zygo_histo_morpheus

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zygo_histo_morpheus ,

I think that it's quite bad if Microsoft puts peoples family photos on their servers without the user realizing it. That's not a niche privacy nerd sentiment, I think that a lot of people would find that creepy. Having the option easily available can be really good for a lot of non-techy people but it should be very clear what stays on your computer and what doesn't, and how to keep something private if you want to, which I'm not sure that it is if Microsoft quietly backs up Documents, Pictures etc.

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

I think he was still on the board after he closed his account, him leaving the board might be much more recent

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

I don't get that at all, to me using a GUI just gets in the way while on the CLI I can do whatever I want in a usually straightforward way.

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

There are diff plugins that have syntax highlighting, I use delta for example.

For viewing and searching logs, I prefer the terminal because that's usually where I am anyway so alt-tabbing to a gui window means more context switching which isn't a big deal but is enough for me to want to stay in the terminal.

You can just diff two commits on the cli with git diff commit1 commit2 but I guess that what you mean is that you might not have any specific reference two either of the commits so you have to browse through the log to find the commit message that describes the commit, which I'll grant you is easier in a gui because you have two variables that you have to copy and paste if you're in the terminal.

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

Yeah, I mostly use plain git log but on occasion

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

Like you say, there are always gonna be particular cases where gui/cli is better but for the general case I think it has to do with if your workflow is more terminal or gui oriented in general. I think that many of the tradeoffs in gui/cli git aren't really unique to git so I think sticking with your general preference in that are makes sense.

Since I'm a vim user (shocking, I know) I actually use git through the fugitive plugin a lot, but it's a fairly thin wrapper around the cli interface so most things are pretty much just the same as using the cli except that you can call them as vim commands instead (:Git push instead of git push and so on)

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

One thing that I think is missing from the equation is good video games journalism that covers indie games. Video game journalism has never been doing amazing but it's practically dead now.

Tying discovery to the same platform that you consume things on is really bad, because it always gives that distributor way to much power. Similar story with spotify, but journalism about underground music is at least in a slightly better place.

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

I do love me a good video game video essay, but I think that a more traditional journalistic format has a lot of strengths when it comes to covering small games. It's probably true that youtube has replaced a lot of traditional journalism but I think that this is overall bad for the video game echo system.

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

The problem is that when everyone is using their right to deny access to their works to make people give them money, and there is only so much money you can reasonably spend on entertainment and so on per month, people end up abstaining from a lot of things they could otherwise have taken part in for no extra cost.

I think that the things we pirate have a value: music, movies and games have a value because they are cultural products and vulture is important, software like photoshop has a value because it is a useful tool. Putting up barriers to accessing these things means destroying this value. Having a system where the main way to make money of e.g. music is to paywall it has the "destruction" of a lot of value as its outcome. In some ways streaming platforms like spotify are better in this regard but then that means giving the platform a lot of power over music discovery for example. Spotify doesn't really do a good job of paying its artists either which is its supposed ethical advantage over piracy.

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

I think that a system where we should abstain from things that are basically free to reproduce (i.e. things you can pirate) is dumb. There are many movies that I probably wouldn't pay money to but that I've pirated. The companies that own the rights to the movie don't lose any sale they would have otherwise made but I get whatever enjoyment I get from watching the movie at least, so it's a net win.

When I pay may bills at the end of the month I also put some money towards paying for things that I've pirated that I like, usually with a focus on smaller creators. It doesn't really feel meaningful to pay for a marvel movie for example. It's not really a perfect system but neither is artificially limiting the access to digital media.

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

The benefit with rebase is if you want to have maybe 4 commits insteadd of 10. When reviewing a large pr, I find that it's helpfull if it's broken up into a couple of coherent commits so that I can review it commit by commit. It's easier to follow the logic of why something is being changed if it's associated with a specific commit.

Sometimes squashing the entire commit is the right choice, in which case you can do what you're doing or use some built in feature to do that.

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

Cleaning up your history before making a PR can make it easier to review so I always try to do that, but it's not something that should be over done because it can quickly eat up more time than its worth if you go overboard

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

The problem isn't just that llms can't say "I don't know", it's also that they don't know if they know something or not. Confidence intervals can help prevent some low-hanging fruit hallucinations but you can't eliminate hallucinations entirely since they will also hallucinate about how correct they are about a given topic.

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

Well if we have a reliable oracle available for a type of questions (i.e. Wolfram Alpha) why use an llm at all instead of just asking the oracle directly

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

even a small amount of change into an LLM it turns out to radically alter the output it returns for huge amounts of seemingly unrelated topics.

Do you mean that small changes radically change the phrasing of answers, but that it has largely the same "knowledge" of the world? Or do you mean that small changes also radically alter what a llm thinks is true or not? If you think the former is true, then these models should still be the same in regards to what they think is true or not, and if you don't then you think that llms perception of the world is basically arbitrary and in that case we shouldn't trust them to tell us what's true at all.

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

Download a popular movie and keep your computer on for a while 🤷‍♂️

Although, seeding stuff that isn't popular is also important. I don't know what you're seeding but if no one is leeching maybe there aren't a whole lot of other people seeding either. When someone does leech, they might be very happy that you're there keeping that one torrent alive.

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

I can recommend fd to everyone frustrated with find, it has a much more intuitive interface imo, and it's also significantly faster.

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

Was it the version controlling or writing in markdown part that was a hassle?

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

For work gitlab is fine, I'm sure your company can get the accounts verified for example. At least it's not microsoft

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

Dorsey got bullied off bluesky by its userbase so there's that at least

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

Bluesky has the most twitter like user base of all the twitter clones that I've tried, and it's up to you if that's a good or bad thing. It's not all segments of twitter though, there isn't really any of right wing twitter or crypto twitter for example (a lot of furries on the other hand) which is quite nice actually. It isn't really active or important enough to get a lot of the big drama or main character moments and there aren't really any celebs, journalists and politicians posting there. So it's a bit like twitter without many of the lows but also many of the highs.

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

Use the terminal mostly anyway, but navigating deeply nested folders when you have to double click is slightly annoying so I can see the appeal.

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

You should check out git reflog if you don't know about it already. It allows you to view the history of commit changes which is very handy if you want to undo an --amend or rebase for example

zygo_histo_morpheus ,

The article mentions AI. 16gigs feels far too little to run a LLM of respectable size so I wonder what exactly this means? Feels like no one is gonna be happy about a 16gig LLM (high RAM usage and bad AI features)

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