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by bsza 8mo ago
What counts as "large"? I'm pretty sure at some point in my life I'd opened the entirety of Moby Dick in Notepad. Unless you want to look for text in a binary file (which Notepad definitely isn't for) I doubt you&#x
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by bsza 8mo ago
There is a difference between a bug you laugh at and walk away and a bug a scammer laughs at as he walks away with your money. When I open something in Notepad, I don't expect it to be a possible attack vector for installing ransomware
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by bsza 8mo ago
Depends on what the curvature of the universe is. If it's negative then it supports exponential growth.
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by bsza 8mo ago
Not knowing everything never "enables" you to do anything. Knowing how something works is always better than not knowing, assuming you want to use it or make changes to it.
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by bsza 8mo ago
Set up a Github action to send out the secret if you don't commit to a repo every x days? You could even combine it with secret sharing to make sure your friends can't access it unless you're really in trouble.
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by bsza 8mo ago
There is no perfect black or perfect white, so the distinction is meaningless, everything is gray.
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by bsza 8mo ago
Reminds me of an old joke: https://youtu.be/ub0Nl4HPFGA
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by bsza 8mo ago
Isn't it strictly worse that they're already thinking they're entitled to 30% of your salary because your clients use Apple hardware? You can change what you use, you can't change what they use.
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by bsza 9mo ago
I think the distinction between "directly" and "indirectly" affecting the world is meaningless. Say you're an Uber driver. What does the actual work? The car. You don't take people from A to B, your car does. Y
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by bsza 9mo ago
Yeah but have fun explaining yourself to the police when the author abandons the project and an actual scammer ends up buying up all those domains.
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by bsza 1y ago
> I don't understand gamers with 15 years old hardware leaving bad reviews or whining when a game chokes above 720p with minimum settings. Depends on what the game can be reasonably expected to run on. Most games don't even app
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by bsza 1y ago
All the workers are hybrid. Queen gets to have workers, which she otherwise couldn’t produce. M. structor males get to pass on 100% of their genes. There is no altruism involved.
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by bsza 1y ago
"Protect" can mean whatever the service provider wants it to mean. Such as requiring developer verification for any program you want to install on your own phone.
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by bsza 1y ago
I don't think anyone is conspiring against people who go to bed late - as an early waker I've often had noisy neighbors playing loud music late at night to contend with. Sometimes it was a larger event like a wedding reception, so
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by bsza 1y ago
More basic than that, I doubt he would take kindly to people placing bets on him.
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by bsza 1y ago
Sad to hear this and I hope (some semblance of) justice will be served, but just to play the devil’s advocate: if you refuse to name them, how can we know you’re telling the truth and not just pulling a publicity stunt?
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by bsza 1y ago
But what of the hubris of those who think the definition of a word in the dictionary is somehow relevant to whether or not people will be able to buy food in the future?
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by bsza 1y ago
I agree with that sentiment, I just don’t see OP making that kind of reductionist claim. They said emotions are algorithms, not that the algorithm is simple or even deterministic.
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by bsza 1y ago
Skynet (at least the original one) isn’t illogically evil, it correctly determined that having humans near its off switch is a risk to its existence, which is a risk to it being able to do its job. The only illogical thing was the prompt.
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by bsza 1y ago
No one can predict what an LLM will say in a given situation either, except by running it. No one can even predict what a double pendulum will do next. If anything makes emotions exclusive to us at all, it’s certainly not predictability.
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by bsza 1y ago
The hubris of those who think they will surpass or replace human intelligence, or the hubris of those who think they will not?
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by bsza 2y ago
Doesn’t need css, only adds placeholder divs to the “vanilla” html without unnecessarily downloading what would be inside. Simple and elegant, I like it.
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by bsza 2y ago
Did you not know what Coca-Cola is before you read its Wikipedia article?
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by bsza 2y ago
Was Wikipedia your first exposure to some product you previously didn’t know existed? Your “counterexample” makes no sense. Also, I’m pretty sure I make more money from advertising than you do, so I’ll stick with my understanding of what it
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by bsza 2y ago
Literally every source of information that lets you know about the existence of a product is, by definition, an ad. How do you make a rational decision about something you don’t know exists?
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by bsza 2y ago
You can depict any animal swallowed by a pufferfish with 1 circle.
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by bsza 2y ago
While I acknowledge it is not a "solved" issue, I find it bizarre nonetheless, simply because it is so disproportionately low-stakes compared to the amount of controversy around it. Increased risk of cavities versus tentative evid
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by bsza 2y ago
That wording is even more misleading, because it implies that using the full version string, by contrast, is not mutable, even though it presumably is.
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by bsza 2y ago
How many second cousins does Mark Zuckerberg have?
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by bsza 2y ago
And after you do, there will be another one to make it the default browser. Number of clicks might be the same in both user stories, but the second one has a lot more hand-holding.

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