Viewing profile — mahoho

Since before LLMs were a thing I've thought em dashes (at least outside of fiction) have a kind of irritating, business-casual feel about them, since they are simultaneously inform…

It's time to give up your silly cynicism, embrace being a professional slop shoveler and doing work with higher volume, more repetition and less creativity than ever.

...What? Like half of the vertical length of the paper is footnotes with citations. Also, opinions are kind of an important part of how we get ideas.

> Ignore the weeb stuff Go away

That's not true. Plenty of ill-behaved FFXI players (myself included) once served time in Mordion Gaol. https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Mordion_Gaol

The first time I ever went out with a zoom lens after starting with just a 50mm prime, the amount of creative power and freedom I felt really opened my eyes. Without having to worr…

I've seen someone on this site comment to the effect that if they could use a tool like dall-e to generate a picture of "their dog" that looked better than a photo they could take …

I'm not gonna read the whole thing but the 23.2% is only for the first half of the year 上半期（2024年1月～6月）に退職代行サービスを利用して退職した人がいた企業は23.2％だった。

But in a cash game, if you're properly bankrolled (a common number people recommend is to have at least 40 buy-ins worth of cash set aside for the stakes you're playing), the one b…

I worked part time as a dishwasher for around 6 years in middle/high school, at a restaurant with no machine, just three sinks and a huge counter. It's definitely a good way to get…

IIRC they even use multiple different wordings and layouts for this dialogue, depending on what "mode" of Paypal you're using (e.g. if it's a pop-up or if it's a full page redirect…

On the other hand the most popular way to play shogi online is an app called Shogi Wars, which has the most explicit pay-to-win mechanic I've ever seen: there's a button you can pr…

Well rating scales don't have any absolute meaning, only that which is attributed to them either by the reviewer or the audience. On any aggregate review site the scale of the aggr…

Just a pedantic comment, but 有り難う is arigatou or roughly "thanks", not "hello". Hello would usually be こんにちは or, more confusingly, 今日は

I think the machine code–level understanding is what's important. We can, in theory, put a person in a Chinese Room–style scenario and have them manually perform the code, and it w…

Aside from all the other glaring issues with this model with respect to workers' wellbeing, do they even consider how it affects people who need specific ergonomic or accessibility…

Aside from all the other glaring issues with this model with respect to workers' wellbeing, do they even consider how it affects people who need specific ergonomic or accessibility…

Abstraction works because you are able to treat an abstraction as a black box and concern yourself only with its input and output. A segment of code written by an LLM is qualitativ…

> Ask ChatGPT to play chess. It can generate a text based board and prompt you for moves, but it can’t reliably update its board correctly or even find legal moves. Note that I don…

I think you're correct about the two statements not being completely independent, though. In both the shorts and backpack examples the second adjective is meant as a corollary of (…

Incidentally, one of my favorite modulations in pop music is the transition to the chorus in Scritti Politti's "Perfect Way". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLxIB_lrwk0

Liquid Death strikes me as just an example of the "Gen Z blanding" described by that table in the article (ironic, maximalist, etc.). And that was basically the impression I got th…

You should hear what Pat Metheny had to say about Kenny G! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-mjt1ypiF8

Although it's true that the value of most great works of art is partly historical, I think the majority of innovative masterpieces also have great aesthetic value. I think Seinfeld…

If I understand the article correctly, are (some/most) files for sale on the iTunes store taken from CD rips rather than made directly from the masters? That sounds impressively sk…