flembat

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by flembat 7mo ago
When purchasing any ARM based computer a key question for me, is how many of those can I purchase for the cost of a Mac mini, and how many Mac mini can I purchase for the cost of that, and does that have working drivers...
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by flembat 8mo ago
I have a couple of earlier RISC V systems that were advertised as nearly desktop performance: I always like unconventional systems, but cant find a reason to like these, they are much slower than similar priced arm systems, the software&#x2
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by flembat 1y ago
This is why I will never get in an AI plane.
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by flembat 1y ago
That is quite a confession from AMD. It's not X86 at all, just every implementation. It is not like the ARM processors in Macs are simple any more, thats for sure.
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by flembat 1y ago
I have had gemini running as a qa tester, and it faked very convincing test results by simulating what the results would have been. I only knew it was faked because that part of the code was not even implemented yet. I am sure we have all h
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by flembat 1y ago
Look at computer systems that cost 2000 or less and they are useless at running LLM coding assistants for example locally. A minimal subscription to a cloud service unfortunately beats them, and even more expensive systems that can run lar
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by flembat 1y ago
The execs need to try actually using AI and verifying the correctness or lack of it in the results, THEY need to be more savvy about what AI is able to do. And if the results are garbage, and it wastes time rather than saves time they must
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by flembat 1y ago
You will find development much faster if you use a computer. Bad joke I know, when I was a kid I wrote out my programs on paper first and at the college you had to submit on paper so the county mainframe could run them and send back the res
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by flembat 1y ago
There is a solution for young people they should look at this demographic disaster and realise they need to have children for the sake of their own future. Meanwhile the next generation or two to retire is going to have a very grim time sur
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by flembat 1y ago
In the UK You don't get paid for lunch which is why real white collar hours worked are more like eight to six or a lot longer. And typically you get to work through your unpaid lunch, while your contract says 37.5 hours and 'any o
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by flembat 1y ago
Let's be real the goal was just to write some rust.
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by flembat 1y ago
I let a popular agentic ai refactor some code for me today, it looked really nice, but despite the fact that it was meant to be splitting a file full of functions that already compiled and worked it rewrote them all and broke them comprehen
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by flembat 1y ago
I think it's the antivirus and security protection that makes windows slow at opening apps. As for people saying the M series macs are slow, those are the first macs that felt fast to me in many years.
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by flembat 1y ago
When workers save time, through automation, they are expected to complete more work. They don't get paid more. It is still the same job. Of course the employer benefits. The reason productivity does not increase is all the incidental
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by flembat 1y ago
When the puppet pulls back on his strings.
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by flembat 2y ago
Really great idea, I currently work for an AI, compiling and debugging its code, at least that's what it sometimes feels like. Who is the agent here exactly? The fact that the AI has no understanding at all of what we are doing, and do
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by flembat 2y ago
Must be all the cholesterol they warned us about. I am sure we were told not to eat eggs. Well cool hand Luke eat them and he had a long and healthy life.
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by flembat 2y ago
FAA post authorised the alien drones to fly out of the sea and hover over people's rooftops. case closed and no lies told.
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by flembat 2y ago
Orlando springs to mind, the pavement just siddenly ends and people who see a couple walking with a kid pull over and offer assistance, from personal experience.
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by flembat 2y ago
People who renounce contamination from digital content will be paid by AIs to answer their questions on simple terminals.
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by flembat 2y ago
I needed transformers to talk to a local copy of Qwen, and a GUI, using tkinter on macos intel ventura. It all worked eventually. I have not got the AMD GPU to work yet. I don't hold python in anyway responsible for the GPU problem. Th
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by flembat 2y ago
Well I was describing what I actually experienced last week. I did get my script to work after hours of faffing around, your article may have been one of the articles I read, in any event thanks for writing it. There is no way I would descr
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by flembat 2y ago
Write your python, run script, find missing import. Install missing import, find that you actually need a different version of python as the import does not understand the latest version yet. Find that the import depends on various other im
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by flembat 2y ago
The irony is that an LLM that knows more about most topics than most teachers, and most parents, and can patiently discuss any topic one to one, is a superb way to learn new information. Its early days, right now, children need to be taught
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by flembat 2y ago
I would like to see this new knowlege used to generate tiled desktop wallpaper. Also does this tiling seem like a form of compression?
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by flembat 2y ago
Free speech, should not just be for people we agree with. Although I agree conspiracy to commit a crime is something else. My point was that AI faked content could certainly get you locked up in the UK.
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by flembat 2y ago
An individual is not responsible for the culture or government in the country they live in. In the UK a government was just elected with a historical absolute majority by only ten million people, and now first time offenders are being sent
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by flembat 2y ago
It was a long time ago, but I vaguely recall using a standard graphics extension on CP/M. It had a lot of gray scale fill patterns and could draw geometric shapes on a bitmapped display. I was using a z80 system on green monochrome dis
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by flembat 2y ago
Is there a font to use that contains these? I am really glad to see them. In the past when hoping to write a game in a terminal I found only one space invader symbol.
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by flembat 2y ago
It helps a lot if you use a strongly typed language with a strict compiler and get the LLM to write plenty of tests. Then you need to understand that the tests are logically correct. The LLM is also good at documenting the functions, so you

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