thisisthenewme

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by thisisthenewme 2mo ago
I kind of think the AI boom is the worst for (non-inference-providing) companies. If all companies are using the same "frontier" LLMs, and if they are competitive, what gives one an edge over the other? I think, just the people. W
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by thisisthenewme 3mo ago
i feel like ai would be very beneficial here. use ai to create massive amount of fake facebook accounts with fake picture and fake friends. meta wants all the data so we give them more than they would ever care about. make it impossible for
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by thisisthenewme 3mo ago
When a researcher discovers that smoking is damaging to the lungs, do they need to provide a solution that allows people to smoke without damaging their lungs? Would their inability to provide a solution take anything away from the research
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by thisisthenewme 4mo ago
potentially to stop bad actors from poisoning datasets by just adding the filter to real pictures?
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by thisisthenewme 4mo ago
I have a new personal policy of avoiding any products that advertise to me blatantly. Yes, use these trucks, force me to watch the ads and help me avoid these products forever.
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by thisisthenewme 4mo ago
As a developer, I kind of feel like this all smells like job security. After using LLMs for a while, I have to admit it's pretty nice, and I like using it. I've been vibecoding a few apps, and it's a good dopamine hit to imme
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by thisisthenewme 5mo ago
Migrated from archlinux to nixos. I don't think I can use anything else now... I have a CI at home that builds my nixos config on a weekly basis with the latest flake. The artifacts are pushed to atticd. With this setup, when I actuall
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by thisisthenewme 8mo ago
My unproven theory is that agent skills are just a good way to 'acquire' unspoken domain rules. A lot of things that developers do are just in their heads, and using 'skills' forces them to write these down. Then you fee
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by thisisthenewme 9mo ago
I guess it's pretty much impossible to stop these companies from gathering data, there's too much money in it, it's too easy to implement, and there's no cohesive force to stop them. I'm wondering whether a crowdfun
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by thisisthenewme 1y ago
Big fan of devenv. I moved away from a Docker-based setup for local development at work to devenv. At least on macOS, the Docker setup was making my machine too hot, and the performance wasn't really the best. With devenv, the transiti
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by thisisthenewme 1y ago
I find the belief that government is the only limit to wealth creation very intriguing. I also find it interesting that the talking points usually contrast "free markets", which I assume represents the best case, with just "g
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by thisisthenewme 1y ago
Is there an upper bound to the creation of wealth? Is it infinite? Are there any limits to its creation? Is there any inherent value to it without being able to "transfer"?
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by thisisthenewme 2y ago
I feel like AI is already changing how we work and live - I've been using it myself for a lot of my development work. Though, what I'm really concerned about is what happens when it gets smart enough to do pretty much everything b
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by thisisthenewme 2y ago
Why do we think its Elon 'doing' this? Just curious, since it could just as well be that its the engineers and other leaders who could be the differentiator.
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by thisisthenewme 2y ago
And could this be defeated because the video itself is static and identifying the ad would then be around the unexpected changes to it? :D
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by thisisthenewme 3y ago
I've started using worktrees recently and I have nothing but praise for it. It's especially useful to me because I work on multiple features and want to reduce friction from context switching. I basically have a structure like `&#
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by thisisthenewme 3y ago
I recently started using Ledger this year, and I've been really impressed with its utility for me. I think, for my personal needs, https://pypi.org/project/ledger-autosync/ is a must-have. I don't want c
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by thisisthenewme 3y ago
I find it even more interesting that people are defending either corporation. Neither of them is our friend, and they do what happens to be profitable. The core problem here is that Apple has a significant market share in the US, and for on
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by thisisthenewme 3y ago
You can still choose automation. The easier route for me is to use wallabag to save the article. Then on my remarkable tablet I can grab a very readable document with https://github.com/koreader/koreader . One other opt
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by thisisthenewme 3y ago
So much missing context here, at least for me. What is the rollback they are talking about? Is it in terms of something new in google chrome? From what I can tell, they are looking for certain amount of ads 'injection' to come fro
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by thisisthenewme 3y ago
Not depressed but just makes me question the value of our existence. If we are truly able to create machines with our intellectual potential, where does that leave us? Do we compete with the machines in a rat-race for a chance at happy exis
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by thisisthenewme 3y ago
FWIW, Firefox and uBlock on my Android phone will always keep me on that ecosystem. My desire to go into the Apple ecosystem (because of supposed privacy protections) faded as soon as I learned I can't really have a good ad blocking so
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by thisisthenewme 3y ago
Is the issue you have with the group of people doing the moderation, or with the idea of the moderation in the first place? Are you certain that its the 'SV engineers' that are doing the current moderation? If you think the proble
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by thisisthenewme 3y ago
So on the side of wanting easy access to American data - - People in the gov who want to monitor the general populace for dissent - Power hungry individuals and governments - Governments wanting to learn about their foreign adversar
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by thisisthenewme 3y ago
> The DoorDash and Grubhub lawsuit claims the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection’s analysis of the regulation would add an average of $5.18 per order. I'd rather have them charge the $5 than be guilted into p
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by thisisthenewme 3y ago
The dark net growing alongside the regular web is very interesting albeit worrisome. What helps one side helps the other, and the thing that hurts one also hurts the other. That's the main reason I really don't want Google or anyo
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by thisisthenewme 3y ago
I think I'm less worried about AI taking over but rather some people taking over with the help of AI. I think at the current rate of AI research, Law doesn't seem to be able to keep up and that makes it vulnerable. I think I'
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by thisisthenewme 3y ago
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr... That graph places software engineers in the top-right quadrant, suggesting that they are predictable and "grammatical". However, I believe
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by thisisthenewme 4y ago
> Also a lot of problems in society seem to be linked to wealth disparity. Dystopian visions of the future are almost always dystopian due to wealth disparity. Who’s working on solving that? >> The communists. Didn't work out
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by thisisthenewme 4y ago
This seems a bit scary because of its potential impact on me as a Software Developer. On the other hand, I'm also very excited to use this in personal projects and for learning. At least at its current state, however, it doesn't s

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