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> you're almost always able to find what you're looking for very quickly[...] You'll spend the same amount of time trying to fact-check an LLM I've been an expert Google user for o…

I feel honored if my ideas are processed by an AI and then used to help others. I feel no more entitled to exclusive use or credit for my ideas as used by AI than I would if I had …

I don't get arrested for saying "Kent State Massacre" (/Tiananmen Square) or insulting the police for a start.

> I’m staring at a fixed-width typeface all day. Apple provides a functional and gorgeous fixed-width variant of their San Francisco typeface called SF Mono, which I’ve been using …

Could you explain exactly how this project that aims to let people beam thoughts to their computers is "actively making lives more difficult and compromising the social integrity o…

I feel the complete opposite. Years ago I was close to disavowing technology and only doing the minimal effort needed to keep up with my job, because I'd gotten bored and disillusi…

It actually is an illusion though. The narrative the brain makes up after the fact for why we did something is not perfectly correlated with the actual reason. It's just very good …

I strongly suspect that if you dug deeply enough into how a human brain does reasoning, the answer would boil down to "it tries a bunch of pathways and picks the one that seems rig…

I find human answers and handwritten code to be much worse of a slot machine. An article (or stack overflow post) has a not-insignificant chance to be riddled with outdated API cal…

I'm pretty familiar with the technical details of how an LLM works. They absolutely operate more on a level of abstract concepts than acting like some kind of text-Frankenstein as …

It's an invention that can invent things on its own, improve itself, do research, etc. The importance of such a thing should be obvious. The hockey stick that's coming for human pr…

How is this encouraging? They're sticking their heads in the sand and dooming themselves to irrelevance. All but the most strongly and wrongly ideologically motivated will contribu…

No, you can't copyright an idea, only an expression of an idea, and LLMs operate at the level of ideas. They don't literally stitch together code from training.

I've had a steady 2 gigabits (my maxxed out ISP bandwidth) since I started the download at launch.

I installed Gentoo on my mid-2010 Macbook Pro about a year ago as both a fun learning project and to have a practical secondary laptop for terminal access, light dev, using utiliti…

Somehow I've never had an experience like that on Sol. I find it to never really "cheat" like that. I've had all my best results from Codex CLI though, maybe that's somehow differe…

In my case it's usually a video game in question, not a life support system, so I'm not poring over every line of code. I mainly look at: - The overall architecture to make sure it…

Prior to 5.5 I thought the models were very useful but not trustworthy for certain tiers of tasks and needed more in depth verification. Frequent hand edits and times where it felt…

> For things you're already highly skilled at LLMs can be handy but the overall gains, after all is accounted for, are not so clear. Preposterous. I can tell 5.6 Sol to do somethin…

> Find works, but the syntax is arcane. fd is a lifesaver: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

Beats the pants off "please sir, may I have some more" as seen in many other places

My day job is relatively boring JavaScript components and SPA's, but even there I find things I learned in my Computer Science degree valuable. "Hey, this looks like a finite state…

What kind of work do you do now that you feel is entirely unhelped by your time in higher education?

My partner has been trying various models on our server but we haven't gotten anything to run at a usable speed. Q30H engineering sample (Xeon 8570) with two cpus, 56 cores per CPU…

> why aren't there more people pursuing alternative lifestyles? Similar to the 60s counterculture. I think the brony and furry community count for some examples. Brony community ha…