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by GuB-42 6mo ago
AFAIK Ticketmaster doesn't decide, they are a service provider with a variety of options for their customers (the performers). The customer picks an option (no resale, limited or not resale price, etc...) and Ticketmaster does it, taki
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Which is the case here: > In September 2024, Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. > Weeks later, in Geneva, Switzerland It is obviously
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Not updating things is an underappreciated strategy and a core principle of production environments: "if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it". There are nuances of course, and things that are broken should be fixed, and unfortunately, th
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Why would they? The entire point of YouTube Premium is removing ads. There are a few other benefits, but being ad-free is the big one. If they put back ads, I believe that most people will simply cancel their subscription and get a renewed
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
In my opinion, svn lost to git because git is just so much better in a distributed environment. To me the improvement between git and svn is much more than the improvement between svn and cvs. In fact, by many aspects, I preferred cvs, but
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
It is far from trivial. What are you going to do if the money goes to an enemy country? And while cryptocurrency are certainly popular with criminals, it is far from the only option for hiding transactions. As for the technology, if it exis
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Among the "scads of utter online shit" is the submitted website for which it mostly agrees with. It also agrees with most of the comments here. But the thing is, I used a LLM because I want to see the "scads of utter online
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Why can you be ethical to your coworkers and not your employer? You boss is a living being too, and he is working for the company just like you are, even if his status is different. And your coworkers are the ones who make up the company, s
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Asking ChatGPT, I have: - The scientific method - Calculus - Einstein's Relativity - Darwin's Evolution And more generally: - The zero - Formal logic - The written language This is the kind of questions I think a LLM work well for
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
At least for now, AI sucks at creativity. There is an initial "wow" effect when you can generate an image of an astronaut riding a unicorn on the moon with a simple prompt, but as you try to play a bit more with it, you notice tha
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
Chess is a good example. When chess engines started becoming really good, some people worried that competitive chess would die. Today, grandmasters stand no chance against a smartphone, and yet, chess popularity is at an all time high.
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
Among the hundreds of thousands of lines of code that Anthropic produced was one that leaked the source code. It is likely to be a config file, not part of the Claude Code software itself, but it still something to track. The more lines of
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
Drinking alcohol is probably way worse, but you can choose to not drink, you can't choose to live a normal life and not get microplastics. Also, alcohol has existed since forever and humans have been drinking it since the beginning of
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
Soviet engineering wasn't sloppy. It was designed for robustness, loose tolerances and simplicity. It was well thought out design. In the same way that as much thought went into the cheap alarm clock than went into the Rolex watch, may
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
The code is obfuscated, but they accidentally shipped the map file, i.e. the key to de-obfuscating it.
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
The problem is more about how it is reported to the public. Science is ugly, but when a discovery is announced to the public, a high level of confidence is expected, and journalists certainly act like there is. Kind of like you are not supp
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
It is all about the details: - Ligatures or not - *: in the middle (better for things like multiplication), or high (better for things like C pointers) - Alignment of =, >, - some fonts align -, = and > to that "=>" and &
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
> Theft from the outside world, however, is often taken lightly - especially when it comes to graphics. One should not forget where the demoscene is coming from: crackers. The whole point of "intros" was to show off the skills
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
Since we are talking about the cold war: USSR. They had pretty good results post WW2. The problem is that they ended up lagging behind the western bloc because of a lack of resources and innovation. Basic healthcare doesn't mean much i
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
I hate this argument. Every time there is some big and expensive technical achievement, someone is going to say that the poor are dying somewhere in the world. As if not going to the moon would have saved them. I would argue that a healthy
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
Maybe it is. Just like hand made items are popular for their imperfections.
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
I think that mathematicians can do the maths... But it is not just about the numbers, you are probably right that statistically, mathematicians don't have much to fear at the border, but the current administration seems to go out of it
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
It doesn't seem to be about photographing people, other pictures don't feature people and still have the "NO USE FRANCE" tag. It seems like all pictures by Chris Jung have the "NO USE FRANCE" tag. My best guess
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
I find the best way is to give the LLM as little information as possible about where you want to go. For example don't say "I think pineapple pizzas are the best, am I right?", say "What is the general consensus on pinea
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
> So what specific scientific task on the Martian surface, requires a human hand, that current or near future robotics and remote operation cannot accomplish? We don't know, and that's the entire point, we'll we when we ge
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
With current technology, there is no way for a robot team to achieve what astronauts can achieve. With future technology, we don't know the future, autonomy is likely to improve, but so do space travel. Even the most advanced experimen
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
> We have ways around this heat problem I don't consider that being uncomfortable is a solution. There are actual solutions used by hot countries to deal with the heat: ventilation, vegetation, construction techniques, etc... But ad
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
Apple already seems to do pretty well when it comes to AI systems on personal computers. Datacenters simply isn't their business, it would need some major changes on their part. Also, AI is a bubble, it will burst eventually, and becau
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
While it may not be essential for experienced users, I think it is very important for beginners. Imagine you know nothing about LibreOffice, except that it is an office suite. You download the thing, install it and now what? Most people exp
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by GuB-42 7mo ago
On the start page? To me, the start page is mostly just a giant "open" dialog, with huge buttons and not much functionality to it, there is more than enough space for a fundraiser. I don't even use it that much. When I want t

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