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by CJefferson 7mo ago
It's absolutely a taking point in the UK, although here it is down class and party lines rather than race lines, but that is just because different countries have different natural ways to discuss things. It's the same basic idea,
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by CJefferson 7mo ago
No-one has checked in court of AI-generated code is copyrightable. Personally I hope it's not. To me, this is the best outcome for AI in general. If we are going to violate everyone's copyright training AIs, then it's only fa
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by CJefferson 7mo ago
I keep trying these types of things with my own academic papers, asking AIs to summarise them, and they always produce plausible looking nonsense.
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by CJefferson 8mo ago
What? Are there billion dollar companies with huge staffs who are constantly trying to figure out how to sneak my child a gun all the time, at school, wherever they go? I'd say this comparison is good -- we as a society have decided th
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by CJefferson 8mo ago
Having taught in schools for years? Treat companies that make addictive products the same way we treat drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Kids want them, particularly teenagers. We aren't perfect at stopping their access. But we can make a be
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by CJefferson 8mo ago
Question, do you have the same feeling about heroin? That people should be allowed to take things which are known to be highly addictive and bad for them?
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by CJefferson 8mo ago
That feels like it applies to so many things we make illegal, scams of all kind, snake-oil medical sellers, baby powder full of asbestos. Sure, people can handle all of these things, but we've decided, as a society, it's better
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by CJefferson 8mo ago
Your lean 'proof' is packed full of missing parts. Come back when you aren't skipping most of it.
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by CJefferson 8mo ago
Yes, I wanted to play with things like this, I love Rust, but nowadays I use things built in Python or Lua (like love2d) -- because I need fast interactivity for visual creative coding.
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by CJefferson 9mo ago
What the heck is the point of a reference you never read?
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by CJefferson 9mo ago
But, we do ban children on scooters from roads in the UK, but they can go on bikes? I don't understand your metaphor.. what you are suggesting is what we do and it's sensible.
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by CJefferson 9mo ago
I had a fairly big custom Python 2 static website generator ( github.com/csplib/csplib ), which I'd about given up transfering to Python 3, after a couple of aborted attempts. My main issue was that the libraries I was using
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by CJefferson 9mo ago
It must be different AIs. I grade student work, and I see a lot of Python generated by AI. I don't know exactly which AI, but about a third of the work I see is littered with emojis.
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by CJefferson 9mo ago
No, AI are terrible at finding these types of patterns. You could hypothetically use AI to write algorithms to find the patterns, but people have already spent a long time super-tuning them. AIs can't even (at least I keep checking) so
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by CJefferson 9mo ago
A friend recommended to me having a D&D style roleplay with some different engines, to see which you vibe with. I thought this sounded crazy but I took their advice. I found this worked suprisingly well, I was certain 'claude'
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by CJefferson 9mo ago
But cloudflare do block things. They tend to block things as a rule the American government wants blocking. The problem is they want to be the people who choose what gets blocked, rather than elected governments. To me, this whole thing is
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by CJefferson 9mo ago
Actually, to me this is the perfect argument to make AI music not have copyright. Normally the copyright is owned by the creator. Algorithms can't own copyrights, so there is no copyright. There is already legal history on this.
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by CJefferson 9mo ago
I don't mind rebasing a single commit, but I hate it when people rebase a list of commits, because that makes commits which never existed before, have probably never been tested, and generally never will be. I've had failures whil
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by CJefferson 9mo ago
I'd guess it's much less accurate than that. Part of genetics is pattern matching, and last time I checked I still can't find a model that can correctly solve hard Sudokus (well, assuming you don't pick a coding model th
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by CJefferson 9mo ago
To be honest, just getting to the point where house prices don't rise above inflation, maybe even stay fixed (so inflation eats away at their value), would be a massive accomplishment. The main problem at the moment is prices keep risi
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by CJefferson 9mo ago
Why have shelves full of books that haven’t been borrowed in 15 years? what benefit is that providing?
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by CJefferson 9mo ago
Almost every library regularly throws out books, and all librarians I know are happy with this. New books arrive regularly, and unless you plan on your library growing unlimited, you need to, in general, a 1 in 1 out policy.
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by CJefferson 10mo ago
You have to rely on implementation for anything to do with what happens to memory after it is freed, or really almost anything to do with actual bytes in RAM.
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by CJefferson 10mo ago
For a start, it tells you the engine can actually be used to make a full finished game — which with hobby game engines isn’t a guarantee. If you want me to use an engine, I’d like at least one finished game, preferably even released on Stea
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by CJefferson 10mo ago
I agree, by this argument why teach any child 2+2? This has been performed perfectly by computers for years.
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by CJefferson 10mo ago
I can't be sure, but this sounds entirely possible to me. There are many, many people, and websites, dedicated to roleplaying, and those people will often have conversations lasting thousands of messages with different characters. I kn
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by CJefferson 11mo ago
The world doesn’t consider it reasonable for businesses to sell beer to kids, and expect us all to constantly follow our kids around to make sure they don’t get beer. Bars don’t get to say ‘woops, we got thousands of 9 year olds drunk, thei
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by CJefferson 11mo ago
I really like slides.com, which is a web front end to reveal.js, I’ve used it for a few things, and it lets you export the reveal.js html and JavaScript, so you know you won’t lose it. It’s not perfect, but as you say, whenever I’ve made a
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by CJefferson 11mo ago
Given most machines have cores to spare, and people want answers faster, is that a bad thing?
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by CJefferson 1y ago
Honestly, if these languages are only winning by 25% in microbenchmarks, where I’d expect the difference to be biggest, that’s a strong boost for Java for me. I didn’t realise it was so close, and I hate async programming so I’m definitely

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