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Jayjader

@ Jayjader @jlai.lu

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  • Trump slammed for lavish Gatsby-themed Halloween party as vital food funding lapses

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  • Mr Trump? Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are in the line, they would like to share some advice...

  • The wonder of the sea

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  • My experience as a TF2 n00b in public lobbies

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  • While avians can exhibit foster parenting behavior (c.f. the Cuckoo), we can see that due to his skeletal structure Tarzan would not have survived leaving the nest were he to have been raised by birds instead of gorillas.

  • Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter

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  • According to this article written in July, it's a bit more dire than that if you take a step or two back. Basically, openai and their copycats/derivatives are being held up by investments from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta, who in turn are being held up by investments from Nvidia. If/when the whole chain collapses it'll be more than 0.5% of earnings that disappear.

  • An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

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  • Not that I disagree, just as someone who loves computers and programming it really feels like throwing out the baby along with the bathwater.

    We could (should imo) be planning a sort of overthrow of the rich assholes who don't share; make sure everyone has access to a computer, the electricity need to run it, and the knowledge to use it to their own benefit.

    The second, longer quote in my previous comment is from the intro to a computer self-help/"how-to" book, Without Me You Are Nothing (pdf link).

  • An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

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  • “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” -- Frank Herbert

    "Right now there is an explosive growth of the number of computers and things they can do. Not only are their numbers increasing at a dazzling rate, but the storage of information in giant data banks is growing in the same explosive way.

    We have no way to control this now and none in sight. In fact, the very nature of this growth says that all controls will lag far behind computer developments. Any attempt to ban them will only drive com- puters underground. Never lose sight of the fact that computers "crunch time." The speed at which computers can operate tells us that laws cannot keep up with them. The person with a computer can dance rings around you while you react as though you were embedded in molasses.

    What can you do?

    Get your own computer. Learn how to use it. We are here to help you make that first step: how to find the one that fits your needs and your pocketbook, where to put it, how to program it-all of the essentials. If you don't do this, the Bill of Rights is dead and your individual liberties will go the way of the dodo." -- also Frank Herbert

    I hate how much we seem to be slowly careening towards Frank Herbert's vision like the worse case of collective target fixation.

  • Piping mouse

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  • The last time I saw this meme, someone commented that these bags are made and used so that the mouse can be euthanized after an experiment. Supposedly this holds the mouse in place so that it can be "cleanly" decapitated.

  • Best Tool and Layout for Learning Touch Typing on Linux?

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  • https://learn.dvorak.nl/ <- used this to learn dvorak. I really liked how I didn't need to switch my layout at the computer level just to learn.

    https://zty.pe/ <- used this to practice and get my speed up, regardless of dvorak/qwerty/azerty. The way it plays, the ramping up of word length and frequency, I find more effective for "locking in" the positions in my mind and fingers. Especially once there are several words on-screen; you need to actively choose which one you're going to type next instead of the program choosing for you. In my experience, that added active part of the process really helps expedite the formation of muscle memory.

  • Dwarf Tyrant vs Tyrant^2: Who would win?

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  • So it weighs as much as a rhino, for small values of "a rhino's weight"!

  • Fediverse Report 139

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  • It's a very clever follow-up to their previous project, the fediverse schema observatory (also mentioned in the Last Week in Fediverse published October 30th of last year).

  • Fucking math...

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  • Ah, a man of science!

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  • I have no firm convictions towards or against theism, but learning this in school really made me go "I can't believe God was this lazy".

  • Revolt became Stoat

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  • Syntax highlighting for code blocks is the reason I prefer discord over slack for collaborating and just chatting with friends who know how to code. I imagine some irc clients exist that so the same, but at least with discord I know my recipient is guaranteed to see what I see.

  • The programmer identity crisis

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  • I relate to this article. On the bright(er) side, I looked at the latest release notes for Cursor; they're still adding in features that I:

    1. Would call basic
    2. Felt the need for after spending just a few days writing my own cli chat/agent (talking to/with a local model run using ollama)

    Similarity, I watched some of a recent week-long "vibe-coding game dev stream" (read: Cursor + Omarchy product placement/sponsored ad). Two cursor employees were present for around half a day to basically do some on-the-ground reconnaissance (read: talk to some actual users and get concrete feedback). I was astonished at how they seemed to discover in real time some of the sharp edges and missing functionality in their own product. Do they not use Cursor (or any of their competitors) to develop Cursor? Even if neither employee was a dev, surely they hear from their coworkers and their customers on a regular basis!

    So, if these LLM-based agents are supposed to replace us, why are their makers so slow at building them out? Have all the "skilled" and/or experienced developers decided to shun working for them? Have they assumed up till now that most of their users would not be using them to develop software?

    I know how hard it is to produce good estimations in software development. It just doesn't seem like the companies working on them actually understand what the grunt, moment-to-moment work of software development consists of.

    If that's true, then programmers like this article's author should be fine if they can weather the current LLM craze.

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  • You ever seen a tumbleweed run for it's life?

  • Lemmy being pinged each midnight

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  • Cloudflare, no!

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  • Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM?

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  • From my understanding of word embeddings (as used by LLMs), you could skip the LLM and directly compare the similarity of what the STT outputs to each task or phrase in a list you have prepared. You'd need to test it out a few times to see what threshold works, but even testing against dozens of phrases should be much faster than spinning up an LLM - and it should be fully deterministic.

  • I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong

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  • Awesome, thanks! I totally see what you mean now with regards to using the same color just with different shades.