@angusm @wordshaper @cstross and no, asking Grok AI or any other chat bot doesn't constitute "a plan".
DrYak
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The Atlantic: Why Trump Didn’t Plan for the Strait of Hormuz -
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I keep seeing lots of people saying "LLMs are like compilers/assemblers for prompts"@mcc @mntmn @cwebber ...
Proper software engineering done by human with brains that can hold an actual mental model of the design implication isn't going away.At best, what we have is a (very unreliable) tool that will allow people who are utterly allergic to programming languages to still be able to play around code.
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I keep seeing lots of people saying "LLMs are like compilers/assemblers for prompts"@mcc @mntmn @cwebber speaking of expanding to more users and of assembler:
An argument I've heard is that: in the past high level compiled languages have replaced assembler, and LLMs are the next step.
Well, assembler -- and assembler-adjacent stuff like C's SIMD intrinsics -- are still relied upon (think finely optimised low-lvl libraries in some fields like gaming, video codecs, and number crunching in scientific data analysis).
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Anthropic is different because they're committed to safety.@theorangetheme @mttaggart Wait until some brilliant mind decides to wires those triggers to some agentic AI bot...
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The world’s solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts in 2023, way beyond any predictions.@tartley @aanee @infobeautiful Well, what would be a limitting factors that would make it more expensive/more difficult to keep expanding solar?
=> running out of physical space to build panels on:
Yes but this isn't happening anytime soon and we would have beaten current world energy production well before that point is reached=> running out or raw materials:
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When an open source contribution appeared from someone new, I used to feel excitement.@mossmann NO! Don't Push To Prod!
...it's not Friday, yet.
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UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT.@cstross Reason number "a zillion and some" why privacy, etc. is better served using something decentralized like Tor, rather than VPNs companies that can be forced to ID-check UK users.
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#NewYearResolution2026: Never let people tell you it's impossible to deGoogle your life.@Tutanota Suggestions :
Translations:
- Firefox supports downloading models and running locally (either to translate page or direct access in "about:translations")Android: also list non Android derivatives:
- #SailfishOS <- I daily drive that
- postmarketOS
- UbuntuTouch
They all have (container-based) solutions to run Android apps if necessary (AppSupport, Waydroid)Also, add fediverse:
- Pixelfed
- Peertube