@whimsical but it's not just me right? Performance is pretty terrible, considering how few users are actually on this site now.

It's just call the weight of living. You'll eventually get out of your rut.

I once sold everything, quit my job and owned only two backpack for 11 months, living out of hostels:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosoph...

Years later I did 5 months living out of my car driving across the country. I think I got all of that out of my system though.

I think it helped give me perspective.

@kiki Are you confessing through projecting?

@whimsical I don't use any Weighted Random Word Generators for my posts. If there's a meme or screenshot in my folder for the event, I look up and find the original post or article. When you see 2+ sources, one is usually where I got the idea and the other is the tracked back original source. A lot of times I find misleading articles or videos referencing something that says something entirely different.

LLMs might be okay for some coding (only in small amounts and you have to watch them carefully) but it's really dumb to use them to summarize news. They can't lie; they have no intent. It's random weights and an associated RAG store/vector search, etc.

James Corbett (corbettreport.com) commented on the endless e-mails he gets saying "Well ChatGPT says..."

I suggest people do their own research. When you do and write your own posts, you learn so much. My views have changed as I've written articles and done critical deep dives into stuff.

@D-4got10-01 FF9 is great. I played it entirely in ePSXe (PS1 emulator) way back in the day on a Dell laptop with a GeForce 4Go in it. Loved it. It's my second favorite of the one's I've finished behind FF7 (original).

I was at a mortgage company and after three years, I was the most senior person on the devops team. There were a lot of new people and the entire old team had attritioned.

A junior dev got promoted to manager after the last one got fired for job desertion. None of us were even allowed to apply for the position; they hired a director externally and promoted the junior. He did deserve it (he found like $100k/month in AWS waste) but many of us hadn't had pay increases in three years either.

@donkulator I dunno... seems like a great idea. Fool and his money and all that shit.

Was it down? I haven't been on here in a while since I got laid off, but I suspect I'll be back on soon since I got a jerb.

If you don't know what "embedding spaces" and "attention blocks" are, you probably shouldn't be using LLMs for code.

But I will admit, you are going to be left behind if you don't use it. But it needs to be limited in small block and it ALWAYS requires refactoring.

If you know someone who says "I haven't written code in three months and they all get through code review," that is a shitty dev team that's just racking up bugs and technical debt.

A cube would mean everyone got an equal payout, which is communism, which doesn't every work.

A sphere would mean people at the top and the bottom got nothing, while people who bought in at the middle made off with all the wealth. Who the hell would want to start a scam like that?

I'm glad you're talking about the context window and the model. So many people use these things as black boxes and have no idea how they work.

They can't "hallucinate" or "lie" .. they literally have no intent. What you have discovered is the truth: They are random next word (really token) generators. Anything they get right is literally by accident. People seem fine with things being right accidentally 80% of the time ... just waiting for that structural engineer who uses AI and it gets load bearing wrong and 8 people die in a bridge collapse.

3Blue1Brown has some excellent videos of how LLMs work, including the vector space addition, the transformers, preceptron blocks and attention blocks. There's a good 7 min layman's video too. I'd recommend going through them. They're eye opening.

Does mean you can't fight where you can. I deleted all my big social media a while ago. I also just wrote this on not letting people scan your drivers licenses for stupid shit like getting into bars:

https://battlepenguin.com/privacy-g...

In my 20s I'd drive off campus for lunch, buy some jack, add it to a soda bottle, drink some and take one of those Listerine breath strips.

I told a buddy and he was like, "You really hate your job don't you?"

Take your meds

You're fired

Do you starve yourself to death in your dreams too?

I've just been using Ollama on my 3080-Ti. Running the smaller models are slightly more wrong that the big cloud ones, but they're all just bullshit machines anyway so who cares.

You can use the Continue plugin to connect to Ollama from IntelliJ, VSCode and others.

That wasn't even a good shitpost. Shit harder.

IntelliJ lets you change the order of parameters when you extract a function.

I only did this once, some contract work for one old employer. I really didn't like it. I can only really handle one full time job at a time. It's up to you, but I'd just ignore it unless you really like the extra hours and need the money.

... or if you think you can manage a consulting business and contract out other devs who need extra work. It's good money if you can do it, but that takes a lot of dedication.

They're both corrupt. There is a fake left and a fake right. Biden's team literally silenced the allegations of Tara Reid and had the FBI raid a reporters house to take back the drug rehab diary where Ashley Biden said Joe showered naked with her.

Trump's assassination was fake/staged and he was with Epstine on the private jet just like Clinton.

Stop your political splurging bullshit. No one cares. This isn't the forum for it. I want tech rants, not your /pol bullshit.

I don't like Orange Man or Pedo Joe. But at least Orange Man knows what a woman is, even if he's going to send a bunch of Americans to die for the United States of Israel.

If you don't understand why people voted for Orange Man, you're part of the problem.

I don't vote. I do things that actually matter.

It's made from concentrate. Even if it says its not, it probably is. The water is evaporated out and it's reconstituted later.

I haven't bought Orange Juice in years though. Too much sugar and I'm fat.

Cucumber?

DSLs were a mistake.

My rants are always about work or programming .. unless I'm self promoting my blog ...... *cough* battlepenguin.com *cough*

Some people grow over time. I know I did. Changing jobs ever 1~2 years helped a lot too; saw a lot of different types of tech shops. I learned a lot about what worked and what didn't. A lot of times you do really have to learn the hard way.

Milo Yiannopoulos has entered the chat

It was in my 30s I kept forgetting my age. Around my birthday I'd subtract my birth year. Sometimes I was a year younger than what I thought. Those were good years. Sometimes I was a year older.

Birthdays were a groundhog day to the winter of my soul.

She was vaccinated too, and very vocal on social media about mandating it on everyone. People typically don't get liver failures in their 30s.

From slow suicide to straight up murder. If you're going to hurt yourself, stick to yourself. Hurting others is school shooter bullshit.

Just use an Invidious instance?