natecox

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[–] natecox@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago

So is this just a secret plan to turn our troops as orange as Glorious Leader by making the only edible thing on the ship carrots?

That meal looks like loose shit and boiled gym mat with carrots.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I wiped macos and installed proxmox on it. The wireless didn't work well, but I had a dock laying around with a cat5 plug that worked just fine. Has been going strong for a few months now.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I use a 2015 MacBook pro. The screen was busted so I removed it and disabled the lid switch. Works great.

Downside to laptop as your homelab: got that spicy pillow now permanently plugged in. Maybe consider pulling out the battery.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Let's not idolize Carter too much. I like a lot of what he did, and I obviously love his "old man building houses for the needy" golden years, but Carter was also the beginning of the dismantling of antitrust which is the primary reason we have wealth consolidation and market capture as the de facto norm today.

He started the ball rolling with a bizarre policy of "big businesses are good for everyone" which meant antitrust laws--while still on the books and our official policy--simply stopped being enforced. Regan capitalized on this but Carter started it.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

No.

GenAI is a breeding ground of ethical and moral problems that go way way way beyond ads in commit messages.

You can absolutely be emotional about a tool that boils away all our water, ruins people's health and sanity by building enormous light, noise, and polution sources next their houses, and steals our intellectual property to increase the wealth consolidation of the few even further.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Radicle is tied to crypto nonsense.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's more about ads than data. It's much more difficult for the average person to block ads on an app than on a website.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 26 points 3 weeks ago

No. Stop. Don't.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's an impressively shortsighted and silly argument for someone trying so hard to sound smart.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm not sure why you think this is a conspiracy theory, it's already documented as happening and is common in some segments. It's not a secret.

Uber led the way on this years and years ago, with systems that would offer every driver a unique price for each ride based on their recent history. If you took every ride that came up you would get lower prices, but if you started declining rides you would get an increased rate to bait you back in... until you bit and took one where it would decrease the rate again.

Each driver being offered a different fare for the same customer is the kind of dynamic pricing that digital displays offer for grocery stores. Maybe at the busiest time of day prices are suddenly more expensive. Maybe when it's hot outside cold drinks go up 20%. Maybe you don't notice because you're too busy thinking about all the other stress of daily life.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, it's not that we were "unable to infer meaning" (gaslight much?), you're just wrong.

Firstly, tab completion has been around for effectively ever, and way predates whatever VS Code may have been doing. Ctags indexing, for example, has been around since 1992.

Secondly, even if you want to move the goal post by talking about some specific implementation of ML based indexing, ML is not LLM.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Tab completion is a table lookup and has been common for like 20 years. There's no LLM needed.

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