ergonaught

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by ergonaught 11d ago
I want to read it, because it’s interesting. And yet. https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/the-revolt-of-the-re...
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by ergonaught 20d ago
It exists. You're wrong. Update. Thanks.
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by ergonaught 1mo ago
In ancient days, I printed out the original and hung it on the wall by my computer. This one I'd regret wasting space in my trash.
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by ergonaught 1mo ago
While it would certainly help, you perhaps underestimate the numbers of young people who would vote in support of continued irreparable damage.
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by ergonaught 2mo ago
Similarish trajectory, and I bought the "new" C64 as soon as it was available and display it proudly. I started with a Vic 20 first (and Gorf), and I learned assembly as soon as I could finish entering all the damn numbers (ie: LA
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by ergonaught 2mo ago
It's a well done and thought-provoking article. The reality is that most humans do very little actual thinking of their own anyway, and, if you believe that what LLMs produce constitutes a form of intelligence, it does seem "more
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by ergonaught 2mo ago
I asked it a question about indoor carbon dioxide levels (wholly innocuous question), which it flagged as involving biology, therefore downgraded to Opus. It's a pretty good strategy if they're hoping to fail as a business, I gues
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by ergonaught 3mo ago
emacs -nw takes about 2 seconds on my mac. I don't use server/daemon, and those 2 seconds are processing my startup elisp files (it's ready nearly instantly without prepping my junk).
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by ergonaught 3mo ago
A government sign off on release potentially reduces liability/exposure if the models can do what it says on the box. I’m sure Anthro wants this applied to everyone and not only them, but there is a potential benefit to them.
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by ergonaught 3mo ago
I'm sure that's a fine take if you decide that "Massively Multiplayer" doesn't mean "Massively Multiplayer".
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by ergonaught 3mo ago
I guess we'll just call anything MMO now.
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by ergonaught 3mo ago
> Users don’t care Suppose one proved that a sizable mass of people don't care whether they eat dog food. There are people who won't feed them dog food even so. There are people who will see ways to extract more profits. > j
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by ergonaught 3mo ago
It still amuses me, but Andrei's books were the "last straw" that pushed me away from C++ for many years. Great books, truly, and they helped cement the notion that I wanted to move on to a different language. (Go, at the tim
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by ergonaught 4mo ago
The GPL, unlike the BSD and such, intends to prevent the closing of distributed derivative works. LLMs trained on GPL code can produce derivative works without any enforcement mechanism. You may be fine with that, but the GPL is not a publi
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by ergonaught 4mo ago
I've bought (and cracked open) more programming books in the past year than I had in the previous 10. I'm nobody?
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by ergonaught 4mo ago
You could have just said “No”, if you had to say anything at all, rather than continuing the behavior. Actively rude.
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by ergonaught 4mo ago
If you can't do the job without AI, you can't do the job. Spoiler alert: if you can't do the job, you're not going to be doing the job much longer.
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by ergonaught 4mo ago
Adding your own garbage to someone else's URLs is in fact the problem. Could they handle your garbage better? Sure. Is your garbage still a problem? Yes.
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by ergonaught 4mo ago
"He's old and I don't like what he thinks therefore he is wrong" contributes nothing useful to anyone. Richard's remarks have plenty of gaps to drive a reason train through, but this isn't that.
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by ergonaught 5mo ago
The sooner you understand the models are not intelligent (yet?), the sooner you can avoid acting like it’s their fault.
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by ergonaught 5mo ago
Memories! I loved Galway and Hubbard (and tigers and bears oh my etc). They managed to do some really interesting things under the constraints. Still love listening to some of it, today.
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by ergonaught 5mo ago
Much of the USA accepts "gun deaths" as an unfortunate but acceptable price that must be paid for the widespread freedom to own guns. When those same people are hysterical about Protecting The Children, you should understand that
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by ergonaught 5mo ago
"The Moral" section seemed to quite explicitly state the "real point".
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by ergonaught 6mo ago
> I would assume this could be described in a formal language The assumption is the first problem, no? If the formal language is complete, it must be inconsistent. If it is consistent, it must be incomplete. If the language is incomplet
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by ergonaught 6mo ago
In much the same way that buying produce makes you a great farmer.
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by ergonaught 6mo ago
A few years younger than OP, and started programming somewhere around 1982. The technology is obviously interesting, the capabilities are fascinating. I use LLMs a very large portion of every day. The problems, as ever, are 1) what negative
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by ergonaught 7mo ago
Why the constant chasing after universally applicable generalizations? Some of them are pandering. Some aren't. Some care. Some don't. Businesses with ferocious funding needs are vulnerable to pressure (internal and external) to d
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by ergonaught 7mo ago
Not the first time I've read descriptions of this kind of behavior (let's call it social conformity) presented as perfectly normal, and I read comments (here and elsewhere) that largely confirm this is normal. It's pathologic
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by ergonaught 7mo ago
1) "Good idea, terrible implementation". Wrong incentives. 2) "They know the letter of the law, but not the spirit." No common shared understanding of the purpose/point/value motivations. 3) "Time marches
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by ergonaught 7mo ago
It seems to be adept at reviewing/editing/critiquing, at least for my use cases. It always has something valuable to contribute from that perspective, but has been comparatively useless otherwise (outside of moats like "exclu

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