Netflix disruption might be an apt metaphor, since it did severely damage the industry and reduce the quality of its output. Those Hollywood execs were right, even if they were ultimately doomed. It's another step in the Sheinification of everything. If it happens to software too, it won't be a victory for anyone except the owners of software companies.
I think people who long for pre-Netflix era are looking at the past with rose colored glasses. Distribution was terrible compared to now without a lot of choice. Anyone who thinks that time was better and the quality was higher don't actually remember it. They just remember the best of the era and TV shows they liked when they were younger.
Distribution got better for a time and then became the same old bullshit. When Netflix was the only dominant streaming service it was great. Now ever other person has their own custom streaming service and content is distributed across them. Back to the high seas for me. I don't mind paying. I mind the inconvenience. There was a brief window when Netflix was improving TV quality. But now it's almost all non-native US made originals that are cheap as fuck. They aren't all bad. My wife has a weakness for Spanish and Korean dramas for some reason. But it's all noise to me.
I honestly couldn't disagree more. With the advent of online services, the quality of both tv series and movies have massively increased. Budgets are larger the appetite is larger and grass roots non-Hollywood creators have a serious shot at disrupting the market.
I am personally no longer interested in the same shitty nostalgia rehash of previously garbage marvelslop and the same 15-20 actors on my screen and that has started to change because I have way more choice.
Sure. Who doesn't love 10 episode seasons every three years that are regularly and unceremoniously cancelled whenever the algorithm says so. I know folks in the industry absolutely love the total lack of job security...
I think that was absolutely true for a time. But now outside of Apple TV who is doing high budget quality TV? Certainly not Netflix. Best they can offer is a Korean or Spanish soap opera.
This doesn't apply to small residential contractors. I've had nothing but bad experiences hiring contractors. They rarely do the work themselves and instead hire subcontractors who don't understand the requirements and care very little about the outcome. I've had better experiences with companies who are large enough to care about their reputation, or contractors i know personally.
I wish I knew that one month ago. Hired a small local company to fix something in my house, great reviews in yelp/facebook/google, license+insurance. The guy came for the estimate and everything felt smooth. Two other guys came for the actual job, no company, no license, I couldn't even communicate with them until I opened voice translator. They did a terrible job and made the situation worse than before.
I have firsthand experience with this, and yes, that was my last thought. I was young and foolish, and alone in the wilderness during the winter. I drank some bad water and became very sick during a blizzard, and while searching for shelter, I finally became too weak to continue. I was hypothermic, and coherent thoughts were difficult, but my last thoughts were peaceful acceptance, and appreciation of the beauty and power around me. I cocooned up and drifted off, and I'm still here somehow.
How do you control for quality variation between patients? In my experience, AI note taking tools display a clear bias against participants who are {quieter, ESL, women, ...}. How can you evaluate whether these biases show up in a medical setting?
If you're a hobbyist runner, this equation very quickly gets flipped on its head. It's very difficult to make up the calorie deficit from a 20 mile long run every week. Throw two big races a year into the mix, and maintaining weight and muscle mass is the challenge. When I trained for ultramarathons, I sometimes ran two mountain long runs back to back. That put me 5000 calories in the hole every single weekend. I used to eat an entire large pizza by myself (2000 calories) and still be hungry 30 minutes later. There is an upper limit to how fast you can digest food, and that quickly becomes the limiting factor. I was not a professional. I ran as a hobby, rarely exceeding 50 miles a week. There are thousands of others who run at this level.
If you’re a hobbyist runner who finds it challenging to eat an extra 5000 calories in a weekend, you’re in the socio-physiological upper 0.1%. It’s great for you, but not a very relevant anecdote to the majority of people seeking help with weight management.
It's interesting, though, even if it doesn't apply to you. It's something to think about, and something I do think about with some regularity -- how I'm going to schedule all the additional eating I'm going to have to do if I start a real exercise regimen at my height and weight.
That's not strictly speaking true, since most (all?) high level languages have undefined behaviors, and their behavior varies between compilers/architectures in unexpected ways. We did lose a level of fidelity. It's still smaller than the loss of fidelity from LLMs but it is there.
That's a bit pedantic: lots of python programs will work the same way in major OSs. If they don't, someone will likely try to debug the specific error and fix it. But LLMs frequently hallucinate in non deterministic ways.
Also, it seems like there's little chance for knowledge transfer. If I work with dictionaries in python all the timrle, eventually I'm better prepared to go under the hood and understand their implementation. If I'm prompting a LLM, what's the bridge from prompt engineering to software engineering? Not such direct connection, surely!
> If I'm prompting a LLM, what's the bridge from prompt engineering to software engineering?
A sibling also made this point, but I don't follow. You can still read the code.
If you don't know the syntax, you can ask the LLM to explain it to you. LLMs are great for knowledge transfer, if you're actually trying to learn something - and they are strongest in domains where you have an oracle to test your understanding, like code.
Undefined behavior does not violate correctness. Undefined behavior is just wiggle room for compiler engineers to not have to worry so much about certain edge cases.
"Correctness" must always be considered with respect to something else. If we take e.g. the C specification, then yes, there are plenty of compilers that are in almost all ways people will encounter correct according to that spec, UB and all. Yes, there are bugs but they are bugs and they can be fixed. The LLVM project has a very neat tool called Alive2 [1] that can verify optimization passes for correctness.
I think there's a very big gap between the kind of reliability we can expect from a deterministic, verified compiler and the approximating behavior of a probabilistic LLM.
However, the undefined behaviours are specified and known about (or at least some people know about them). With LLMs, there's no way to know ahead of time that a particular prompt will lead to hallucinations.
I never understood why it's so complicated. On Linux, you can make a liveusb as easily as `cat liveusb.iso > /dev/sdX`. I imagine there is a powershell equivalent. There is a risk of writing to the wrong drive, so some kind of utility is needed. But the actual write is trivial. Why not make a win32 executable with the iso embedded so users only need to download one thing and then run it to write the USB media?
IIRC Rufus can actually download the necessary ISOs so it isn't THAT complicated.
On the other hand, if someone finds that part too complicated to follow perhaps they may not be able to install Linux - or Windows for that matter - by themselves and come across other issues down the line. Ultimately replacing your OS with another one does require some minimum level of technical knowledge that you either need to have or be fine with learning during the process.
Windows PowerShell does not have a direct, native equivalent to this specific operation.
You have to use some combination of Clear-Disk,New-Partition,Format-Volume,Mount-DiskImage, and xcopy to do that
This is unfortunately very common for OHRMs. Once your heartbeat approaches your running cadence (~180 bpm), physical movement becomes confused with the color change of your blood that an OHRM relies on. Tightening your wrist strap can help, but if you want accurate heart rate data for workouts, a chest strap is the way to go. Garmin makes a very good and very inexpensive one.
yep 4 people in san francisco. I mean I've lived in the city since the 90's. and eventually you get to know people who value decency over rent. Also, tiny room.
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