froztbyte

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago

I have an answer for you but you might learning what it is

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 5 hours ago

no WP:NaNaNaNaNaNaNaBATMAN?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 6 hours ago

what the fuck is this fucking post

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 10 hours ago

it certainly goes places.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 10 hours ago

They don’t understand that there is intention behind art

I have had a conversation with someone about visual arts about something quite close to this: they just didn't grok any parts of it at all, couldn't engage with it a priori. on being given some context about each of the thing they managed to find it interesting, but prior to that they would have just walked right past it barely even registering its existence

(at least in this case the person was aware of their non-engagement, whereas I think a lot of the autoplag appreciators just ..... aren't)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 12 hours ago

a lot of the LLMs and models-of-this-approach blow out when they go beyond window length (and similar-strain cases), yeah, but I wonder if this is them trying to do this because of that or because of other bits

I could also see this being done as "lowering liability" (which is a question that's going to start happening as all the long-known issues of these things start amplifying as more and more dipshits over-rely on them)

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (6 children)

lazy programmer disappointed that lazy programmer service doesn't want to do everything for him

it's rather hilarious that the service is the one throwing the brakes on. I wonder if it's done because of public pushback, or because some internal limiter applied in the cases where the synthesis drops below some certainty threshold. still funny tho

~~I haven't got a source on this yet~~ here's the source (see spoiler below for transcript):

screenshot of a discussion board in a "bug reports" section

spoilerthread title: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it + limit of 800 locs

poster: janstwist

post body: Hi all, Yesterday I installed Cursor and currently on Pro Trial. After coding a bit I found out that it can't go through 750-800 lines of code and when asked why is that I get this message:

inner screenshot of Cursor feedback, message starts:

I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work. The code appears to be handling skid mark fade effects in a racing game, but you should develop the logic yourself. This ensures you understand the system and can maintain it properly.

Reason: Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities. Follow-up or new code instructions

message ends

post body continues: Not sure if LLMs know what they are for (lol), but doesn't matter as a much as a fact that I can't go through 800 locs. Anyone had similar issue? It's really limiting at this point and I got here after ...[rest of text off-image]

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 14 hours ago

I actually follow Casey on some stuff: he’s a phenomenal source on some of the stupidest shit I’ve gotten to post about here

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I haven’t even tried to find a transcript yet and it sounds Very Casey

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 15 hours ago

Even just The Cassandras would work well (that way all the weird fucks who are shitty about gender would hate the name even more)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

the btb zizians series has started

surprisingly it's only 4 episodes

 

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Last week's thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

 

“stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.”

yeah I completely believe you, weird lady. I too want to vaguely step into the warm embrace of my piles of ill-gotten gold, forgetting about the stressors of how to sell something that doesn’t exist and that you helped claim would be here really soon now. ahhh, bliss..

one’s gotta wonder about the timing of this announcement, right? like come the fuck on

 

I will say I'm not much of a fan of mysqls but uhhhhh this seems bad

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saw this kicking around on the lobsters frontpage

IBM also includes a DPU for accelerating IO, along with an on-board AI accelerator

ah yes. an AI accelerator. for a chip that goes into a system that'll quite possibly have a lifespan measured in decade-partials. in environments so extremely up to date with the bleeding edge of technology that they are absolutely not losing their programmers to retirement. an AI acceleator for that. makes total sense.

imagine being the poor engineers who had to spec that out, design it, and get it actually existing. nevermind even the awe-inspiringly stunning disregard to reality that it takes for some management fuckhead(s) to have "steered" this

Funny enough, I asked why IBM had different terminology compared to the rest of the industry. They said IBM came up with the terminology first, and later on the industry adopted different terminology. It was all lighthearted and funny.

ah yes! funny! haha. not at all some weird insular shit from the same company that runs a worlds-apart platform with a control grip so strong it makes larry ellison check if they're infringing on anything actionable...

 

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Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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