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by username223 5mo ago
vibe-ls(1) - often list directory contents, but maybe do something else. Where can I get this amazing technology?
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by username223 5mo ago
Google is pretty much just a wrapper around DoubleClick.
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by username223 5mo ago
> Anything in the browser: not my private space. Google’s main business is ads, ie running hostile code on your machine.
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by username223 5mo ago
> benevolent AI assistant? “Volent” is the problem there. Whose fault is it that someone was tricked by a boy?
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by username223 5mo ago
Humans will give a slop machine control of a lab full of CRISPR machines because they think it might make them a dollar? It wouldn’t take Supreme Super Intelligence for that to go badly.
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by username223 5mo ago
> Until people with billions of dollars behind them do something with that money… Or until actual people take the billions of dollars sitting behind those weak man-children. The US has fewer than 1000 billionaires now, and more than 300,
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by username223 5mo ago
That’s how units work, fitting the messy natural world into comprehensible numbers. A year is 365 days, except every four, except every 100, except every 400. A month is 30-ish days, and there are 12 of them in a year, because that roughly
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by username223 5mo ago
Those are the people betting on a business model of “create Robot God and ask him for money.” Why pay attention to them?
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by username223 5mo ago
Does it matter? The frontier models stole the whole internet, then the second-level models stole from them… It’s all theft.
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by username223 5mo ago
I’ll believe Anthropic when they fire everyone making more than the cost of a few GPUs. Until then, it’s just marketing.
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by username223 5mo ago
Well, Callum Locke has certainly torched his reputation. Not “spreading Santorum” level… yet.
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by username223 5mo ago
It’s less unflattering than the legless avatar from his $80 billion waste of money. https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yUEJgQzunhbnYYtsckup7i.jpg
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by username223 5mo ago
Don’t unsubscribe - that’s a signal of a live email address. Add a rule filing their domain straight to trash.
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by username223 5mo ago
Facebook is working with the talent that can’t find a job at some other company. It doesn’t surprise me they ship mediocrity.
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by username223 5mo ago
> a deeply concerning culture of anthropomorphization and magical thinking. That’s the reverse Turing test. A human that can’t tell that it’s talking to a machine.
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by username223 5mo ago
Surely a Big Sur compound stocked with iodine and gold, protected by security goons fitted with exploding collars, is someone’s definition of paradise.
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by username223 5mo ago
> I need to decide if the remaining work - understanding requirements, managing teams, what have you - is still enjoyable enough to continue. It’s not for me. Being a middle manager, with all of the liability and none of the agency, is n
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by username223 6mo ago
[GitHub] platform activity is surging. — https://twitter.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878
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by username223 6mo ago
"I want to argue that AI models will write good code because of economic incentives. Good code is cheaper to generate and maintain." This is possibly the dumbest version of an "economic incentives" argument. Current code
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by username223 6mo ago
Sam Altman made his stake at the table with a shady and failed location data harvesting app ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt ). That's who he is, that's what he does, and we're all better off paying l
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by username223 6mo ago
> unless they manage to turn things around, my next laptop won't be an apple. Meh. I ran Linux on a PowerBook back in the day, because Apple made the best hardware and behind-the-times software, before deciding that Mac OS X was &qu
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by username223 6mo ago
> And “once they sell ads, they’ll lose all their users!” As if that happened to FB, Google, YouTube, or Instagram… Enshittification only works for the middleman in a two-sided market, which is what those things are. LLMs are a commodity
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by username223 6mo ago
> I can't think of anything else since the invention of the internet that has had this much of an impact on people's lives. If you reach a bit farther back, there's opium, an impactful product with limitless demand: https
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by username223 6mo ago
Good point: RTFM and (wall of slop) are two ways of telling someone that responding to them is not worth your time that are both ruder and more time-consuming than simply saying nothing. Explaining the culture of RTFM, i.e. "if there w
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by username223 6mo ago
The NYT is comically bad. Most of their (paywalled) articles include the full text in a JSON blob, and that text is typically 2-4% of the HTML. Most of the other 96-98% is ads and tracking. If you allow those to do their thing, you're
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by username223 6mo ago
> Especially as the cost of producing code drops, the value of libraries decreases. Does it? If the cost of slop that (1) no one understands, and (2) no one can be sued for if it misbehaves drops to zero, what have we gained? A "lib
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by username223 6mo ago
> Oof, I wish I had a job like that. Focus on something and become one of the best in the world at it. Expertise pays.
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by username223 6mo ago
> Just an anecdote - I never used Twitter/X, and never used BlueSky. Recently (about a year ago), joined Mastodon. I enjoy it, find a lot of value there, and have interesting conversations Same, more or less. Twitter started as a pl
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by username223 6mo ago
> The Go ecosystem is heavy on style guides, design patterns, and canonical ways of doing things. Go was designed based on Rob Pike's contempt for his coworkers ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16143918 ), so it
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by username223 7mo ago
> pg's sama praise bewilders me. Is there some other Sam Altman he's talking about? Paul Graham was a pudgy mediocrity clever enough to capitalize on nerds' obsession with Lisp, and leverage it into f-you money. Game recog

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