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@aphyr@woof.group
@aphyr@woof.group i admit the aesthetics made me worried it was slop*, but i'm glad it appears to be human-authored.
*the visuals themselves aren't sloppy but it feels like a fairly trendy aesthetic favored by some people who vibecode.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social in my mind they're a lesbian couple.
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com hmm, i wonder if you could symlink AGENTS.md to /dev/zero
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com as featured in the Cory Doctorow novel, Please Upload This Book to the Torrent Nexus
does anyone with zfs experience have tips on dealing with, uhh, multiple drive failure? i think the data is either unimportant or backed up elsewhere, but i would still like to swap drives over while losing minimal data from the pool.
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@cwebber@social.coop
@cwebber@social.coop also happened to me a few minutes ago. wonder if it‘s a configuration mistake or a stringent new policy.
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@cwebber@social.coop
@cwebber@social.coop we need an Our Incredible Journey for these kinds of posts.
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@vantiss@social.treehouse.systems
@vantiss@social.treehouse.systems even the post promoting it has some AI tells. not enough to be highly confident but enough that i think people should have been more skeptical off the bat.
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@x0@dragonscave.space
@x0 @chaucerburnt i mean, llms have access to their own recent output so if the chain of thought says “i better use the regex module” that increases the odds of it using the regex module in a similar way the prompt saying “use the regex module” does.
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@alys@selfy.army
@aparrish@friend.camp also you may have seen it since it was recently posted on lobste.rs and probably shared around, but there was also an article suggesting Java as an intermediate language: https://matt.might.net/articles/compiling-to-java/
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@aparrish@friend.camp
@aparrish@friend.camp that could be useful for the various hobby compiler ideas i have mused about.
curious how much of the llvm ir horrors are from the project's enormous scope versus avoidable technical debt
I‘ve been making more diagrams over the past few years and trying to hone my abilities so it is a bit depressing seeing models come after that skill. and it seems like it would probably be worse if i were younger and didn‘t have as much experience of learning other skills?
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@cwebber@social.coop
@cwebber I don‘t know what model he‘s using or how many rejects he‘s going through, but Steve Yegge uses AI-generated images extensively each with plenty of text so this isn‘t really a surprise to me.
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@viraptor@cyberplace.social
@viraptor@cyberplace.social I mean, that makes sense. You don’t need measurements, or even back of the envelope calculations, to know that it‘s faster to drive from LA to NYC than to walk.
But part of the pattern I‘m noticing is that there didn‘t seem to be much measuring going on in areas where there‘s uncertainty going on or during the time period when everyone agrees they were worse at coding, like when GitHub Copilot was first released. Or for that matter, comparing using agents to not.
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@xgranade@wandering.shop
@xgranade @zkat yeah, that’s what’s been bizarre to me as well. i guess many people have done their own trial period but it often seems like there’s an extremely strong presumption it will let you go faster and that’s enough for people to embrace it.
like i feel like there was often this idea that if you’re writing a script to replace a manual process you should consider measuring it and make sure you‘re actually saving time but I don’t notice a lot of measuring going on.
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@cwebber@social.coop
@cwebber there is software like LanguageTool that does rule-based grammar checking which might be a good alternative for people who need more assistance. (although maybe the paid version of LanguageTool uses LLMs?)
advertising that your organization dedicated to adjudicating journalists' claims is staffed with ex-military and ex-intelligence kinda of feels like you're trying to appeal to a child's understanding of what an investigation is.
that being said i think what they're really doing is trying to name people who will seem neutral (or favorable) to technofascists but who they can sell as being picked for their investigative prowess rather than their ideology.
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@gintoxicating@transister.social
@gintoxicating@transister.social i'm opposed to a lot of stuff Mozilla has added to Firefox recently, but the copy clean link feature that tries to strip that stuff off is really nice.
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@aparrish@friend.camp
@aparrish not to mention that the result of that would be techniques and tools that increases human understanding and that you can likely apply for free versus opaque models you have to pay a company for, either on a subscription or API call basis.
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@vozercozer@vozer.cafe
@vozercozer we‘re returning to the era when your relative would complain their computer is slow and you’d find five spyware laden-Internet Explorer toolbars
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@glyph@mastodon.social
@glyph@mastodon.social yeah, i‘m definitely in agreement. like much of what i like in Python libraries is the creators creating the best abstractions they can in a way that doesn’t impede understanding.
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@alys@selfy.army
@glyph@mastodon.social I guess I’m not saying abstractions are bad but that we should not be in such a hurry to run away from repetition or boilerplate that we embrace uncomprehendable masses.
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@glyph@mastodon.social
@glyph@mastodon.social The part of this I’m struggling with is that there’s a lot of very same-y code (like, idk, joins or fetching a session token). Is that and most boilerplate sludge? While I don’t really blame people for wanting to, and there’s certainly a lot of cases where good software engineers practice is to reduce it, I do wonder if we as an industry are a bit too dismissive of it. Like a lot of it is practical, straightforward code and the verbosity does help set up context.
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@technomancy@hey.hagelb.org
@technomancy has there been any comments either way from Clojure core team that you're aware of?
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@cwebber@social.coop
@cwebber Do you think they are likely to stay LLM-free? Only asking because more FOSS projects have uncritically adopted LLMs than I would have expected
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@ancoghlan@mastodon.social
@ancoghlan@mastodon.social the double cicada brood of tech hype.
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@left_adjoint@tilde.zone
@left_adjoint this is darkly funny to me because medical supplies have been my go-to example of where disposable products are fully justified. (even if would be great if they could be made safe to reuse.)
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@ThreeSigma@mastodon.online
@ThreeSigma@mastodon.online @dthompson@toot.cat Building a system that stores private health information would be a case where security, not learning, is paramount. In that case, most developers should not roll their own encryption.
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@dthompson@toot.cat
@dthompson@toot.cat i feel like there are a lot of things to not roll your own if reliability and security are paramount and very few if fun and learning are paramount.
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@b_cavello@mastodon.publicinterest.town
@b_cavello@mastodon.publicinterest.town @vkc@linuxmom.net we‘ve had the ability to reproduce music for over 100 years with increasingly higher fidelity and people still appreciate live music and want to learn how to play it themselves.
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@glyph@mastodon.social
@glyph part of me is still genuinely impressed that LLMs can do that. it's just not what's advertised or worth the staggering societal costs to roll them out at scale.
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@jonny@neuromatch.social
@jonny probably not the biggest one, but a big one was probably heliocentrism.
i feel like doing math with place notation instead of roman numerals (or similar) might also qualify. but that's arguably more about the tools being used than the substance of the theory.
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@bwbush@vis.social
@bwbush@vis.social an artichoke can’t go in the water. it‘ll artidrown!
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@colin@muffin.industries
@colin@muffin.industries The closest thing I’m aware of to phpBB for the fediverse is gotosocial, but i don’t think it’s quite as easy to set up.
Anyway, thanks for botsin.space!
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@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org i completely agree on the value of physical books in libraries, but in my experience librarians are much more aware of the tradeoffs involved than this article makes it sound like. also, this author's dismissal of gay latino studies seems to be based more on homophobia than actually examining the research in question.
(in fairness, the Manchester City Library pulping linked to does sound like a pretty bad call by the librarians or administrators.)