mercer

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by mercer 3d ago
Adolfler would've been even worse.
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by mercer 12d ago
bad in relation to what?
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by mercer 28d ago
wave wand
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by mercer 2mo ago
Since the switch to Wero, I've noticed that I need to do an extra, seemingly pointless click. it's not iDeal!
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by mercer 2mo ago
I imagine they do have 'real solutions' that are a bigger problem to some than their inability to govern is...
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by mercer 3mo ago
sadly, over here in the netherlands and I assume elsewhere, the job as a postman changed drastically when they privatized. room for the human element has been all but squeezed out for profits long ago.
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by mercer 4mo ago
> People can finally put a name on an unease that's been growing inside them for a while now. I've had some interesting conversations about the pre-AI slop and how the distinction is often not too meaningful. I mean, on some le
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by mercer 4mo ago
I'd say I'm pretty attuned to detecting AI content and I was fooled a few times at inattentive moments. I imagine a lot of people fare worse, assuming they even truly mind whether it's AI or not.
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by mercer 4mo ago
I recall some documentary came out or was announced? maybe that has to do with it?
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by mercer 5mo ago
maybe 42 was just the end of sequence token...
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by mercer 5mo ago
A lifetime is not that long though, and I'd argue that TV was the start of a chapter that internet, iphones, etc. are just ever-increasingly addictive and immediate iterations on. I'm not saying that we didn't have anything l
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by mercer 5mo ago
would it make sense to just go for pandoc instead?
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by mercer 7mo ago
Hotmail is a good example too. I remember it being pretty ubiquitous, at least for the 'personal email' crowd, and it seemed implausible that people would give up on what was often their main email 'location' for another
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by mercer 7mo ago
that consideration seems to not have played much of a role so far though?
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by mercer 8mo ago
Do the big updates to Elixir's type system help at all? afaik the most recent update added a huge amount of coverage that should extend to older code automatically.
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by mercer 9mo ago
ngl
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by mercer 10mo ago
in some ways Elixir is a child of Clojure! > JOSE: Yeah, so what happened is that it was the old concurrency story in which the Clojure audience is going to be really, really familiar. I’ve learned a lot also from Clojure because, at the
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by mercer 11mo ago
wouldn't that still add a lot of value, where the person in the loop (sadly, usually) becomes little more than the verifier, but can process a lot more work? Anecdotally what I'm hearing is that this is pretty much how LLMs are he
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by mercer 1y ago
That's a brilliant short story right there!
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by mercer 1y ago
!
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by mercer 1y ago
I have the same experience, but with Snow Crash...
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by mercer 1y ago
Also don't forget the 'memory' feature. As LLM providers get better at tailoring the LLM to the user, and probably obfuscating the details on how this user-specific memory works, it will be harder to switch to another provide
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by mercer 1y ago
I'm somewhat skeptical, but also honestly curious: what game-changing applications came out of the blockchain/web3 hype craze?
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by mercer 1y ago
I get the impression after using language models for quite a while that perhaps the one thing that is riskiest to anthropomorphise is the conversational UI that has become the default for many people. A lot of the issues I'd have when
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by mercer 1y ago
Is that currently not allowed?
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by mercer 1y ago
Eschaton was just slop for the masses!
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by mercer 1y ago
And they recently open-sourced (among other things?) the Oban Web plugin!
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by mercer 1y ago
Interesting. I'd be mortified if things happened that way here, because I regularly forget to bleep items, and have quite a few time been checked in those cases. the only consequence was some embarrassment and the need to allow the emp
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by mercer 1y ago
see I just run emacs to get the same effect
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by mercer 1y ago
For me, I generally don't go far beyond the commands in the article, but I /do/ make a lot of use of git rebase -i in my branches.

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