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McNeely
@McNeely@indieweb.social
mastodon 4.7.3web stan, software engineer, sports fanatic, history lover. Thoughts are my own. Crypto stands for cryptography.
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Joined December 19, 2022
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@mekkaokereke @davidnjoku I totally understand that. There's also the Indian space program landing a lunar rover on the moon's south pole the other year. I do remember hearing about that one more than any of the other Chinese space missions though. The Chandrayaan Programme was also notable for how cheaply they did everything compared to what NASA does.
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@ketan@climatejustice.social when I hear people telling me they only use Claude and not ChatGPT all I can think of are the people who only use Instagram bc "they don't like Facebook" 😑
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@ryanleesipes they do realize that people will still be scanning the deployed code looking for exploits right?
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@danirabbit structurally there are two main mechanisms.
First as others have mentioned he should be removed from office with the 25th Amendment. (It should probably have already happened with all his cognitive tests he began about but...) If launching a genocidal war crime against 90 million people isn't grounds for removal nothing is.
Second, if orders are given, they are almost certainly illegal and should be ignored. That's why those Dem veterans cut the ad last year reminding officers.
Part of the social contract in having good local/niche businesses is that you have to patronize them! Yes it might cost a bit more but if you can afford to, keep that money local or spend it with your favorite niche hobby. What you spend in money you will make up for in community and culture.
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Is it bad when the LLMs have more pushback against DHH's racism than half of the Ruby community?
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@robhawkes the practical effects of the original movies were part of what always made them so good. He and the whole team really did an incredible job 👏
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@annaecook I find the herd mentality of it all so frustrating. Why does one "need" an AI strategy? What concrete problem are they trying to solve?? 🫠
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@carlrichell I'm not from Colorado but I do follow tech policy somewhat closely; it's my understanding that Colorado likes to view itself as one of the leaders in tech policy at the state level. I think it would be very helpful if you pointed at the carve outs for Open Source OSs and Apps and compared that to the state of CA AB1043 and the vagueness of who it applies towards as "Operating System Provider" and "covered app store". Clarity is better here IMO
https://trackbill.com/bill/california-assembly-bill-1043-age-verification-signals-software-applications-and-online-services/2670347/
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@danirabbit@mastodon.online @eldersea@expressional.social if you had told me back in like 2016 that Steyer would resurface again as likely the best polling/most progressive candidate option left IN CALIFORNIA I would not have believed you.
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@killyourfm@layer8.space wow these are incredible pictures!! What is the ring of rocks in the Chicago Lakes Trail? Something that was put up by hikers over time?
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@ariadne also like, where the fuck are the moon colonies? I feel like I was promised moon colonies by now and we barely remember how to get there.
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@dbrand666@mastodon.social @collectifission@greennuclear.online @helioselene@h4.io @FluentInFinance@mastodon.social hahah that's cute that you think that's included. No people are just truly nuts and have limited choices.
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@carnage4life@mas.to I'm not sure I disagree but I think it's more of a venn diagram than two distance columns. As others have said there can be a conflict between the two options.
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@tchambers@indieweb.social I'm not that confident but I do think that there isn't much of "moat" around the models. If Chinese labs can distill more open models out of the big closed American labs they are probably always going to be just barely behind. At a certain point do the "breakthroughs" matter to people? Especially when the general public is already becoming AI weary??? I doubt it very much.
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@annaecook I actually saw someone working with LLMs make a really similar point just a few days ago. Like we as people have only so much mental capacity and the idea that we can just chug thru switching tasks bc an LLM is churning out code is laughably absurd.
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@benbrown@masto.hackers.town I just spent the weekend reading about Home Assistant stuff for ESP32 and now this? I feel like I'm standing in front of a humongous big rabbit hole 😁
@noboilerplate this is a great tip thanks to everyone who boosted it 🙏
My daughter got a book about AI from the library
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@tchambers@indieweb.social so I just finished reading Empire of AI and they talk A LOT about the cost in compute and time to train models. I think we're going to see one of two things in the next 3-5 years. Either the Open models just can't afford to spend to train like the major American AI labs are doing and the gap gradually widens again (scaling laws rule and if you can't scale 🤷). Or the other alternative, US firms blow their $$$ and time and don't get anywhere faster. Running faster is not a great plan!
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@amoroso @viermalbe I'm not gonna lie I reposted this just based on the description bc I've been wanting someone to build something like this but now that I've gotten a chance to check it out I'm even more in love with it 😍
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@ninafelwitch@tech.lgbt @monster@tech.lgbt I couldn't stomach the whole thing. It's a novel stunt but I don't like the idea of Sanders treating Claude as a thing that holds a conversation with him; is going to further legitimize the entire conception of AI as a fully capable autonomous thing
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@mahryekuh this reminds me of a comment I saw once that compared back-end development as "easy mode" since you know your environment and its constraints are laid out for you ahead of time. Compared to the front-end where you are programing where everyone can see you fail in an unknown environment. You can decide which one is harder
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org speaking as a parent with questionable time management skills and a creative passion I can 10000% verify this
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@baldur@toot.cafe non algorithmic feeds can be wild because my BSky is currently talking about how there is also a fervent knee jerk anti AI stance that refuses to concede any ground that LLMs might be improving. Which is not the same as saying criticism isn't valid just that a lot of the criticism these days is completely missing the mark and turning people off from anti AI (really just LLM) sentiment.
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@Threadbane @danirabbit your right there's also impeachment, so it's really 3 main ways. I just ran out of characters
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@jaredwhite I realize I'm probably the incredibly nerdy minority but all of my favorite classes were the ones where professors just got up and talked at/to us. Probably not a coincidence my podcast preferences are "put you sleep" material as my wife calls them 🫣😆
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@evan@cosocial.ca "it" is a little vague here. I've used AI code review tools which are better than nothing when I was the sole developer on a project at a startup. I've used tools like SonarQube and linters for static analysis. I think that in the end it works but I'm not sure it's worth the cost/trade-offs.
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@Drwave@mastodon.social @Bluedonkey@mastodon.social I would have had no idea about this if I didn't come across it. Reminds me of the statement that someone made that most car key fobs have more computing power than the Apollo moon missions (no clue about this statement validity)
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Thinking about High Modernism, Le Corbusier, and how the Bene Gesserit. I can't decide if they are a literary apotheosis of High Modernism or a synthesis of Humanism and High Modernism. Probably bc that's one of the themes of the last three books.
Finally read that essay by Dana Milibank about how politics has changed over the last 10 months that's supposed to be a sort of their soft relaunch of NOTUS in June. Frankly I'm not sure it's going to be anything more than a new home for neoliberal coverage driven out of the Washington Post. He seems to be clearly missing the point on how MAGA is demonizing and attacking trans folks. His sole mentioning of SCOTUS is the few times they have checked Trump instead of their massive deference.
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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io this is one of those statements that sounds hyperbolic but really isn't 🫠
I can't help but love and also be a little sad about this @404mediaco@mastodon.social article. I love that this is happening, I would never want it to end. But at the same time, I live in the suburbs a few hundred miles away. Placing things on the internet gives them such spread in a way local events can't. Unfortunately the internet does have some tradeoffs (to put it very lightly) so I understand why the Luddites don't want to be featured.
Being a Luddite Is Fun Again
One important thing to understand about how blatantly political this is by the Roberts Court is that it has been a tradition of the court known as the Purcell Principle not to interfere with voting laws and maps too close to the actual election to ensure fairness.
@stephenwolf.bsky.social https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b3psimnw5xxta2n4h5qzxu55/post/3ml2tih5v5s2p
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@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social oh snap thanks for sharing! This is literally the rain I stopped using custom ROMs for a few years
I always assumed they would try but I was never sure if he would succeed.
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Like how does someone predisposed to technocracy not lose sight of humanity and end up Marc Andreesson?
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@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com I wish company were so committed to the Lindsey/Tobias meme with union busters 🫠
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@n8 I think there's probably a lot of value in thinking about Mastodon as a web forum on steroids. Web forums are great!
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@evan@cosocial.ca I have a very hard time imagining that "AI" (which is not a specific thing but that's a whole other poll/discussion) can do a better job than actual purpose built tools for static analysis