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by GuB-42 2mo ago
What the author did in the article, AI companies can do it too, in particular he used pangram, an automatic AI detector, there is no reason AI companies can't use something like this. It is even simpler because AI companies don't
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
Has anyone had success telling a LLM to essentially code golf, with the compromise that names should still be descriptive (so no hard minification). The idea is to first make the code less verbose, LLMs tend to do that. But the other idea i
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
It reminds me of an interview with police detectives. They say that some criminals think that using weapons like swords and bows will make the police job harder because police is so used to deal with guns that they may have a blind spot. Th
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
It is not a skill that you will use in your day to day life, but I think it is part of the fundamentals now. Sure, LLMs are in a bubble, just like the web during the dotcom bubble, but web didn't disappear, and I don't expect LLMs
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
Hating on Windows and Micro$oft dates back from way before 2003. People just forgot. I am sure that in 2050, there will be blog posts about Windows 11 that won't make people enrage.
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
No, and it doesn't even have to be provided for free as long as the price is reasonable with regard to the delivery costs. The GPL was made when mailing disks was a common way of delivering software and it is still a valid way to do it
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
If you are American, then it is you, for the most part. Most of the US government debt is owed to institution and people in the US. All these retirement funds, social security, health insurance, etc... that own part of the government debt..
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
Considering the saying that dogs have masters and cats have slaves, not only you are not responsible if your cat bites someone but your cat should also be responsible if you bite someone. As for agents, it depends on your relationship with
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
It struck me as something that could be particularly clever. It is clearly a threat, and most likely a bluff. But should it be brought to court, they could claim it was indeed internal communication (and that you should feel bad for reading
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
> At the opposite end of the spectrum we have Sony Mobile, where product names are probably assigned by their worst enemy. Or maybe the USB-IF
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
1.2GB is absolutely ridiculous and I hate the bloat we see with pretty much all modern software today more than most people, but I have decided not to complain about it for once :) Know that it doesn't mean I think less of it. Maybe th
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
On a matter of principle, it is not shocking to me that it is so big. The offline installer has to bundle data for all supported products, platforms, languages and dependencies, even the ones you don't need, because you can't tell
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
How is it confusing? Most brick and mortar stores show ads for specific products. Online platforms other than Amazon do it too. The only thing is that Amazon is more diversified than other retailers, in particular, they have AWS, essentiall
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
The company has a lot more to lose from pilots taking risks than from angry passengers who missed their meetings. Everything done to and in an airplane is recorded, there are standard procedures for emergency situations, which pilots are ex
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
The pilot did the right thing, the company didn't. I think that in the EU, compensation for such an event is at least 600€, plus all expenses paid (including meals, hotel, etc...). The airline most likely offered $100 as an attempt to
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
It doesn't have to do with Amazon. It is just how ads work. Of course when you buy a product that is heavily advertised you know that you are paying for it, Amazon or not. That's why, when I see an ad campaign for a product I may
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
That's exactly my idea. My phone is a lost cause, not really "mine" anymore. The good thing is that I stopped caring about the device. I take what's cheap and well supported (Samsung "A" series is the right kin
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
And compared to Dark Souls, the family gameplay is often too punishing.
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
If Zuck is personally responsible for everything, then no one else at Meta is, which mean Zuck will be ruined, but the company will continue doing its nasty things, with someone else at its head. That's why companies are fined and not
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
If I remember correctly, it wasn't a distinction between common and rare books. It was a distinction between library books and others. They partnered with libraries, and obviously, libraries didn't want their books destroyed, so t
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
I am not saying it is a bad thing. What I am saying is that when we are talking about trillions we are talking big changes, and big change doesn't come without suffering, and people don't like suffering. Usually big change doesn&#
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
Yes, it will, but think about the supply side. If people spend $1T less on health, health professionals will earn $1T less, it means, as GP said, layoffs, cutting salaries, etc... Not just doctors and nurses but also drug researchers, medic
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
Yes, I consider big numbers like this to be red flags. The GDP of the US is $32T. Saving $1T will essentially make 3% of the US economy vanish. You don't vanish 3% of an economy without wide ranging repercussion, it would be a crisis s
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
> As the bookseller who sold them told me, there are not many people in the world who would care about them in the same way people might care about the first edition of Oliver Twist, but that doesn’t mean they’re not valuable. So books t
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
About tire wear, I know a guy who did custom "Solex" type bike racing, with a small, friction drive petrol engine on the front wheel. It was so bad that the rear wheel ended up getting bigger at the end of the race, as it picked
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
BMI is not a good metric for really short and really tall people. The "ideal weight" of a person is proportional to height to an exponent somewhere between 2 and 3. Simple physics would say 3 but because tall people are not just s
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
Same for me, no one considers BMI to be a good indicator of anything, but it is better than nothing, and more importantly, it is super simple. Any idiot with a bathroom scale and a measuring tape can do it. And by adulthood, height doesn&#x
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
By doing this you open a whole new can of worms. How long is too long? Sometime on a non-realtime system, you may get a big latency spike, maybe some housekeeping is going on, whatever, sometimes, things go slow. Finding the right balance i
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
A well known NP-hard problem is matching some flavors of regex (ex: PCRE). You can turn a 3-SAT problem into such a regex. In normal situations, it is not a problem, I have written thousands of regex without ever hitting a galactic case (at
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
It doesn't have to be a feature to be used all day long to be useful. I mean, even if it is a single player game, sometimes, you may want to ask for help, or others may need your help. Think of it like screen sharing. You probably don&

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