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anlumo ,

I just want an LLM with a reasonable context window so we can actually write real working packages with it.

The demos look great, but it’s always just around 100 lines of code, which is beginner level. The only use case right now is fake packages.

anlumo ,

I'm using Codeium for that. Works pretty well as a glorified autocomplete, but not much more. Certainly saves a lot of typing though, but I have to double-check everything it produces, because sometimes it adds subtle errors.

anlumo ,

Only if you agree to giving your first-born child to Apple.

anlumo ,

Windows runs on ARM just fine, it’s the legacy apps that are holding the industry back. Just like some institutions are still running AS/400 machines because nobody can port the programs they’re using.

anlumo ,

The governments all around the world are probably in favor of it, because their big “donors” want it and it lowers costs for the judicial system for them. It’s a win-win from their perspective.

anlumo ,

Well, you found this political post and commented on it.

anlumo ,

Yeah, I really hated the new Star Wars trilogy, and so watched a few reviews of them. This caused YouTube to recommend me more and more nuttier right-wing videos, because many negative reviews of those movies were done by right wingers (like Geeks & Gamers and Nerdrotic) that followed these up by more and more “woke”-critical videos over time.

It took years to retrain the algorithm that I’m not a right-wing nutjob.

General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers After Backlash (www.nytimes.com)

The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry. The drivers were enrolled — some unknowingly, they said — in OnStar Smart Driver, a feature in G.M.’s internet-connected cars that...

anlumo ,

ActivisionBlizzard just changed the terms of games I bought nearly three decades ago…

anlumo ,

Everybody who starts building guillotines gets arrested rather quickly to not disturb the current regime.

It was rather disingenuous in the US to make a system that can only sustain two parties while making the two parties exactly the same economically, while keeping the plebs busy fighting over social differences promoted by the parties (like abortion rights etc). This way there is a too large gap in the population for any kind of significant joined uprising.

anlumo ,

Hard to do when there are no alternatives, because everyone in the market is selling the data.

anlumo ,

Might be intentional, recently Apple went the direction of silently dropping features in updates.

Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing (www.theverge.com)

The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11....

anlumo ,

Isn’t that a textbook antitrust violation?

anlumo ,

Lawyers aren’t PR people.

anlumo ,

Depends on how much is copied, if it’s a small amount it’s fair use.

anlumo ,

I just don't buy IoT devices that need to talk to the manufacturer's server to function. I've got Home Assistant running at home, and everything works fine offline.

anlumo ,

One of those things I remember reading was the ability of ChatGPT to translate texts. It was trained with texts in multiple languages, but never translation specifically. Still, it’s quite good at it.

anlumo ,

The data is there, but simpler models just couldn’t do it, even when trained with that data.

Bilingual human children also often can’t translate between their two (or more) native languages until they get older.

anlumo ,

This is almost certainly not intentional. The AI just can’t differentiate between unsafe as in NSFW and unsafe as in manual memory management.

anlumo ,

Those tip rates are a US thing, because it’s a hidden way to increase prices without having to write it down anywhere.

Linux market share passes 4% for first time (arstechnica.com)

We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there's been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of...

anlumo ,

Well, Microsoft is doing everything they can to get people to switch to Linux right now...

anlumo ,

They have a lot of existing contracts they can't simply annul.

anlumo ,

I'm using AI in a very controlled manner, I don't want somebody else to decide for me where it's applied.

Also, Windows 11 doesn't have support for ultrawide monitors, and I happen to have one.

anlumo ,

The new task bar can’t be moved to a short edge, so it obstructs a significant part of the screen.

Windows 11 can be displayed on a ultra wide monitor, but it's not designed to work on that aspect ratio.

anlumo ,

I’ve tested that, the taskbar completely breaks when you do that. Visually it’s at the edge, but everything else assumes that it’s below. For example, opening the start menu opens it at the bottom.

anlumo ,

The only thing you can change is whether it's centered or left justified, it's not flexible at all.

The problem is that it takes up a significant amount of screen space for nothing.

anlumo ,

There are cryptographic methods to do this, but it’s probably not worth it to implement them for this.

EU Commission fines Apple over €1.8 billion over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers (ec.europa.eu)

The European Commission has fined Apple over €1.8 billion for abusing its dominant position on the market for the distribution of music streaming apps to iPhone and iPad users (‘iOS users') through its App Store. In particular, the Commission found that Apple applied restrictions on app developers preventing them from...

anlumo ,

For a middle class person, that’s equivalent of being sued for €1000, with a good chance of getting away with €100 even when losing. When will fines for big multinationals ever be adequate?

anlumo ,

It's less than 0.5% of their annual global revenue. It's nothing for a company like Apple.

Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative... (www.bloomberg.com)

Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative...::The Boring Company’s tiny Las Vegas Loop is all that’s come of Musk’s promises to build superfast mass-transit...

anlumo ,

Tunnels need to be large so they can have safety features like emergency walkways and air conducts. Musk's tunnel is just large enough to contain a car, because every inch of diameter costs an enormous amount of money.

Before this project Musk boasted that his Boring company can do tunnels much cheaper than traditional companies, this tunnel showed how.

anlumo ,

AI is just the name that journalists use for all algorithms these days.

anlumo ,

Everybody who is still there must see him as their master, either voluntarily due to a cult-like demeanor or due to visa restrictions that equal servitude.

anlumo ,

How much would that be for a middle class person in relation? $10?

anlumo ,

In the meantime, Apple rakes in exponentially more and more money.

anlumo ,

Well, OpenGL had been deprecated on macOS for years before ARM Macs were even released. I personally was surprised that they even bothered to implement it.

anlumo ,

The whole point of the project was to use the Tensor cores. There are a ton of other implementations for regular GPU acceleration.

anlumo ,

On my 4090, the performance is much better than ChatGPT4. The output is way worse though.

anlumo ,

It’s already pointless to file a patent as an individual, except for brownie points for investors. You have to be able to defend it in court.

anlumo ,

Perpetual, not irrevocable.

anlumo ,

It’s a very big ego though, so of course it needs a lot of fuel.

anlumo ,

That's why capitalism is inherently incompatible with stopping Climate Change and we’re all fucked.

anlumo ,

iPhone 4, the one famous for “you’re holding it wrong”?

anlumo ,

I generally agree, but I'm saying that it still had some early adopter issues.

btw, I had an iPhone 4 and used it for a long time.

anlumo ,

Probably just a matter of writing the right firmware and building the right hardware. I don’t think anything is stopping you from doing that.

The problem with microcontrollers is that code isn’t easily portable, so this device is stuck with its hardware.

anlumo ,

How would you define "accessible"? The web app I'm working on works in Firefox, but a few text labels are misaligned with their input controls due to slight CSS deviation from Chromium. It's those things that are most of the problems for supporting both browsers, functionality-wise they're very close (except newer features that Firefox hasn't implemented yet or Google-specific features like WebUSB).

anlumo ,

It changed when the Libertarians took over.

anlumo ,

Every time such a thing is attempted, the government officials are bribed by Microsoft to stop the project.

Happened in Munich for example.

anlumo ,

The creativity argument I don't get at all. Being creative these days means taking a bunch of known ideas and mashing them up, and that's exactly what an LLM does. Very few people can really think outside the box.

I've had a few things where it was actually the other way around. I'm running a lot of TTRPGs, and my storylines are always pretty bland because I'm not that creative. I've started to use ChatGPT4 to give me a few ideas for stories, and it helps me break out of that box by suggesting completely different things than what I'd have thought of.

anlumo ,

Daisy chaining extension chords is dangerous because there is a current limit on them and no fuse. Also, the voltage drops the longer the cable is and thus there might not be enough left at the end to power whatever you’re trying to connect.

All of this doesn’t apply to electronically controlled and fused power supplies.

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