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by d4mi3n 2y ago
I think this is mainly a symptom of poor alignment between search engines and their customers. ChatGPT works well now but the plan there seems to be to monetize search-like queries. I fear it won't be long until chat AI agents using th
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It's sad to me that we pin so many expectations on the following generations when they're just starting their journey as adults. We're just kicking the can down the road, and they're arguably less equipped (in resourcing
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What's the practical distinction here? I agree with you that rust isn't OOP, but for the sake of communication and understanding--what's the practical difference between requiring a trait and inheriting from it?
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This takes me back. I'm glad `fetch` has become the canonical way to do this. XHR was a new capability at the time, but back then we were just starting to learn about all the nasty things people could do by maliciously issuing XHR requ
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by d4mi3n 2y ago
I read it as the GP saying there's often confusion about assuming behavior about individuals as opposed to making predictions based on trends of large groups of individuals. For some population, you can safely state that some portion o
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My guess is that we bias towards numbers with cultural or personal significance. 7 is lucky in western cultures and is religiously significant (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7#Culture ). 42 is culturally significant
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I have no idea. I'm not an RF expert, but I'll ask this the next time I run into one. Great question!
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They are quite common in some municipalities. There are folks who talk about this at length in cybersecurity circles every year at conferences, it’s been an issue for a long while and the scope of the problem continues to grow. The EFF also
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by d4mi3n 2y ago
Possibly. But difficulty fixing large problems doesn’t exclude incremental progress in other ways. Changing national policy is hard. But stuff in your city? State? A lot easier to make tangible change. In the last decade I’ve seen big impro
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Apathy and nihilism are unproductive, even if current outcomes are bad. Without hope, there is no motivation for change. Act. Do. Vote. Volunteer.
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Most people (all sexes and genders) are bad at handling rejection, period. It’s why online dating is popular in general—a rejection over a digital medium is a lot less intimidating and less confrontational than the same in person.
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While you’re not wrong, there’s a trade off between communication needs and security guarantees. Activism and protesting requires organization, which is effectively hampered by the inability to quickly and efficiently disseminate informatio
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As many issues as we have, I’d rather have somebody who understands the consequences of a security breach having access to sensitive information than someone who does not. Think what you will about who came before or after, but everyone inv
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My intent was not to claim communication isn’t a sign of intelligence, but that the appearance of communication and our tendency to anthropomorphize behaviors that are similar to ours can result in misunderstandings as to the current capabi
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> Where there's an open question is in whether you're commingling the notion of intelligence with consciousness I’m absolutely commingling these two things and that is an excellent point. Markov chains and other algorithms that
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by d4mi3n 2y ago
Waters are often muddied here by our own psychology. We (as a species) tend to ascribe intelligence to things that can speak. Even more so when someone (or thing in this case) can not just speak, but articulate well. We know these are algor
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by d4mi3n 2y ago
Pretty sure content-securty-policy headers can prevent this type of attack these days for browsers that support them. Check out the frame-ancestors CSP directive: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/H
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by d4mi3n 2y ago
You and GP make great points, and these are situations that are becoming more common. Luckily, there is some light at the end of the tunnel (at least for ADHD). There's been a lot of study in recent years and medical science is startin
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by d4mi3n 2y ago
My heart goes out to you. Misdiagnosis is just as bad (and sometimes worse) than not being diagnosed. I've known people who were diagnosed with ADHD with very bad outcomes because it later turned out that they had bipolar disorder; the
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As someone with this condition, I think it may be helpful to note that while your comment may not be intended to be disparaging, it can be interpreted in such a way. A lot of neurodivergent folks or people experiencing mental health issues
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> Half of the population has an IQ below 100 and can be gulled into voting themselves into oblivion. While technically true, I’d caution against assuming IQ is at all representative of average practical or applied intelligence. There’s p
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by d4mi3n 2y ago
You’re not wrong, but I think you’re presenting this as a dichotomy when there’s a lot of value to be had between the two extremes (passkeys all the way or passwords all the way). The big benefit to a passkey for a service provider is that
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> In fact, standardising the IT approach through the EPA will might increase the risk since any vulnerabilities will be more likely to be standardised. Highly heterogeneous systems are expensive and difficult to cripple. This is not a sa
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I can’t find the original article, but Derek Lowe (famously of the Things I Won’t Work With column about exciting chemistry) published a series of articles on the topic around 2021 - 2022. I did find an interview with Derek Lowe where they
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Microfluidics were also key to creating the first line of COVID vaccines. They were also why it was hard to scale up production—turns out machines than can perform microfluidic chemistry aren’t mass produced and take time to make.
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by d4mi3n 2y ago
I don’t get all the hate. Sure, JS isn’t the most popular language for TUI apps, but there’s always room for more TUI tools and I’d you’re automating things for your JS project this is a pretty natural fit to make your project scripts frien
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I find it apropos that this topic (disagreement about if LLMs can "reason") boils down to being an issue of one of the hard problems in computer science: naming things.
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Not disagreeing with you, but a point to consider for reasoning is that we consider it a key cornerstone of sapience and sentience. I think one could argue that a LLM could be considered sapient (able to solve problems) in a general sense,
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We don't! We've gotten into philosophy, which is always a blast to ponder over. Aside from measuring brain activity and making observations, all we really know is that awareness seems to be an emergent property of our biology. Tha
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I agree with this sentiment and would remind everyone that LLMs are probabilistic models. Anything that isn't in the training data set will not be produced as an output. If you squint really hard, you could kinda say an LLM is just a f

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