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blooalien

1,956 karmajoined 6 tahun yang lalu
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blooalien
·3 jam yang lalu·discuss
> to make sure Meta and co. can crawl into every last nook and cranny of your brain that they can for that sweet, sweet data.

Just wait 'til Musk's brain-chip gets approved for general public sale. They'll find a way to get a law passed that says everyone has to get a hole drilled in their head (except of course the super-rich and their political pets).
blooalien
·3 jam yang lalu·discuss
> where fiber rollouts are too expensive

Or in cities where fiber gets blocked by cable providers bribing corrupt local officials.
blooalien
·3 jam yang lalu·discuss
^^^ Exactly this. I live in just such an area (one where Cable and DSL providers successfully bribed local officials to get fiber blocked so the two of them could split the city between them). They're both literally the worst Internet service providers I've ever had, but the only two choices besides insanely expensive celphone service providers.
blooalien
·6 jam yang lalu·discuss
I'ma huge fan of `fish` myself, but I've been watching `elvish` for a while now, and some of their scripting stuff really is awfully nice.
blooalien
·7 jam yang lalu·discuss
Yeah, one developer I recently had a chat with on Chatto (recently featured here on Hacker News) actually wrote the core code and project layout by hand before invoking the LLM and found that he had to hand-hold it a lot less because he had given it solid foundation to work from. That design stage you speak of there and the "iterating by hand when it matters" is a big part of what really helps the models do their part of the job a lot better. That's what the "vibe coders" (and often their bosses) don't seem to understand (yet), but they'll figure it out eventually I'm sure. Or maybe not. I guess we'll have to wait and see how it all turns out. In the meantime, we can have fun playing with the new tools they've given us. ;)
blooalien
·7 jam yang lalu·discuss
> @meerita: I think you are arguing against a point I did not make. (Sorry, it won't let me directly reply to your comment for some odd reason.)

I'm not actually "arguing against a point" you made or that anyone else made. It was more of a random rant triggered by how things are these days, and how they got there. Sometimes some of these articles just really rub some salt in the wounds... Also, I totally agree with the rest of your statements there following the above comment. Automation is not at all a bad thing, and neither is AI, when used properly by folks that "know how to hold the tool properly". ;)
blooalien
·7 jam yang lalu·discuss
And I agree with you as well, but the "industry" has sure gotten mighty good at training people to not think critically about ads (or much anything else for that matter). It's really been turned into quite the "mass-propaganda" machine overall. :(
blooalien
·8 jam yang lalu·discuss
> Ads aren't really the problem, either.

You're right. Ads are a different problem that just happens to finance this problem (and many others).

> Meet people in real life and spend time with them and form mutual relationships.

It's sad how hard that's gotten these days, what with so many folks havin' their faces glued to their little glass slab all the time. :(
blooalien
·8 jam yang lalu·discuss
I know, right? And what did society learn from all that mess? Oh yea... Nothing. It was pretty promptly swept under the rug and forgotten. :(
blooalien
·8 jam yang lalu·discuss
> "You can't expect capitalism to solve your addiction problems."

You can hope and wish that they would have at least enough ethics to not actively abuse psychology and the way human brains are hard-wired to totally take unfair advantage of those facts to extract maximum profit for a tiny handful of humanity at the expense of everyone everywhere pretty much.
blooalien
·8 jam yang lalu·discuss
> "Meta did not adequately assess the risks of its addictive design on the physical and mental wellbeing of users" ...

ROFLMAO! They absolutely did adequately "assess the risks" and then decided "Meh... Who cares? Do it anyway!"
blooalien
·10 jam yang lalu·discuss
> I write all my code in assembly on paper then manually translate into opcodes

LOL! There was actually a time (way back when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth) when that was actually how it was done. ;)

(I remember as a kid having to look-up hexadecimal 6502 CPU opcodes on a chart then type in a huge list of hex into the computer to write "machine code" if you wanted anything faster and more powerful than BASIC.)
blooalien
·10 jam yang lalu·discuss
Funny how all that stuff one spends so much time and effort learning was "a waste of time and effort" to everyone that has zero idea how anything works "under the hood", but the moment it breaks, you're always the guy that has to fix it in the end. I honestly believe that's one of the biggest contributing factors to "developer burn-out". Being ignored and ridiculed repeatedly (Shut up, Nerd. Nobody wants to hear you yammer about how to waste more time on backups and security.) until something breaks and then being called on to fix it like you're some sorta robot or something... (It's fixed? Great! Back to your cubicle now, code monkey!) And now all the scumbags at the top want to replace us all with "AI"? I mean, why even bother anymore? What's the point? Where's the reward for all the hard work and caring about doing a good job? What? Another kick in the nuts while I'm already down? That's the reward? Gee, thanks Boss... May I have another?
blooalien
·kemarin dulu·discuss
Recently on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833116 (Chatto went open source) so you might be able to self-host your online meetings pretty easily too if you wanted to. (They're not the only option in that space, either, although they are one of the easiest to spin up an instance of that I've seen thus far.)
blooalien
·kemarin dulu·discuss
I think maybe they're suggesting that by using GitHub as a "backup", you're contributing your code to Microsoft's LLM training data set (Training Data Sustainability). I wouldn't take it too seriously. I suspect they're just tryin' to be funny.
blooalien
·kemarin dulu·discuss
> - Become less reliant on the government and its private cronies.

All great suggestions, but this last one is maybe the best one overall. ;)
blooalien
·kemarin dulu·discuss
This assumes no such thing at all (as I'm clearly no expert on bees), but it does assume that literal parasites cannot possibly be a good thing for the bees, and anything that genuinely helps the bees is a net plus for us all.
blooalien
·kemarin dulu·discuss
If you can find or build something better, nobody's tryin' to stop you from doin' it. To the contrary, the world could certainly use more decent options in this space. Having choices is a good thing. :)
blooalien
·kemarin dulu·discuss
Some potentially seriously good news there if it all pans out the way it sounds like it might. Fingers crossed for the bees!
blooalien
·kemarin dulu·discuss
It is indeed planned, but in the meantime it does also have first-class PWA support, so you can easily install the webapp as a mobile app on mobile devices. Works great on Android.