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I've tried prompting once, but to be honest, just saving the .html and opening it got the full thing in my browser, so no prompt really needed. Prompts always worked... just was always worried about hallucinations, even when I said not to do those.

LibreOffice.

You can open PDF in LibreOffice Writer, just make sure to select "PDF - Portable Document Format (writer)" in the file selection dialog. This is very important, if you don't do that, the file will be opened in LibreOffice Draw instead of Writer.


> Concentrating the Jews was thus crucial to the success of the genocide

Oh interesting. Maybe I should be moving out to the country and not among other trans women then.


I used to work on solar power plants and solar tracking technology back in the late 2000s. Even back then, I remember frequently discussing that "eventually panels will be cheap enough that we'll just wallpaper the world...". It's really nice to see that coming true.

You can make the PR description the commit message through configuration.

I don't get to use Tcl at work anymore, but I adore it. I use it for command line stuff on a regular basis

Not sure I follow. The letter is about clothes... He talks about people (himself, others) have low single digits outfits (one set, two sets), not sure how this makes him a post industrial capitalism consumer

ActiveRecord or how to badly couple your storage with your objetcs.

A lot of services are provided by contractors, including a few hundred control towers, the weather briefing system, the vast majority of flight and medical examiners, etc.

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Yes you can do that and shard a very large model across the devices but it's way too slow so you will get no performance gains beyond being able to run a much larger model at all.

Local/state government tech work. Pay is lower, job security higher.

I mean LLM is also putting text on screen...

Yeah, I looked all over for a comparison and couldn't find anything in the repo, on their social media, etc. I saw some other comments here that said it's supposed to be "15.8 fp16 ops compared to 14.7 fp32 ops" but that isn't really enough to go on. Maybe when I have the time I'll install their TestFlight app and do some comparisons myself.

Sounds like “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” by Cory Doctorow, but in real life.

The more familiar you are with the state of “Jira hygiene” in the megacorp environment, the less hope you have that LLMs will be able to make sense of things.

That said, the “AI all the things” mandates could be the lever that ultimately accomplishes what 100+ PjMs couldn’t - making people write issues as if they really mattered. Because garbage in, garbage out.


It would be great to help keep CCT skills fresh and current - rotate them around with 'deployments' to civilian facilities. It'd be a win all the way around.

You don’t think the black box nature of much of AI has any impact on its impact in safety critical applications?

It brings up some difficult questions regarding adequacy of testing at the very least when the underpinnings are not very interpretable.


What I'm reading here is that you feel cruel and selfish, and some sort of restrictive diet is your self-punishment. And denying other people's lived experiences is necessary to reinforce the self-punishment. You don't know me, or my experiences, or circumstances. Only your own. So I don't see how it could be any other way.

It's not the main driver of what's happening but it's an aspect of it that goes back a way. For example Turing writing in 1946:

>I am more interested in the possibility of producing models of the action of the brain than in the applications to practical computing...although the brain may in fact operate by changing its neuron circuits by the growth of axons and dendrites, we could nevertheless make a model... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unorganized_machine


There are also Brian Bagnall's Commodore history books, of course.

10 lines of JS fits into a screen and can be reasoned about quite easily. Now do the same for 10000.

There’s class 4 mountaineers, and WI6 mountaineers. It’s often hard to tell where any one person falls on that continuum.

Pascal was poised to be the de facto language for microcomputers back in the 80s and early 90s. It really could have gone either way.

I'm not sure what tipped the balance to C/C++. Maybe the Microsoft compilers? Maybe the merge of the minicomputer world into microcomputers? Either way, Pascal held on (via Delphi) into the early 2000s.


I assumed they meant a client side DB and then a wrapper that syncs it to some other storage, which wouldn't be terribly different than say a native application the relies on a cloud backed storage system.

Which is fine and cool for an app, but if you do something like this for say, a form for a doctor's office, I wish bad things upon you.


Mainly because of the dynamically typed nature of the language. Not limited to Ruby/Rails. My colleagues used RubyMine because of this. I'm using Neovim with LSP, it's ok but nowhere near Go for example.

I've definitely spammed some long AI responses to generic questions in DMs that can easily be googled or punched into the many AI tools we have!

Why would the performance be any better with another tag?

Anyone who asks me to build them a site gets Squarespace, for sure. We put in their credit card number and they have full access; I just pick the template, get the domain name set up, show them how it works, etc.

We have even started replacing Wordpress sites with Squarespace at work. We tested out Wix, Webflow, Wordpress.com, etc. but Squarespace seems to have the best combo of features, design, price, and ease of use.


> I think your viewpoint lacks awareness of diverse groups that may be sensitive to certain types of content.

We might be in partial agreement on this point. Consider the parents in Iowa who think that books with LGBTQ+ themes fit a law about `sex acts` [1].

> If you distribute works that disrupt the mind of a child, this bill allows parents to seek relief. I think that's a good thing.

I was arguing that this bill, which both is broadly written and allows a private right of action, is a bad thing because it will encourage frivolous lawsuits over books that minors should be able to access. In some cases, kids will want to read such books against the wishes of their parents (though a parent would be able to prevent their children from reading forbidden in the bookstore by being present). Anyone writing a law around the concept of books that "disrupt the mind of a child" will have a difficult time satisfying strict scrutiny.

> You can still peddle the offensive material but require ID to view it.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/04/iowas-new-book-ban-anti-...


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