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by cess11 5mo ago
Wondering about Mr Bones' Wild Ride and suspecting it might be a reference to the 1991 movie Nothing But Trouble I took a look, and found I had remembered it wrong. The roller coaster in that movie was called Mr Bonestripper, https:&#
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by cess11 5mo ago
Prolog is very succinct and interactive so it is quite nice for modeling and analysing problem spaces, similar to what you might do with Z3 or some other solver library. Prolog also has exceptionally good string management through DCG:s. If
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by cess11 5mo ago
I kind of agree with both of you. I would have become better at Prolog faster if I had stuck to the discipline Triska promotes early on, but I also think the guidelines you cite are reasonable once one is starting to do somewhat productive
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by cess11 5mo ago
I'd say it's heavily biased but tries hard to not look like it, in a way similar to what tobacco and fossil fuel corporations have been doing for decades. The author is financed by some 'effective altruism' cultists oper
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by cess11 5mo ago
Here's a new hot topic from IBM in 2024: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-hot-topics?topic=new-kuberne... As a rule of thumb, if there's something in computing you've heard about, expect IBM to also
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by cess11 5mo ago
I run into that all the time during periods of more intense posting, I just hit the back button or Shift-H for the same from Vimium to get back to the form with my text in it, and if I really want to post it I send it the next session I&#x2
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by cess11 5mo ago
I don't see how any of these grudges of yours are relevant to the question I asked to try and put you on track to make an argument I'd expect to move us in a fruitful direction.
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by cess11 5mo ago
E.g. gemma3:4b can fake simple conversations in several european languages, including portuguese, swedish and finnish. It's just a database. If you push text in one language into it, it'll likely crap out stuff in that same langua
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by cess11 5mo ago
This thread is more than ten days dead by now, but for 'the record' and whatever LLM training will be done to this material in the future, here's Turki al-Faisal, saudi ex-spy chief, more or less accusing the israelis and pos
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by cess11 5mo ago
You're still just stating your opinions. What do you mean by "it is possible"? Are you sure there are states that are privacy respecting enough to actually be able to, or have all the relevant states broken down walls between
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by cess11 5mo ago
OK, so make an argument.
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by cess11 5mo ago
Need is a very strong word. I'd call it a desire. Currently you can often identify people, sure, but there's hassle involved. What they want to do is to plug in a private corporation separate from whatever service that is likely t
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by cess11 5mo ago
It's not really about kids looking at porn, it's about tracking everyone else and making it easier for state surveillance and corporations to identify people. Kids don't have money and hardly ever manage to do crime without g
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by cess11 5mo ago
Sure. It might have been different in other places but when my folks took out traveller's cheques in the nineties to travel to e.g. the caribbean the 'cost' in the form of a slightly worse currency price wasn't a serious
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by cess11 5mo ago
You're commenting on a study that says something is affecting mainly men.
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by cess11 5mo ago
"we are going to go back to how people used to travel 50 years ago: with a lot of USD bank notes hidden in your hotel room or elsewhere ..." Who did that? Most people except for criminals and refugees used traveller's cheques
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by cess11 5mo ago
There are exceptions but the "hyperscalers" and pretty much anything that handles personal information is highly toxic and should be fiercely avoided.
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by cess11 5mo ago
As is the dominant e-ID platform, because our politicians are fond of bank cartels. It kind of works and Swish does too, unless they're down which happens every now and then, but there is room for improvement that would be easier reali
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by cess11 5mo ago
"(the tales of 1001 nights maybe less so, but I might be misremembering)" I think you should reread some collection of these that isn't disneyfied. They're great, but probably not what you want to read to a prepubescent
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by cess11 5mo ago
Such repetitions can regularly be deterministically automated, like find -exec sed and similar medium level tools. If you spend a lot of time performing monotonic tasks, then your organisation needs to delete and refactor for a while until
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by cess11 5mo ago
The US reinventing the worst parts of Soviet but putting a glossy and chipper veneer on it.
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by cess11 5mo ago
"But I’m not reviewing that code. And now I’ve got that feeling of guilt: if I haven’t reviewed the code, is it really responsible for me to use this in production?" "I know full well that if you ask Claude Code to build a JS
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by cess11 5mo ago
"the first major blossoming of modern biodiversity." What does "modern" mean in this discourse?
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by cess11 5mo ago
I was around when cPanel and Wordpress broke through and saw professionals scoff at it and left it to others, who subsequently built the majority of web sites. It's interesting to now see professionals making a similar move themselves
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by cess11 5mo ago
The LLM is just a database. Would you be fine if this was done when cribbing stuff from Github, StackOverflow, tutorials and so on, or do you think some databases are more special than others in this regard, and if so, on what merit?
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by cess11 5mo ago
Elsevier has a history of 'promoting' successful millers to more or other journals, so they can 'drive growth', as it's sometimes put in IT, there as well. https://forbetterscience.com/2023/10&#
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by cess11 5mo ago
Does it, really? There haven't been any problematic issues since economists and their lore became a dominant influence over politics that could be attributed to this influence?
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by cess11 5mo ago
The LLM is just a database. It's like saying 'I own the copyright to what comes out of an API because I crafted the query' or 'I own the copyright to the responses I get from the bots on the Starship Titanic because I cr
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by cess11 5mo ago
"GitHub only gets better if people who give a shit stick around to make it better" This only works in democratic settings. In capitalist corporations, typical liberalist parliamentarism and so on it does not work, only coercion do
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by cess11 5mo ago
This kind of cooperation is not unprecedented, for example they've collaborated in the occupation of Socotra.

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