crazygringo

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by crazygringo 2y ago
> the fact that UI/UX was actually scientifically better[0] Your link doesn't go to anything scientific. And people who could never figure out Windows are totally comfortable with iPads. So no... the UX wasn't better at
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by crazygringo 2y ago
> I don't want performers to risk their safety, health and life for my entertainment. I mean, they pretty much all do to some degree. It's not healthy on your body to do eight Broadway shows a week. Or to be constantly switch
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by crazygringo 2y ago
> Microsoft included an encrypted copy of Bob on Windows XP installation CDs to waste space to discourage piracy. This feels like an urban legend made up after the fact. It would be way easier to just generate random bytes, and nobody
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by crazygringo 2y ago
Yup, I loved Magic Eyes as a kid. This was easy. Nevertheless, I was astonished that "impossible mode" literally took me only 1-2 seconds to find the missing star. Like, I knew our vision is good at interpreting depth from images.
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by crazygringo 2y ago
Seriously, every instance I'm aware of men having done something like that where I worked (and it's happened more than once), they've been fired either the next day or the same week. The solution there has nothing to do with
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by crazygringo 2y ago
If you can't insure it against fire, no bank is going to give you a mortgage to begin with. Banks aren't in the habit of letting their collateral burn to a crisp.
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by crazygringo 2y ago
That doesn't address anything in the second half of the post though, starting with this pull quote: > The fact that NULLs are distinct for UNIQUE columns but are indistinct for SELECT DISTINCT and UNION continues to be puzzling. It
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by crazygringo 2y ago
Seriously, I hate it. I understand why it happened -- it made sense to allow PDF's to be used for form-filling, and once you can fill in forms it obviously makes sense to validate inputs, and to handle arbitrary validation complexity y
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by crazygringo 2y ago
Why would cops pull you over for circling a parking lot a few times? This is extremely normal driver behavior at airports when you're waiting for someone arriving to come out, and you're not allowed to stop at the curb for longer
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by crazygringo 2y ago
That's not true. If you're on the freeway you could wind up killing multiple people behind you. It could be extremely dangerous.
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by crazygringo 2y ago
> and without making rear-end collisions inevitable if you're on the freeway. That means it has to decide whether it's safe to stop. Stopping safely is no less complicated than the self-driving software in general. Sure you c
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by crazygringo 2y ago
The point is, it's still driving entirely safely. The headline is clickbait -- the car absolutely was not "spinning in circles". It was driving around a parking lot multiple times. I agree that clarity would be appreciated --
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by crazygringo 2y ago
You're currently being downvoted, but I'm genuinely curious -- is continuous IR monitoring from the sky an effective way to detect wildfires earlier? Or are small fires indistinguishable from a million other hot objects, until the
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by crazygringo 2y ago
I'm interested in the actual details here -- 1) What are the requirements for the mark? E.g. no passwords stored in plaintext on servers, no blank/default passwords on devices for SSH or anything else, a process for security updat
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by crazygringo 2y ago
They have your name too. From what I understand, the tracking is generally done via something like the hash of the card number though. I've never heard of any legal or compliance issues with that, since the card number itself is not st
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by crazygringo 2y ago
>> you can order ahead and your food is ready when you arrive > That just sounds like a great way to get cold McDonald's... The idea is to order 3 or 4 minutes in advance, not half an hour before...
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by crazygringo 2y ago
Is anyone confused by that? Password reset links have always been sent to email. The point is not to click suspicious links. If you know a magic link was sent, it's not suspicious. That being said, I hate them just for the delay.
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by crazygringo 2y ago
Sure they want user data to observe people's purchasing habits. But they already have that if you always use the same debit or credit cards like most people do. But the more people use the app, the less cashiers they need and the less
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by crazygringo 2y ago
You can change that in settings.
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by crazygringo 2y ago
Obviously, on the inside, the process that a person goes through in learning and creating, and the process that a LLM goes through in learning and creating, is very different. Nobody will dispute that. But if they're learning from the
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by crazygringo 2y ago
Well obviously not in general. But when it comes to copyright law specifically, yes absolutely. That is the question I'm asking.
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by crazygringo 2y ago
Surprising they don't mention what I imagine has to be the obvious culprit: video ads. It's not even about advertising for me -- static ads don't bother me that much. But whenever there's autoplaying video in the corner
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by crazygringo 2y ago
Can you elaborate on how it's not comparable? It seems obvious to me that it is -- they both learn and then create -- so what's the difference? If I can hire an employee who draws on knowledge they learned from copyrighted textboo
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by crazygringo 2y ago
I'm fascinated by stories like these, because I think it shows that LLM's have only shown a small amount of their potential so far. In a way, we've solved the raw "intelligence" part -- the next token prediction. (A
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by crazygringo 2y ago
The reason I bothered to respond is that there is a common tendency to look back at historical people and see them as extremely primitive -- with little knowledge, with little entertainment, with little going on. That they would have had no
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by crazygringo 2y ago
Do you have a link to his patent? You should be able to find it by his name. But the hurdle today isn't in the physical sensing technology, it's how to detect an accurate signal from extremely noisy data. Patents aren't the m
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by crazygringo 2y ago
Not general curiosity -- but for healthier eating. There's a theory that says you basically won't ever gain weight if you prevent your blood sugar from going above a certain level. So it's an objective way of knowing how much
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by crazygringo 2y ago
> Everything you listed as options to do are also available now That has no bearing on anything you or I said. > Pedantry for pedantry sake is just boring Perhaps you don't understand what pedantry is? Your entire point was a
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by crazygringo 2y ago
You were writing as if people were staring at the sky all night long out of boredom. You said "There was really nothing else to do." That's completely untrue. It's a total misunderstanding of what life was like. I'm
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by crazygringo 2y ago
> There was really nothing else to do Well, nothing to do except for storytelling, music, dancing, parties, games, plays, sports, eating, drinking, visiting, festivals, gossip... People have been pretty good at keeping themselves enter

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