froztbyte

joined 2 years ago
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

aiui they also really don’t like eyes on the modern slave labour they’re using to build it all

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

aww those got turned off by the time I got to look :(

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

a couple weeks back I had a many-rounds support ticket with a network vendor, querying exactly the details of their regex implementation. docs all said PCRE, actual usage attempt indicated….something very much else. and indeed it was because of . that I found it

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

good morning awful, I found you the first thing you’ll want to scream at today

palantir and others offering free addictions, all in the name of “productivity”

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

ah, a fellow 1937 poster that gets it

(I still don’t understand how people that post on/across the modern internet haven’t picked up the habit)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

In my experience even simple LLM changes are wrong somewhere around half the time. Often in disturbingly subtle ways that take an expert to spot.

I just want to add: sailor’s reference to “expert” here is no joke. the amount of wild and subtle UB (undefined behaviour) you get in the C family is extremely high-knowledge stuff. it’s the sort of stuff that has in recent years become fashionable to describe as “cursed”, and often with good reason

LLMs being bad at precision and detail is as perfect an antithesis in that picture as I am capable of conceiving. so any thought of a project like this that pairs LLMs (or, more broadly, any of the current generative family of nonsense) as a dependency in it’s implementation is just damn wild to me

(and just incase: this post is not an opportunity to quibble about PLT and about what be or become possible.)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

so, ever watched Godzilla? and then did a twofer with a zombie movie? I think that’s essentially the plot here

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Chlorofox (the oxidized version)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

while wikipedia-diving the other day I learned about Basilisk

so, y’know, why not this too

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

bring back vrml and the browser can become a room you can diy on

I’m sure this plan will go perfectly with absolutely no issues

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

I became a member this year! and then immediately got to notice how it’s oozing out every pore

what’s kinda wild for me is that there’s also an ethics pledge involved, and I do not understand how they square that with the mass theft all LLM services and progress are/is based on

them automatically fucking with authors’ papers….ew

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

….this made me twitch

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