throw46365

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by throw46365 2y ago
I'm not insinuating. I'm asking. It's a pretty reasonable question for both of them. Perhaps more for the CFO, given what we know of Altman's, er, lack of candour with the board where money is concerned. But maybe given
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by throw46365 2y ago
When the iPad came out, people actually mostly said it was just a big iPhone. It is, in fact, pretty much still just a big iPhone. It turns out that's enough for a lot of people.
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by throw46365 2y ago
It's odd how unexcited Apple people often sound when they say they couldn't be more excited .
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by throw46365 2y ago
> Palm CEO on the iPhone This quote pre-dates the iPhone by a couple of months. So it doesn't remotely qualify as a "failed product" comment. It's just a bad prediction. (And it's not that bad: the iPhone launche
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by throw46365 2y ago
Honest question: Do they not each worry they are each, in their own way, going to be Linda Yaccarino?
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by throw46365 2y ago
The lesson I learned from the dot-com era is that people who are dependent on the hype to make profit will crane their necks to believe the hype. Salespeople, executives, engineers, it doesn’t matter. Every day on HN reminds me a little mor
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by throw46365 2y ago
Right. I mean... I sometimes think that Webpack is a malign, inscrutable intelligence! :-) But at least it's supposed to be deterministic. And there's a chance someone else will be able to explain the inner workings in a way I can
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by throw46365 2y ago
But not the now, quite obviously. Colour me cynical but I don't feel like pretending the future is here only to have to have to fix its blind incompetence.
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by throw46365 2y ago
Indeed, and presumably well before 1965, which is when Greater London was created. Most of the non-disambiguated High Streets will be in the Greater London boroughs (Bromley, Bexley etc.) When I was a kid, Bromley was already a London borou
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by throw46365 2y ago
Free idea: a website called But Humans Also, where one collects bad justifications for applying LLMs. <mid 2000s product specialist> the dot-com is available!
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by throw46365 2y ago
The "zen" of LLMs is that they do not see a real distinction between these two things, or either of these two things and success ;-)
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by throw46365 2y ago
I dunno. I tend to annoy people when taking on jobs by telling people what I am concerned about and do not understand, and then sharing with them the extent to which I have managed to allay my own concerns through research. I turn down a lo
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by throw46365 2y ago
> You could say the same about the output of a compiler. Except, for starters, that you're not using the LLM to replace a compiler. You're using it to replace a teammate.
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by throw46365 2y ago
> I don't think this is indicative of people who don't know what they're doing. I think this is indicative of people using "AI" tools to help with programming at all. I think using AI tools to write production co
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by throw46365 2y ago
One day... building a 4x5 is next.
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by throw46365 2y ago
I shoot digital, and only black and white film, these days. (I need to build a darkroom so I can print again) But the thing that really hooked me deep into photography was 6x6 transparencies from a Rolleicord. Velvia, incident light meter,
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by throw46365 2y ago
I am pretty certain I am a Weird Nerd. I have good reasons to consider myself neurodivergent (and others do consider me such). There are definite divergences that have caused me problems. I have what people consider "superpowers"
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by throw46365 2y ago
TBH I cannot, which is why I talked of doubt in the quantity comparison, and it’s a fair point to pull me up on. My broader point was that people associate film with chemicals often because they have been within sniffing distance of a darkr
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by throw46365 2y ago
Digital cameras use more (and much worse) toxic chemicals. It’s just that you don’t get involved with them personally. I doubt most digital camera owners ever shoot enough to get to the point where there’s an environmental net benefit compa
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by throw46365 2y ago
Well, it will never achieve the economy of scale it had. So it will always be more expensive. But the same is true for art inks, I imagine.
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by throw46365 2y ago
I don’t think I can answer because again I think I would not put myself in that position. I am going to retreat from this argument because this entire topic has me questioning my planned career change away from development towards training.
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by throw46365 2y ago
It’s more perfect than digital. Consider this about the original slide: it was physically there with the photographer when the photograph was taken. It is stained with the chemically-captured energy of the actual light that bounced off th
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by throw46365 2y ago
Unless I am mistaken in my reading of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act#Legislativ... suggests it went through the parliament in a now pretty normal way. They used a tripartite approach earlier in
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by throw46365 2y ago
> Would you be opposed to replacing human tutors then? Yes. > If your answer is yes, (in some flavor of "protecting and helping the jobs of those who teach), I would argue your ethics are focused on the wrong group. Teaching is f
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by throw46365 2y ago
I wouldn't put myself in that position. When the question is of the form "what do you think about the ethical implications of using AIs?" and the quick answer is "humans also make mistakes" I think the entire premis
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by throw46365 2y ago
Humans have their drawbacks ? I have to say, I really urge you to consider the nature of your framing here. As you can tell I am quietly (or maybe not-so-quietly) appalled by the zeitgeist around generative AI, but even if I were not, I ho
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by throw46365 2y ago
> You changed it from "every" to "any". I changed nothing, sorry. It's just a British English colloquial word choice -- I don't think there's much semantic difference and I didn't intend it. But yo
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by throw46365 2y ago
> Having moved from the US to a Westminster country, I have to say that even British MPs can look an awful lot like rubber-stamp voters. The system is set up to punish them severely if they dare to seriously endanger anything the cabinet
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by throw46365 2y ago
Yes I don't need explaining that encryption is maths and letters can be encrypted. That is pretty obvious. (Postal inspectors the world over would assume evidence of a crime.) > No, it is on the people who want new powers to justify
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by throw46365 2y ago
> They were there for their PhD, not as a professor in training which would have made your position more understandable. Right. Not all TAs become professors. But at a first approximation all professors have TA experience; it's gene

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