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5 days agoSame.
I was sure the emotional manipulation tactic would be extremely effective. Guess it was a little too blatant, even for the general public.
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The purpose of a system is what it does.
Because people want fancy animations, images, videos, stylized text, etc. And the easiest way to accomplish that is to just use a browser under the hood.
My experience as well.
I’ve been writing Java lately (not my choice), which has boilerplate, but it’s never been an issue for me because the Java IDEs all have tools (and have for a decade+) that eliminate it. Class generation, main, method stubs, default implementations, and interface stubs can all be done in, for example: Eclipse, easily.
Same for tooling around (de)serialization and class/struct definitions, I see that being touted as a use case for LLMs; but like… tools have existed[1] for doing that before LLMs, and they’re deterministic, and are computationally free compared to neural nets.
Because this comes up so often, I have to ask, specifically what kind of boilerplate? Examples would be great.
But then your junior colleagues will eventually code circles around you…
Probably not. I just ran into a dude who suggested using LLMs to fix misplaced braces in source code.
3·18 days agoWith respect to CSS, there’s already several projects that recreate the Win 7 and Vista look.
5·19 days agoUndoubtedly going to have a higher failure rate, however in my experience WD’s enterprise drives are extremely high reliability regardless.
Once these hit the surplus market in ~5 years they’ll be neat (if we get them in SATA) for ZFS RAID arrays; faster rebuild speeds will be nice.
Not a requirement, but a preference.
Onlyoffice looks like it might be good, I’ll give it a try.
Can’t stand libreoffice, it feels much like Office 2007 which was the worst version I ever had to use — fixed with 2013 and 2016, but libre hasn’t caught up.
E: Found freeoffice which looks to have much closer parity to MS Office. I don’t have a problem buying perpetual software licenses in these situations. I’d prefer FOSS, but for productivity software it has to be conducive to getting work done.
There’s really only two programs that make moving to Linux very problematic for me, that’s Photoshop, and Word.
At least with word I can ultimately just sequester that into a VM, or learn a different document program if push comes to shove (RIP all my workflows for citations and templates).
But PS is pretty much non-negotiable, it needs GPU acceleration of a native environment to run well, and there just aren’t any alternatives that can do what PS does — I need real channel support (painting on channels, copying between them per layer, actual alpha support instead of naive transparency) and more. As much as I hate Adobe, PS is one of those tools that I just know intuitively, all the texture or photo manipulation work feels entirely natural, and I just don’t think I’m going to find that ever again.
So, if Linux people can get it working through Wine, it’s a huge relief that I can finally leave the Microslop ecosystem.
It’s been interesting (though mostly I feel bad for the people being exploited by these AI companies) how this manifests in some highly clustered ways. Angela Collier posted a video several months ago which covers almost exactly the same kind of AI-physics posting in detail.
The whole video is great and relevant, however if you’re strapped for time then just start at 24:20 and within a couple minutes you’ll see examples very similar to this OP.
The other reply shares much of my thought, just as using psychoactive drugs can trigger episodes, so can interacting with sycophantic AI chat bots. If you are seeing a professional for help, I encourage you to share with them, what you have shared with us today.
By your own admission, and the nature of psychosis, I don’t think further engagement is going to do any good.
This is basically a r/LLMPhysics post escaping containment.
You are witnessing AI psychosis manifest, unfortunately.
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I typically just specify the height of the video and let the browser figure out the width and aspect ratio. The most annoying layout shift is the vertical kind anyway, so that solves it to my satisfaction.
That said, I also use the poster feature of the video tag and set preload to none, this produces vastly faster page loading, as images are a fast-path compared to browsers loading a video chunk and then decoding it just to display a cover image. I have a set of scripts that generate the poster images for me, I just specify the frame number I want to use in the video and ffmpeg produces an avif.
Well he’s also got some disagreeable political opinions, so I dunno about redemption.
The success of Rust can be laid at the feet of many people, but critically Graydon Hoare — He wrote an article a couple years ago about his stewardship, and it’s been something I go back to frequently. Just reading you get a sense of the immense intelligence, maturity, and sensitivity he possess, and imbued the project with.
For the vast majority of these companies, probably not.
If the company is AI-only, then if/when the bubble bursts, I suspect it’ll go under too. Only the biggest players will survive that, like OpenAI, since so many other services call out to their API.
Companies that can pivot back to core markets will be fine, Google, Microsoft. Shovel sellers will mostly be okay too. What that’ll look like for them is a period of huge overvaluation and then a return to sanity, you can see similar histories if you look at the stock price of still extant dotcom bubble companies.
And then the hype will be over, there will be a huge crater left in GDP, retirement accounts, and the larger economy, but some “AI” technology will remain — stuff that is actually useful, like transcription, natural speech, noise removal, automated rotoscoping. But the fantasy of replacing information workers and artists will not come to pass, though they probably won’t differentiate for the next several years, as the jobs market is decimated all the same by speculation hangover.
At this point if you’re going to use WebP you may as well just use AVIF instead, better compression ratio and the support matrix isn’t that different between them.
I’ve got an Intel 6900K 8-core X99 system. Also not compatible with W11, but serving me well.
The issue is even if I wanted to upgrade, that market segment is effectively dead; X299 and X399 (AMD) were the last real HEDT platforms. The only thing now is workstation tier boards, which are about $1K and processors to match
This has been an extolled benefit of the new Hall/TMR design keyboard/switches.
Because they deal with a continuous activation level, you can define in software when the “press down” signal gets fired in the key travel, including immediately stopping the press once it stops traveling down, and resuming it in the reverse; effectively eliminating pre-travel.
These boards apparently started getting banned in comp play even, from what I’ve heard. Caveat emptor, I’m not into the comp gaming scene.