An old friend tried to head hunt me for a team at Salesforce a few years back and I'm now so very glad I turned them down.
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Thinking about an #indie #gamedev idea which would have two different elevator pitches for two different audiences:
- "a deep and mysterious runic magic system with a strong enough internal logic you can experiment and build your own spells"
- "blow things up in real time with a stack based programming language!"
Now that's the kind of content it's heart warming to see as a developer!
I’ve become sidetracked by the Visualink system. It’s very promising for students to edit and offers just enough asset options to give choice without overwhelming.
Staring at my dog staring at me and wondering, did we give them joint attention over the course of domesticating dogs and is this studyable
@[email protected] you have two wolves inside - sorry - beside you...
@mavnn English is not my native language yet I’ve managed to write blog posts in it just fine for decades.
Sure sometimes I wrote broken English but if you have something to say people don’t care.
If you sound boring and artificial—like you certainly will by using LLMs—no one will want to read it and you will never learn how to write.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@[email protected] I agree with everything you've said except for a caveat on the final point, which is that using LLMs to directly plagerize something interesting will produce interesting (and potentially human sounding) output. Which is just one more reason why I'm not keen on them when it leads to false accusations of plagerism towards people who are writing for themselves. But it sounds like I'm not really managing to explain myself, and I fundamentally agree with where you're coming from so I'll bow out of the conversation now.
Don't get me wrong, I think I know how reality works
It's not gonna change within a year or maybe 50..
But at some point people have to start and fight back
If we keep repeating "It's just how it is" shit will NEVER change
I refuse to accept shit as is, otherwise what's the point of everything
@[email protected] It feels like I spend half my life arguing either "if we don't keep saying this is wrong it will never change" or "this isn't going to change any time soon so we need to..."
This includes the arguing with myself. It's so hard some days to have the serenity to keep on believing things can and should change and doing what's possible, while also dealing with the reality of what's here right now. But it is also the only way to live life where I can both survive now and live with myself later.
@mavnn There’s more than just writing style to this.
@[email protected] I agree in the sense that if you don't find an written AI book strange there's something wrong - generated writing has nothing much in the way of actual content. But 'LLM, rewrite the points in this article for my precious SEO juice' versus 'I'm going to try and write my first technical blog post and I come from somewhere that isn't the US/UK" is something that needs to be assessed on context not denegrating the people who 'have LLM writing tells.'
Although I suppose some of that comes down to GenAI created (almost certainly meaning free) versus GenAI ripping off (almost impossible to tell from human written because a human supplied all of the meaning that is now being ripped off)
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You where all thinking it. And the answer is 'yes!'. Yes you can totally LASER engrave a banana to exfiltrate data from your secured premises. Just out of the machine the text is barely noticable. But the next morning? Clear as day.
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@[email protected] On the one hand, genius. On the other, what we were really all thinking was "why did they write pineapple on a banana?" Ceci n'est pas une ananas...
If you can’t tell if something was written by AI, I’d gently suggest that you read more (human authors, not slop).
@[email protected] I agree with a lot of your thoughts on AI, but I'm afraid on this one I'm going to have to say that is a dangerous take that harms the people who were paid to help train the models (generally people in low income countries dealing with enough crap already). If an AI chances to produce information that isn't nonsense, style isn't a good indicator of AI authorship; a good write up of how this causes harm is this one: segunfamisa.com/posts/no-you...
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Exciting news! I slept decently last night! (The few fortunate among who have have never experienced insomnia, being a parent, a shifted circadian rhythm, etc, might think this is sarcasm. It is not...)
Now I just need a few more nights and my IQ might return to being a positive number. It is disturbing how stupid being sleep deprived makes you.
Exciting news! I slept decently last night! (The few fortunate among who have have never experienced insomnia, being a parent, a shifted circadian rhythm, etc, might think this is sarcasm. It is not...)
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@senchawizard I mean ... it's a dark but genuine truth that while fascists are terrible, they're also hilarious and pathetic in ways that kids can find really familiar. So, depending on where you want to go with it, that could be very useful in such a design.
@[email protected] @[email protected] The line from school yard bully and cronies to fascist dictator and cronies is short enough that I suspect 'punch a nazi' will have a very immediate appeal to most children.
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vegan chilli day
@[email protected] I'm currently running a reasonable level of sleep dep and read that as fooneing at first glance. I'll leave @[email protected] to decide the meaning of their own verb and go get some sleep...
why is Gulliver of Travels fame depicted as Smokin' Hot Seattle Jesus?!
(I suspect it's AI-generated. Did someone who didn't know what Gulliver's Travels is about just paste his name into a prompt and go with it?)
@[email protected] I'm still trying to work out what the thing in his hand is. For one brief moment I thought it might be an egg cup, which would actually have been appropriate but... I honestly don't know. Maracas? And is he wearing a casio wristwatch? So many questions.
omg you guys what if the cp command is sentient
what if i copy too much data and then it decides to copy me what do we do then
@[email protected] Well, first you need to let thousands starve to avoid accidentally offending it in the future when it will time travel you into torment for having... checks notes... been nice to people who lived at the same time as you.
Great news everyone thanks to my significant advances in modern algorithmic analysis I am personally able to outperform a warehouse full of specialized GPUs by five orders of magnitude with a single ARM core for one one-millionth the cost in 0.1% of the time by training the "cp(1)" command on only the GCC source and then compiling the output of that program with GCC.
The resulting compiler - which I'm calling "mhoyecc", or as I've taken to calling it, mhoye plus cc, passes 100% of GCC's tests.
> This was a clean-room implementation (Claude did not have internet access at any point during its development)
Talking of words meaning something, calling it 'clean-room' when the training data included an implementation of what was being built is... not how I would use those words, at the very least. I also suspect it is not how a lot of lawyers and judges would use those words, either...
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] At least one of my university friends became a sysadmin partly because he felt that it would otherwise be too tempting to try and poke around other people's systems.
I'm blue badady badada 🎶
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@[email protected] Snazzy
My instincts are against leaky abstractions. You can't forget JS when using Elm, and you have to worry about the bridge. Why not just take the excellent MVU architecture and implement it in TS? Also I have a personal taste for curly brackets. Irrational I know.
@[email protected] No, that's fair and I'm on record as liking Elm for teams but not reaching for it for personal projects (partly because of JS interop) so I get where you're coming from.
@mavnn @pluralistic yes, the forms, forms, forms is absolutely out of control
no debate there
@[email protected] @[email protected] As a counter example one of my cousins applied for Australian citizenship and was rejected but the process was shorter, cheaper, and the reasons given were clear cut (if borderline enough that they had tried applying regardless). The UK process was long and ridiculous in places, but it was always clear what you had to do next, and where you had to go to get it. The Italians rejected my request on the basis of a rule that they changed retroactively (yay, different right wing government of a few years back) but at least submitting the request took me a fairly small amount of time and money (hundreds of euros, maybe a day of work)
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