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by sly010 13d ago
I like how the article contains 0 useful information about the problem beyond the title.
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by sly010 14d ago
I think the turing test is still very much load-bearing — if you know what I mean.
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by sly010 21d ago
This whole thing reminds me of the "I am writing to inform you that a fire has broken out..." scene from IT crowd. It's ridiculously inefficient.
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by sly010 1mo ago
I hate to be pedantic, but if you are the _reviewer_ you do not control the authors claude skills. Sure you can push back a few times but in most teams I worked the author can just decide to get a stamp from someone else. Then as a reviewer
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by sly010 1mo ago
"Recovery" would be a more apt (although less catchy name). The stealing is on the provider side for not giving you access to tokens you already paid for.
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by sly010 2mo ago
> Deterministic AI. Aka, a computer program.
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by sly010 2mo ago
Beware, there are versions of go where sendfile is broken and only sends the first 4k of a file on macos.
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by sly010 3mo ago
> people over-rate how much software/IP is useful in running a successful business Indeed, by a couple trillions...
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by sly010 4mo ago
I don't think people doubt what AI _could_ do, they just have been through enough enshitification cycles to know this is not any different. Right now AI is better than Google but only because Google regressed so much. Market forces alw
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by sly010 4mo ago
No batteries!? Go has a huge stable standard library no other language even comes close to. Built in tooling for unit testing, performance testing, debugging, code formatting, package management, etc. And most go binaries can be compiled st
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by sly010 6mo ago
Then of course there is the whole fractal nature of software. As you add more detail, the arrows can flip flop around. Polling in a lower level of a stack can very much be used as a push mechanism. (e.g. USB interrupts are in fact the host
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by sly010 6mo ago
There is in fact a 3rd: build time dependencies. Control: Object/module/function A calls object/module/function B. Data: The call can either push or pull data. Build dependency: The call can be direct (A depends on B) or
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by sly010 6mo ago
... or the WM loads the compositor, or the WM links to a compositor library (i.e. wlroots). The point is there are options... Honestly, every time this topic comes up, I feel like the person complaining just doesn't want to put in the
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by sly010 7mo ago
> chosen to use fear and intimidation to help sell the agenda of the big tech CEOs who, in turn, have somehow managed to use coal-fired GPUs to capture society’s output and sell it back to us, while converting a significant portion of th
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by sly010 10mo ago
There is a 3rd party Android app that uses the accessibility APIs to (supposedly) track and limit my short video use. However, it's broken, so I can't watch short videos at all :)
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by sly010 1y ago
We get it. You are a manager.
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by sly010 1y ago
I've seen this image generated by meta AI. The prompt was something like: think of a room, make it look like anything you like, but do not in any circumstance put a clown in it. Guess what... I think Jason has a "do not think of a
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by sly010 1y ago
Sorry for the snark, but we couldn't even do this for humans, but let's do it for poor poor LLMs? It's kind of ironic that NOW is the time we worry about usability. What happened to RTFM?
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by sly010 1y ago
Genuine question: How does this work? How does an LLM do object detection? Or more generally, how does an LLM do anything that is not text? I always thought tasks like this are usually just handed to an other (i.e. vision) model, but the po
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by sly010 1y ago
Nah. You misunderstood. "They" don't make money on human time wasted. They make money on ads served. They don't particularly care if the ads were served to humans or agents, they get paid either way. Bot-traffic is actu
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by sly010 1y ago
First off, I always thought the type of things described (tracking mouse movements, keypress jitter, etc) are already done by ReCacpha to decide when to present the user with a captcha. I am surprised they are not already doing this. Second
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by sly010 1y ago
Math has a PR problem. The weight being non-uniform makes this a little unsurprising to a non-mathematician, it's a bit like a wire "sphere" with a weight attached on one side, but a low poly version. Giving it a "skin&q
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by sly010 1y ago
And just like optimizing compilers LLMs also emit code that is difficult to verify and no-one really understands, so when the shit hits the fan you have no idea what's going on.
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by sly010 1y ago
Very cool, but by css-rotating (skewY(-6deg)) the canvas at the last moment, you introduced aliasing on the border between the canvas and the rest of the page which kills the vibe. The browser can't automatically blend the canvas with
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by sly010 2y ago
Isn't that just true for vulnerabilities in general? Trust Zone is not a security mechanism, it's an isolation mechanism.
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by sly010 2y ago
I don't disagree, but funny that I recently made a point to someone that modern consumer embedded systems (with multiple MCUs connected with buses and sometimes shared memory) are basically small distributed systems, because partial re
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by sly010 2y ago
> The goal of programming is not to write code (however much I enjoy that part), it is to solve problems. Right, which is exactly why autocomplete is not a huge help.
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by sly010 2y ago
FWIW ink is not expensive, but traditionally the nozzles and electronics and the printhead are all bundled with the cartridge, making it expensive. The big companies now offer inkjet printers with ink and print head separate (eg Canon pixma
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by sly010 2y ago
Or you could say let's not normalize broken AI in health care related systems, but potato potato I guess.
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by sly010 2y ago
> I'm sure somebody has written a book already about how ostensibly wealthy societies can fail at basic infrastructure that they previously mastered, driven by greed and complacency and other socioeconomic factors. How about Foundat

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