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by bspammer 7mo ago
The most embarrassing part of that article is the comment section. Not a single dissenting voice.
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by bspammer 7mo ago
I’ve been frustrated by this for years, you just know that if there was a mobile data deadzone on a motorway they’d fix it immediately. Meanwhile on the train 30 miles from London, nothing.
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by bspammer 7mo ago
Because people aren’t objects.
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by bspammer 7mo ago
Just to play devil’s advocate, I have found prediction markets genuinely useful despite never placing a bet. In 2024 all of my social media feed was convinced the US election was going to go the other way. I have left wing politics and acco
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by bspammer 7mo ago
The em dashes are the only thing making it look AI-written. I think it was human written by someone who likes em dashes.
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by bspammer 7mo ago
Heavy use of /rewind helps with this - it's much better to remove the bad information from the context entirely instead of trying to tell the model "actually, ignore the previous approach and try this instead"
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by bspammer 7mo ago
> All of this just to let Dolphin play online with real Wii consoles in a game whose official servers are since long dead and whose replacement servers have a peak of only 15 concurrent online players. Knowing there's people out tha
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by bspammer 7mo ago
I had a genuine feeling of dread reading that, wow.
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by bspammer 7mo ago
This was my experience too. The USA is the only country I've ever been to where random strangers will strike up a conversation with me completely out of the blue, and I've travelled quite a lot.
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by bspammer 7mo ago
Using the source code to ask questions about poorly documented features in projects you have no experience is my favourite thing that LLMs make possible (of course you could do this before but it would take way, way more time). There are so
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by bspammer 8mo ago
Investor confidence is far more important to them than cashflow, and the best way to shake investor confidence is with the magic words "user numbers are down".
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by bspammer 8mo ago
I don’t really understand the point of sandboxing if you’re going to give it access to all your accounts (which it needs to do anything useful). It reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1200/
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by bspammer 8mo ago
it'll be interesting to see if people start writing worse as a form of countersignalling. deliberately making spleling mistakes, not caring about capital letters, or punctuation or grammar or proper writing techniques and making really
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by bspammer 8mo ago
This has happened to me so much recently that it’s actually pushing me towards reading proper books. I’m so sick of everything sounding the same.
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by bspammer 8mo ago
That's irrelevant in the context of GitHub Actions: CI runners clone the repo fresh every run. If someone gets write access to a widely used action, they can force push all tags to point to a malicious commit. This is even in GitHub&#x
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by bspammer 8mo ago
That’s fair, but GitHub themselves do it with GitHub Actions. Versioning of all official actions is done with git tags, which has always made me uncomfortable.
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by bspammer 8mo ago
Do you know about *? It puts the word currently under the cursor into the search history. So you can do *ciw, type your replacement, then n.n.n. to do the rest. Obviously LSPs are more powerful though.
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by bspammer 8mo ago
> At one point I had the misfortune to be the target audience for a particular stomach churning ear wax removal add. So isn’t it possible that your friend had the same misfortune? I assume you were similar ages, same gender, same rough g
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by bspammer 8mo ago
Plenty of other hints too > Do anything, do it at scale, and do it today > It's not just GPUs, it's everything. > I'm not the first, I'm just the latest.
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by bspammer 8mo ago
There was a fun hacker news post a while back [0] about a website that had generated every solvable-without-backtracking 5x5 nonogram. I found it very addictive, and the creator has since released it as a paid mobile app. Highly recommended
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by bspammer 8mo ago
There’s also an Easter egg if you said sponge before plankton.
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by bspammer 9mo ago
I really didn’t expect to get a new favourite game of all time in my 30s, surely the nostalgia factor was too strong, but Outer Wilds was exactly that for me.
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by bspammer 9mo ago
It still doesn't sound intentional to me. How many scammers are going around creating useful apps, supporting them, pushing out new features, and then finally doing the rugpull 14 years after release? It feels a lot more likely that th
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by bspammer 9mo ago
There is pretty much no risk. It’s expected you will use a VPN, you can talk about it openly in public. Now, if you’re doing something unrelated that the administration doesn’t like, you can expect VPN use to be included in the long list of
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by bspammer 9mo ago
Don’t forget EXAPUNKS by the same dev! They really perfected the formula in that one.
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by bspammer 9mo ago
That sounds like Flanderization to me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanderization From my experience with LLMs that's a great observation.
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by bspammer 9mo ago
I also never see this behaviour, but I pretty much only use the tube for commuting at peak times. I think commuters are generally better behaved. The sheer density of people means that anti social behaviour will get angrily shut down very q
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by bspammer 9mo ago
It can be non-sentient and still have an observable personality. The same way a character in a novel can have a personality despite not being real.
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by bspammer 9mo ago
They do acknowledge this on the site > Based on VOA data (Nov 2025) which is often inaccurate. Many pubs have also closed since then.
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by bspammer 9mo ago
The bug-free code one feels unfalsifiable to me. How do you prove that 10,000 lines of code is bug-free, and then there's a million caveats about what a bug actually is and how we define one. The second claim about novels seems obvious

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