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I understand the LLM production companies have a funding mechanism but do they really have a business model?

We have near perfect processes for saltwater filtering.

You apparently understand less than me. The little I do understand is that CORS is protection for a site's user , not the site.

Every ad GET is doing a lot of things that violate that edict.

I don't understand it. And I'm a web developer. I don't understand the documentation, I don't understand the problem it's trying to solve and I don't understand how it's going abou…

I've had my hair on fire because my app code shit the bed. I've never ever (throughout 15 years of using it in everything I do) had to even think about Postgres, and yes, I always …

Hard scifi that goes from 1997 to beyond the heat death of the universe.

Given that you want to solve problems with a computer, what is the alternative to code?

Same as it ever was.

Their trackrecord is such that if I got a similar call my first question when possible would be how I was being reimbursed. They are welcome to fork anything of mine if they observ…

Backblaze can lose 3/20 hard drives and still recover the data from parity drives. They don't have to rely on recovering it from non-operative drives unless they become unbelievabl…

I had an insight when learning about the Halting Problem. There is a class of programs for which the Halting Problem is solvable since you can use circuit analysis to see if well-f…

I found after starting to apply mise en place that when I wasn't doing it I was still quicker than before. I fetched more things from each cupboard or fridge when I opened them, ev…

I wonder if you could get the intended result for any language with a simple ruleset. You don't need a language to reduce/eliminate miscommunications, you need intent and understan…

The knowledge cutoff date is brutal for some applications.

You have the right comparison. Developers need to remember that nobody had a job punching holes in cards after the revolution of personal computing. Going to be the same here. The …

Difference is that compressive strength generally decreases over time. Here we have a product where it increases over time. Changes the equation on how you build and maintain it.

When I would have had to add another 2 batches of ~150,000 tokens.....

I'm working on something where I need to basically add on the order of 150,000 tokens into the knowledge base of an LLM. Finding out slowly I need to delve into training a whole as…

Read about the paradox of tolerating intolerance.

I can't convince them. Their belief precludes any sort of reason to pierce the veil.

Neither of those are utopian atheistic societies. They were authoritarian hellholes that weren't even socialist in nature.

The "behaving poorly in ways I disagree with" is them demanding legislation and judicial outcomes that hamper the way others want to live their lives. I am done with showing this g…

I know. If only the data were collected at all so we could have a discussion about kidnapping in the USA....

You wrongfully assume I want to have any sort of conversation with the converts. The only conversation I want to have with them is to tell them to stay bloody clear of politics. If…