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by bloppe 2y ago
Dicts are great when the data is uniform and dynamic, like an address book mapping names to contact info. You never assume that a key must be in there. Lookups can always fail. That's normal for this kind of use-case. When the data is
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by bloppe 2y ago
Unless you're doing anything at all to help, maybe try being a little less cynical about the people who are.
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by bloppe 2y ago
Depending on how closely you look at it, literally everything is deterministic.
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by bloppe 2y ago
I agree that nobody has any business making any demands of FOSS maintainers whatsoever, but at the same time, software that's full of jokes (especially ones that cause code health problems) will be treated as a joke
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by bloppe 2y ago
If you're going to buy and maintain your own car, why not just drive it yourself? A monopoly on self driving technology sounds scary, but I don't see it being actually harmful to anyone given how many ways there are to get around
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by bloppe 2y ago
I'm not very sympathetic with OP's positions, but I do think these analogies to individual theft are pretty weak. Who owns shared cultural artifacts? The government? The Ottoman government was in charge of Greece when they gave th
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by bloppe 2y ago
Even LLMs have not realized the dream of a natural language computer interface. Everyone who uses them significantly has to read up on prompt engineering and add little things like "explain your steps" or "describe it like I&
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by bloppe 2y ago
This is funny but he actually was right
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by bloppe 2y ago
I'm not as up-to-speed on the literature as I used to be (it's gotten a lot harder to keep up), but I certainly haven't heard of any breakthroughs. They tend to be pretty hard to predict and plan for. I don't think we ca
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by bloppe 2y ago
OpenAI has the biggest appetite for large models. GPT-4 is generally a bit better than Gemini, for example, but that's not because Google can't compete with it. Gemini is orders of magnitude smaller than GPT-4 because if Google we
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by bloppe 2y ago
They have been improving a lot, but that improvement is already plateauing and all the fundamental problems have not disappeared. AI needs another architectural breakthrough to keep up the pace of advancement.
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by bloppe 2y ago
Is Sam Altman generally considered good at his job? OpenAI hasn't really come up with any groundbreaking breakthroughs (transformers came from Google and diffusion came from academia) and they definitely do not make a profit or have an
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by bloppe 2y ago
I'm torn on the moral issues of the re-licensing, but I'm firmly happy about the practical implications. Redis vs. Valkey is as competitive as it gets, since users can switch between the two so seamlessly (for now, at least). That
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by bloppe 2y ago
They only forked 5 months ago. Assuming you haven't adopted any brand new non-backward-compatible features in the last 5 months, then it should be a perfect drop-in replacement.
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by bloppe 2y ago
Libraries and archives rely on first sale doctrine, which doesn't apply to digital copies, only physical ones.
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by bloppe 2y ago
Nobody that's familiar with copyright precedent seriously thinks training on copyrighted data is illegal. What's illegal is simply reproducing the copyrighted content for others. See Google Books for an interesting precedent. Go
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by bloppe 2y ago
That's an emoji
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by bloppe 2y ago
That's different because chatgpt's terms of use includes this in all caps: YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE THAT ANY USE OF OUTPUTS FROM OUR SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND YOU WILL NOT RELY ON OUTPUT AS A SOLE SOURCE OF TRUTH OR FACTUAL INF
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by bloppe 2y ago
I'm not sure how Patreon will explain things to their creators, but no matter what the effect will be similar; about 30% less income for Patreon and creators alike. According to App Store rules, you're not allowed to disclose the
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by bloppe 2y ago
Patreon's take will not be the same. Apple's fee is charged first. So for all the creators that don't raise prices, Patreon is also getting 30% less, because they charge flat fees. And every creator that does raise prices wil
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by bloppe 2y ago
Even if Apple manages to keep 99% of all transactions, simply having open competition will open the door to all sorts of improvements. You could decouple distribution from payment processing. Have an "app store" with only free app
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by bloppe 2y ago
From the article: "Earlier this year, the European Commission fined Apple $1.95 billion for not allowing streaming music apps like Spotify to tell users about cheaper subscription prices outside of the app." These fines tend to ra
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by bloppe 2y ago
I would say there's a very meaningful difference between "they're still counting the results, and releasing incremental counts, and all is being watched by poll watchers" vs. "we've finished counting, but we&#x
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by bloppe 2y ago
It's a bit like discussing whether God exists. Ya lots of people believe it and you can certainly talk about it. But this isn't really a forum for that kind of conversation.
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by bloppe 2y ago
Which criterion specifically was violated during that election? A lot of people seem to think there was a delay in reporting results, but there's a differences between a reporting delay and a counting delay. Most districts report count
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by bloppe 2y ago
The key is that every single challenge has been debunked, often in court and often by Republican judges. When every challenge has been debunked, it's time to accept that the vote was fair. The problem is that it's too easy to hall
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by bloppe 2y ago
Oof... The world is complicated and unforgiving. It's hard enough being a reasonably efficient human being. A super intelligent AI that needs to consume a small town's worth of electricity just to navigate the world through an int
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by bloppe 2y ago
Autonomous killer drones are scary. But that's not AI "going rogue". They're working as designed. That's really the only factor that makes AI scary to me: bad human actors.
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by bloppe 2y ago
I cringe every time I read the words "go rogue" in an AI article. The state of the art is still basically madlibs. Sure, I'm worried about terrorists using AI to generate new bioweapons, but including those concerns in the sa
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by bloppe 2y ago
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