mathw

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by mathw 20d ago
1) it absolutely isn't "uncensored" 2) absolute freedom to post whatever you like and have it shoved in people's faces by the algorithm is harmful 3) usually when people are "hungry for the raw, real truth" the
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by mathw 21d ago
That is exactly what it means.
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by mathw 29d ago
Are you living with your head under a rock. AI has absolutely made my life worse, and is set to do so further. I know very few people who are seriously enthusiastic about it. "All evidence suggests more AI is better" is ignoring a
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by mathw 29d ago
It took me far too long to realise that writing on paper is better than typing.
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by mathw 2mo ago
No we won't.
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by mathw 2mo ago
Everything looks brown, it's crammed together, those not-photos make it feel really cramped in the third column, it looks like every other AI-generated menu and it's lost the clarity the old menu had. And yes, there's a very
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by mathw 2mo ago
Also why do they have sea life in it at all, surely that's not something that's meant to be in the pool.
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by mathw 2mo ago
Yes, because LLMs make stuff up all the time. Still. Anybody who's using an LLM for search isn't serious about the answers.
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by mathw 2mo ago
You could just not use LLMs and retain your brain function.
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by mathw 2mo ago
If you can't review the code faster than you could write it yourself, write it yourself.
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by mathw 2mo ago
The only way to even start to counter that is to make it a firm company policy that if you use an LLM to hallucinate any documents you absolutely must thoroughly review them yourself before you send them to anybody else, and that you are st
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by mathw 3mo ago
Not much ROI, if any. My employer's been making some studies and come up with very modest productivity gains - so of course they want us all to use it, but I'm not sure they're taking the true costs into account. Especially n
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by mathw 3mo ago
Ah the good old "move the thing you're about to click on just before you click it" thing. Soooo many UIs have this problem and it is driving me crazy. I feel like there needs to be a rule that once you've rendered a clic
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by mathw 4mo ago
Exactly that - the headline is unsupported by the article, but works very well as clickbait.
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by mathw 5mo ago
And this changes over time, because for me cyan IS a basic colour term and I'm a native English speaker.
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by mathw 6mo ago
Your analogy with CI/CD is flawed because while not all were convinced of the merits of CI/CD, it's also not technology built on vast energy use and copyright violation at a scale unseen in all of history, which has upended t
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by mathw 6mo ago
Of course, nobody is claiming that there aren't lots of Firefox crashes which are caused by bugs in Firefox. Quite the opposite, based on these figures. What people find interesting is that the amount they're suspecting are down t
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by mathw 7mo ago
Reactive UIs may have been made popular on the web, where they're an absolute nightmare, but native code does them better still. Best time I ever had in a job was writing WPF applications in C# using ReactiveUI. Once we really understo
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by mathw 7mo ago
It would be excellent to reduce Windows memory requirements using the very tools which are making memory so expensive... Oh wait no that would be incredibly painful for everyone. Yes reducing memory requirements would be great but not at th
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by mathw 7mo ago
Maybe it's because there's no overall benefit to these things. There's been a lot of talk about it for the past few years but we're just not seeing impacts. Oh sure, management talk it up a lot, but where's the corr
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by mathw 8mo ago
It's a minor point but the Earth doesn't radiate all of that heat to equilibrium, that's why we have climate change.
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by mathw 8mo ago
Scaling up PV production to the point where we could convert the entire Earth's electricity generation to solar is incredibly significant. Yes there's the problem of intermittency, varying sun availability and so forth - which is
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by mathw 8mo ago
Less damage... with his CSAM-making bot. Yeah. Less damage.
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by mathw 9mo ago
Absolutely. Labour betrayed their core voters, who are looking for something else, but won't touch Reform UK because they're even more disgusting than the current right-wing Labour-in-name-only government.
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by mathw 10mo ago
Applying those things equally to people regardless of skin colour, gender identity, sexuality or any other line along which people have historically been discriminated against isn't important?
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by mathw 10mo ago
Come on, mercury vapour sounds like sooooo much fun! Where's your sense of adventure? /s
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by mathw 10mo ago
I'd dispute this, as I count myself as a tech enthusiast but I'm an enthusiast for tech which works well. I increasingly find myself having to put up with stuff that doesn't work well, and this AI investment instead of fixing
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by mathw 11mo ago
True, however if you want to be great on the world stage and have people look at you and say "wow they can do amazing things" I'm not sure landing on the moon really has much value. The obsession with beating China there this
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by mathw 1y ago
That's not actually what the reply said, it was extremely noncommittal as you'd expect. If you contacted one of your MEPs they might have a stronger opinion they'd want to promote, but the DMA team are just not going to rende
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by mathw 1y ago
Unfortunately for the LLM vendors, that's not what we're seeing. I guess that used to be the plan, and now they're just scrambling around for whatever they can manage before it all falls apart.

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