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- Comment on NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code 1 day ago:
I can understand why a project might want to do this until the law is fully implemented and testing in court, but I can tell most of the people in this thread haven’t actually figured out how to effectively use LLMs productively. They’re not about to replace software engineers, but as a software engineer, tools like GitHub copilot and ChatGPT are excellent at speeding up a workflow. ChatGPT for example is an excellent search engine that can give you a quick understanding of a topic. It’ll generate small amounts of code more quickly than I could write it by hand. Of course I’m still going to review that code to ensure it is to the same quality that hand written code would be, but overall this is still a much faster problem.
The luddites who hate on LLMs would have complained about the first compilers too, because they could write marginally faster assembly by hand.
- Comment on Hello GPT-4o 3 days ago:
Llama 2 70B can run on a specc-ed out current gen MacBook Pro. Not cheap hardware in any sense, but it isn’t a large data center cluster.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 3 days ago:
In this case I was referring to bandwidth and latency, which on-package memory helps with. It does make a difference in memory-intensive applications, but the majority of people would never notice a difference. Also Apple will absolutely give you a ton of memory, you just have to pay for it. They offer 128GB on the MacBook Pro, and it’s unified so the GPU has full access to it, which makes it surprisingly good for running LLMs locally, for example.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 days ago:
You misunderstand. This is protectionism plain and simple. US car companies are horribly inefficient. Better yet, the US car cartel eliminated most of their budget models to push trucks and SUVs that are more expensive. It doesn’t take much to undercut them, so the US government is banning the competition.
- Comment on 1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog 6 days ago:
To their credit, Safari’s extension support on iOS is reasonably good. Not like Firefox good, but compared to chrome it’s excellent!
- Comment on 1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog 6 days ago:
Which parts of Firefox ares proprietary?
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 1 week ago:
While I can’t say any of this is wrong, you’re missing likely the single biggest component inflating the cost of US manufacturing: profit margins. Every step of the supply chain has a profit margin attached. Sometimes just a few percent, but often double digits. These compound, so a 5% margin on a simple component will see an additional 15% when sold as part of an assembly, which is then marked up another 20% when sold as part of the finished good. There’s also financialization which burdens US companies. Companies generally need to take loans to fund their operations, and end up having to pay heavy interest fees and rent which also drives up cost. Workers and environmental protections are more expensive, but in practice they are relatively minor compared to a lot of other inefficiencies US industry struggles with.
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 1 week ago:
[citation needed]
- Comment on Has Generative AI Already Peaked? - Computerphile 1 week ago:
I think it’s incredibly naïve to think that because we’ve hit a boundary on one particular aspect of LLMs that the technology has peaked as a whole. There are lots of ways to improve LLMs that aren’t just increasing the parameter size, for example there’s been an uptick in smaller models that are optimized to run on client devices without large GPUs. There is probably a future where we have small 3-7B models that are competitive with today’s best 70B models, but can run in real time on any smartphone. We’ll have larger context windows, allowing LLMs to work on larger problems. And we’ll have better techniques for getting high quality information out of LLMs, there are already adversarial methods where two LLMs hold a debate on a subject that have proven more accurate and comprehensive data is possible. They’ll also continue to be embedded into different places in software that make them more useful, not just like a chatbot that loves in its own world.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 1 week ago:
The 13” version actually has a larger battery than its predecessor.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 1 week ago:
All of Apple’s M series chips have the ram right on the same package as the rest of the SoC. Not upgradeable, but also much faster than traditional off-package memory.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think it is fair to say that the hype surrounding last year’s Reddit exodus has come to an end. But, Lemmy existed for several years before then, and will continue to exist for the foreseeable future. It’s not going to grow infinitely, but there will likely be more waves in the future that see spikes of activity followed by declines, but each one will bring in new users that will build up the community slowly.
Lemmy is also part of the fediverse which does seem to be growing at a healthy rate, especially mastodon. It’s entirely possible that future software updates there will make Lemmy more visible to mastodon users and allow both communities higher levels of interaction.
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 2 weeks ago:
It could with software ray tracing, but it doesn’t have any GPUs. The CPU cores aren’t especially fast either, they just have a lot of them.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 2 weeks ago:
Are 12+ hours of intense work realistic on those devices?
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 2 weeks ago:
Just to add, image hosting for lemmy servers is also an issue already. Afaik they aren’t federated because even the occasional image will significantly increase the amount of storage required on instances.
- Comment on Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? 2 weeks ago:
I think when Microsoft said Windows 10 was the last version, they were serious about it. And they kept it up for a pretty long time too. I think windows 11 happened only because some marketing person wanted to be able to pitch a new version, and a UX refresh was already being implemented.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 weeks ago:
This is a bad take. Yes, “algorithm” is a vague term, but it’s incorrect to suggest that they’re easily cloned. These algorithms are what makes social media companies. Without them, they wouldn’t have the same kind of user engagement. It’s why, outside of the fediverse, social media companies try to hide or demote linear timelines. It’s why they pour most of the R&D money into the recommendation algorithms.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 2 weeks ago:
MacBooks right now in particular are so far ahead of everything else right now. Nothing comes close in terms of performance and battery life. Some laptops can do one or the other, but if it’s fast you can expect the battery life to be shit or vice versa.
- Comment on Reddit Is Taking Over Google 3 weeks ago:
Could you then bypass the quora login prompt with a user script that appends
?share=1
to every page? - Comment on Broadcom continues to kill off VMware products 3 weeks ago:
UTM is really good as a free solution, otherwise Parallels is the go-to.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad 3 weeks ago:
And fwiw, most computer users still aren’t Adobe CC users.
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 4 weeks ago:
Why wouldn’t you? They’re super convenient, being small and lightweight, with high quality keyboards that make them more laptop like, plus they support standard USB and Bluetooth keyboards. They aren’t full laptop replacements, but basic office productivity tasks they surely are, and have first class support from Microsoft office, google docs, and Apple’s office tools. In a meeting for example, they can be used to take notes, and then quickly screen mirror to a TV wirelessly or with a wired adapter and be used as a drawing tablet for sketching ideas or drawing diagrams. Extremely versatile, there’s nothing really like it (well, besides other tablets).
They certainly don’t replace a real laptop in all aspects, but they do for most people most of the time, hence why it’s common for people to use smartphones and tablets as their only computer.
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 4 weeks ago:
Sure but I can’t run libreoffice on my iPad, and that’s a deciding factor for more people than the licensing.
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 4 weeks ago:
The big advantage of google docs is that it is free and good enough. Most people don’t need advanced formatting options, font size and a few choices are sufficient.
- Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com 5 weeks ago:
As far as I know there is only one SSD model that meets my criteria (Samsung 870 QVO 8TB), and at $520 right now so I’ve decided it’s best to wait. I’d like it to be quieter but not so badly as to spend $1k on it (need two).
- Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com 5 weeks ago:
How noisy are these? I have a pair of shucked WD drives that should be equivalent to reds, and they’re pretty noisy in my otherwise quiet home office. Given they’re only 8TB, upgrading them to SSDs for full silence is something in considering as soon as the pricing and availability permits.
- Comment on US to award Samsung up to $6.6 billion chip subsidy for Texas expansion, sources say 5 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s wild that the US government will fund private projects without getting the same bonds or shares that private investors would expect.
- Comment on Amazon — like SpaceX — is the latest company to claim the U.S. labor board is unconstitutional, after receiving numerous labor complaints from employees 2 months ago:
It’s not the same as with warehouse workers, but Amazon does have a reputation of being a brutal employer for software engineers
- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 2 months ago:
Wait it is illegal to bring cigarettes across state lines? Is that not a commerce clause issue?
- Comment on Amazon hides cheaper items with faster delivery, lawsuit alleges 2 months ago:
I live in a big city and most of my Amazon orders arrive the next day