snoman

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by snoman 6d ago
> this yolo approach would give me constant dread. When you’re completely ignorant, there’s nothing to be afraid of.
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by snoman 11d ago
That actually hasn’t been my experience. For all that I dislike about LLM code, it maintains comments well.
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by snoman 17d ago
Create a permanent underclass that is unable to access intelligent machines. That’s remarkably dystopian of you.
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by snoman 21d ago
> Enforcing culture is not something I believe is possible. > … the culture is driven by incentives and rewards for behaviour… Not sure what your definition of enforcing is… but it doesn’t have to be by actual force.
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by snoman 21d ago
Meanwhile, I have the opposite problem. An errant word or phrase and they hang onto it forever, completely corrupting all future work because they can’t ignore irrelevant (or wrong) details/errors of their own design.
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by snoman 21d ago
To some extent, the AI may have adopted some of the expressions because they were in its training corpus enough (ie. People used these expressions before). Might be attributable to Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon instead of people copying AI.
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by snoman 2mo ago
As they say: in IoT the S stands for security.
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by snoman 2mo ago
Additionally I think there is something to the idea that they are trying to undermine foreign competition as a stall. They can’t compete economically for geopolitical reasons right now but they also can’t let American firms dominate the res
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by snoman 3mo ago
If the government is going to gate access to frontier models from here on out, even if new releases are a step function change… which they’re not… then it may be even more comparable to what’s available with a subscription.
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by snoman 4mo ago
Considering that engineer never reliably estimated anything beyond a few days remotely accurately before… but now they can…
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by snoman 4mo ago
As one that does, it’s a difficult discussion to have with the executives. My peers look like their teams are producing more than my teams are and any argument along the lines of “but their code sucks” isn’t going to hold water. The executi
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by snoman 4mo ago
1. And some that are equally skilled that don’t. It matters, internally, to them but it needn’t matter to anyone else.
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by snoman 5mo ago
I wonder if there are different use cases. You sound like you’re using an LLM in a similar way to me. I think about the problem and solution, describe what I need implemented, provide references in the context (“the endpoint should be struc
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by snoman 5mo ago
I agree with you, but my gut tells me that a lot of people don’t know what a good outcome should/could look like and are accepting whatever it delivers.
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by snoman 5mo ago
I just sync down everything from my wife/kids’ Google Drive/Dropbox/whatever nightly to my NAS. Usability of a cloud solution, but with on-prem backup.
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by snoman 5mo ago
That’s so shockingly ignorant/reductive that you shouldn’t be surprised when people start ignoring you in technical conversations.
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by snoman 5mo ago
That sentiment always comes from people who are better at fighting with communication.
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by snoman 6mo ago
My understanding is that, if you directly assist someone violate a ToS, you can be held liable. Bad analogy but the getaway driver doesn’t need to enter the bank to be guilty in the robbery.
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by snoman 6mo ago
Yes.
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by snoman 6mo ago
That explains why it is always/only wanting to play stuff that I listened to recently, or in 2023.
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by snoman 6mo ago
> What is sure is that a lot of capacity is been built and that capacity won't disappear. They really are subsidizing what will be an incredibly healthy used server equipment market in a year or two. Can’t wait. My homelab is going
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by snoman 7mo ago
It only has to be right once. Humanity won’t end until it does.
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by snoman 8mo ago
But nobody trusts AI. Whenever I leave my circle of engineering people and am along the general public, I hear nothing but contempt for it.
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by snoman 8mo ago
I honestly think that the windows phone development experience is where Microsoft majorly shit the bed. The sheer volume of breaking changes (and the severity of those breaks) meant rewriting a non-trivial amount of your app from version to
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by snoman 8mo ago
It’s almost like people that use the tools to the best of their ability will produce higher quality outputs. This is a new tool like we’ve never seen before with a low skill floor to use it. We don’t know what the skill ceiling is yet.
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by snoman 9mo ago
Maybe you’re the person I’ve been looking for but I’ve yet to find someone that actually maintains a zettelkasten that isn’t a researcher/author and doesn’t come to the conclusion that it’s a huge waste of time and energy.
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by snoman 9mo ago
My reading of it also violates the Boy Scout Rule. That is to say: if improving some portion of the codebase would make it better, but inconsistent, you should avoid the improvement; which is something that I would disagree with. I think ad
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by snoman 9mo ago
Less of a concern these days with hardware like a Mac Studio or Nvidia dgx which are accessible and aren’t noisy at all.
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by snoman 9mo ago
Are trying to say it’s not possible to write terms that give them the ability to sync your history without also letting them mine and sell all the insights from it?
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by snoman 10mo ago
There’s probably some compliance requirement that it’s technically possible to set it up without an internet connection, so they leave it there, but make it unreasonably difficult for a majority to do it.

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