CJefferson

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by CJefferson 3mo ago
From the article there's this. If this isn't proof, well, I don't know what would be: A 97-page internal presentation, “Teen Fundamentals,” in May 2020, described its goal as to “look … to biological factors that are relative
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by CJefferson 3mo ago
Because most people can't set up a DNS blocker. There are lots of things we, as a society, decide we want to ban. I think social media is closer to illegal drugs. We don't need to let multi-billion dollar companies maximise profit
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by CJefferson 3mo ago
No, not at all. Students all have different voices. Yes there are similarities but if I read two pieces of work that sound in the same voice I assume there has been cheating — except this year everything is in the same voice.
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by CJefferson 3mo ago
This is my biggest concern. Speaking as someone who recently had to read 60 AI generated reports (the whole issue of how much students are using AI is one discussion), it was genuinely soul-destroying reading the same phrases, seem sentence
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by CJefferson 3mo ago
I feel this is on of those examples of where humanities and the softer sciences can teach us things. This is exactly how 'normal' languages work. New things are introduced and people (particularly older people) hate them. Over tim
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by CJefferson 3mo ago
Has writing secure C really changed that much? Lots of the world still writes in C99, 27 years old at this point. I think they can use a 9 month old AI model is they want.
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by CJefferson 3mo ago
Wow, that might be the worst name for a project I’ve ever seen. I think every programmer who sees this is going to assume it’s a Python thing. With regards the library itself —- I think it’s generally known the c++ standard library is a poo
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by CJefferson 3mo ago
They are going to make it a thousands times worse. It wasn't perfect before, but it at least took some time to fake a paper. The problem is now people can produce a very plausible looking completely fake paper in minutes. Peer review i
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by CJefferson 3mo ago
I think what upsets me the most isn't that companies do this, it's that no government seems to have any interest in stopping them. To me, it should be a fairly easy, short, and extremely popular law that if you say you are 's
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by CJefferson 3mo ago
So do we get rid of all laws which distinguish children? Why bother with limiting selling alcohol to children if we can just let the parents do it? My problem is I don’t think anyone is (seriously) suggesting we get rid of the laws protecti
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by CJefferson 3mo ago
While you could send a letter anonymously, it was also trivial for the government to read any letter it wanted. The problem is we have switched from a world where it was easy to let the government read selected communications (single phones
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by CJefferson 3mo ago
The problem is there used to be a fairly high correlation between ‘security report’ and ‘real vulnerability’. Not perfect but good enough. Now the two are almost entirely disconnected.
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by CJefferson 3mo ago
Many people run older versions of Mac OS X (because their machine won't upgrade), so their safari is aging -- they use an alternative browser, firefox and chrome support older mac os x. Of course using unsupported OSes isn't the b
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by CJefferson 3mo ago
One big advantage I’ve found — people get attached to models (including me). With open models if you find one that works perfectly for you but the next version doesn’t, you can run the old one forever (or someone will for you)
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by CJefferson 3mo ago
In the UK I see a medical practitioner before any tests, always.
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by CJefferson 3mo ago
Even at a smaller scale, I was shocked to go to the hospital in China and literally the first thing done was a blood sample, scanned under about 30 metrics, took about 15 minutes after the same was take. The results were sent straight to my
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by CJefferson 4mo ago
That's genuinely good to know. The thing that often hits me nowadays is using pandoc (or pandoc via quarto) to go markdown -> latex -> pdf, which tends to bury these issues (and in markdown it's more tempting to just write e
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by CJefferson 4mo ago
I'd much prefer bad looking unicode characters to just skipping them and having broken output honestly. This is currently the main reason I'm considering moving from LaTeX to typst -- just always having broken output as I use more
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by CJefferson 4mo ago
I tool which pulls all details from my Garmin and keeps a '5 day rolling average' series of stats -- my lifestyle means I can't keep up 'X steps a day', but I feel I can keep up 'average X steps a day for the l
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by CJefferson 4mo ago
My advice -- give it a try. Chuck $5 into deepseek.com , and use this config (put it in a shell script, run ' . ./deepseek-claude.sh ', then just run claude as normal. export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.dee
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by CJefferson 4mo ago
No, I think we do need legal protection. We have so many high quality protections when it comes to real-world items -- they could be better, but if companies are going to move everything on line, and put tech in everything, they can goddamn
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by CJefferson 4mo ago
Should a government control the porn a child can walk into a shop and buy? The alcohol and drugs they can work into a shop and buy? Are you suggesting we remove current laws making it illegal for children to purchase these things?
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by CJefferson 4mo ago
Seriously? They didn't survive, they died: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041714/united-kingdom-a...
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by CJefferson 4mo ago
There are so many things where we don’t do that. There are laws against giving children so many dangerous things, because you can’t watch them constantly outside the house, and honest I think unrestricted internet is worse for a child than
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by CJefferson 4mo ago
I don’t believe it’s Limiting factor in UI frameworks. I’ve profiled a lot of c++ and a lot of UI code. UI problems tend to come from too much churn and object creation, or doing too much work in the UI thread so it gets laggy, not just doi
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by CJefferson 5mo ago
No, they want to train the next generation of leaders and elites, and those elites and leader's parents pay a huge amount of money to get them there. They know not to bite the hand that feeds them.
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by CJefferson 5mo ago
I'm not saying beating children is good but.. if you think the 'state of the world' is bad, well, most countries have massively reduced how much beating children get over the last 40 years or so.
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by CJefferson 5mo ago
Where the proof that caning people for mistakes creates in the the desire for vengeance where they will hit their children. Naughty children won't work, or do vocational training. Have you worked with children?
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by CJefferson 5mo ago
I think what we really need is better sandboxes languages. I’d be much happier if my compression algorithm only had an input stream and an output stream. Maybe my gui library shouldn’t have network access or filesystem access. It just draws
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by CJefferson 5mo ago
Not a latex post with someone talking about typst. Come back when the html output works. Not having good accessible output was more acceptable back when Tex was invented, it definitely isn’t now, and they made a new system and somehow got t

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