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by b3morales 4y ago
Even if we grant that this decision was correct (perhaps) and that it is analogous enough that it applies to this situation (I'm very skeptical), there are still restrictions on what you can do with any information you'd acquire
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by b3morales 4y ago
This characterization is only reasonable if the output of the AIs is as free to consume as its inputs were. Otherwise it's a private fencing off of the commons: shoulders to stand on for me but not for thee.
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by b3morales 4y ago
This is not the same thing at all. You know whether a tool like VLC works because it has a pretty well-defined scope for "works": it plays the video or audio file you clicked on. If you're asking ChatGPT to teach you someth
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by b3morales 4y ago
As a candidate, trying to gather as much information as possible in a short time, it can actually be really useful to re-ask a question that you already "know the answer" to. Different people will offer different perspectives on t
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by b3morales 4y ago
That doesn't make sense -- the lower deck of the observation car is the cafe, which is the main (effectively only) place to get food, coffee, etc. when you're in coach, since the dining car is reservation only and you're behi
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by b3morales 4y ago
If there was a hammer that, held one way, drove nails perfectly in one blow, and held another, made it look like the nail was driven but actually broke it right at the junction so that the work pieces weren't fastened... I'd say t
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by b3morales 4y ago
> help me practice a foreign language I've slowly been forgetting So with the software stuff you can pretty easily verify the output: either the suggestion fixes the problem or it doesn't. But how can you trust it for something
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by b3morales 4y ago
One classic example from linguistics is the two (true) sentences "Politicians lie." "Cast iron sinks." Combine them syntactically and you get "Politicians lie in cast iron sinks", perhaps not completely false b
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by b3morales 4y ago
> I'm trying to downplay the answer, explaining that it's more a statistical sentence-completing thing than world knowledge, and that the Ctrl+B might just have been a generic answer... Yes; one of the problems seems to be that
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by b3morales 4y ago
Interesting development, but I'm not certain that I want drones to be quieter. They're not that noisy now, and making them silent would be sort of like taking the bell off the cat.
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by b3morales 4y ago
Indeed: Plato has a screed against writing, saying it will weaken everyone's memories. https://fs.blog/an-old-argument-against-writing/
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by b3morales 4y ago
You do you, but it comes out to pennies per search for me. 1000¢ / 30 days / 5 searches/day = 6.6¢/search, and that would be a slow day.
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by b3morales 4y ago
The diff listings are a bit confusing because the line numbers look like they're part of the text. For example in the first diff, '2. salmon 3. tomatoes' is right next to '4. salmon 5. tomatoes' but those aren'
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by b3morales 4y ago
Until there is a truly General Artificial Intelligence for coding*, there will still be a role for humans with engineering brains to think through system design, error conditions, mapping requirements to software components, and so on. Th
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by b3morales 4y ago
I imagine the lawyers came up with some bull like "well actually we meant that the 30-mile radius of your new clinic can't overlap with the 30-mile radius of ours"?
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by b3morales 4y ago
I think we as engineers are trained (or should be!) to think about failure cases. This is just one more to have on the list. But yes, other professions could often use some of our anti-rose-colored glasses too.
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by b3morales 4y ago
Oh, thanks for the info!
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by b3morales 4y ago
That's because "the fork on github.com sending a PR" is very specifically a feature of GitHub, not git itself.
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by b3morales 4y ago
Capital One does still have these: https://www.capitalone.com/digital/eno/ though caveat the feature is only available via a browser plugin, I assume because they want to be able to scrape your shopping habits&#x2
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by b3morales 4y ago
Sort of, but this article seems to be specifically a response to a recent blog post that said that the answer was "Yes": https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-n...
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Ruby instead of sed/Awk/Perl for text processing(robm.me.uk)
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by b3morales 4y ago
I don't regularly use either language, but I prefer to use Ruby for this: https://robm.me.uk/2013/11/ruby-enp/ Example from that article $ echo "foo\nbar\nbaz" | ruby -ne 'BEGIN { i
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by b3morales 4y ago
Having a "re-enter your password to confirm" step is bog standard for critical actions like that. It would be no serious burden for a legitimate user, and an extra hurdle for a thief.
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by b3morales 4y ago
The question is not whether there's some of their code that they don't mind being incorporated, but whether there's any at all that they wouldn't allow to be. And more importantly, not used for their own bot, but for
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by b3morales 4y ago
Private third-party GitHub repos is another good example. If licenses don't apply to training data, as GitHub has asserted, why not use those too? Do they think they'll get in trouble over it? Why doesn't the same trouble app
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by b3morales 4y ago
So as a code author I am pretty upset about Copilot specifically, and it seems like SD is similar (hadn't heard before about DeviantArt doing the same as what GitHub did). But I agree with this take: the tech is here, it's going t
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by b3morales 4y ago
Factual reporting always has background, though. The bottom 1/2 to 2/3 of the article will be descriptive context, like what $SUBJECT did in a previous similar situation. I don't think the current AIs are up to the task of fi
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by b3morales 4y ago
I understand that you would prefer to sound like a native speaker. This is a perspective I've heard from others over the last few weeks too, so I've been considering it. Your writing is fine; the original version is perfectly unde
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by b3morales 4y ago
You're right to be wary of pigeonholing people: thinking that Alice "isa volatile" and Bob "isa stable", and viewing all interactions with them through that lens, will be more harmful than helpful. But there's
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by b3morales 4y ago
It can be served up over HTTP too, given the username: https://github.com/${username}.keys Age (the author's file encryption tool) can make use of this when encrypting a file to send to someone.

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