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931.
by bmitc 2y ago
The aren't the same thing though.
932.
by bmitc 2y ago
He better not quit his day job as a graphics programmer. Act on press is a terrible design the vast majority of time and almost always has unintended consequences and is incompatible with other interactions, such as disambiguating something
933.
by bmitc 2y ago
Tom Waits is the ultimate artist. He is also quite intelligent and hilarious. I always liked his appearances on Letterman.
934.
by bmitc 2y ago
Teachers, for starters.
935.
by bmitc 2y ago
OpenAI hasn't made it hard. Releasing ChatGPT has made a lot of peoples' lives worse, and their bait and switch from non-profit to profit are just the tip of the iceberg.
936.
by bmitc 2y ago
So an anonymous statement from a puff piece when multiple verifiable public records show OpenAI publicly mentioning Johansson and Her . Count me skeptical.
937.
by bmitc 2y ago
That doesn't mean anything. They could have been and were likely developing the process and technology while having Johansson in mind the whole time. > never had the movie Her or SJ's name mentioned to her a single time How do
938.
by bmitc 2y ago
> Also looking from the perspective of the lesser known voice actress, does Scarlett Johansson have the right to trample the lesser known voice artists future job opportunities by intimidating her previous employers? This is weird, if no
939.
by bmitc 2y ago
There is a lot of work to be done. Literally everywhere is short staffed: hospitals and other medical groups, construction, retail, restaurants, pharmacies, etc. I don't remember things being like this 20 years ago. Wherever you go, th
940.
by bmitc 2y ago
Right. It's the workers that have zero value add and not the people who sit in offices or at home making hundreds of thousands, tens of millions, or hundreds if millions doing a job anyone could do or even a job that isn't needed
941.
by bmitc 2y ago
https://youtu.be/yKAHGwCyamc
942.
by bmitc 2y ago
It's just lore and world building: sick people getting high and also the worship of cars and "so shiny and chrome".
943.
by bmitc 2y ago
When you're cooking, you're not thousands of feet in the air in tight quarters traveling hundreds of miles per hour through the atmosphere in a however many ton vessel filled with flammable fuel.
944.
by bmitc 2y ago
He does indeed seem like a laid back normal person. But I must admit that I find it pretty easy to have such sentiments if one has or had a net worth that's basically infinite money to 99% of people out there. Would this post have the
945.
by bmitc 2y ago
Yes, exactly because it is just text continuation. It is being integrated into systems and used as a tool as if it is much, much more than text continuation. That is the danger. I've been using Copilot frequently lately, and it's
946.
by bmitc 2y ago
I checked out the website, and it's really hard to even know how to use. Plus, the first thing I clicked on, "Equal or Not?", has errors.
947.
by bmitc 2y ago
Not much of a surprise there. The ML culture is to reinvent names for everything.
948.
by bmitc 2y ago
I've never understood the relationship between F# and F*. I had previously come to the conclusion that F* was merely inspired by F#'s syntax and base-level semantics but that was where the relationship ends. As far as I can tell,
949.
by bmitc 2y ago
> First, dont like it? Dont use it. No need to cry over it. > Second, dont like it? Write something better, do show case and maybe people like it and start using it. Anytime I use a graphical tool, command line afficionados effectivel
950.
by bmitc 2y ago
> The problem is to break away from ANSI escape sequences and the like means also rewriting 50 years of command line tools. Are we really that reliant on those command line tools? I only use a handful of them, and any time it gets more c
951.
by bmitc 2y ago
It doesn't even matter to me. I stopped using them personally and have been pushing back against them professionally. They have bad performance, bad thermals, many limitations in the peripherals, are not reliable, and are impossible to
952.
by bmitc 2y ago
Thank you.
953.
by bmitc 2y ago
Is this referencing a real event or interview?
954.
by bmitc 2y ago
> Catching up right now is not a matter of tech innovation, but raw energy and compute. I don't really understand that. ChatGPT is not all that impressive as an actual tool for many things. It doesn't really seem to matter to m
955.
by bmitc 2y ago
Yea, but I guess I was looking for something deeper, because at the outset, I'd be a little offput by the suggestion to read it and any disagreement about my disagreement on it. And I fully understand the issues described by the above
956.
by bmitc 2y ago
What is The Cathedral and the Bazaar about? I couldn't quite tell from a cursory glance.
957.
by bmitc 2y ago
Thank you for the examples. What is the alternative path and how should countries stay socialist? Are European countries not primarily socialist republics?
958.
by bmitc 2y ago
Thank you for the examples. What is the alternative path and how should countries stay socialist? Are European countries not primarily socialist republics?
959.
by bmitc 2y ago
Do you know? It clearly isn't zero. And like I said, it's not the main point (it was literally a side point), and it is very hard to actually find an exact number, which should tell you something. If you find an exact number that&
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by bmitc 2y ago
What other examples devolved into capitalistic fascism, which is effectively what is happening to the United States?

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