BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Not really. Both method calls and operators are consistent with how Python normally works. Outside of Django you never do `obj__op(value)` or `obj__meth(value)` to do the equivalent of `obj op value` or `obj.meth(value)`. It is Django th
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
No it won't, because there's no requirement that the result of `>` be True or False. It can return an object that then can participate in further expressions that "keep track" of what operations are done to the field
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
For those you would have a method on the field object (e.g., `Table.field.like("whatever")`).
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
That's a well established pattern in Python, for instance with Numpy. That's the point. Operations in Python aren't "mean to return" anything in particular. Each class can define the operations as it wants. That
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
The Django filter syntax with the double underscores is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. I find it insane that they didn't just use operator overloading to create a real query expression language.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
> There are serious questions about copyright, labor, energy use, slop, and maintainers drowning in generated contributions. But these tools are also becoming part of how software is made. The Open Source world needs to figure out how t
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Deciding that you "won't make moral judgments" is also a moral judgment. It's just a less obvious one. All platforms have made moral judgments in the past, and will continue to do so in the future. Some of them just d
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
That's right, and that's when the rest of the people say "we're kicking you out", and if the offender says "but why" everyone say "because you broke the rules" and if the offender tries to rules-
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
This is interesting, but I have substantial doubt as to how accurately this models the actual number of languages that existed at times in the distant past.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
> Why does software suck? Management often has other priorities This is Hacker News syndrome. What you described is why everything sucks. It's because people at the top are more concerned with making money than doing good things
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
> Along the way it helped make the strongest case yet for how the imbalance of model availability is hurting our ability to secure our software. It's crazy to me that this is the kind of conclusion that is drawn. I would say it mak
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
We are definitely not fine. The mere fact that this amount of money is flowing to these operations is already a problem.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Bir Tawil has gotta be the greatest boundary oddity out there.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Every example of this confirms my view that we should treat the spread of these AI scrapers like we treat the proliferation of drugs. We should be seeking to bust AI rings like we seek to bust drug cartels.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Why not just ban all apps that "allow unknown third-parties to route their Internet traffic through a user’s TV"? (Or similarly for other devices.)
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
I'd say making LLMs useless would be a net positive for humanity.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Daniel Gilbert (one of the authors of the study linked above) published "Stumbling on Happiness" in 2006. There were happiness psychology books before but it does seem that the popularity of this book primed the pump for more and
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Kudos to them and others who take a principled stance against LLM crapola.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
> I'm not advocating for breaking laws, regulations, or rules of the nation I live in. What if we change the laws to remove or limit those property rights? > This is less about the pragmatics of 'possession' and its int
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Sounds fine to me! I mean, it depends on how much the person owns. But I'm fine just saying "you own too much, you don't get to own that much anymore".
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
The messed up thing is that we need to rely on LG to stop allowing it rather than just making it illegal.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
> Why should OpenAI (or any frontier lab) be building these systems if they can't get a secure environment / containment right? Because it can make a small number of people really rich. That's all that matters.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
I'd rather just have a tax based on the size of the company. Little Larry's Amazing Electric Toothbrush Inc. can pay $5 and Apple can pay $500 billion.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
> It's hypocrisy and unfair, but I think there's a strong legal argument for it. That right there is the problem.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
> Makes me wonder if a solar system wide civilization, with trillions of beings, wouldn't invest in ships to go to the next system, extract resources, and create a stream of resources ships going back to the original solar system. T
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Realistically, to measure a lot of this stuff, you need to model tab completion.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Great. We can only hope it goes to zero.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
It became necessary to delete the data to save it. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_B%E1%BA%BFn_Tre )
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Fun! As others mentioned, it's unclear why certain words are rejected. Without clues, there's no reason the player would know which of several anagrams is the "right" one. Seems like it'd be better to accept any
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Yeah this happened to me too. A timer with auto-start is a bad combination.

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