jrm4

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by jrm4 4d ago
That's wildly impractical advice for many. Just use Firefox, or Chromium if you must.
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by jrm4 5d ago
This feels like trying to do "Hacker News, without 'the Internet.'"
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by jrm4 6d ago
Sure. Now, how to deal with the entirely plausible situation where there needs not be any separation between the developer and the customer at all , thanks to AI.
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by jrm4 10d ago
Oh, so "programmers" really ARE losing the plot. You kids don't get it, it's not about the tokens, it's about the principle of the thing. No self-respecting real programmer would accept the loss of even a few tokens
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by jrm4 11d ago
"Without explanation" I mean, sure, it would probably be embarrassing to have to say "because this was extremely stupid and nonsensical and entirely due to the weird hangups of the present guy in charge."
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by jrm4 11d ago
Once again, all models are wrong, some are useful. I suppose this one "fails" because of "granularity?" I'm personally getting more comfortable with the "kabillion dimensional space" one. Even before the r
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by jrm4 11d ago
This is pretty much the new Sony rootkit, no? And disconcerting, because nothing was done to Sony for that deliberate release of harmful code.
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by jrm4 11d ago
Am I missing something? Unless you have infinity money, would it not be very stupid to pay for "precise greps?"
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by jrm4 12d ago
At the risk of being all "I am very smart..." It seems like it would be a mistake to say things like "it was for science and not religion" or vice versa. Additionally, also seems like it would be very hard to say "i
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by jrm4 13d ago
What you're slightly more realistically looking for here is for publicly available data to have a Fair Use exemption for certain uses, which is certainly something worth discussing.
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by jrm4 18d ago
A genuine question, does anyone here actually use KDE Connect as a daily driver to actually keep in touch with people? I would love to but, for example, when I'm on a university campus the possibility of keeping those two devices conne
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by jrm4 18d ago
It seems absurdly naive to rely on "oh, the cloud AI of the future will definitely be as open and priced the same way it is right now." And not "Hey, these companies have a history of giving you something nice now, and rugpul
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by jrm4 18d ago
To go a bit broader -- has anyone else developed something like the following reaction: When I see reviews of anything that points at taking shots at one of the big boys, and the reaction is dismissive and negative -- I immediately doubt
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by jrm4 19d ago
I quite literally cannot remember anything I've ever read as simple and correct, on the topic of UX/UI as this. I tend to deride UX/UI as almost a joke because it nearly never understands that fashion and science are differ
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by jrm4 19d ago
Big picture, it kind of blew my mind a few years ago when I realized this: If one concern is the surveillance panopticon thing, it's mitigated by the fact that online advertising itself is a business "fraught" with the fact t
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by jrm4 20d ago
Yup. See also why many care more about dogs and horses than pigs and cows, etc.
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by jrm4 23d ago
Ha, Microsoft Flight Simulator is the most uncanniest valley thing I think I've ever played with; I'm from Tallahassee and it's weird to fly around a very high-fidelity, realistic, inaccurate version of a city I've lived
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by jrm4 27d ago
Yeah, the more I let this roll in my head, it just reaffirms how we need to be vigilant about trying not using "human" terms around these things. Both "cheating" and "hallucination" fit this. It's like try
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by jrm4 27d ago
Step one is understanding that you're not "communicating," which implies "reliable understanding." "Communication" is not what they do, because they are not people. You're sprinkling words about hacki
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by jrm4 27d ago
I think this is a great argument against their "intelligence," and explaining why this happens is a really good way to push against the anthropormophization. They don't "know" things, and it's even fair to sa
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by jrm4 27d ago
Wow. So I'm a college instructor (in IT) and you're nailing what I'm trying to defeat to the best of my ability. I do an intro class, and I think most everyone around me believes that my job is to "go over the technolog
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by jrm4 1mo ago
Blah blah blah. Here's my theory. There is no such thing as "general intelligence." Only "skills."
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by jrm4 1mo ago
Correct. I appreciate the theoretical technology here, but I believe a great deal of harm is done by the fact that people are not likely to understand exactly what this means. Which is to say, I believe that google is strongly implying the
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by jrm4 1mo ago
Strongly believing it should only be two is symptomatic of the worst ideas in UX/UI. Pretty much one of those tiny steps toward "Idiocracy." Do not hide what the machine is doing from the user in this way, this is how so many
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by jrm4 1mo ago
I cannot stress enough how good of an instinct I think this is; many of my long term nerd decisions over the last 20 years or so have "paid off" in ways that I literally don't know how to put a money value on. Not priceless
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by jrm4 1mo ago
Right, but to a complete casual like me, what you're saying and what the op is posting as a new thing, seem really similar. I point my phone at a thing and click. One or more lenses take picture(s), software magic happens to the pictur
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by jrm4 1mo ago
I kind of mean if you're in "spaces where people appear to be fancy" or similar? Like physically go in. Though I think talk works too, actually.
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by jrm4 1mo ago
This is absolutely it, and it's something I try to impart to college students. What programming language you learn, or what you put on your resume, or even how you dress and speak at e.g. job fairs all pale in comparison to. "Who
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by jrm4 1mo ago
It's so easy to make fun of the cringe on LinkedIn, that, well, itself is kind of cringe. Here's what I've realized is interesting about LinkedIn, though. Yes, you're going to get heavily filtered and perhaps self aggran
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by jrm4 1mo ago
Hey folks, a bit of a hijack; but I've taken to using the Kobold gui, which I'm liking much more than Ollama -- but are there any major benefits to going straight up llama.cpp? Yes, this is somewhat of a question about laziness.

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