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811.
by bccdee 4y ago
Almost all the GPT answers shown in the thread are subtly incorrect, if not outright false. The brainfuck program is utter nonsense. Conversely, I can expect Google's answers to be passable most of the time.
812.
by bccdee 4y ago
No it isn't. When Google gives you incorrect info, it links the source. GPT-3 will gleefully mash together info from several incorrect sources and share none of them.
813.
by bccdee 4y ago
This would create a web enormously hostile to social interaction. No website would be able to host user-generated content. The only ways to communicate would be to read someone's website or send them an email. It's such a destruct
814.
by bccdee 4y ago
AGPL only differs from GPL with regard to services provided over networks, which doesn't really apply here. Beyond that, AGPL is no more viral than GPL. So "there's no linking exception in the AGPL" is really irrelevant
815.
by bccdee 4y ago
If he's going to keep doing the work, somebody has to pay for it. If a company wants him to keep doing the work, then they should provide funding in order to ensure that it happens. Otherwise, the company risks not actually getting the
816.
by bccdee 4y ago
Using mold to link your binaries is not the same as linking mold itself. GCC is GPL'ed, but things compiled with GCC are not.
817.
by bccdee 4y ago
The original markdown parser supported html because it was basically just a preprocessor that added some syntactic sugar to html. The proposal here isn't just "what if browsers had a markdown preprocessor" (although I also th
818.
by bccdee 4y ago
I don't find this illegible in the least. <ul> <li> Item one <li> Item two <li> Item three <li> Item four </ul> It has advantages over markdown lists, too: Y
819.
by bccdee 4y ago
Markdown is a convenient but deeply limited markup language with only a small subset of html's features. And yes, limitations are good because we want documents not web apps, etc, etc, but I mean "images can't have captions&
820.
by bccdee 4y ago
The pitch is that you can go `curl -d "My message" ntfy.sh/my_topic` and it just works. That's impossible if you want E2EE. Fortunately, it's open-source, so if you really want, you can fork the app to add a decrypt
821.
by bccdee 4y ago
You're assuming that the statement vacuously means "money is never made," which is not what it's getting at. The point is that nobody has ever become a billionaire without manipulating markets, exploiting employees, misl
822.
by bccdee 4y ago
Fortunately, Word agrees that two spaces is incorrect. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/24/21234170/microsoft-word-t...
823.
by bccdee 4y ago
Actually it's a dead convention among all reputable typographers and style guides. Check Chicago Manual of Style. Check MLA. Check APA. Nobody whose business it is to establish the correct number of spaces to put between sentences beli
824.
by bccdee 4y ago
> plenty are doing cancer research simply to get paid. Presumably because they think being paid is good. Pure truth-seeking is fairly marginal. > Why have you put the word "truth" in quotation marks here? "Truth" a
825.
by bccdee 4y ago
No, I'm sorry, you haven't thought that through. Scientists don't research cancer simply because they're curious about "the truth about cancer"; they do it to cure cancer patients, because they think that'
826.
by bccdee 4y ago
> Perhaps design your own language that removes ambiguity. That's what a controlled vocabulary is. It's essentially a set of tags which are clearly defined. So instead of #horses being defined purely by the word "horses,
827.
by bccdee 4y ago
I was pretty invested in the "tools for thought" space for a little while, but my interest cooled as I realized that I was using zettelkasten tools like Logseq to try and recreate simple folders of documents, because as it turns o
828.
by bccdee 4y ago
Something evasive in the vein of "Stadia represents a significant investment and Google has not announced any plans to scale back Stadia. We can't comment on rumours and speculation."
829.
by bccdee 4y ago
It sounds like your main issue is that you don't isolate your dependencies into virtual environments. That involves jumping through a couple hoops, sure (primarily just invoking `./venv/bin/activate` before you run the s
830.
by bccdee 4y ago
Yeah I'm exaggerating a bit to prove a point, but even so, each nip and tuck is an new sentence fragment written and an old sentence fragment discarded. The more you edit, the smaller the ratio of what you publish to what you wrote.
831.
by bccdee 4y ago
An intelligence doesn't need to experience qualia in order to have an internal thought process. Picture a thought process the way it might look if we could inspect our own minds: A prolonged monologue of ideas being continually appende
832.
by bccdee 4y ago
Editing means writing more —it just means publishing less. Instead of writing 1000 words, you write 1500 and delete 1000 of them.
833.
by bccdee 4y ago
Sure, if you define subjective experience as "all sensory information." I'm not denying that we have sensory input; I'm denying that its abstractions are any more than illusory constructs of the mind. The computer in my
834.
by bccdee 4y ago
Why? If we're logically guaranteed to hold belief X independently of whether X is true or not, it's irrational to say "yeah but I KNOW X is true. I can just tell." You would believe that no matter what; how can you trust
835.
by bccdee 4y ago
Of course there is. We may feel strongly that an illusion is real, but that doesn't make it any less an illusion. The computer from my example would react very strongly to pain, and certainly it would believe that pain has a unique and
836.
by bccdee 4y ago
But if you must feel that you experience a unique and ineffable "redness" when you perceive red regardless of whether that redness exists or not, how can you take that feeling as evidence that this ineffable redness exists? I don&
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by bccdee 4y ago
Should it? If I can't help but believe that I am experiencing actual qualia regardless of whether I am or not, then the fact that I believe I am experiencing qualia doesn't prove anything.
838.
by bccdee 4y ago
I'm not at all convinced qualia exist. I think any intelligence would necessarily feel as if it was experiencing qualia. Let me start by making a distinction: When you take a bite of an apple, you experience a variety of flavours: It&#
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by bccdee 4y ago
You can come close if you use browser devtools. IMO that's the easiest way to fiddle with (e.g.) line spacing until you're happy with it.
840.
by bccdee 4y ago
I find vertical rhythm to be kind of arbitrary. It's handy if you want a starting point, but sometimes a 1.8-line vertical space just looks better than a 2-line one. There are no "correct" choices, only choices that look bett

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