Zos_Kia

You definitely should listen to the latest season of the Revolutions podcast!

One bug I’ve had for ages is that the client stops rendering so it looks like steam is frozen (heh) but if you just resize the window it unfreezes

Not if it’s done at the semantic level. If they instruct the model to only mention this brand of pasta, and give it a few arguments why it’s the best, it will gladly incorporate that in its response and you won’t have any way to detect that.

You’re just describing the vast (silent) majority of religious people. So I guess you’re already pretty happy with things as they are.

I think you misunderstand that scene. Bitcoin miners are crazy rich and most of them are investors in their own right. They don’t need outside money.

No they play a different game and leverage hardware. Most probably they’ll buy H100s instead of ASIC and run AI inference on that. It turns out that inference can be pretty profitable if you have good utilization and don’t need to train your own models.

Any time Rust is involved in the Linux community, a lot of vocal critics with very little knowledge of the language or programming in general seem to appear

I swear to god sometime last week in a conversation about Rust here, there was one commenter whose entire point was “OK admittedly i don’t code and don’t know much about programming but i got this feeling that memory safety isn’t all what’ it’s cracked up to be”. A confederacy of dunces indeed…

I’ve sunk a good deal of hours into it last year and honestly it was already pretty complete. I don’t know what they’ve added recently but it seems the game has been mature for some time now

Yeah nobody did. I’ve heard this kind of talk since the Patriot act went into effect but it wasn’t really a problem as long as the US weren’t overtly hostile to our institutions.

Right now a lot of people are scrambling to alternatives, at least in certain circles. Personally ive been gearing up a “de-americanization” service I plan to go to market in early 2026. It’s gonna be great cause for the first time in my career I can go all in on communicating my opinions to potential customers \o/

you know the best memory I have of my grandma before she tragically passed away? How she would sing decryption keys to me while I feel asleep 🥰

I think they just call it Android

Yeah but your password on my product with MFA is probably used everywhere else without MFA. Most products have a low risk security profile so they don’t want to be the leak for higher risk stuff.

It was the boots that sold it for me

Was she drawn by Akira Toryiama ?

Imagine if you will a browser with infinite attack surface 💀

Honestly I’m pretty bullish on ai but that’s the step too far. I had the same when they released warp (ai enhanced terminal). I finished installing it then before even starting it once I realized I was about to give an ai access to my dotfiles etc… that was the fastest I ever uninstalled something.

I don’t know about other STTs but if you’re using whisper you can “prompt” it for consistent spelling. If you put “todo” in the prompt it should always spell it like that.

Have you tried using a vector DB with an embedder ? It may give decent performance without the need for a full blown LLM

The problem with being a pragmatic LLM user is that you have on one side corporate America shoe-horning the tech in mediocre products none wants, and on the other side a large portion of the internet who loathe it but don’t use it and don’t even know what it does. Those conversations never go anywhere man. You’re talking to someone who thinks accuracy of 57% on SpreadsheetBench means the model gives wrong answers 42% of the time.

Hate to agree with Microsoft but yeah, Excel is probably a great place to introduce an LLM. It’s in that sweet spot between natural language and light programming, in an environment with math baked in so you don’t really care about the model’s accuracy or exact recall. All the data is here, and the model only has to manipulates cell numbers and writes formulas in this dumbed down language.

I’m sure you can get away with pretty small models too. It doesn’t need super human knowledge to implement 90% of common Excel use cases, and i suspect in real world scenarios the accuracy must be pretty interesting.

I think you may have personal feelings against christianity mixed up with the historical stuff and it doesn’t make for interesting discourse.

Yeah well fuck those platitudes you must have me mistaken for a 13 year old on TikTok.

I don’t see how baiting a conversation then refusing to partake in it is “living your life” but hey good job Kerouac you’ve got this

I honestly don’t understand the point here and your sarcastic mode makes the whole experience tedious and confusing.

You seem to be arguing that Jesus shouldn’t be considered a historical figure, for reasons that somehow do not apply to other historical figures, but you don’t wish to engage with actual discussion on the matter. I’m at a loss here and suspect you may be experiencing a critical shortage of slack.