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michaelcampbell
·28 dni temu·discuss
> while being only marginally better.

It's only marginally better in the things it's actually comparable to. A\ models are MUCH better in many more things; eg: things Kimi/etc. didn't distill.

For those things the difference is like a cliff.
michaelcampbell
·29 dni temu·discuss
Safety from what? Competitors? That sounds like a product decision. They're puking on any requests that could be used to create LLMs or competitive products.
michaelcampbell
·30 dni temu·discuss
> I plan on using this as a sort of benchmark for future AI discussions: "how do you plan on separating data from instructions?"

I'm reminded of the thing that HN drools over constantly with LISP languages.
michaelcampbell
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
To a corporation?
michaelcampbell
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
> It's similar to the gates quote about RAM (I think it was 64KB?)

640, and Bill Gates said he either never said that, or at least never remembered having said it. I think there is no evidence anywhere that he did.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1563853/the-640k-quote...
michaelcampbell
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
How much time is `(random-uuid7-bytes)` taking?
michaelcampbell
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
> But then why not just use Rust?

The BEAM?
michaelcampbell
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
> With cronie the system needs to be running at the scheduled time, but systemd timer tolerates this and runs the service as soons as the system is available.

Cronie doesn't have a `@reboot` meta-trigger?
michaelcampbell
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Is your deliberate misspelling of "Macintosh" spell-check or the same sort of intransigence that compels some people to misspell "Micro$oft" thinking they're clever?
michaelcampbell
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
> The mandatory graphic GUI...

What do you reckon the "G" in GUI stands for, out of curiosity?
michaelcampbell
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Presumably a bunch of Adolf's did too, prior to, you know, the 1930's.
michaelcampbell
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
> character creation in the rpg classic traveller.

This is half the game. I fondly remember a few "game days" in the early 80's with some friends spending hours "rolling" Traveller characters. Partly because it was quite possible for your character to due DURING GENERATION, before the "rpg" part of the game actually started.
michaelcampbell
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
> Turns out the humans weren't so bad after all...

The people pushing AI _over_ humans never thought they were. They just don't care about 'good' or 'bad', only 'time-to-market'. A bad app making money is better than a good one that isn't deployed yet. And who cares about anything past the end of the quarter? That's the next guy's problem.
michaelcampbell
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
There are "show hn" submissions for things that people just want to show off multiple times a week.
michaelcampbell
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I've worked with companies whose infosec dept. is little more than "see tool alert, ask user what's going on", and then keep searching for the right _tool_ than injecting any human agency in that loop.

If any role is ready for an LLM to take over (or even a shell script), it's that one.
michaelcampbell
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
> the “Ox” in the name is to evoke “oxidizing”

Hah, I was reading it as `0x`, a common prefix indicating hexadecimal, though I can't say my brain made any leap as to why "0xCAML" would be any more hex than standard.
michaelcampbell
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
> Many of my professors were from other countries. I literally wouldn’t have an education without immigrants.

Curious take; do you think if there were a no-immigrant law on the books those professorial positions would have gone completely unfilled? You _GOT_ an education with the help of immigrants, but that does not imply you wouldn't have had they not been there.
michaelcampbell
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Ouch, that is awful.
michaelcampbell
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
There's an old, but good, set of browser plugins called "don't fuck with paste" that helps a little, at least.
michaelcampbell
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
As a purchaser of many Udemy courses (and yes, there are good ones), I'm waiting for the enshittification to begin.