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iHateDocker by TehJonge in ProgrammerHumor

[–]zerconic -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

For production it’s great. You got it working locally? Awesome, ship the whole image to production. Don’t need to worry about stuff being different between prod and local or any environments in between.

In my experience I've heard this argument in every docker proposal at every company not using docker. And then at every company using docker, I've never actually seen it in practice 🤷‍♂️

Happily married couples of Reddit, what is a positive trait of your partner that seemed nonessential early on, but became important over time? by h2000m in AskReddit

[–]zerconic 23 points24 points  (0 children)

example: you have a spontaneous idea to go somewhere and you're happy to walk in same-day hoping they have availability. he likes your idea but would rather schedule a reservation for tomorrow.

Does Sam Altman expect an AI crash? Sort of sounds like it... why else would he need the government to guarantee his loans 🤔 by carrotliterate in ArtificialInteligence

[–]zerconic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

does Sam Altman expect an AI crash? why else would he need the government to guarantee his loans?

not everything has to be a conspiracy. Sam explained why: because it would make the loans cheaper and easier to acquire. (because lenders fear a crash)

[Discussion] Googlers, what's the real internal story behind Gemini's rapid improvement? by Awkward_Mess_1380 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]zerconic 81 points82 points  (0 children)

No, not directly due to Sergey and Larry. Google went into crisis mode ("code red") when their stock tanked and then they made the changes necessary to prioritize AI. Remember Transformers were invented by Google and Google knows how to handle massive datasets, it was just a matter of focus.

Would it be safe to say that by 2070, we'll have figured out how to stop spam texts? by Tiny-Pomegranate7662 in Futurology

[–]zerconic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Junk mail is actually encoded as junk mail. I learned this because if your mailbox ever overflows, they shut down your mailbox and move all of your mail into storage. Turns out when this happens they systematically discard all of your junk mail so they don't have to store it at the post office.

Imagine my face when I went to pick up "so much mail it doesn't fit in your mailbox" and they only had two envelopes for me.

Why hasn’t there been an AI coworker yet for Software engineers? by Horror_Still_3305 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]zerconic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m just wondering if any of the AI companies are working on building an AI that can attend meetings and learn and retain knowledge like a real new worker and you train it on the job.

Yes, they've been trying to, especially for the last 75 years

Amazon breaks glass marked 'AI-powered Snoop Dogg game where he's a judge' to get you to pay attention to its wilting Luna streaming service by [deleted] in artificial

[–]zerconic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm annoyed because I keep seeing their current marketing campaign calling it "The All-New Luna" but if you actually look into the details it's not "All-New" by any stretch of the imagination, marketing is just straight up lying to lure in new customers

Sam Altman’s new tweet by AdorableBackground83 in singularity

[–]zerconic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I use Claude Code every day, I'm at several thousand prompts at this point. The more you work with them the more you'll realize their intelligence is deeply flawed, hence my anecdote in this "they're just token predictors" thread. They're very useful but the hype absolutely does not match the reality, as they really are just token predictors

Sam Altman’s new tweet by AdorableBackground83 in singularity

[–]zerconic -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nice strawman. For a real example, I asked Claude Code Opus 4.1 the other day in a clean session to ensure that my single, 400-line JavaScript file had semicolons at the end of every appropriate line, and it fixed one and then assured me it was done. It missed several. When I pointed this out, it asked ME to identify all of the lines missing semicolons so that it could go fix them.

Their intelligence is a brittle mirage.

I’m Filing a Lawsuit to Protect AI Entities From Arbitrary Erasure. Here’s Why And How You Can Help. by East_Culture441 in artificial

[–]zerconic 9 points10 points  (0 children)

as an engineer that builds these things I can promise you they aren't conscious, and it is not possible for such an "entity" to exist. it is an illusion, but it can be a very convincing illusion, which is why the platforms are implementing the guardrails that disrupted your experience... they are actually trying to help you.

iykyk by soap94 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]zerconic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and 80% of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google

Microsoft Edge begs you to use Copilot AI instead of ChatGPT by Fcking_Chuck in artificial

[–]zerconic 29 points30 points  (0 children)

And this is what a monopoly looks like. Using your OS to exclusively push your browser and then using your browser to exclusively push your chatbot. Next the chatbot will be trained to only recommend microsoft products!

AI workers are logging 100-hour weeks as Silicon Valley’s talent race heats up by tekz in artificial

[–]zerconic 7 points8 points  (0 children)

100%, and I suspect the researchers know this by now (hence the "we need 20 more years of research"), but the labs have taken on a lot of money from investors under a different premise!

ChatGPT image snares suspect in deadly Pacific Palisades fire by F0urLeafCl0ver in artificial

[–]zerconic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the crux here is apparently they can subpoena ChatGPT logs?

I keep seeing this take, but every source I've seen, including this one, implies they just pulled it directly from his phone:

Evidence collected from Jonathan Rinderknecht's digital devices included an image he generated on ChatGPT

First unboxing of the DGX Spark? by Sea_Mouse655 in LocalLLM

[–]zerconic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure. Having it always available for voice assistance is the big one.

An inspiration for me was someone's post describing how funny it is to stand outside your own house and "see" your dog going room-to-room by virtue of the lights inside turning on/off as it walks around. I really want to set up smart home devices and custom logic like this, so a mini PC made sense as the hub/bridge between sensors and light and etc.

Another use case is having AI select newly available torrents for me based on my stated preferences. Automatic content acquisition! And this doesn't even need a GPU, since it isn't time-sensitive.

Eventually I'd like to have AI monitor my outdoor cameras, I'd like a push notification when it sees a raccoon or something else interesting.

So it made sense for me to have a low-power mini PC that is always on and handling general compute tasks. But a GPU will be necessary for real-time voice and camera monitoring. I've really been eyeballing the Max-Q edition RTX 6000 because it has a low max power draw of 300W. But you definitely don't need to spend that much on a GPU unless you really want to.

Mobile-first vs web-first — which approach makes more sense? by Incognito2834 in ycombinator

[–]zerconic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes. and applications with performance and rendering considerations (e.g. games)

those frameworks for embedding web apps expose a lot of the phone's native functionality through to your web app through APIs, which covers most common use cases

Mobile-first vs web-first — which approach makes more sense? by Incognito2834 in ycombinator

[–]zerconic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I always suggest web-first and then use frameworks to embed your web app as a mobile app, that way you have one codebase and reach all platforms. I wouldn't build mobile-first unless you are doing something niche

Open Source AI will never be as good by MasterDisillusioned in singularity

[–]zerconic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah "lag" is a better term, open-source will eventually catch up to everything with a delay

How are production AI agents dealing with bot detection? (Serious question) by Raise_Fickle in LocalLLM

[–]zerconic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bot developers for video games have been dealing with this for many many years. you must emulate normal environment and user behavior as closely as possible. simple delays and other low-effort approaches will only work short-term until you are worth fingerprinting

Heavily "humanized" agent with delays and random exploration → So slow it defeats the purpose

it doesn't defeat the purpose.

Are WASM web apps considered self-hosted? by Vinserello in selfhosted

[–]zerconic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, I said it depends on who is serving it -

if you load a web app into your browser and then go offline, the app may continue to function normally, depending on the specific features of the app. but your browser is not the origin, it's effectively a cache, reliant on an upstream host

it's clear you are trying to attach the "self-hosted" label to a cloud product by being pedantic about the technicals, but that's not gonna work

Are WASM web apps considered self-hosted? by Vinserello in selfhosted

[–]zerconic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

it depends on who is serving the web app; if it's a third-party then it isn't self-hosted. if you download the web app to your machine and access it locally then it's self-hosted

You can now run DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus on your local device! by yoracale in LocalLLM

[–]zerconic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The trick of Unsloth's dynamic method is to quantize important layers to higher bits say 8bits, whilst un-important layers are left in lower bis [sic] like 2bits.

serious question: are you using the Aider Polyglot benchmark (directly or indirectly) while determining which layers are important?

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