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jtrek

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  • What is your opinion on the current state of AI/LLMs

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  • It enables unskilled people to punch above their weight class, similar to giving a chainsaw to a toddler.

    I've used them a little for coding, but it's not always correct. It's often incorrect in subtle ways. Or inefficient in non obvious ways. It gets worse as you build more.

    Often it's better overall to do it yourself if you know what you're doing. If you stick to letting the LLM do it, you won't learn much.

  • How quick are you to block someone on Lemmy?

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  • I don't think I've blocked anybody, but I mostly don't read names. Sometimes I wonder if I'm having a metaphorical fist fight in one thread and a love fest in another with the same person.

  • AI coding assistants might not save wall-time, but they do save effort, in the same way that pressing the 'up' arrow ten times in a shell might let you avoid typing 'ls'

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  • Guy at work did a whole mini project with just LLMs and prompting. I asked him some questions about how it works and some implementation details, and he had no idea. Great. I'm going to have to maintain this thing, probably.

  • Why don't I care about the Artemis mission/program?

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  • It's eclipsed (no pun intended) by the horrors of war, disease, and conservatism. It's hard to be excited about the moon when there's measles outbreaks and at least one genocide.

  • France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech

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  • Good. Windows is all of bad, expensive, and untrustworthy

  • West Virginians voted overwhelmingly for Trump on promise to cut electric costs in half. Bills in energy-rich West Virginia now top mortgages

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  • Anyone who voted for trump has it coming. There were no credible reasons to believe he would be a good president. Republican policies are all bad.

  • What would you personally consider a shitpost? Basic definition below. Let me know how your definition varies.

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  • I think it's low quality more than low effort. Low effort often gets low quality, but someone could spend hours making a bad Photoshop joke and it's still shit

  • holy moley

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  • There is opportunity cost of Microsoft et al investing billions in AI instead of doing anything else. That money could have been spent on renewable energy research, improving efficiency of existing hardware, supporting work from home to reduce commuting, whatever. Those opportunities are lost because they went with AI instead.

    I didn't mean my opportunity cost from the toilet.

    AI is a poor use of limited resources and opportunity.

  • holy moley

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  • I really don't think the billions of dollars spent on AI is equivalent or at all analogous to the time I spend posting on the toilet or while waiting for things to happen at work.

  • VLC got to the moon before bitcoin or gamestop

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  • He's going to keep all his wealth and maybe stroll into a high paying "consulting" gig. It's unfair. it's unjust. People who are bad at their jobs and making the world worse do not deserve immense wealth and comfort.

  • What's the most useful app you've discovered recently?

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  • "too good to go". Cheap food from places near the end of their business day. Like a whole pizza for $6.

  • Drive slower, go electric, don't drive at all? Americans weigh options for saving gas

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  • Living someplace with usable mass transit is pretty nice.

    Gas is too cheap relative to its real costs anyway.

  • holy moley

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  • The opportunity cost for AI is pretty high. That's a lot of resources spent on something that's bad for the world, even if it's not specifically the worst for climate change reasons in a first order sense.

  • They Laughed at Car-Free Housing. Now They’re Trying to Copy It.

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  • Cool. I hope it succeeds.

  • Republicans silent as Democrats call on US cabinet to oust Trump over Iran

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  • Republicans are bad people who value personal power and in-group belonging more than anything else like morals or consistency. They are bad people. That's how bad people make decisions.

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  • People acting like “privilege” is some awful phrase is why MAGA types go out of their way to deny their privilege.

    That's because maga types are deeply, fundamentally, stupid. They don't think, they feel. When you say to one "You're privileged by being white so you don't get bothered as much by the police" they feel bad, and that's all. That's part of why they can hold contradictory positions without any apparent discomfort. The words are contradictory but the feelings are consistent.

  • JUST IN: Iran Ends Direct Talks With US After Trump Threatens to Destroy ‘Whole Civilization’

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  • If americans could learn we wouldn't have a 2nd trump presidency. We're on average stupider than bart with the cupcakes.

  • Six reasons Mastodon won't survive (2017)

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  • Centralized platforms have obvious and severe problems. Unfortunately, most people don't care.

  • What was the last live theater performance that you saw?

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  • Coincidentally, I was taken as a plus-1 to a Broadway musical, "Ragtime", this month. I normally don't go out much for theater, but it was free so I went.

    It wasn't bad. The style of music isn't my jam, but it had some fun parts.

    Also interesting is the play's message seems to be "the only way you'll get something approaching justice is violence" and I'm not sure if that's the author's intent.