enneff

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   by enneff 16d ago

   Have you considered that by adhering to the arbitrary rules of grammar you are forgoing a realm of poetic opportunity?
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   by enneff 16d ago

   What does OK stand for?
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   by enneff 1mo ago

   I think the point is that tremendous complexity can arise from relatively simple mechanisms. That is what life is, at many levels. I’m not at all convinced that the current LLM approach will yield something we can broadly call consciousness
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   by enneff 2mo ago

   What’s the point of books? Can’t you just watch a movie?
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   by enneff 2mo ago

   The equation is different if the life saving surgery couldn’t be performed otherwise. Still pretty crazy and I don’t know how comfortable I’d be with it if I were the patient.
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   by enneff 2mo ago

   I’m horrified to imagine a blood pump or any life support system being network connected, or to rely on the precise time of day in order to function correctly. Accurate time keeping for anything in this realm can and should be done without
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   by enneff 3mo ago

   I had a great evening with a friend playing through TIS-100 together. We plugged in two keyboards and mice so we didn't have to pass them back and forth.
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   by enneff 3mo ago

   I used to run tomsrtbt ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomsrtbt ) from a floppy on an old 486 hooked up to a monitor and keyboard for use as a terminal. Was nice and silent, pretty convenient to be able to just turn the
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   by enneff 3mo ago

   I don’t understand why you wouldn’t like raisins? They’re pretty much just sugar.
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    by enneff 3mo ago

    Or you could dump the power into a realllly loud horn
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    by enneff 4mo ago

    For one thing it’s statically typed and has many fewer foot guns than Python, so the llm-produced code is more likely to do what you expect.
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    by enneff 4mo ago

    Haha thank you! This had been mildly bothering me for a while actually.
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    by enneff 5mo ago

    I have been writing my own custom software for myself for over 30 years. But in the last six months I have written a lot more of it because the language models make it so much faster and easier to do so.
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    by enneff 5mo ago

    It’s not that the calculator was more than what students need, it’s that even for what it was the TI83/84 was way overpriced. It could have been like $20 at the scale they were produced.
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    by enneff 5mo ago

    This is why you have modern circuit breakers.
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    by enneff 5mo ago

    I think perhaps I was unclear. I don’t mean the entire dev environment should mirror prod (although it’s great if you can do this for end to end testing). I just mean it’s desirable if the process you’re working on operates the same way in
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    by enneff 5mo ago

    In my experience having different serving paths for dev vs production is a recipe for annoying issues. I try to make dev as similar to prod as possible. I’m not sure, I don’t dismiss fcgi outright here, I find the arguments for it compellin
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    by enneff 5mo ago

    I think it’s helpful to try to use words that more precisely describe how the LLM works. For instance, “intent” ascribes a will to the process. Instead I’d say an LLM has an “orientation”, in that through prompting you point it in a parti
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    by enneff 5mo ago

    Presumably you’re also using a browser to view this web page. There have also been vulnerabilities in that. You have to draw a line somewhere.
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    by enneff 6mo ago

    Yes and if they copy and paste code they don’t understand then they should disclose that in the commit message too!
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    by enneff 7mo ago

    It’s a quote from the movie Kindergarten Cop.
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    by enneff 7mo ago

    I haven't yet - just generally I have found it a bit of a hassle to figure out which packages to install whenever I use a different distro. I'll let you know how it goes!
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    by enneff 7mo ago

    Thanks for doing this. I had basically the same experience with Lima. It is very nice but the defaults are not what I want, and I don't like having to wonder whether I turned off the stuff that I don't want enabled. Better that
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    by enneff 7mo ago

    > part of the polygraph test involves a blood pressure cuff which is put on EXTREMELY tight, far more so than any doctor or nurse would ever put it on. It is left on for the entire duration of the test (approximately 8 hours). My entire
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    by enneff 8mo ago

    I don’t know. I wouldn’t have thought of myself as proxying other people’s traffic by carrying my iPhone around. (For one thing, it’s my own phone that initiates all the activity- it monitors for Apple devices, the devices don’t reach out t
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    by enneff 8mo ago

    By “your traffic” you mean device location reports? Or something else?
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    by enneff 8mo ago

    How is Find My a proxy network?
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    by enneff 8mo ago

    You might consider why this article which has nothing to do with AI as you know it (except for the machine learning aspects of Gaussian splatting), and was produced by a huge team of vfx professionals, has made you think about AI democratis
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    by enneff 9mo ago

    Why? Life for an individual is long enough IMO. Death means renewal. Our children are better than us.
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    by enneff 9mo ago

    There is also the threat of the server sending a data sequence that exploits a vulnerability in your terminal. It has happened before, but it’s rare.