rowyourboat

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by rowyourboat 24d ago
All of this sounds just like any air crash investigation I ever read
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by rowyourboat 1mo ago
What one pager, what words? This story needs more context if it is going to make sense
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by rowyourboat 1mo ago
Which poses the question: Why does Google even need to catch up? At least currently, the name of the game is integration. The actual model is a commodity.
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by rowyourboat 1mo ago
That's not really a fair comparison, no? Modern LLMs are much more capable than GPT-2. We'ld need a modern LLM trained on exclusively old data, and that might be impossible
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by rowyourboat 2mo ago
We know very little about how psychological drugs work in general. Having to try multiple things to find one that works well for you is par for the course
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by rowyourboat 2mo ago
No, it can't. It's going to be an interesting legal challenge. Also, the European Court of Justice has, to the best of my knowledge, not ruled on this yet, either. The fact fight isn't over.
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by rowyourboat 2mo ago
> there's no way for it to tell the button to cancel the color change No, but what should happen in cases like that is that the on-click handler disables the button while it is unresponsive. This will communicate the fact that the b
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by rowyourboat 3mo ago
You're being sarcastic, but...
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by rowyourboat 3mo ago
I guess that's why I burned out as a manager: I do not get a sense of accomplishment when my team achieves something
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by rowyourboat 3mo ago
> No fluff, just the document in a shape the target audience expects I see what you did there
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by rowyourboat 4mo ago
Gaaa. Those short sentences. The style. Has this article been written by AI? I can't stand it any more.
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by rowyourboat 5mo ago
> An AI-driven sensor activates and wall emitters blast infrasound waves toward the source of the fire in an attempt to put it out What, exactly, is the role of AI in this context?
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by rowyourboat 5mo ago
> always the poor specs But that is fundamentally what agile is about. It's not about coding faster, it's the recognition that the specs are incomplete or wrong because fundamentally, a lot of customers cannot tell you what the
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by rowyourboat 5mo ago
This shows, once more, that humans are bad with modes. You have two copies of the repo, one in a transaction and one not in a transaction. The problem is that the thing you use to build the transaction can also be used to directly manipulat
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by rowyourboat 5mo ago
> The people using GenAI reap a major time and cognitive effort savings, but the task of verification is shifted to the maintainer. The people using GenAI should be the ones doing the verification. The maintainer's job should not me
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by rowyourboat 5mo ago
1 and 2 are really only an issue if you vibe code. There's no reason to expect properly reviewed AI assisted code to be any worse than human written code. In fact, in my experience, using LLMs to do a code review is a great asset - of
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by rowyourboat 6mo ago
So, that would make this GNU/Windows
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by rowyourboat 7mo ago
Remember when OpenAI was about not-for-profit AI development for the betterment of humanity?
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by rowyourboat 2y ago
Disabled does not mean you need a caregiver
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
I think you are confusing rings with discs. Larry Niven is the one doing the spinning
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
> There is also a parallel legal reality - that people have the right to free speech. The right to free speech only means you can't be prosecuted for what you say. It does not compel any private entity to distribute everything that
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
Those are your basic rights: You entered into a contract with the airline, and the airline failed to deliver. Of course you get your money back if the alternative solution is not satisfactory - whether or not the ticket was refundable doesn
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
I'm always so confused by the advice to go to bookstores to meet people. What kind of bookstores do you guys go to where the customers talk with each other?
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
Count me among those who don't see the problem. I believe that there are people who are upset by it, but that alone does not justify prohibiting it.
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
Slippery slope to where, exactly? I genuinely don't see it
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
Card counting isn't cheating, it's how you play card games.
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
All Chinese cars I've seen for sale here so far had infotainment systems and pointless use of touch screens.
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
It's a bit larger, more in the range of the 777 than the 787. Roughly, it used to be A330 vs 767 and A340 vs 777, the A330 and the 777 were the winners in these segments. The 787 was built to beat the A330, and it did, and the A350 was
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
My top spot for ugliest airplane remains occupied by the PZL M-15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor A turbine-engined biplane for crop dusting.
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
I am surprised again and again that people are surprised that animals, and social ones at that, have thoughts and emotions and relationships. Have you never been around animals? Do you truly have believe humans are that special?

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