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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
In the sense that consent requires active opt-in. The passive “opt-in” by failing to set the cookie doesn’t count as consent. So if they’re claiming they have the right to process data on the legal basis of consent, and they claim the absen
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
As I understood it that setting is an opt-out cookie. So must be set on all new browser sessions. Seems to be a blatant violation of GDPR. So I assume they’ll be fined for it sooner or later and forced to cleanup the training data anyway.
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
I’ve been in that camp the last 20 years, and even yearned for a paradigm shift or two. But I have to say, the coming shift from formal languages, type systems and somewhat predictable failure modes to… “prompt engineering” has me a bit wor
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
Indeed much more applicable then, I stand corrected Given the context I assumed the regular unspecified internal type of JSON commonly used to back SPAs
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
HTML and RSS adds semantic for the HATEOS part of the ReST-ful web. JSON not so much. Your comment could just as well have said SGML or XML instead of JSON which would make the distinction more obvious.
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
> Where's the danger in that? A really good book addressing that question. https://waitbutwhy.com/whatsourproblem But basically the danger, it argues, is the end of democracy and perhaps civilisation it self. Argume
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
> In this implementation, to maximise performance, we consider each individual byte of the file separately, and look it up in π. Had me laughing out loud. Priceless!
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
Kind of refreshing to see this perspective on lookup vs matrix multiplication, specially with the bias towards the latter as more natural. Is there some reference table somewhere mapping more code idioms like this to equivalent nn represent
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
I think this book captures a good bit of the spirit https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984598.Masters_of_Decept...
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
> As a manager, it can be difficult to know what your team is working on and who is actually productive Is this a cultural thing? As a Swede I can’t even begin to imagine the scenario where this statement makes any sense
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
From the article > Now, it's decided to take the easy way out by giving people like Donald Trump and his enablers free rein to continue to lie without consequence I don't understand this argument. How is youtube censoring a con
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
They are addressing reflection rather aggressively actually, using source generators mostly. Even if I have no direct need for AOT I’m eager for the added type safety and sanity gained by getting rid of reflection, not least for serialisers
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
If your genuinely curious there is an attempt at an answer in this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34507927-how-to-take-sma... Gist of it being, like you say, to not only summarise but to process into on
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
> for every dog there exists at least one barking event with that dog as the acting subject Just to wrap my head around your definition of universal and unambiguous here. If the language cant nail down the definition of dog to something
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
Its only .Net now. The Core and Standard things was just there the aid the transition from Framework, which is now complete, any remains will soon be phased out entirely.
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
The argument put forward in the book is that the extreme polarisation is in fact quite new, and that it has lead to a situation where extreme, anti-liberal ideologies, has been given more room to act within their respective communities and
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by CuriousSkeptic 3y ago
> Almost every political party in western democracies are “liberal” in the classical sense. There is an interesting case made[1] that while this used to be true, it is actually not the case any more and that things are starting to become
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by CuriousSkeptic 4y ago
Theres some reasoning about that here (with citations) https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol... Edit: Or here actually https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-int
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by CuriousSkeptic 4y ago
Exploring the economic language in search of new value to harvest, setting an example for other to follow, or avoid, not unlike how ants explore. Or as some motivational poster put it: “It may very well be that the purpose of yore life is t
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by CuriousSkeptic 4y ago
Section 5.3 of this report covers it a bit: https://www.who.int/europe/publications/i/item/9789289057738 A bit brief though, probably need to check the cited material. The overall theme of the report as
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by CuriousSkeptic 4y ago
or the dev who spent a few nights and weekends rescuing the system after one of those 1% failures the customer, as it turns out, has no patience for at all
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by CuriousSkeptic 4y ago
Simpler, less powerful, models have already contributed to increases in suicides, genocide and a worldwide epidemic of stupidity. Assuming more powerful models will have the same goals extrapolate the harm caused by simple multiplication un
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by CuriousSkeptic 4y ago
> Nowadays, not so much… The thinking seems much more primitive. You might enjoy the book just released by https://waitbutwhy.com/ Just started reading it, but its basically a deep dive into that observation.
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by CuriousSkeptic 4y ago
So if I’m reading this right Microsoft expects a ten trillion dollar a year return on investment if they can get the most powerful AI on the planet fully focused on manipulating people
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by CuriousSkeptic 4y ago
Look up the Wörgl Experiment for more background on why this could be desirable. Basically it was used successfully to keep a local economy going during the great depression.
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by CuriousSkeptic 4y ago
so far the two features I would lack in older versions would be: - “copy file path” in the context menu - More Window tiling options
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by CuriousSkeptic 4y ago
While I share your take on LLMs. I do add on the worry of may take a couple of years for the people who pay software engineers to figure out that they aren’t replaceable yet.
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by CuriousSkeptic 4y ago
You could do a bi-weekly retro to catch issues not really appropriate for stand-up. Point was that if commitments cant be made for weeks at a time just shorten the iteration time. The core part of Scrum is to regularly collaborate as a team
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by CuriousSkeptic 4y ago
If you do 1-day sprints and merge the daily stand-up meeting with the demo and sprint-planning and retro you may get away with calling it Scrum and still have something that works
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by CuriousSkeptic 4y ago
First if all, thanks for that argument, haven’t considered the math in this perspective before. Will need to let this simmer a bit. One immediate flaw though, you starting premise is that the current revenue is needed to break even on such

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