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by avian 4y ago
As far as I understand it, the parent commenter believes that your job will shortly be obsolete. First because the AI teacher will teach humans better than the human teacher and second because AI will make learning obsolete because we can a
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by avian 4y ago
> char * init_out{out}; Are the curly braces in the initialization some new C++ syntax? I haven't been keeping up with C++ developments in the last decade or so. Based on the code that follows I would expect char* init_out = o
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by avian 4y ago
Check a comment in the Reddit comment thread. The author of the post repeats the experiment with a blurred and modified picture of the moon that has craters in wrong places. The phone produced a photo of the moon that is less blurry, but al
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by avian 4y ago
Makes you wonder where's the catch, doesn't it?
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by avian 4y ago
Off-topic, but damn are googles and bings of today useless finding weird shit like this. Try searching some variation of "baked beans" and "sinclair spectrum". It's like every time I tried searching for a combinatio
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by avian 4y ago
Can't read the article behind the pay wall, but possibly it's based on this preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03984
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by avian 4y ago
A reasonable manufacturer looks at its bottom line and doesn't waste his engineering hours and BOM costs (double the flash memory!) on silly features like that. Either that or there are many unreasonable manufacturers out there.
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by avian 4y ago
> they will use external facing screens that recreate the appearance of the wearers face Honestly that sounds horrifying and straight out of some Black Mirror episode. Possibly it comes with an app that makes your external face smile and
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by avian 4y ago
Is it really that unreasonable to believe that an author: a) is fine, and maybe even motivated by, the fact that a fellow human will read or watch their work to learn, improve their craft, grow as a person, etc. b) is offended by the fact t
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by avian 4y ago
> ChatGPT wrote most of what ended up in my production code. Some random person that's not going to get credited for their work wrote most of what ended up in your production code.
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by avian 4y ago
I just checked the settings again. Indeed there is a "Play alarm sound" setting if you scroll down. I guess it was enabled by default in my case (good, since otherwise I might not know that my phone made the call from my backpack)
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by avian 4y ago
It's not covert in any way. The phone emits a siren sound at full volume for a few seconds before calling and the call comes up in handsfree/speaker mode.
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by avian 4y ago
A few days ago I had a similar experience. My Nokia phone running Android 13 called emergency services (112 in Europe) while I was carrying it in my backpack. I can only guess that some other thing was randomly pressing against the power bu
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by avian 4y ago
Your country very likely has a government entity that regulates radio spectrum use and has means of enforcing it. Messing with Doppler weather radar is a usually a big thing that impacts various important services. Even in relatively backwa
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by avian 4y ago
> It will also lead to questions about the copyright of the resulting models I'm sure there will be no questions there. The questions about the copyright of models like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc. exist solely because it infringe
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by avian 4y ago
Here's the paper discussing this idea: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.11871.pdf
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by avian 4y ago
Lynx won't load Google Analytics scripts for sure. On the other hand your user agent string will be pretty much unique on the web. Partly because approximately no one is using Lynx and partly because Lynx leaks the versions of itself a
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by avian 4y ago
I'm sure this use of $ character is much older than Perl. One counter-example I know first hand: Sinclair ROM BASIC uses $ for denoting strings, in both variable and function names. The one I have in a Spectrum is copyrighted 1982, aro
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by avian 4y ago
I feel like this arrangement is probably because Firefox is the only Mozilla thing corporate interests find worth influencing.
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by avian 4y ago
> where is this federated IRC you speak of? IRC has the ability to form networks of servers which share identities and chat channels. There used to be a few large networks and many popular servers were part of one of them. Back in the 90
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by avian 4y ago
What motivation does Firefox have to fight for your interests?
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by avian 4y ago
Why? By what measure is this not simple clickbait? Because it's a well-known pattern that has been used to bait people for years already? Because it's targeted at a tech audience? Because it's written by someone from Mozilla?
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by avian 4y ago
Even better question is, if it is this simple, why didn't Microsoft implement their malloc or whatever like this in the first case. If the OS needs to resize the page file, why don't they just delay the return of the function unti
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by avian 4y ago
Click bait title. On Windows, if they get an error on memory allocation, they wait a bit and try again. This gives the OS time to resize the swap file which means that the second try often succeeds.
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by avian 4y ago
> Every DVD has to re-invent menus, usually badly. My favorite one is the Fifth Element DVD. It has menus implemented as options flying towards you in a loop and you need to press the OK button on the remote just when the right one is pa
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by avian 4y ago
So, basically step 1. of the plan outlined in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545541
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by avian 4y ago
My comment on that guide is that it expects everyone to run the latest version of Python. Last time I made a package following it, it turned out to be unusable in practice. I had to go back to setup.py and hunt down old guides and copy-past
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by avian 4y ago
Wait until you hear about the leap years! They insert a whole day, often right in the middle of the work week! Too bad there weren't any computers around at the time or software developers might have convinced Julius Caesar what a disa
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by avian 4y ago
It's aliens and they are failing do de-cesify their economy.
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by avian 4y ago
I was surprised they didn't show any view from on-board cameras. Even on later Shuttle launches they had cameras on the solid rocket boosters and the external tank. The stream did show a heavily corrupted video for a few moments that c

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