michaelcampbell

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by michaelcampbell 3mo ago
> while being only marginally better. It's only marginally better in the things it's actually comparable to. A\ models are MUCH better in many more things; eg: things Kimi/etc. didn't distill. For those things the di
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by michaelcampbell 3mo ago
Safety from what? Competitors? That sounds like a product decision. They're puking on any requests that could be used to create LLMs or competitive products.
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by michaelcampbell 3mo ago
> I plan on using this as a sort of benchmark for future AI discussions: "how do you plan on separating data from instructions?" I'm reminded of the thing that HN drools over constantly with LISP languages.
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by michaelcampbell 3mo ago
To a corporation?
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by michaelcampbell 3mo ago
> It's similar to the gates quote about RAM (I think it was 64KB?) 640, and Bill Gates said he either never said that, or at least never remembered having said it. I think there is no evidence anywhere that he did. https:/&#
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by michaelcampbell 3mo ago
How much time is `(random-uuid7-bytes)` taking?
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by michaelcampbell 3mo ago
> But then why not just use Rust? The BEAM?
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
> With cronie the system needs to be running at the scheduled time, but systemd timer tolerates this and runs the service as soons as the system is available. Cronie doesn't have a `@reboot` meta-trigger?
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
Is your deliberate misspelling of "Macintosh" spell-check or the same sort of intransigence that compels some people to misspell "Micro$oft" thinking they're clever?
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
> The mandatory graphic GUI... What do you reckon the "G" in GUI stands for, out of curiosity?
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
Presumably a bunch of Adolf's did too, prior to, you know, the 1930's.
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
> character creation in the rpg classic traveller. This is half the game. I fondly remember a few "game days" in the early 80's with some friends spending hours "rolling" Traveller characters. Partly because it
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
> Turns out the humans weren't so bad after all... The people pushing AI _over_ humans never thought they were. They just don't care about 'good' or 'bad', only 'time-to-market'. A bad app making
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
There are "show hn" submissions for things that people just want to show off multiple times a week.
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
I've worked with companies whose infosec dept. is little more than "see tool alert, ask user what's going on", and then keep searching for the right _tool_ than injecting any human agency in that loop. If any role is rea
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
> the “Ox” in the name is to evoke “oxidizing” Hah, I was reading it as `0x`, a common prefix indicating hexadecimal, though I can't say my brain made any leap as to why "0xCAML" would be any more hex than standard.
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
> Many of my professors were from other countries. I literally wouldn’t have an education without immigrants. Curious take; do you think if there were a no-immigrant law on the books those professorial positions would have gone completel
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
Ouch, that is awful.
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
There's an old, but good, set of browser plugins called "don't fuck with paste" that helps a little, at least.
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
As a purchaser of many Udemy courses (and yes, there are good ones), I'm waiting for the enshittification to begin.
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
"this is AI" is the new "This is shopped", but without the "I can tell by the pixels" rejoinder. I mean sometimes they're right, but honestly in this day and age does that even matter?
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
Were you attempting to give us an example of the Goombah Fallacy? Because this is a picture perfect one.
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
I'm reminded of a comedian's bit I heard recently (he does a lot of "crowd work") > So, what do you guys want to do? Feel like pooling all the cash we have and going to Trader Joe's to buy an apple? (TBH, I thin
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
> You're absolutely right. The problem was so small that SO only had to make a site-wide survey, make a couple of public statements, big administrative changes and a big campaign to earn hearts and minds back. The SO population decl
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
I think there's a continuum here, too. I've heard it said, in jest, mind, that LLM's square the dev. It turns a 1.5x dev into a 2.25x dev, but it also turns a 0.75x dev into a ~0.56x dev. I think the exponent of 2 is probab
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by michaelcampbell 4mo ago
> I’ve personally can’t remember the last time there was an outage that prevented me from doing work. You and I are in different domains. It's not daily, but I can't remember the last time I (in my company) went a week WITHOUT
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by michaelcampbell 5mo ago
I do exactly this for the half dozen or so ports that I do care to remember.
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by michaelcampbell 5mo ago
Don't forget the "..., and no one/nothing is <verb>ing" clause.
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by michaelcampbell 5mo ago
It goes to https://dyne.org/cjit/tutorial.html for me, and very much works as I would expect it to (chromium engine browser, MacOS)
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by michaelcampbell 5mo ago
The trust is dead, though. Not by all, but not by none either.

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