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raulparada··on How I feel about AI
> I think avoiding a skynet situation is super easy

Please enlighten us, cause there are folks making that their life mission and they aren’t all that optimistic.

raulparada··on I Feel about AI
A myriad possible ways. Objective-wise from accidental paperclip-type misalignment (“I killed everyone to eradicate disease”) to intentional self-preservation (“I eradicated humans so they wouldn’t get in my way”). The means are even easier, for one it just could hack into nuclear arsenals. It would be over before we could figure out how it did so.
raulparada··on Music Theory for Programmers
If you’re a programmer interested in music, do check out Strudel, at least the examples at https://strudel.cc/examples. If you like those (I love them, so much art in a few lines of code), the docs _will_ get you started. Enjoy!
raulparada··on Building Pi with Pi
I guess loaded derogatory terms are somehow worse than otherwise worse-sounding terms. Think about it in the context of e.g. the n-word. “A piece of shit”, while sounding very bad: 1. is generic, can be applied to anything thus has no discrimination component, and 2. ends there. It has no history, no reference to previous usage, etc.
raulparada··on Building Pi with Pi
To me clearly a result—and maybe a prime example—of the anthropomorphising of LLMs. It comes off as (slightly) derogatory, and that plus this fact likely triggers something akin to a racism response in some.

I guess providers will look to (further?) exploit this for marketing/strategic purposes so we should be very aware of such an important bias.

raulparada··on You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'
I kinda do care _a lot_ whether my searches can be exfiltrated, might just be me tho
raulparada··on The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't
Kinda playing devil’s advocate here but: if AI is a multiplier it makes (now more) sense to get rid of net negatives
raulparada··on Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess
That’s how the ‘sync’ flow works (recreating venv, through the lockfile), here discussing specifically updates.
raulparada··on What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting
If that new theory turns out to be somewhat right, there'll be something humbling about ancient greeks stories of Zeus sending Hephaestus bolts from ~'heaven/the cosmos' being closer to it than our modern explanations all along
raulparada··on Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase
Not out-of-the-box afaik, but we use https://ast-grep.github.io (on a pre-commit hook) for such cases, which bridges the linter gaps nicely.
raulparada··on Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build
Tried Podman about a month ago; UI was kinda meh, 'compose' was beyond unusable... then tried Colima (+ lazydocker, a lightweight, beautiful TUI providing the little overview I need) and haven't looked back for a single second.
raulparada··on Rabbit R1 It's a Scam
:/ ok, fair I guess, difficult to argue on _expectations_, but you, me and the next (informed) guy know this is a scam by any stretch of the imagination. I really would like to save even a single person those $200.
raulparada··on Rabbit R1 It's a Scam
Please reconsider; the article is rather poor, yes, but the reasons you cite for flagging are not any better. Just watch this single minute of the Coffeezilla video, doing a comparison of the marketed features and the actual results. https://youtu.be/zLvFc_24vSM?si=91sG63QKUhFpx44J&t=18
raulparada··on Letter to My Brother
The new Brazilian wonderkid shares about their family's hardship with his younger brother.