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  • LLM Idolatrine: Why no one wants your agentic PRs

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  • One huge issue is that LLMs do weird and stupid things differently than how humans do them.

    If you've developed an eye for reading human-made changes, you're not necessarily going to recognize new and surprising failure modes as easily. It's literally harder than regular code review.

    Humans with modern tooling, for example, rarely hallucinate field/class/method/object names because non-spicy autocomplete keeps them on the rails. LLMs seem much more willing to decide the menu bar is .menuBar and not .topMenu, probably because their training corpus is full of the former.

  • Prepared for this day

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  • Many things still fall back to VGA, like old projectors.

  • China’s new language law to criminalise advocacy of ethnic minority rights

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  • This probably does offer better long-term economic prospects for their citizenry.

    Wouldn't students who were taught in (insert minority language here) be at a disadvantage trying to compete with first-language Mandarin speakers for jobs outside of their narrow region?

    Even in the US, there's been intense debates over schools offering core instruction in Spanish,

  • ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets

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  • Trying to sell consumers on "scaling solves everything" is going to be a hard sell.

    If we look at general purpose computation, which had decades of actual scaling-solves-everything growth, you had two influences that made the message resonate with customers:

    • Clear existing applications where more power made the experience straightforward better. Your spreadsheet took an hour to recalculate at 8MHz and 20 minutes at 25MHz. A lot of the "bigger model" stuff is plateauing with marginal or spotty gains. If I feed another 5 Internets of data to ChatGPT, will that summarized email be that much better?
    • New applications that could be demoed on specialised low capacity hardware and scaled down to consumers as more power became available. Think of early CGI on hardware costing tens of millions, and now you can run Blender on a $149 laptop. Since most commercial AI plays are hosted services, there's not much opportunity to tease that way anymore.

  • What made you choose your Fediverse Instance?

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  • I figured SDF were the sort of people who would consider uptime a badge of honour.

    I should probably be on Hexbear but I didn't know of its existence at the time. Very problematic, my Xibuck direct deposits keep bouncing.

  • programming rule

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  • I feel like I missed out. By the 3rd year at my programne, you were down to 1-2 women per class. Maybe because it was a state school, they didn't have the budget to forcefem the students.

  • Decisions, decisions...

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  • Transhumanity would be exciting if they had cool visions. I'd be all over raising a creche of draconic children.

    But no, it's just rich people gluing a Palm Pilot to their cerebrllum or doing a dance to shoo away the reaper.

  • It looks delicious

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  • The Crystalline Entity was made of rock candy, I bet.

  • ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets

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  • The difference was that Amazon knew how to make a profit, but was reinvesting into infrastructure plays and bigger fish.

    If they had to, they could have been a modestly profitable bookshop in 2002. AWS and monster logistics might not have developed to put them in the 13-digit club though.

    Does any AI-centric play have that fundamental fallback? The services that seem to be most effective at direct monetization, the coding tools, are typically running at huge losses. If they raised costs to cover, precious few firms will pay basically the salary of a senior dev for an emulation of an enthusiastic junior dev with an affinity for footguns.

    The less enterprise-focused products-- parasocial toys, image and video gen, will likely try to dip into consumer subs and advertising, but can that generate the cash volumes these platforms demand?

  • The official Introduction to Github page included an AI-generated graphic with the phrase "continvoucly morged" on it, among other mistakes.

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  • All the best firms continvoucly morg these days.

  • Keyboard latency

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  • The "default" mode for a USB keyboard allows submitting 6 keys + modifiers. Some boards define nontraditional input descriptors that allow more, but that mode is not guaranteed to work in places like the BIOS menu or naive KVM switches.

    To avoid phantom keypresses when you hit three keys in a "square" on the matrix, a diode can be placed in series with each switch so current can't go through an "indirect" route.

  • If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked.

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  • There's also an execution problem.

    Truly knowing your customer might produce very different outcomes than the current compliance checkbox approach.

    "I know Fred just sold his old car. The idea he suddenly has $12k in cash is not suspicious" or "Jane's been talking about going to Montreal for momths. We should not block her card when it lights up there.". That's real KYC, but it requires human connection and human judgement, which doesn't scale and doesn't provide the right paperwork for demonstrating compliance with arbitrary mandates.

  • Senator Mark Kelly says he will 'seriously consider' running for president

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  • I think she did a poor job of saying what she brought to the table. I understand not wanting to throwJoe under the bus, but opening some daylight on policy would have given her a chance to deflect the affordability problems the last months of Biden had, for example.

  • Featured

    sphynx electrolysis development journal entry #10: hi

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  • I love the cat logo! I really need to do some sort of logo for my PCBs.

  • But Xi, what about the calories?

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  • He probably gets his 10,000 steps a day. He's earned a pastry.

    TBH, I'd think being a world leader would be somewhat aerobic because you probably need to do a fair amount of walking to different speaking venues and briefings. Probably moreso than a typical 40-hour desk job.

  • Wendy's closing hundreds of U.S. restaurants as sales plunge

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  • Culver's is... interesting.

    I find I don't like the paper-thin style burgers much (though the fish sandwich is probably the best fast-food fish sandwich on the market) but it always gives the impression they're trying a little harder. The restaurant always seems clean and a bit of effort was done on the appearance, like they're still in 1978 and taking the family for a sit-down meal there might be an option.

    OTOH, the customer base seems to be people who have been going there since 1978, but that could be my location.

    They're opening a new one 3km from my house, next to a McDonalds that hasn't made a single order correctly since it opened in ~2015, so it will be interesting to see how the market shakes out.

  • NES exploded view

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  • This is why they failed. You got Battletoad gunk stuck in the 72-pin connector and it didn't make good contact anymore.

    (The generally robust hardware was somewhat sabotaged by a weird cartridge slot designed to support front-loading, so people wouldn't compare it with an Atari 2600)

  • Americans ditch premium trims for entry-level cars as affordability takes a hit

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  • I think the choice of automatic-only may be less conspiratorial and more streamlining the product to broad tastes.

    If only 10% of buyers choose the manual, it probably adds a fair amount of manufacturing and supply chain complexity to service them, which might drive up the cost for all models.

    It's like how most US carmakers don't offer many diesel models.

    Now, the ratchet of interior features... Plenty of people don't want a huge monolith of an infotainment system with 14 speakers, but it's standard and you can then be upsold the premium one with 25 speakers.

  • The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance

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  • I'm pretty sure it's actually those shoulder pads.

  • techsupport @lemmy.world
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    X11 mouse "partial dropout".

  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
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    Suggestions for a USD100 2m/70cm HT

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
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    Custom case complete

  • traingang @hexbear.net
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    Another classic American industry, mercilessly outsourced to the unstoppable Chinese juggernaut...

    www.csspa.org
  • Qt Framework @programming.dev
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    Theming / Font configuration: "bold" inherited unexpectedly

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Account Required, 2FA, Contract Signed In Blood... to see a PDF.

  • Spiders @lemmy.world
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    ID request (Phoenix area)

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Some Wine games go blank when I leave the window

  • Unixporn @lemmy.ml
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    MWM

    It's still 1994 here!

  • OPNsense @lemmy.world
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    Turnkey mini-PC for home-routing duties.

  • Electronics @discuss.tchncs.de
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    PSA: Buy some LED Christmas lights today

  • askTO | Ask Torontonians Questions @lemmy.ca
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    Specific shopping suggestions

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
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    FVWM is all you really need