jdbernard

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by jdbernard 4mo ago
To provide a counterexample, my parents always had a handyman growing up. I think they still do. Not the same guy through all the years, but they've always managed to find one.
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by jdbernard 6mo ago
LibreWolf can work with Mozilla Sync, they just disable it by default.
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by jdbernard 6mo ago
Does anyone?
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by jdbernard 7mo ago
> Just because someone else's AI does not align with you, that doesn't mean that it isn't aligned with its owner / instructions. This is still part of the author's concern. Whoever is responsible for setting up a
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by jdbernard 1y ago
Maybe, but even so workflows like this don't exist in a vacuum. We have to work within the constraints of the organizational systems that exist. There are many practices that I personally adopt in my side projects that would have benef
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by jdbernard 1y ago
The solution is not to deny yourself the tools of persuasion or "manipulation" but to be authentic and transparent. It's deceptiveness that makes influence or persuasion manipulative, not the tools and techniques.
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by jdbernard 1y ago
The combination of these things you're mentioning is one of the main reasons, at least for me, that WFH is so much more productive. A lot of tech companies have evolved a culture and built offices that are in opposition to doing good w
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by jdbernard 1y ago
It seems obvious to me, but there was a camp that thought, at least at one time, that probabilistic next token could be effectively what humans are doing anyways, just scaled up several more orders of magnitude. It always felt obvious to me
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by jdbernard 1y ago
Same. I don't hate it, but I do hate that things changed out from underneath me without any notice, opt-in period, or ability to go back.
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by jdbernard 1y ago
They don't deserve punishment. But they should understand that this is not just "their product" but it is also my tool. Tools like this do not need to change and absolutely should not change without there being prior notifica
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by jdbernard 1y ago
I think it is a result of the impersonal "contact us" intake forms companies have all moved to. You have no indication that you aren't just screaming into the wind. There is no personal touch. So you take to social media wher
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by jdbernard 1y ago
I don't use tmux because I have to. I use it because I love the way it works. The issues the author of the article and Kovid Goyal raise are not issues for me in practice. If something is built that better suits my needs, I'll b
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by jdbernard 1y ago
This feels like one of those "not obvious until you've seen it in production" requirements: any production-ready logging framework should have a mechanism to delay parameter evaluation until after the threshold/destinati
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by jdbernard 1y ago
You're getting down-voted, I think, because you're missing the point. I would argue that the "I use Vim, btw" articles are themselves proof that there are still people for whom Vim is actually more performant. Similarly,
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by jdbernard 1y ago
If the AI actually outperforms humans in the full context of the work, then no, we won't. It will be so much cheaper and faster that businesses won't have to argue at all. Those that adopt them will massively outcompetes those tha
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by jdbernard 1y ago
> but the second one doesn’t, the vowel is still there! Isn't the "a" in "have" elided along with the "h?" Shouldn't've Should not have What am I missing?
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by jdbernard 1y ago
Yes it does, it's just dressed up in corporate speak: > Our vision at Meanwhile is to build the world's largest life insurer as measured by customer count, annual premiums sold, and total assets under management. We think we ca
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by jdbernard 1y ago
The harm I imagine would be the reputation damage from people believing that "they are intentionally trying to mislead people into thinking that they are the developers of VLC." NoahKAndrews, having been informed that these really
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by jdbernard 1y ago
I hit 40 this year. I have definitely noticed a slowdown even in the last few years. Before 30 I could pull 2-3 all-nighters a week without really feeling any ill effects. Then, maybe early-to-mid 30's I could only handle one per week,
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by jdbernard 1y ago
> >parents have a duty to feed, clothe, house etc them. > But this duty is not because their children don't have money. The duty is because they are family. I'd like to live in a society where we extend this duty to the s
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by jdbernard 1y ago
This is the thing to me. I'm sympathetic to the concern of people taking advantage of others, but if the government is forcing children to be there (which we are), and already having to bear the cost of funding these schools generally,
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by jdbernard 1y ago
Their experience is not universal as I also went to High School in Texas in the early 2000's and not only were we allowed to eat on school grounds, if you were old enough to have a license you could drive off campus for lunch as long a
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by jdbernard 2y ago
I've been a Caps -> Escape-er for years now. Recently, as I've moved to Walyand and KDE Plasma, I saw that their advanced settings support Caps -> Esc / Ctrl: Esc when pressed, Ctl when held. I've been considering
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by jdbernard 2y ago
I misread your original comment. I read "true AGI" where you said "true androids." I agree. Other than the control system, everything else is already there, or at least understood. But I think we are much farther away fr
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by jdbernard 2y ago
Lol what. We can't even define "true intelligence" and you're telling me the "mechanics" are already solved? What do you even mean by that statement?
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by jdbernard 2y ago
The problem with using fiction as a discourse about possibilities is that fiction is governed by the rules of the author's mind, not the rules of reality. So the fidelity of the model being used to drive the discourse is directly depen
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by jdbernard 2y ago
Lol, Georgetown isn't really a suburb of Austin. It's a separate city that is almost as old as Austin, home to the oldest college in Texas, and is the seat of an entirely different county. So yeah, there are a few places to gather
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by jdbernard 2y ago
This argument is very prone to survivorship bias. Of course, when we think back to the hyped technologies of the past we are going to remember mostly those that justified the hype. The failures get forgotten. The memory of social discourse
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by jdbernard 2y ago
I acknowledge that this is an emotional response and emotions tend to be blunt instruments that don't really come with detailed reasons. > how can one, even in theory, make more and more money every year and remain positive for soci
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by jdbernard 2y ago
> I'm not saying that C.AI is completely blameless here I know we're several decades into this pattern, but it's sad to me that we've just given up on that idea that businesses should have a net positive impact on soc

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