theneverfox

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing Has Lost a Staggering Amount of Money on Its Starliner Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that there’s an incentive to game the system, especially when there’s requirements that restrict how the government picks contract winners

  If it’s fixed cost, they cut every corner to be picked, then deliver something shitty and the government either lives with it or awards a second contract to fix it. Sometimes they don’t even complete it - sometimes there’s a bail where you put up collateral meant to be used as punishment and so someone else can be paid to finish your failed contract, but with large companies there’s often so much proprietary shit/institutional knowledge that no one else could reasonably complete the contract without starting over… So they can fail a contract and still come back for more

  If it’s cost plus, big contractors take a loss initially to basically buy revenue streams they can milk indefinitely. Sure, they can only make so much per head, but that’s money they know will be coming in so they’re incentivized to push the headcount on the project to the limit and keep the party going as long as possible

  That’s the problem with rules, if you have clear boundaries corporations will inevitably exploit them. They are meant to fight corruption or bad/incompetent actors, but by codifying all of it they clearly divide what is illegal and what isn’t, setting it all up to be gamed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta execs obsessed over beating OpenAI's GPT-4 internally, court filings reveal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s basically what’s down stream from an open source model. Llama derivatives are what I use on my mid range gaming computer, and honestly they’re comparable. They can handle fewer details at a time, but they’re faster and way more efficient… Once you add in rag and tool use, they’re better than models 200x their size

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Ads Testing Showing Same Ad From Same Advertiser On Same Search Results Page⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least they’re at the stage of enshitification where they fuck over the advertisers… Too bad it came after making the product unusable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley’s obsession with AI looks a lot like religion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very achievable - if you wrote out simple functions to complete larger objectives, you could feed in test results and the code, and you could easily provide enough context to keep it on task

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley’s obsession with AI looks a lot like religion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. It’s nice to see others who see the potential for AI without being some easy solution to all problems

  The truth is, it’s incredibly useful, but more like a super intern than a coworker. It knows many things you don’t, it can do things faster than you, sometimes even better, but it’s an intern - it can do menial tasks and sometimes surprise you with unexpected insight, but it doesn’t understand the full picture and will make mistakes, and that’s on you

  Luckily, there’s a lot of menial tasks it can help with, and a lot of ways to make small (7-13b) models outperform big ones with conventional programming. Anything that can be done in conventional code should be, and even if it won’t make billions there’s many places it can work like mighty putty to make things that make our lives better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is launching a new Android feature to drive users back into their installed apps⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No Google, that is not your core mission. Your core mission is letting us search the web, and you’re intentionally shitting the bed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT's 'hallucination' problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok… Why the fuck is anyone asking LLMs for personal data? This doesn’t sound like an LLM problem, it sounds like someone is exploiting a gap in the law unethically before the law catches up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, that increases my anticipation a bit, while giving me reasonable expectations

  I tend to be obsessive with games until I’m done - I bought and installed it, but haven’t started playing for a reason, I’ll probably get 1.5-2 complete playthroughs within a week or two, I need to have a couple weeks of solid work before I dig in - a good rpg will take up most of my time until I’m done

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked the story, I think Jonny was integrated fantastically, and the mechanics were decent

  My only complaint is there wasn’t enough. Not enough cyberware, not enough branches in the story, not enough ways to feel the power growth as your character levels and gets better gear

  All in all, I don’t get the hate. It was a good game. With more time to flesh it out it could’ve been an instant classic, the bones are all there… I’ve got the dlc sitting in my library for when I’m ready to devote the time to dig into it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Try it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In fairness, it’s not really the same

  Think more like a slurry of connective tissue, bits of fat, and scraps of meat pressure washed off the bone and swept into a drain. The legally allowable quantities of cleaning chemicals and feces are also pretty concerning…

  I’m happy to eat sausage, even blood sausage, despite knowing what it is and how it’s made… but hotdogs are gross in a unique and unnatural way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was a dudes armpit. It’s lopsided, like a pectoral with a little cushioning