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by DocTomoe 7mo ago
As per the article: she was supposed to drive to places for work with her own vehicle. Old vehicles have a higher rate of having mechanical issues, making it less likely for her to be able to reliably do the job. I can see the logic that an
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by DocTomoe 7mo ago
This is not exactly newsworthy, is it? I vividly remember my old man telling me - when I applied for jobs after university - to part two streets further away and walk the rest of the way because I was not driving a ‘representative car’ twen
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by DocTomoe 7mo ago
Missing from such articles is a key information: who paid for the lawyers? I doubt teenage income would pay for a retainer. As so often, following the money will reveal who actually has an interest here.
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by DocTomoe 7mo ago
The optimist in me wants to believe the lack of a quarterly report requirement will increase decision-making timeframes and will give industry leaders more time to plan long-term. But I also like to believe that Santa is, in fact, real.
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by DocTomoe 7mo ago
> My experience is that people who weren't very good at writing software are the ones now "most excited" to "create" with a LLM. I consider myself to have been a 'pretty good' programmer in my heyday. T
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by DocTomoe 7mo ago
I would not call telecommunications privatization in Germany a success story. Yes, we can use more devices now. Prices have stayed more or less the same (or have risen, corrected by inflation. Service quality has collapsed, though.
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by DocTomoe 7mo ago
In all fairness, being both an avid Deutsche Bahn victim (with the Gold victim status), and knowing the German court system ... that was perfectly plausible, if a bit optimistic. I'd do many, many things if I got a 50% chance of arrivi
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by DocTomoe 8mo ago
If you are in America, that 'empty land' was not 'empty land'. It was Native land. Displacement of Native Americans was genocidal and destroyed communities and cultures. Also, the article touches Moses, right, but it is
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by DocTomoe 8mo ago
That would imply that 96-97% of population growth in your city immediately becomes homeless. Obviously, that is not the case.
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by DocTomoe 8mo ago
I sincerely doubt that if someone hears 'summon' today, they think about Dungeons and Dragons-style summoning of fantasy beings. They more likely hear 'to be made to appear in front of [a state power / a court / ...
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by DocTomoe 8mo ago
Hooray genocide.
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by DocTomoe 8mo ago
The word summon comes from Anglo-French somundre and Old French somondre (or semondre), meaning "to call, send for, or notify". It derives from the Latin summonere, meaning "to remind privately, warn, or hint to". To sum
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
If the title of your study both makes a neurotoxin reference ("This is your brain on drugs", egg, pan, plus pearl-clutching) AND introduces a concept stolen and abused from IT and economics (cognitive debt? Implies repayment and &
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
Pathologising those who disagree with a current viewpoint follows a long and proud tradition. "Possessed by demons" of yesteryear, today it's "AI psychosis".
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
I love the parts where they point out that human evaluators gave wildly different evaluations as compared to an AI evaluator, and openly admitted they dislike a more introverted way of writing (fewer flourishes, less speculation, fewer rand
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
And how exactly is that surprising? If you wrote two essays, you have more 'cognitive engagement' on the clock as compared to the guy who wrote one essay. In other news: If you've been lifting in the gym for a week, you have
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
TL;DR: We had one group not do some things, an later found out that they did not learn anything by not doing the things. This is a non-study.
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
I was pointing out that time and skill are not universal markers of 'worthy' art. The fact that a random graffiti guy is celebrated, a "big A" artist is unknown is a direct indication that time and skill needed are of li
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
I'm old enough to remember when such arguments were had about 'real art' coming from pens, pencils and brushes, not programs. Took a good long time for 'digital art' became a category.
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
How to you estimate the 'time and skill' that went into the creation of a random piece of art? Is a portrait that took 50 hours to paint inherently more worthy than a virtually identical one that took 5 hours? Is the slower artist
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
> According to Ortiz, the convention is a sacred place she didn’t want to see desecrated by AI. Maybe tone down the religious framing of what is essentially a cashgrab show for the industry. Also: Does that AI ban apply to e.g. Disney in
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
But many have built their writing habits about LaTeX typing, and a – or even an — are hardcoded into their text editors / operating systems, much like other correct diacritics and ligatures may be.
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
Tell me you never worked with LaTeX and an university style guide without telling me you never worked with LaTeX and an university style guide.
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
> My workflows involve opening and closing up to hundreds of terminal or tmux tabs a day. I do everything from the terminal. Just imagine that opening a new tab in a text editor would take half a second every time. This sounds like overo
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
I'm more concerned that someone decides to prompt for 'analyze these logfiles, then clean up', and the LLM randomly decides the best way to 'clean up' is a 'rm -rf /' - not on the first run, but on th
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
So ... you are letting a nondeterministic LLM operate on the shell, via quasi-shellscript. This will appeal mostly to people who do not have the skillset to write an actual shell-script. In short, isn't that like giving a voice-control
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
Same here, right now (couldn't get up without numb back pain, can barely walk, ChatGPT educated me on the quadratus lumborum muscle and how to solve that ... which was a lot better than my brain going 'well, I'm wheelchair-bo
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
There is a delay between 'bad stuff happens' and 'lawyer tries to squeeze some money out of it'. We now see 4o lawsuits because we have gotten to that point in discovery for 4o-related incidents. Give it half a year, and
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
You also don't take into account that the userbase itself is shifting. That being said: Those of us who grew up when the internet was still young remember alt.suicide.holiday, and when you could buy books explaining relatively painless
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by DocTomoe 9mo ago
I am fairly sure that they made a big theater back in the day how they did, in fact, delete before. But ultimately, no-one outside of OpenAI really knows one way or the other.

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