Disability is a social construct, the result of people not having the supports they need to live lives unburdened by undue friction. The disability factor shows up awful quick if and when you suddenly find yourself without your supports and coping mechanisms, but it’s not really a disability until then.
By the same metric, severe poverty is a disability, albeit an unrecognized one.
0 is on the number line.
Ooo, when do I get my NIR spectroscopic hyperscanner?
I’ve noticed a sudden spike in the number of websites that send me into a Cloudflare spiral whenever I have my VPN active. I think we might see this happening on a lot more sites soon, unfortunately.
The thing is, what a lot of people mean by “the old, weird internet” is Twitter in 2012 and YouTube before it became professionalized. They don’t mean usenet, Geocities, and perl-based chatrooms because they didn’t experience the Internet prior to the iPhone app store.
No, no. There’s little evidence that LLMs could do your job. That’s very different from the LLMs “taking” your job. All business owners need is the belief – grounded or not – that the LLMs will eventually be able to do your job, and for way less than you were being paid.
Neither will be true, of course, but business decisions are not based on truth.
You mean the AOSP project that only supports hardware sold by the assholes we’re trying to get away from?
Hard pass.
It’s going to be bad, too. These companies are repportedly selling tokens for 1/10 - 1/15 the actual processing costs. Companies are already spending significantly more than they would junior developers (to generate an un-revewable amount of code). Raising peices by a factor of 20 will kill the whole project dead. They’ll need to hold out until there’s no one left who knows how to write anymore to survive that kind of price hike.
I’m not late. I always arrive exactly when I mean to!
Which is always at least 10 minutes later than I said, and 20 minutes later than I expected to.
Yes, but federation isn’t really about enabling one singular discussion space. Network splits are ultimately healthy for the communities, because it allows for self-governance and actual community building, rather than unmanageably large masses screaming into themaatically named voids, controlled by a handful of super-mods and super-admins.
Distributed networks are meant to be, well, distributed, not quasi-centralized with some fun URLs used as dumb terminals.
Yup. And costs right now are rising while they’re still in the “get everybody hooked” stage of things, in no small part because they can’t survive at current prices. Anthropic is desperate to get to their IPO so they can have the warchest they need to actually become an established integral part of development pipelines and not just a fad.
My Haswell 4770k died last year after 13 years in service. I replaced it with a used AMD 5800X with 32GB DDR4 for $100. As soon as I heard about the RAM shortages, I grabbed another 64GB.
Not only am I ready to ride out this bubble, buy I’m fucking around with local LLM models just to be a snot about it.
It’s true. I’m sorry I definitely said we should all hide in the corner. I should have probably have not said that using real words that actually came from me and have not been inserted into my fucking mouth by some finger wagging bystander looking for a soapbox to well-akshually from.
Awesome. Something to keep me away from big wrbsites and on the small web.
Another late-stage job interview, another job I didn’t get. This time, the company eliminated the role before hiring anyone! What fun!
I really should be spending my period of unemployment building up some of my atrophied technical skills, but I’m so tired. I fell into burnout after getting laid off, and I’m trying to do everything I can to take that seriously and recover, but being unemployed is terrifying, and I’ve accumulated so much exhaustion…
It’s turned into a surprisingly rough day today.
I had a job interview today that… Honestly, I have no idea how it went. It was the 3rd round with this company, and the other two went very well. This one was with the head of the department, and the guy was incredibly unreadable and cold. And I have no issue with people being cold – especially upper management – but it’s the lack of signal that’s really throwing me.
At the very least, the lack of certainty about what this guy thinks makes me less certain I’d be a good fit in this place. But at the same time, he wouldn’t be the person I was reporting to, anyway.
On the domestic side, my wife decided to go back to a vegetarian diet. She assured me this would be a gradual transition, and it wouldn’t immediately affect any of my routines.
Anyway, she basically immediately turned around and told me she was eating vegan now, and started trying to sell me on a vegan pizzaria on the other side of town. Which… Not only did I just buy a whole bunch of chicken, but she doesn’t drive, so I do all of the take-out pickups. I’m pretty overwhelmed, upset, and, I suspect, angry. And it’s occurred to me that this is a recurring pattern: She decides to make a change, she tells me it won’t impact me at all, and then she not only makes me hear about every little thing she’s changing, but also needs me to change my shopping routines, and/or go well out of my way to facilitate her changes, and I’m getting increasingly frustrated by this pattern.
It’s amazing how passionate bootlickers are about text prediction and the capturing of the commons.
The billionaires aren’t going to love you backv bro.
That’s a problem, but the bigger issue is how the commercial models are tuned to tell you that you are never wrong.
Or, more to the point, telling people who don’t know what they’re talking about that they’re never wrong.
It just agreed with the accusations, because these models do what they’re trained to do: Agree with the prompter.
I wanted to shower, but my wife beat me to it and now the shower is wet. Going to have to wait several hours now.