totallymike

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by totallymike 5d ago
Ooh I like this one
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by totallymike 6d ago
This is a bad faith argument and the commenter knows it
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by totallymike 6d ago
My favorite genre of hacker news comment is when someone lacks sufficient imagination to wonder why something that’s commonly used by many people is still in use
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by totallymike 6d ago
Not a piano, and not relevant to the parent remark.
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by totallymike 7d ago
My favorite similar statistic is that the average human body contains more than one human skeleton
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by totallymike 17d ago
Why is cloudflare a problem?
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by totallymike 1mo ago
Are you asking if people use apps to get directions? I don’t have data to back this up, but I’d guess that nav integration is one of the most popular features of CarPlay and Android Auto. I depend on it for road trips, navigating to unfamil
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by totallymike 2mo ago
I’m gonna need you to explain yourself. What a strange choice
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by totallymike 2mo ago
I would advocate for changing the link to the primary source, rather than a reblog of Fabian Sanglard’s original work
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by totallymike 3mo ago
I trust that you can use your reading comprehension skills to understand that by referring to a famous example of LLMs producing garbage, I’m simply using it to illustrate the phenomenon at large, rather than to suggest that I am still stru
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by totallymike 3mo ago
It makes perfect sense to me. Type in a prompt like “how can I make the cheese on my pizza stringier” and maybe it’ll tell you to use different cheeses, but maybe it’ll tell you to add glue. If you don’t like the answer, don’t worry, they’r
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by totallymike 3mo ago
It was a red flag because artificial intelligence doesn’t exist, and anyone claiming to use it or work on it is either lying or delusional in thinking they could accomplish it. Nowadays people just say “AI” when they mean “LLM,” which is an
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by totallymike 5mo ago
What the fuck
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by totallymike 6mo ago
I couldn’t disagree with this more if I tried. The biggest benefit of the internet is to make it easier to talk to each other and share ideas. Putting financial gates in front of that ability is hot garbage. Also, I agree that the platforms
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by totallymike 6mo ago
“Objectively smarter” is the last descriptor I’d apply to software developers
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by totallymike 6mo ago
I’m confused. What about the footer are you referring to?
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by totallymike 6mo ago
Oh I think this lesson teaches quite a lot. Maybe your instructor is deliberately screwing up, but perhaps other end users are just not paying attention, or are missing assumed knowledge, or are feeling particularly adversarial on the day t
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by totallymike 8mo ago
I don't think anyone is suggesting one build Linux from scratch and then use it as their primary OS. The value of LFS is not in having the system you build, it's in understanding it. After you've read and worked through t
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by totallymike 9mo ago
At Apple’s scale, the likelihood of someone pulling any weird or shady nonsense that can be imagined is not potential, it’s eventual.
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by totallymike 9mo ago
A government-funded party would likely have an exploit or jailbroken firmware up and run in in days, if not sooner
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by totallymike 10mo ago
Folks in the comments here begging ChatGPT to teach them how to read
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by totallymike 10mo ago
> BTW, one archetype that I didn't see in the simulation: Angry Affluent White Male We redirect our AAWMness into our pedantry when we don’t want to wear it on our sleeves
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by totallymike 10mo ago
This is a subtweet in blog form. Without concrete examples or critiques it isn’t any more substantial than whining about “kids these days” Edit: I admit there are plenty of concrete critiques in the article, but if we’re supposed to stand u
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by totallymike 10mo ago
This feels less like changing the landscape and more like trying to stop a new neighbor from building a four-level shopping complex in front of your beach-front property while also strip-mining the forest behind. As for whether the Times sh
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by totallymike 10mo ago
jfc thank you for the context
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by totallymike 10mo ago
I can’t tell if you’re being satirical or not…
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by totallymike 10mo ago
They are still considered a paper of record, but I chose to use a hypothetical outfit because I don’t love the Times myself but I believe the argument to be valid. I’m not interested in arguing about whether or not they deserve to fail, bec
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by totallymike 10mo ago
I'm not a fan of NYT either, but this feels like you're stretching for your conclusion: > They hired "experts" who used prompt engineering and thousands of repetitions to find highly unusual and specific methods of el
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by totallymike 10mo ago
1-5: not a concern It'll be the lawyers who need to go through the data, and given the scale of it, they won't be able to do anything more than trawl for the evidence they need and find specific examples to cite. They don't g
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by totallymike 10mo ago
It sounds like the alternate path you're suggesting is for NYT to stop being wrong and let OpenAI continue being right, which doesn't sound much like a compromise to me.

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