GuB-42

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by GuB-42 5d ago
That's why I don't really care that much about terms and conditions. Just because they say they can doesn't mean that they will, conversely, the writing can be misleading to anyone who isn't a specialized lawyer, so most
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by GuB-42 5d ago
I think it is, again, a way to work around limitations. Economic limitations in this case rather than technical. Compared to modern HD graphics, pixel art is more affordable because you can hide a lot of details you would normally have to w
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by GuB-42 8d ago
Except that Microsoft Office is just better. But with the awesome job Microsoft does at breaking it, maybe in a few years, LibreOffice will be a good alternative, if the LibreOffice guys don't screw up too much on their side.
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by GuB-42 8d ago
I actually asked GPT that question some time ago. The importance of top executive decisions is overstated, they often do no better than random chance. But their decisions are not where their value lies. The important part is that they own t
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by GuB-42 8d ago
There are nuances. AI scraping for the goal of making a commercial LLM service is different from, say, a commercial file sharing platform. The first difference is that LLM training is highly transformative. Let's say your LLM ingests t
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by GuB-42 8d ago
Traditionally, Wikipedia encouraged you to "be bold", that is, if you think something is wrong, don't complain, don't ask for permission, just fix it. [1] But now that Wikipedia is becoming more stable, I wonder if this
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by GuB-42 9d ago
The difference between working with LLM you don't trust rather than with people you don't trust is that you have no social obligations with LLMs. If you want to work with untrustworthy people, you not only have to double check eve
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by GuB-42 10d ago
Both of your examples are optimized by the compiler (gcc 16.1 -O3). In the first case, the compiler removes the first if/return In the second case, if you don't have the first if/return the compiler will add it. That's b
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by GuB-42 10d ago
Just because there are known vulnerabilities don't mean we should drop other security features, this is the opposite in fact. Defense in depth, an OS-level vulnerability cannot be exploited if the attacker cannot access that part of th
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by GuB-42 12d ago
Unless you are standing still (like sitting or playing Beat Saber), that cable really is annoying. You can't spin around for instance. As for wireless communication. I also thought it would be easy, but the lack of options despite the
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by GuB-42 13d ago
What make you think it is vibe coded? There is no mention of genAI being used, and the methodology looks more consistent with hand-written code he actually understands.
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by GuB-42 13d ago
Net neutrality means that providers don't discriminate based on the kind of traffic, that you get internet access, not just access to particular services. They can absolutely meter and limit your connection as long as one byte is one b
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by GuB-42 14d ago
You just gave your own counter argument. If they find a promising way to use psychedelics for instance, they are not going with straight LSD, they will find some analogue that they show is 0.1% better and patent it. Just like that special k
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by GuB-42 15d ago
The problem with psychoactive drugs, as I understand it, is not the lack of positive results. There are plenty of well recognized cases. The problem is the the unpredictability, because there are plenty of catastrophic results too, and we d
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by GuB-42 17d ago
It is just one approach, often referred to as method acting. But good actors trained more classically can be just as convincing by pretending. One is not better than the other, these are just different approaches, both capable of delivering
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by GuB-42 19d ago
> If I showed up at your place and painted some tactful ads on the walls, would you have an issue with it? Yes, because I didn't call you to paint anything on my walls. But if I hired you to paint me something on my wall every month
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by GuB-42 19d ago
I don't think it is the first time they do this, at least on one occasion, they have shown an ad for Tomb Raider on the lock screen. And I am evidently an minority here, but I don't really mind. I don't really have a problem
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by GuB-42 19d ago
Anubis is not free either, it is a matter of how much it costs to run Anubis vs to let bots in. When I see LKML using Anubis when the pages it serves are tens of kB, all presumably static, I wonder if they do it out of spite rather than to
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by GuB-42 20d ago
There is an interesting case here with the "Hadopi" law in France, a particularly controversial anti-piracy law. They scan IP addresses for illegal filesharing and if it connects to your ISP, then you get a notification, and poten
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by GuB-42 23d ago
I still find it crazy that piston engine aircraft still run on leaded fuel. The only reason it is still the case is mostly regulatory. We can make compatible unleaded fuel, we could have done it decades ago, but it would have required costl
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by GuB-42 23d ago
And the reason it is delicious is because evolution told us it was the best food there is: safe and tons of readily available calories. Funny how in the last few decades we turned a system that has benefited us for millions of years into a
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by GuB-42 23d ago
> That said, particle physics history is full of 3 sigma particle "discoveries" that disappeared with more data. The idea is that because 3 sigma means a ~1/1000 chance of the thing being explained by random chance, 1 in 1
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by GuB-42 23d ago
I am sure that in the past, good or bad food was more about conservation and food borne diseases than it was about nutrition. At least, that's the attitude that would make the most sense. That would explain sugar good / fish bad.
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by GuB-42 25d ago
I will go further and say that people hate on Firefox because they care. We don't see many people here hating on Edge for instance, they may hate the fact that it always wants to force itself in, but not the browser itself. And that&#x
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by GuB-42 25d ago
The thing is, at some point, it takes so much work telling the AI exactly what to do that you are better off doing the damn thing yourself. AI can help with the execution, and for an amateur, this is important. But for real pros, the ones w
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by GuB-42 26d ago
This argument can be applied to anything AI does. AI can do bad writing, bad code, bad graphics and bad music. But AI cannot (yet?) do the job of a skilled writer, coder, graphical artist and musician. And it is the same problem every time,
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by GuB-42 26d ago
> Is Burning Man fun? I got the rather cynical impression that it's mostly very well off tech people and even better off finance/political people. Why not both? Well off tech people can have fun too. In fact, the wealthier, the
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by GuB-42 28d ago
This is how humans behave under anonymity, towards an anonymous crowd of people. It is something you don't see on the streets with the exception of a few assholes, but you see it a bit more on the road, where being in a vehicle puts so
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by GuB-42 1mo ago
I think tipping is getting out of hand. Normally, tips pay for service staff, which would be about 15% of the revenue of a restaurant in a no-tip country. So, with tips of 15% or less, everyone get their fair share: service staff get a low
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by GuB-42 1mo ago
It is kind of a culture shock between France and the US: - French visiting the US: why is the waiter coming at us, does he want us out? - American visiting France: what is the waiter waiting for, didn't he notice we are finished? If Fr

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