum 9d ago
> But if Meta is truly interested in prioritizing the safety of users Why would it be interested in that? It's interested in increasing shareholder profits. > It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta What, like in t
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by einpoklum 9d ago
tl;dr: 1. Choose a small fragment of the language 2. Adapt an existing interpreter 3. Use a tool to shorten the code, 'minify'
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by einpoklum 10d ago
Just like LLM-generated blurbs are now a cliched trope, so are short blog posts about people experience in a world with a lot of LLM usage. And this is one of those.
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by einpoklum 10d ago
It can be better, if the alternative mechanism is designed with safeguards against hijacking by a single state. Naturally, the threat of sanctions can always bully banks or states into acting one way or another, but at least it would not be
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by einpoklum 10d ago
This is unfortunately nothing new. The hegemonic power defines resistance to it as criminal, terrorist, immoral, heathen, satanic, reactionary etc.
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by einpoklum 10d ago
> This is why Europe needs to detach itself from the American banking system. So far, what it's detached itself from its sources of fossil fuels. With a little help from its great American friends.
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by einpoklum 11d ago
> The viral analogy does not imply that LLM-human interactions are intrinsically parasitic. The analogy doesn't, but LLMs are trained on text, or content, generated by humans, with the aim of their output being acceptable to human
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by einpoklum 11d ago
> In Europe people generally use “Europe” and the EU interchangeably. I guess you don't wander out of your office in Brussels much.
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by einpoklum 11d ago
> UPFs include: > * Ultra-processed whole wheat bread > * Ultra-processed yogurt products > * Literally all baby formula > * Ultra-processed plant-based meat replacement > * Ultra-processed hummus brands (again: stabilizer
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by einpoklum 11d ago
The more things change, the more they stay the same, it seems.
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by einpoklum 11d ago
Your website seems to conflate "Europe" with the EU. Can you clarify, here and on the website, whether the data remains: * in _EU member state_ sovereign territory * in _European states'_ sovereign territory * on the contenti
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by einpoklum 11d ago
This looks like the Go of keyboards. If I hit the keys encircling a group of other keys maybe I can flip their color 8-|
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by einpoklum 13d ago
So, what I said is true: You recommend using Google's phones and Google's app store. Maybe in the future you'll recommend other phones, so it'll be less bad, but for now - you've verified that the "inaccurate s
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by einpoklum 14d ago
Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for providers of apps you may want/need only put them on the Google store. Example: ProtonVPN.

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