cortesoft

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by cortesoft 6d ago
I hope the future of AI isn't this sort, where companies provide the user/customer with an interface to an AI that can do things for the user... I would much prefer that companies instead provide an interface FOR an AI, and the us
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by cortesoft 6d ago
You don’t understand fondly reminiscing about when the world seemed more magical? It has nothing to do with the truth of it, it has everything to do with how it felt.
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by cortesoft 9d ago
The problem with using glacier for backups is it's hard to run restore exercises, and without restore exercises, a backup is pretty dangerous
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by cortesoft 10d ago
How do we determine at what point something is “too addictive” to be allowed? There are many people who can gamble responsibly and enjoy it. I love playing poker, and play in a tournament every few years. Lots of people are compulsive gambl
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by cortesoft 10d ago
> I also consulted a structural engineer Well, now I have the same problem I had before, how do I find a good structural engineer, and what is a fair price to pay them? Do I have to call a bunch and do the same thing I hated doing for th
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by cortesoft 11d ago
On the other hand, I am also looking for a contractor to do my concrete. I hate the whole process, I hate calling people only to spend 5 minutes trying to explain what I want and then they don’t provide that service or try to convince me to
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by cortesoft 11d ago
The red scare of the 1950s was ridiculous enough, but at least the Soviet Union was an actual threat. We are now at a point where “pro-transgender” is the new threat?
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by cortesoft 12d ago
I think you are thinking of the wrong 'end'. It isn't talking about the end of the entire movement path, we are talking about the end of the LLMs decision making process, and the output (whether that is the full path the arm
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by cortesoft 12d ago
> Construction is famously labor intensive: direct labor makes up close to 50% of the cost of constructing a new single-family home in the US, compared to around 6 to 8% of the cost of manufacturing a car. Is this only calculating last m
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by cortesoft 12d ago
There were so many scam ads in magazines and newspapers back in the day. Same with all the made for tv stuff and infomercials. The difference for the newspaper and magazine ads is you couldn't just click on it in an instant. You had to
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by cortesoft 13d ago
There are assumptions you make, though, that go into calculating that level of confidence. One is that each coin flip has the same odds as the previous coin flip, and that assumption will continue with each flip. If you have no way of knowi
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by cortesoft 13d ago
Weirdly, I thought the terms would be reversed… I think of a craftsman as someone who values quality over quantity, and makes everything beautiful and long lasting, while an engineer is more about productivity and tolerances and efficiency.
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by cortesoft 13d ago
I mean, there is still a place in the world for a Kung Fu master… it’s just not as someone trying to win in an anything goes combat competition. If you think there are going to be as many jobs in the future for people writing all their code
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by cortesoft 14d ago
How would it have helped? Net neutrality doesn’t mean you can’t sell your customers different bandwidth guarantees. Net neutrality is only about the connections between a provider and external networks, not about how a company handles bandw
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by cortesoft 14d ago
Doesn’t the history of civilization show RSI? Or even evolution itself? Isn’t that just RSI writ large?
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by cortesoft 14d ago
Whether you describe it as “regarding” or not, the underlying behavior still needs to be addressed. Does the anthropomorphizing lead us down the wrong path for how we address the issue?
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by cortesoft 14d ago
I feel like this is a complicated issue, because there are two competing values here. On one hand, fair representation is important, and the idea that every person has an equal say in how governmental decisions are made. One person one vote
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by cortesoft 14d ago
They removed that years ago.
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by cortesoft 15d ago
There were always two types of people at college, those who want to learn things and those who want a certificate so they can get a better job. It was always pretty easy to distinguish the two. I think the second group has gotten more and m
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by cortesoft 15d ago
That just means no one else can pretend they are you, but it also means they can know it HAS to be you. If you sign two images with that private key, people will know for certain that you created both of them. This is the whole point of sig
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by cortesoft 15d ago
This is exactly how I feel, and I have been trying to think how to articulate it. I love programming, and have loved it ever since I read the first page of my BASIC programming book 35 years ago and learned how to write a PRINT statement. I
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by cortesoft 15d ago
What are you signing it with, though? A unique key that only exists on your device... so it will perfectly tie a photo to a specific camera. Even if you didn't know who owned the camera, you could identify other pictures taken by that
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by cortesoft 16d ago
Binding arbitration as an abstract concept seems fair (really, the entire court system is a complicated system for binding arbitration) However, in practice it isn’t fair at all.
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by cortesoft 16d ago
Muse released their 4th platinum album before Twitter was even founded. They poured their life's work into Twitter? That is ridiculous.
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by cortesoft 16d ago
> Both are equally possible. I don't think so, because if it was involuntary from Muse the band, surely they would post something about it. They would get a ton of publicity and goodwill for shit talking Meta, and the fact that they
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by cortesoft 16d ago
They obviously want to run AI models on their phone.
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by cortesoft 17d ago
I think there is a cycle, like with most things of this nature. You start really locked down, and you read and approve every request for access. You do this for a while, but never see a result you deny, so you stop reading as closely. You k
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by cortesoft 17d ago
You have to pick what you want to measure. I think that is a different study; measuring the mental and emotional impact of two working parents. Both are interesting and useful, but I think they need to be separate studies.
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by cortesoft 18d ago
Yeah, as someone who fairly recently discovered that the reason I always feel so uncomfortable out in nature is because I am severely allergic to almost all grasses and most trees, I think we need to put some caveats on these statements. I
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by cortesoft 18d ago
Why would that give you the benefits of walking barefoot? If the point is to pick up bacteria, shoes are shoes. It doesn't matter if the toes are separated or not.

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