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by _dain_ 4y ago
>less crime yeah when you decriminalize shoplifting you do get "less crime"
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Lots, actually. The word "computer" used to refer to a job that humans did, full time.
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> I'm curious why many of the doors have deadbolts. to keep the Thing out
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>When our tools surpass us in their capabilities it does not end human value or creativity but creates a means to lift it to an even higher level. people said that about chess engines. and yeah, there was a brief period where an engine+g
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by _dain_ 4y ago
and this could have been written by ctrl-v.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>it raised my eyebrows that the author simply asserted conspiratorial knowledge of the intentions for its creation. it's not describing a conspiracy, it's describing a mindset/culture. check the twitter feeds of the AI boo
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but he's right.
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>ChatGPT and other Generative AI programs should not exist. They are not the kinds of things that someone who cares about human life would build. Nobody who understood the stakes of asserting that our lives are meaningless would particip
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by _dain_ 4y ago
he's not describing a workplace, he's describing a mind. it's an endless onslaught of mental distractions that break concentration. it happens even in a silent room. it's not a question of drugs or tools. you use the dru
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>Children know the box is not magic. are you sure about that?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>Artemis is a functional space launch system with exceptional reliability and predictability is this a joke? you couldn't pay me enough money to take a ride in it. the thing has been into space once . where are you getting this &qu
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>CSV is superior to JSON for tabular data Can't you just do this? { "columns": ["col1", "col2", "col3"], "data": [ [1, 2, 3], [4,
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by _dain_ 4y ago
if you say that such-and-such policy will "reduce" the level of X to Y, and it turns out it was actually Y in the first place, and you knew that, then you have lied. there is no two ways about this. it's an absurd gotcha. n
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by _dain_ 4y ago
They work together. I use syncthing to keep things synchronized across devices, including to an always-on "master" device that has more storage. Then borg runs on the master device to create backups.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
yeah a study that can be summarized as: "when you lie to people, they believe you", which is not exactly groundbreaking.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
This trick happened for real with the HWNDU stunt back in 2017. 4channers found the flag based on the stars in the livestream, along with matching aircraft contrails to flight radar maps. https://youtu.be/vw9zyxm860Q
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>to get waste down to X... where X is actually the measured waste in the existing program. that's called "lying".
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this is the content i log on every day for
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seconding this, very high signal-noise ratio.
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>Poetry and songs abound in its training data. your training data is all the poetry and songs you've seen in your life. so go on, write me a poem right now. a good one.
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Checkmate .. with advantage!
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pretty sure lisp had it for decades
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yeah and martin fowler did not invent that.
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>Discussions started in Ruby forums to build a data model on the principles of the Value Object, introduced by Martin Fowler. are they trying to say that martin fowler invented immutable data structures???
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I don't know how replicable my success is. but, depending on where you work, it may be that as a data scientist you can provide more value to your business purely using your software skills than with any kind of stats knowledge, by fig
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by _dain_ 4y ago
yep, exact same feeling here. I had several years as a "data scientist" and it was a an almost totally bullshit job. the org bought into the hype and hired a cohort of us straight out of university, but then couldn't find any
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>We have no long term knowledge because covid hasn't existed over the long term. and neither have the vaccines
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease. I'm not the one making you wear a mask, you are. it's your choice to make yourself miserable and stupid looking. I can't believe the
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by _dain_ 4y ago
unvaxed, unmasked, untested, uninfected, unbothered
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by _dain_ 4y ago
what is anyone even supposed to say to this? you have persecutory delusions. here's an idea: why don't you actually go to your local council meetings and find out how your city is actually run. there's a lot of graft and inco

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