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ryeats··on I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer
You know that teammate that makes more work for everyone else on the team because they do what they are asked to do but in the most buggy and incomprehensible way, that when you finally get them to move on to another team and you realize how much time you spent corralling them and fixing their subtle bugs and now when they are gone work doesn't seem like so much of a chore.

That's AI.

ryeats··on Zig's New Async I/O
When I watched the release notes they didn't sound like it was some ground breaking new pattern it's just a new approach that fits best with zig.
ryeats··on Conspiracy theorists unaware their beliefs are on the fringe
Trying to understand this but what you said to me is essentially, she couldn't prove any of his statements false because she gave off the vibe of someone who was not authentic and trustworthy?
ryeats··on Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza
It's ~1% click through most just get the news from the headline.
ryeats··on A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
It's more like muscle memory than cognition. So maybe procedural memory but that isn't catchy.
ryeats··on Korean students seek 'digital undertakers' amid US visa social media screening
It would be a stupid position. I was failing to explain that not all rights like the freedom of speech necessarily make sense to apply to foreigners who are given the privilege to enter the country. I am not necessarily firm in this position the other poster made an argument that they can speak because what does it matter which is a good point.
ryeats··on Locality of Behaviour (2020)
It's a good point though this is also what makes it easier for humans. I think most good abstractions hide unimportant details in order to make it easier to reason about and reduce the context but both the appropriate amount of context and what is an unimportant detail are not consistent between individual devs and don't have good metrics to measure their qualities.
ryeats··on Korean students seek 'digital undertakers' amid US visa social media screening
This is naive, it's clear that someone without a stake in a country could just be an agent provocateur.
ryeats··on Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging It in 30 Minutes with Fray
this is really cool I want to use it for deterministim simulation testing. Question, isn't shadow locking essentially the same as continuations in virtual threads? how does this compare to replacing the scheduler in virtual threads? see https://jbaker.io/2022/05/09/project-loom-for-distributed-sy...
ryeats··on My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle
Im still having trouble understanding why this destinction matters here. Your saying there is a difference between making choices that resulted in homeless being the only option and choosing homelessness because its the best available option?
ryeats··on After Pornhub left France, this VPN saw a 1,000% surge in signups in 30 minutes
I tried to block YouTube when my kids were remote learning during the pandemic, it took several attempts and they were in grade school. They even got around Apple's considerable content controls I had to set up a DNS proxy.
ryeats··on Hate Radio (2011)
I was being ironic, because their is an actual honest disagreement about morality but not being able to talk about it because it's considered by a some to be hate speech doesn't make it go away.

If flat earthers can't talk about a flat earth then no one will dissuade them of the notion.

ryeats··on Hate Radio (2011)
This is a good example of hate speech. You are dehumanizing people of the US saying they don't conceptual understand morality and can't decide for themselves what is morally wrong or right.
ryeats··on X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content
Not justify anything he does or does not do but this is clearly not the case since he had to take out loans against equity in his other companies to buy Twitter.
ryeats··on Jepsen: TigerBeetle 0.16.11
I think it is interesting but obvious in hindsight that it is necessary to have the distributed system under test report the time/order things actually happened to enable accurate validation against an external model of the system instead of using wall-clock time.
ryeats··on Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America
This is not true. Your rose colored glasses of Chinese culture, and the current state of Chinese economy and society need a reality check.
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