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Good, Fast, Cheap.

Pick any two.

That sounds like a your-system issue. I hit Win+E (admittedly on an old Win10 box) and it instantly pops up an explorer window.

They literally can’t go full-transparency. I know a high-level insider, and the fact is that even the folks implementing things don’t actually know how it works, only that it does, and how to get it to generally behave.

…which is why it’s led to more than zero suicides.

That is a management failure.

And a management failure should not result in unpaid (slave) labor.

This is an inherently human problem.

Those are exceedingly difficult to solve via technology.

No. Management will take and take and take during “crunch time” then immediately layoff large chunks of staff before they give anything back.

It’s happened scores of times. No company is as loyal to its labor as it expects labor to be to it.

Easy: No one should do unpaid labor. Period. “Crunch time” has traditionally been deployed by games management as a license to free slave labor from game developers.

Failures of management’s planning are imposed as emergencies on the devs.

Nono, parent was asking “They’re bad and inefficient at that, so why have an LLM do math? Why not just use some code and the CPU/GPU that’s already good and efficient at basic math?”

Heh… Wait ‘til I tell him that his beloved macOS is Unix underneath.

Out of pure curiosity, what do you “very much dislike” about it?

You’re already looking at it, buddy.

Any method of “fingerprinting” and invading a browser’s privacy is inherently an exploit.

That “pointing out” is, itself, “not useful either.”

Incorrect. William Gibson does. And he’s definitely worth listening to.

Bluesky has a default feed that is just the posts/reposts of the people who you choose to follow, in reverse chronological order.

No need for an algorithm to decide what is worth seeing.

Hmm… this started as an admonition for using then and than interchangeably. I see folks get it wrong unintentionally a lot… then i re-read your parenthetical and pulled up etymonline and had my mind blown a bit.[0]

Seems everything old is new again.

[0] https://www.etymonline.com/word/than

Because it’s just fancy auto-complete.

Yeah, but a $5 VPS won't suddenly surprise you with a five-figure bill.

Also, let's see if we can get the power and compute requirements brought down. Having to spin up a gigawatt power plant to achieve the same intelligence we humans power with sandwiches is a futile approach, imho.

Pilot Unions should go on strike until ATC is properly staffed at every level, since Regan made it illegal for ATC themselves to go on strike.

“Impossible to get a man to understand a thing, when his paycheck depends on his not understanding it.”

Oh, and I forgot to mention the ironically-named (so much of their stuff is ironically-named…) “SAVE” Act, that’s set to disrupt the process even further by having “AI” purge voter registration rolls.

The ones where they’re going to send brownshirts to intimidate voters in blue states? The ones they’re going to try to disrupt like Dallas County last night? The ones they’ve trying desperately to Gerrymander to lock down their dictatorial power? Those elections?

It really feels like they’re trying hard to change the rules so that they’re the only ones who can win, to be just like their idol/puppeteer in Russia.

And it feels like an external intervention is one of the only things that may help.

Less-so if you do it in Safari than using a non-Apple browser.

As an American, I’m really starting to feel that way.

SpaceX also has a nepo-billionaire’s disposable hobby budget, while NASA’s has been cut to the marrow.

I’m not the one saying “you lot only do words”, this one is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193041

The first 17 of those are all variations on “make words”. :P

First Time NASA did that was how we got Apollo I and lost three astronauts.

They learned a few lessons, but then 1986 they let “getting things perfect” slip a bit more. It’s happened a few times since.

Personally, I’d rather not lose any more astronauts.