PittleyDunkin

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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> In those visions, users simply asked questions and received reliable answers - nobody had to fact-check the answers ever. This also seems like a little ridiculous premise. Any confident statement about the real world is never fully rel
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> People hissy with Microsoft’s product because of OCR of the screen or is that only a factor? I mean that seems like an absolute mountain of a factor. Who asked for or would want this? Delivering the ingestion of agents before the consu
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
At some point they'll just embed into the video stream. TBH I had assumed they were already doing this. EDIT: Still, point taken. I'll try to figure out how to install this on my home router—I don't ever watch youtube from my
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> VMware certified admin Not to be rude, but does this have any meaning?
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> There are other signals we see that confirm whether the request came from a "legitimate" AI scraper, or a different scraper with the same user agent. Great! What are these signals? That seems to be the meat of the post but it
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Crazy expensive compared to what they actually make off of ads. Who can justify this?
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Great! Well then... how?
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Ah, so this is just marketing.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
How do you differentiate between "ai" (whatever that means) and other crawlers?
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I suppose I don't have particulars to complain about. It's simply never worked unless I had a very, very specific video in mind to look for that I could tailor my query to. Instead I just see popular videos.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I have a hard time imagining that youtube is subsidized given the ridiculous number of obnoxious ads you're forced to watch and the steep price of removing them. Surely if they were subsidized this wouldn't be worth the cost of ru
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Search of youtube is absolutely horrendous so I don't see any additional harm to from splitting them. And of course the benefits are so large as to be difficult to enumerate.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> If it's better than Bing or Google in presenting the relevant result in a condensed way This doesn't matter if the results are user-hostile, as both search engines are.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Is there any indication they're willing to improve on google in terms of e.g. excluding commercial results? If not it's not clear how this improves anything. Google has been excellent at semantic search for a long time; the issue
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I can't say smalltalk is popular even among this crowd.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
While I understand that objective-c has clear heritage from smalltalk, this comparison always struck me as farcical. Objective-C yields very few of the benefits of a proper Smalltalk VM outside of message passing, and i suppose some of the
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I've been teaching a teenager how to code with smalltalk (Scratch): https://scratch.mit.edu/
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> but I definitely like the interactivity it's brought to the web. I don't! EDIT: to be earnest, I sincerely wish the web as it stands had chosen some serious distinction between "documents", "documents-with-scri
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> you cannot legally defund an entire agency by executive order. Of course you can, if people accept it. This dynamic is massive in the last three decades and is only going to grow.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Certainly, but they are not profit motivated in the same way a commercial bank is. Do your due diligence. How is profit motivation supposed to help the customers of a bank? On paper this is just as customer-hostile as with any other in