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dgfitz

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    Comment #45805669

    > I’ll find you a buyer…I just—enough,’ Altman said on Gerstner’s podcast.” Hopefully nobody reading this has experienced it: these are the words of a true sociopath/addict. "I'm m…

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    Comment #45677161

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    Comment #45672707

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    Comment #45670136

    Isn’t that the current status quo?

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    Comment #45670115

    You understand that an LLM can only poorly regurgitate whatever it’s fed right? An LLM will _always_ be less useful than a primary/secondary source, because they can’t fucking thin…

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    Comment #45648598

    You’re right. Nothing resembling ”I” exists when shat out from an LLM.

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    Comment #45648454

    I’ve never worked in such a space where the deployed environment had unfettered internet access, no access at all actually. I’ve probably missed a huge wave of programming technolo…

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    Comment #45622410

    I believe that the M in LLM stands for model. It is a statistical model, as it always has been.

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    Comment #45611836

    C++11 fucking with strings also comes to mind.

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    Comment #45611750

    I have small amounts of eczema on unfortunate spots. It comes and goes usually based on stress and inflammation. Been dealing with it for decades. It stinks. I’m half tempted to bu…

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    Comment #45611418

    Going to college usually means you work the same job after college, just with a lot more debt.

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    Comment #45611195

    The headline is flawed, nothing that exists today is relatively close to “AI” unfortunately.

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    Comment #45611158

    I thought that, an an American. Then I went to Paris in 2013, and realized it was a learned trait!

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    Comment #45608141

    Remember: if you have a phone, you have a lawyer.

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    Comment #45608024

    As long as you realize this is opinion, sure thing.

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    Comment #45607485

    > America just sucks for foodies who don't have unlimited time to get through the slop. I think by definition, being a “foodie” means you have, and enjoy finding, the time to sort …

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    Comment #45607365

    At the morning standup:”OK team I need all of you to post positive reviews and use your network to accomplish that as you see fit.”

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    Comment #45607341

    Yeah, it’s like saying Netflix doesn’t create value, or Universal Pictures doesn’t create value. I do not agree with the GP. As far as I can tell, openAI has created very, very neg…

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    Comment #45598360

    Correct, they have been around for a lot longer than rust.

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    Comment #45597464

    Is this a “you’re holding it wrong, you idiot” post?

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    Comment #45586528

    Good to know, maybe I’ll give it a whirl. I’d been under the (mistaken, apparently) impression that if one didn’t update monthly they were going to have a bad time.

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    Comment #45586283

    Quote your numbers.

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    Comment #45586258

    > Rust needs to mature a little more, stop changing so fast, and move further toward being old and boring. Talking about C99, or C++11, and then “oh you need the nightly build of r…

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    Comment #45586104

    So the whole crypto anonymity thing isn’t actually real? As it turns out, tracing people is still easier than tracing money? Decentralized economies are run by criminal enterprises…