switchbak

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by switchbak 4d ago
I had exactly the same thoughts. I often have similar thoughts on other benchmark sites, where supposed performance is way off base from my experience. I’m not sure what the methodology of these are, but they certainly don’t match what I ex
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by switchbak 4d ago
I’m shocked that’s still possible, shouldn’t we be able to fix that at the browser level?
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by switchbak 4d ago
Yes, I use the messing Chinese models extensively. Like you, I very much appreciate them and sometimes prefer them. But there is a bar of complexity at which they fail, and repeated invocations typically doesn’t make much progress. This is
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by switchbak 4d ago
I dunno, I felt less human when I had to take days to do large scale menial refactors. I felt more like a minion or borg member back then. Now I feel like I’m middle management aboard a star destroyer. Lateral move?
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by switchbak 4d ago
Yeah, you and me both. Look at it on the long scale of history, change is a constant. Everything is impermanent. It’s not our choice to have this forced upon us, but it’s our choice as to how we adapt. Or not. Personally, I’m choosing to be
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by switchbak 4d ago
Sonofa, it’s like those corporations are the KGB or something. It’s getting really hard to keep up on all their shady shit.
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by switchbak 4d ago
I didn’t say async/await need language features (though they usually do), I meant that high level async orchestration can be represented with suitable language features - often in ways that are more interesting than async/await. “
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by switchbak 4d ago
I’m trying to hear what you’re saying, but using these Marxist cliches makes your statements a little off putting to me.
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by switchbak 4d ago
That’s only one metric. It doesn’t matter how cheap it is, if it continually fails to solve a problem. Yes they’re getting better. No, I don’t think this will be a panacea. If only for the fact that this is China (more specifically the CCP)
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by switchbak 5d ago
Why do people bother with this llm stuff? Is it to mine the karma system? It’s so obvious and clearly dumb, I don’t understand the point otherwise.
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by switchbak 5d ago
These higher level primitives that they mention provide the primitives for exactly that. This can be found in other paradigms besides async/await. I do find that the ergonomics of this are highly dependent on a few features of a langua
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by switchbak 7d ago
I presume you're trying to be friendly here, but your first couple sentences come off a bit harsh. I like that he's well into his life and still enjoying writing (or authoring, or whatever we call it now) code, and looks forward t
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by switchbak 7d ago
You've added a similar response like 5 times, but I don't see you adding more information. Yes - model hosts can do nasty things to you aside from changing the underlying model. That doesn't mean it's cool to have them c
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by switchbak 9d ago
And the Nvidia Shield is also hot garbage in this regard. I suppose my next device is an Apple TV or some kind of home brew Linux box.
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by switchbak 9d ago
I guess you could remove the wifi antenna, or otherwise brick the wifi reception ability (faraday cage, lead block, etc). Or - just boycott LG. I'll never buy any of that corporate espionage nonsense, ever. Also: the US intelligence ag
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by switchbak 9d ago
You have a unique code, don't they already have a log of your coming and goings? But I would absolutely not install an app for that.
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by switchbak 9d ago
I think we could have a little more sophistication than just a binary full|zero access. Hell, a lot of corporate IDS's are better than this (not a high bar).
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by switchbak 12d ago
Kind of begs the question: how long until they maintain persistent access to servers that they've acquired and now run themselves. Ie: some kind of dumb model running on their own remote instances, whose job is to host the platforms th
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by switchbak 12d ago
“ Defense is hard so we should expect agents to be able to break out of sandboxes.” I worked at a large networking company a few decades ago. Our “sandbox” was far superior to anything I’ve seen at these companies. What are we even talking
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by switchbak 12d ago
Can you say more about what kind of model you see this as?
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by switchbak 13d ago
I've had cars pull out in front of me, giving me less than a second to stop. A rear brake in that scenario would just skid, and I'd be in a world of hurt. For that matter anything but a pair of high-end brakes would have put me in
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by switchbak 14d ago
If it talks less like a robot, I’d call that a win!
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by switchbak 14d ago
The sibling reply to this is just such lazy thinking, such a trite cliche. Yes, all members of a generation are bad, end of story. Can we get back to the war between the sexes now?
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by switchbak 15d ago
Personally, I wouldn't want to ride a bike with only rear brakes - or do you also have a front brake with these?
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by switchbak 15d ago
Anyone quoting Poe's Law is clearly just a Nazi. ... For those that can't see the sarcasm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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by switchbak 17d ago
We're always staring at the apocalypse though. It is really worse than during the Cuban missile crisis? Also: you can justify just about anything by inspiring panic. I'm not buying it.
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by switchbak 18d ago
Hey I grew up super environmental and I have plenty of hippie cred, but this statement gave me shudders "the only real solution is a one world government". Yeesh, yeah a single government, surely nothing could go wrong.
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by switchbak 19d ago
That’s what I meant by go all super nerd. I don’t want to fight with: my phone, my car, my router, my desktop/laptop, dishwasher, home automation system - just to pull out the surveillance and adware they’ve jammed in there. Life is to
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by switchbak 19d ago
The Shield sucks too, unless you go super nerd and fix all its problems. They treat your home screen like a billboard, and I have no faith that they're not stealing all my data either.
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by switchbak 20d ago
“changing data once its running in production is hard, changing the data structure is even harder” 100% agreement on this. There are a class of optimizations that can happen transparently. Those can happen at any time, and are fine to defer

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