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by latchup 7mo ago
> If employment is violence, we should end it. But then almost everybody would die. You need to try out for the jumping to conclusions olympics team, that was an impressive leap there! Jokes aside, we can absolutely reject the basis of o
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by latchup 8mo ago
It has very little to do with trust and a lot to do with the realities of hardware implementation. Every interconnect has a minimum linear transfer granularity that properly utilizes its hardware links, dictated primarily by its physical li
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by latchup 9mo ago
> Bubbles bursting aren't bad unless you were overinvested in the bubble. That's what I am trying to say: every big technology player, every industry, every government is all in on AI. That means you and I are along for the
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by latchup 9mo ago
Games tend to avoid FP64 compute as Nvidia has always gimped it in consumer GPUs, so you are somewhat lucky there. "Lucky" as in, you get to enjoy the broken-ass, glitchy FP32 physics that we've all grown to love so much. How
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by latchup 9mo ago
I don't think anyone seriously believes AI will disappear without a trace. At the very least, LLMs will remain as the state of the art in high-level language processing (editing, translation, chat interfaces, etc.) The real problem is
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by latchup 9mo ago
Well unfortunately for you, it has a precisely defined and well-understood meaning for all those not covering their eyes and ears in denial. Quoting Merriam-Webster: > Digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity b
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by latchup 9mo ago
It also works for Open Sans, on my Linux system at least. Probably only works for fonts that are installed and/or can be licensed for this.
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by latchup 9mo ago
Well good for you. Then I suppose you don't speak for the Debian maintainers responsible for trainwrecks like this: https://research.swtch.com/openssl There seems to be a serious issue with Debian (and by extension, th
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by latchup 9mo ago
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop... and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703#158 Needless to say, Zawinski was more than a little frustrat
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by latchup 9mo ago
Well, there are big differences in how aggressively things are patched. Arch Linux makes a point to strictly minimize patches and avoid them entirely whenever possible. That's a good thing, because otherwise, nonsense like the Xscreens
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by latchup 10mo ago
"Our" politicians? What makes you think I am American? Of course Switzerland is less dysfunctional than the US, that wasn't the point of discussion at all (and an extremely low bar to begin with). It was to show that direct d
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by latchup 10mo ago
How about that time in 2020 the Swiss voted in favor of an immigration restriction proposal that was so fundamentally incompatible with existing EU treaties, the government was forced to bullshit their way out of implementing entirely becau
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by latchup 10mo ago
I am going to assume your question is genuine and not rethorical hyperbole. Every sovereign nation has legal supremacy over its own territory. Any company doing business in the EU, no matter its origin, must follow EU laws inside the EU .
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by latchup 11mo ago
That's a downright insane comparison. The whole problem with generative AI is how extremely unreliable it is. You cannot really trust it with anything because irrespective of its average performance, it has absolutely zero guarantees
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by latchup 11mo ago
> So what about all these huge codebases you are expected to understand but you have not written? You do not need to fully understand large codebases to use them; this is what APIs are for. If you are adventurous, you might hunt a bug in
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by latchup 11mo ago
Multiple reasons: * Gen AI never disagrees with or objects to boss's ideas, even if they are bad or harmful to the company or others. In fact, it always praises them no matter what. Brenda, being a well-intentioned human being, might o
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by latchup 11mo ago
> Anything that requires actual brainpower and thinking is still my domain. I just type a lot less than I used to. And that's a problem. By typing out the code, your brain has time to process its implications and reflect on importan
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by latchup 11mo ago
Unfortunately, your reasoning has an enormous hole in it. A huge part of a product's quality is how it fares over time, i.e. how many years it lasts and how much it costs to maintain. Sadly, this either takes time or a realistic assess
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by latchup 11mo ago
Are you sure? Based on what? All I see is people desperately throwing money they don't have at AI like a gambling addict who just converted their child's college fund into chips. Call me a buzzkill here, but my bet is you aren&#x2
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by latchup 11mo ago
I think you missed the point. The EU is "winning by doing nothing" whereas the US is liable for the huge failing investment it made. US economical growth is now entirely reliant on AI, so an AI crash guarantees immediate recessi
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by latchup 1y ago
Is that a moon? No, that's your survivorship bias! Jokes aside, congratulations on slipping and falling up the summit, collecting not a single bruise to your ego or soul along the way. I am genuinely happy for you.
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by latchup 1y ago
> If a company is so broken that promotions are decided based on factually incorrect information, there's nothing to do other than escape to a different company. To me, this means that every traditionally run company (top-down) must
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by latchup 1y ago
> One of the reasons companies get dysfunctional is low- & mid-tier managers seem to be allergic to the idea of laying out what the priorities are and provide feedback on whether people are working on them or not. Have you considered
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by latchup 1y ago
As with all forms of verbal abuse, the presence of a power imbalance is paramount. And since we abolished slavery, it is about as high as it gets here. What an employee says about their boss generally has zero implications on their career
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by latchup 1y ago
Right. In this case I am talking about a "hard" fork, where core contributors disagree on where a project is headed and split up with no intention of collaborating further. Of course, forking with the intent of merging back contri
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by latchup 1y ago
> Open source handles conflict by forking. I wouldn’t call that good coordination. Forking is far from the first step in conflict resolution; it is the ultima ratio between projects in the open-source world, when all dialogue breaks down
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by latchup 1y ago
There is more to choosing a job than money. No engineer likes being managed by incompetent assholes, and the best engineers also get to choose the best managers. And the bar for those is, sadly, quite low.
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by latchup 1y ago
Unlike IOS itself, most IOS jailbreak tools and package managers are open-source and auditable, as are many of the unsanctioned applications commonly used on jailbroken devices. The fact you nevertheless refer to this software as "dodg
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by latchup 1y ago
To be fair, the technology sigmoid curve rises fastest just before its inflection point, so it is hard to predict at what point innovation slows down due to its very nature. The first Boeing 747 was rolled out in 1968, only 65 years after t
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by latchup 1y ago
> Successful people aren't bitter, that's a trait that losers develop. >So, basically, you think all the pro-AI folks are "bad," and defensive because they feel like anti-AI folks are attacking the thing that makes

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