Towaway69

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by Towaway69 5mo ago
Omg, I don’t now know how to cope without reading your comment. It was probably really relevant and life-changing. Well I guess I’ll just get on the way I did before. The same with Siri, I don’t need it and don’t care about some hyped up AI
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by Towaway69 5mo ago
Sanctioned has a double meaning here[1]: > 2. officially or formally ratified or confirmed. > 3. penalized, especially by way of discipline or to force compliance with legal obligations. So who can use lets encrypt? Those that are pen
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by Towaway69 5mo ago
I've started visiting quiet rooms[1], just to hear myself think again. The world and the internet has become so loud that some quietness is refreshing. Luckily for me there are several where I live so I've even got a choice. Stran
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by Towaway69 5mo ago
"Fantasy Media" or "Social Fantasy"? After all, the advertising powering the media is all about creating a fantasy around a future you will be living once you have bought the product.
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by Towaway69 5mo ago
The world is becoming such that anywhere is like everywhere and everywhere is like anywhere. At least major western cities are turning into the same-same but different tourists.
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Money.
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by Towaway69 5mo ago
As long as it's not conscious, we're safe.
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by Towaway69 5mo ago
Claude Van Damme ? I'd prefer Chuck to the rescue but I guess it's a cultural preference. /s
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by Towaway69 5mo ago
Have they completed the real thing ? I thought it was still being built…
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by Towaway69 5mo ago
What's the smallest 360deg camera? Would it be possible to create a virtual tour of the inside of this model with such a camera? Would interesting to use a quest and take a tour of the insides.
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Silenced Words(silencedwords.com)
3 points by Towaway69 5mo ago|1 comments
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by Towaway69 5mo ago
Silenced words is a stateless webpage that can be used to easily search documents for words flagged by the current administration.
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Five days in darkness left scientist Kiana Aran thinking about anything(abc.net.au)
5 points by Towaway69 5mo ago|1 comments
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by Towaway69 5mo ago
Is google sending in drones to destroy peoples homes? Is google bombing schools? Is google torturing folks in secret locations? No? Google has changed its search algorithm? Oh, how is that a ‘war’ on anything? Please stop using hyper-sensat
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by Towaway69 5mo ago
We’re a product of nature, it’s mistaken to believe we are above nature or that nuclear weapons aren’t also part of nature. We’re also very much dependent on nature and natural forces. So everything we do is, even if many steps removed, sti
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by Towaway69 5mo ago
> A third ecosystem right now would have been amazing Initially read this ending on … amazon Please Universe, don’t give us the Amazon Phone as alternative.
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by Towaway69 6mo ago
Engineering doesn't seem complex because there are centuries of learnings behind it. Those learnings become rules and suddenly it appears "simple" because no one debates whether to use wood or concrete when building an unde
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by Towaway69 6mo ago
Definitely I am making a broad assumption with many specifies where one can say "but what about X,Y,Z". Certainly, there are buildings that fall down and bridges collapse but what is the trend? Is software engineering getting bett
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by Towaway69 6mo ago
Software isn't inherently complex, it becomes complex. Because it is iterative. Because we keep making demands of it that weren't planned. Imagining building a bridge and then in the middle someone comes along and says it should
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by Towaway69 6mo ago
> Things have jobs: pillows are made for comfort, scissors are sharp, and digital devices are made to track your every move I think this assertion is false in the sense the digital devices weren't designed to track you, they have
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by Towaway69 6mo ago
I wonder what the relationship is between the word engineering in the sense used here and software engineering ? I am amazed how bad software engineering has become with constant updates of software because of “improvements” or because t
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by Towaway69 6mo ago
If you're coding by hand, then you're that carpenter before IKEA came along. Now the market wants bland machine-built functional furniture that gets replaced every five to ten years. If every tenth piece is broken or slightly off,
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by Towaway69 6mo ago
I wonder whether the title was generated/suggested by an AI?
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by Towaway69 6mo ago
Definitely the safe space is expanding but how fragile and expensive is this expansion? AI requires a larger amount of fragile resources to work as opposed to an editor, keyboard and a human. It some sense it’s a bit like the bitcoin revolu
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by Towaway69 6mo ago
In particular if that steady-state requires 4 to 40GB blob of binary code to be installed or an internet connection to an AI SaaS provider and a credit card. I remember when coding was free as in beer and freedom!
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by Towaway69 6mo ago
I think your answer is the reason why. LLM performance is fine when applied to everything they can do. Take LLM out that safe space and suddenly they are no silver bullet, in fact they are unless. So of course those making the 10x claim mea
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by Towaway69 6mo ago
Well then it must be so. Btw what exactly is “consciousness”? Oh, we don’t really know that either. So two (AI and consciousness) concepts we don’t fully understand seem to be seem to uniting into something we definitely won’t understand. W
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by Towaway69 6mo ago
Here I was talking of the AI vendors - they specifically provide inferior models for local usage while offering the "insanely" good models only online. AI can be run locally but with the growth of agent factories, this is going to
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by Towaway69 6mo ago
Because code does not include the thought processes that went into creating the final code. Take a second and have a look at the Linux kernel code base and get into that. It's surprising how some code only make sense if you understand
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by Towaway69 6mo ago
Predicting the future isn't about being right tomorrow, it's about selling you something today. - read that somewhere Folks using AI aren't interested in the future, they are interested in buying today and maximizing profit

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