djsjajah's comments

On: Garmin's –$40B Pivot

[djsjajah]

I think everyone should be reminded that a few years ago Garmin let someone take down their whole network (globally) and then paid the ransom after a few days [1]. In my opinion, the company does not deserve your money.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/garma...

On: Microprogramming: A New Way to Program

[djsjajah]

Has the author not used linux? I think there is already a garden of programs in /usr/bin

[tornadofart → djsjajah]

My thoughts exactly. Pipe programs together et voilà... microprogamming

On: Donald Sutherland has died

[djsjajah]

Is the whole internet gaslighting me? Hawkeye was played by Alan Alda and I’m kinda offended that anyone would attribute the role to anyone else but I’ve read a bunch of comments on different websites that make it seem like people remember him as Hawkeye.

[maroonblazer → djsjajah]

The Altman film came first, starring DS as Hawkeye. The TV show starred AA.

[radley → djsjajah]

Gary Burghoff played Radar in the film and TV series. Timothy Brown was in both, but played two different characters.

[shmoe → djsjajah]

You'd have to know MASH was a movie first :)

On: GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needles...

[djsjajah]

A better test would be to see if it can still answer the question if you just exclude the limerick for that answer. Having a bunch of limericks in the context window will make it "think" about all of the limericks it "knows".

On: Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's stirring letter abou...

[djsjajah]

I can’t disagree with his point about song writing but I think ChatGPT is not going to alter the struggle that we face on a day to day basis. It is just going to amplify our accomplishments. The art that a single artist makes tomorrow might be the product of many lifetimes of human work yesterday.