csmpltn

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by csmpltn 5y ago
I am using an adblocker.
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I've been using Firefox daily for over 15 years now. My experience with Firefox over the last 2-3 years in particular leaves me very disappointed and frustrated. The constant nonsense UI redesigns that come about with every new update.
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> "Yes, the solution is open-source no-code that can be self hosted" So those who can't code are then expected to self-host? The lock-in is clearly a part of the business model.
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So you're going to a school (which I assume you've paid for), to learn about cryptography - only to be told "don't ever bother"?
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@dang?
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> "Possibly, but they only need them on initial request I think." I don't see how this is going work. If this is data the backend needs the client is either going to have to send it out on every request (like it does today
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> "These are opt-in, so they are only sent if requested." Are google.com, youtube.com, netflix.com, facebook.com, amazon.com and reddit.com going to ask for User Agent Client Hints? If they're going to (which is more than
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> "User Agents MUST return the empty string for model if mobileness is false. User Agents MUST return the empty string for model even if mobileness is true, except on platforms where the model is typically exposed." (quoted fro
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> "Simply down-voting without adding a reply why you disagree with an opinion does not really help." This looks like a general criticism of using C++ which has nothing to do with the topic of this post. You're free to crit
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> "that's whataboutism" So what? The counter argument is that people are being hypocritical with their criticism towards Audacity here. Why are you okay with some applications collecting telemetry, but not with others?
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> "I really appreciate how this reduces notifications for engineers not involved in the review." But it definitely increases notifications for people involved in the review. "A war room for each pull request" you&#x27
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> "We’ve redesigned and modernized the core experience to be cleaner, more inviting, and easier to use." Why does the UI change with every single Firefox release? I find myself having to re-adjust every time a new update is shi
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> "Even a decent-quality chatbot could be applied all over the place" When shit hits the fan - you want a human being on the other side of the line to help you through whatever you need help with. Call centers can be expensive
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> "But (1) this seems obviously to be a really hard problem, and one that couldn't even have been attempted in 1970" Apollo 11 landed on the moon July 20th 1969. You think that didn't take a degree of "AI" a
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> "Developers are using GPT-3 to create realistic dialogue, summarize complex documents, answer customer services questions, and make search better than ever before" This is OpenAI desperately admitting: "nobody needs this
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> "If a call to an async function is immediately awaited, we immediately execute the called function up to its first await. If the called function reaches a return without needing to await, we will be able to return that value direc
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by csmpltn 6y ago
So people with no programming experience are confused with Java. That doesn't sound like an issue at all. I don't think the solution should be to bend Java backwards so that it's easy for people with no progrmming experience
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> But yeah, show it to a c# newbie who is used to e.g. Python where "Hello world" is literally a one-liner and they might think "what a crapsack language, there's like 6 lines of overhead per 1 line of code, argh this
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by csmpltn 6y ago
> I appear to be the highest ranked woman here What do you mean? > show me the woman that is supposedly doing it right so I can take pointers from her There are successfull women everywhere. What are you on about?
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> So AI is taking over the world, and we should just accept that it has severe limitations of just parroting the training data like a Markov chain? This is the algorithm we think can solve everything? "No", to both questions. T
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> To avoid packet loss, I build retry logic into my app, or build on top of TCP. What's the "I used TCP instead of UDP" equivalent of a dataset that can be used to build a perfectly non-biased translation service? Your com
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> Yes, and allowing people to speak introduces this exact same issue... It's not the purpose of a translation service - to let people customize the translation such that it fits their own personal biases and sits more comfortably wi
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> be more choosy about your training set and don't just snarf up reddit willy-nilly and go brrrrr That's a much more interesting (and complex) conversation. Siphoning raw Reddit/Wikipedia is the closest you'll get to
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> The proffered solution is to use singular "they" of course That's subjective. > allow the person using the translation program to specify pronoun rules "Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source
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Makes sense to me. I wonder what's the point behind this entire Reddit thread then. More fuel for the fire?
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> “correct translation” is a matter of taste So, bias no matter what then?
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Hungarian has no gendered pronouns, but English has them. The text has been translated from Hungarian to English. What would be the "correct" (or "non-biased") way for Google Translate to handle this scenario? Should all
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by csmpltn 6y ago
I'm not sure what problem Cosmopolitan is trying to solve. I think it's an interesting research project, but from a practical perspective - there are significantly better (and more mature) ways to achieve cross-platform compatibil