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Meta: A Cautionary Tale [video]

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1 points·by raydev·vor 3 Monaten·1 comments

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raydev
·vor 28 Tagen·discuss
I don’t think excel can give me the instructions for building a house or how to cook a particular meal or write my emails for me. The potential output of LLMs is quite obviously more broad than excel.
raydev
·vor 29 Tagen·discuss
Not really, the purpose of Excel is pretty clear cut and the scope is small.

Preventing a human-like general purpose textbot from engaging in certain discussions and performing certain tasks seems like a natural thing to do given the massive scope of its capabilities. None of these tools are sold with free license to do whatever with them anyway.
raydev
·letzten Monat·discuss
It's a cute and funny name.
raydev
·letzten Monat·discuss
I'd rather not get a bunch of ticks while walking to my door.
raydev
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
How would you keep it from filling up with weeds in any reasonably grass-friendly climate?

I just pay someone $50/week to mow my lawn and I pay zero attention to it. If we have a mini-drought and the grass turns brown, oh well.
raydev
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Unfortunately we get the inflation anyway from military action in/around Iran.
raydev
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Hopefully there's a way to opt out of the inevitably worse experience for those of us who like scrolling through TikTok.

The web was already getting bad with ads and popups, but the EU's sloppy legislation loopholes somehow encouraged all websites to show cookie popups (and never remember my selection), so the experience is even worse.
raydev
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
This style of layoff seems far more common post-2020 than targeted "restructuring". I've lived through a few layoffs now, survived most of them, but each time and at each company I've gotten by on an apparent roll of the dice and nothing more. Every time I've seen some truly important ICs get let go, their EMs having no input.
raydev
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
> We're doing Electron because the ability to create truly cross-platform interfaces with the web stack is more important to us than 300 MB of user memory.

It's closer to 1GB but trust me, everyone is well aware of your priorities.
raydev
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
It won't be "happening" until Slack, Teams, and Discord leave Electron behind. They are the apps that need to be open 24/7.
raydev
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
If the page is lazy loading content then the local ctrl+f is not going to work, obviously.

If you’re hinting at an argument about whether lazy loading content should exist, that’s a separate discussion. In my experience, pages that override ctrl+f do it for a good reason
raydev
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
That is a great question for those in power to figure out before the masses get upset enough to harm them.
raydev
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Content creator Michael Palmisano of Guitargate shares his experience of having his verified business account on Instagram deactivated without any warning, explanation, or clear path for appeal

The state of Maryland has agreed to investigate and take his case to Meta
raydev
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
It's been more than 10+ years that I've been able to Option+Click the green button to fill the screen. Works for any app, and always has, unless that app explicitly disallows resizing. That's not recent.
raydev
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
The video you linked is from 2019. A lot has changed with Thunderbolt capability and the Studios now have enough ports/bandwidth to handle audio processing needs to multiple boxes.
raydev
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Like I did with regex some years earlier, I worked on a project for a few weeks that required constant interactions with jq, and through that I managed to lock in the general shape of queries so that my google hints became much faster.

Of course, this doesn't matter now, I just ask an LLM to make the query for me if it's so complex that I can't do it by hand within seconds.
raydev
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Luckily I'm near the median age, so it actually has been like that for most people. :)
raydev
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Respectfully, whether it "actually happens" is irrelevant. We want to prevent it from happening.
raydev
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Why are you comparing prices from a time when most people in the US weren't even born yet?

Comparing with the 90s seems reasonable because nothing is dramatically different about the experience except there are generally better seats now.
raydev
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
I remember my parents complaining about how expensive concessions were when I was a kid in the 90s too, and sometimes we would hit the gas station first and stuff snacks in my mom's bag to sneak them in to the theater. They also complained about prices if we couldn't do the Tuesday matinee.

Not sure anything's changed. The movie theater experience has always been expensive and I think your bill is pretty much in line with inflation.