I don’t know why this would kill systemd

I’ve never had respect for the industry as a whole, only individuals within. There has a been a serious lack of rigor and professionalism in software engineering for as long as I’ve been a part of it

It's a slap in the face that we tack engineering onto it. A very small percentage of software engineering is as rigorous as actual engineering.

As an actual engineer who moved into software "engineering", yes this. It kills me.

Top three things lacking?

(In your personal opinion)

Fads and fashion over strong, tested technology.

Attitude that you can fix broken stuff later and customers are fine with it.

Charlatans and fuckwits everywhere who wouldn't last a second in a traditional engineering discipline.

Checks out.

and thank you!

As someone who works in a few different engineering disciplines, I think software engineers often have a very rosy picture of other areas of engineering. The problems are different, but things are not any better on average.

If it makes you feel any better, I don't think that's the case in most of the non English speaking world.

Mostly we're just called programmers.

I can’t believe that someone paying for this actually expects to chat with the model. Just think of the logistics, it would be impossible

I have some models I really chat with, like outside of their performances. Not all day obviously and they often don't respond for days but that's ok. I know it's them because I can see them typing live sometimes and also some of them I know in person and they remember what I've said online.

> I can’t believe that someone paying for this actually expects to chat with the model. Just think of the logistics, it would be impossible

It's not impossible, you can do it with a little bit of fine tuning starting from her history of chats on the platform, and having her set a custom user-level prompt where she lists her interests, hobbies and things she likes. Then give her auto-compacted daily or weekly summaries of the most compelling chats. It's a model either way, right?

You’ve not even begun to scratch parasocial relationships- since there have been cases of murder, I think it’s safe to assume at least some think they’re really chatting with the model - and she loves them?

The market is not you.

I don’t think it’s an age thing, I think is desperation. I’m not desperate enough to get it

I'm also often not desperate for a pun from a stranger, but I think a 'get' it.

How is long term ethnic cleansing different from genocide?

Ethnic cleansing is the attempt to remove a people from the area. It can be accomplished by methods other than killing.

Genocide is an attempt to kill them all.

The Venn diagram has a lot of overlap for sure but they are not the same.

Im questioning whether the Israelis are the good guys. Frankly I don’t know how you can look at their history of provocation and unbalanced retaliation and not begin to wonder if maybe they aren’t the good guys

Or you could use the previous version to generate the dictionary for the current version?

I would assume chunks that didn’t benefit from the dictionary would receive the standard compression, so you can’t get worse than gzip.

Maybe? That gets sort of awkward for frequently updated things like Reddit where there might be 10 dictionary versions between what you have and the current version. You’d need something that decides whether to get an incremental update or a new dictionary, and the hoster has to store those old dictionaries. Feels like more trouble than it’s worth.

You could compress things with gzip if the dictionary doesn’t work well, but to my understanding gzip compresses repetition. There’s less repetition in smaller chunks, so worse compression ratios. Eg compressing each comment individually has a worse net ratio than compressing all the comments at once.

It would also be annoying to merge a bunch of individually compressed blocks back together, but certainly an option

I’m pretty sure the dictionary just gets put on the front of the compression algorithm’s “context” so that it can be referenced just like any other part of the document. You wouldn’t need individual blocks with different compression schemes, it would all get compressed together.

How are you dealing with the Pope saying priests shouldn’t use your product?

I agree with the Pope’s point. Priests should not hand pastoral judgment to a model. BibleGuided has church management tools plus optional AI help for drafting and organizing, with the priest making the final call.

For community context, we avoid confessional and private pastoral data. It is opt-in from congregants, then aggregated and anonymized into themes and trends.

We think AI can be a helpful tool across many areas, including faith, and over time many church leaders (of many denominations) will get comfortable using it in bounded, and responsible ways. If a church does not want AI used for homilies, those features can be toggled off and the rest of our tools still work.

The pope, ostensibly the person you believe to be the representative of god on earth, has said that your product is garbage and here you are rationalizing it.

Are you sure you have faith?

Based on OPs location and some of the marketing comments on their site, they probably think the Pope is the Anti-Christ.

If they're Protestant, that might be a point in its favor :)

Not the parent, but products like it are strongly Protestant Evangelical-coded, so that could actually be a selling point for the intended audience

To be fair ignoring and occasionally kidnapping the pope is a time honoured Catholic tradition.

I don’t find that to be less inspiring

Another interesting note, the trapezoidal TFR is still in place