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901.
by chx 3y ago
An L5 self driving car is decades away. The needle hasn't moved on that one. Nothing we have currently moves closer to that. Just doing more of the same of the current models will not get you there.
902.
by chx 3y ago
But part of the competition is the index quality. For example, it's a lot easier to provide a keyword index than a phrase index. There's code search which is almost orthogonal to what ordinary search wants separators wise etc
903.
by chx 3y ago
I doubt this is feasible, there's a lot that goes into the index which determines which kinds of queries you can even run.
904.
by chx 3y ago
As an aside, PBX hijacking was how certain Fido BBS operators in the early 90s Hungary got their feed from abroad: a friendly installer left an extension in the PBX of the largest consumer bank which gave you a dial tone so very expensive c
905.
by chx 3y ago
gold is addressed by Stolfi > as a commodity, gold HAS a source of revenue besides the investors; namely, the purchases by consumers like jewelers and industry, who take gold out of the market (2/3 of the production) for uses other
906.
by chx 3y ago
oh bitcoin, ethereum and any such crypto"currency" (even the name is chosen to evoke certain emotions) is pretty solidly established to be scams. Read https://ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitc
907.
by chx 3y ago
I have a not-eReader 078 (back then it was just called not-eReader before the 10" sibling came to be) and it's an incredible device for a super small niche: secondary screen for an emergency laptop. https://imgur.com&#
908.
by chx 3y ago
Indeed really old https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398... > The X approach to device independence is to treat everything like a MicroVAX framebuffer on acid.
909.
by chx 3y ago
> And it just so happens that all local accounts in a Mastodon instance have a null value in their URI field, so they all matched. How? NULL = NULL evaluates to FALSE, SQL is a three value logic, specifically Kleene's weak three-val
910.
by chx 3y ago
Your comment has been nominated for the best typo in 2023. Let's hope the change is not this badly mercenary.
911.
by chx 3y ago
No, all that LLMs produce is nonsense.
912.
by chx 3y ago
> What's your definition of senior? I have already made the mistake you are about to make.
913.
by chx 3y ago
yes, it is nonsense, all of it, we agree.
914.
by chx 3y ago
But that is what you get, it's just dressed up to sound like the answer. But it's not the answer , it can not be. If it accidentally is the answer, that's an accident, nothing more. See my example above about dangling c
915.
by chx 3y ago
> Prompting LLMs correctly to get high quality answers is a skill. That's like saying "reading the future from chicken entrails is a skill".
916.
by chx 3y ago
Seeing value in LLM answers is apophenia. It's an understandable human condition but still. There can be value in SO answers, there can not be in LLM as it's just automated plagiarism without understanding anything.
917.
by chx 3y ago
Except the information value coming out of a chatgpt answer is zero . You are literally best off if you ignore whatever it says.
918.
by chx 3y ago
Looking at https://stackoverflow.co/labs/ > The future of collective knowledge sharing. The future is feeding all answers into a meat grinder and then forming word like nuggets from the paste and hope we like this?
919.
by chx 3y ago
Having a lean and mean company doesn't make for happy investors. The company was finished in 2020 when they raised $85M in a Series E. The fall after that is inevitable. Even the $40M they took in 2015 is a questionable decision for th
920.
by chx 3y ago
> You don't mention any of these possible causes though. What about * The rise of blockbusters. Jaws was the first in 1975. Domestic office boomed https://i.redd.it/7nmrszljbdda1.png * The rise of home gaming and co
921.
by chx 3y ago
Ha yes, name your TSR keylogger REMalt+255.COM , put it into AUTOEXEC.BAT , it looks like an innocent comment.
922.
by chx 3y ago
This entire endeavour not sure whether conscious or unconscious is Musk trying to -- gosh, there's a word for this but my English is failing me -- to finally get even with Thiel, to show Thiel he can do everything Thiel did but bette
923.
by chx 3y ago
Here's what Tate said on The Fellas podcast: > I like living in countries where corruption is accessible for everybody. The emphasis here was on everybody because this followed a rant about how Western societies are corrupt where t
924.
by chx 3y ago
> then translate those into more concrete specifications. Yes and that's what code is: most concrete specifications :P Figuring out what to code is much harder than coding it, like 99.99% of the time. People worrying about ChatGPT
925.
by chx 3y ago
I bought a Qotom Q190G4 in 2016 for $139.00. That was also a Celeron branded CPU -- but it was not Atom, I don't buy Atom PCs -- with four gigabit NICs. This is to say, I do not think there's a new influx, these machines were avai
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by chx 3y ago
Those years... yeah, they werelean. I grew up behind the Iron Curtain, the ZX Spectrum we had was smuggled into the country by my parents in 1985. What printer...? There was no printer to buy! More, we were soldering the data cable when it
927.
by chx 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36678027
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by chx 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36678027
929.
by chx 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36678027
930.
by chx 3y ago
Here, I have a better, simpler , all encompassing rule: do not expose anything closed source to the Internet. No, this is not Linux zealotry, I also advocate against using Linux as a daily driver on a modern laptop. The right tool for the r

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