dirkt

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by dirkt 3y ago
Supermarkets are already doing that in Europe.
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by dirkt 3y ago
> There isn't, and there has never been, a large (hundreds of millions of active users) online community that wasn't run by a for-profit entity. Usenet.
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by dirkt 3y ago
There are plenty of people on the internet (including here) who think ChatGPT is a "smart expert" and who don't understand that ChatGPT can easily make up stuff that looks very convincing at first glance. And if you challenge
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by dirkt 3y ago
> One way to resolve this surprise is to find some reason to believe these strange abilities are fundamentally not an understanding of the world. An easy way to test this is to ask questions and followup-questions that actually require u
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by dirkt 3y ago
> If you have to verify every detail of its responses, what good was it to ask it in the first place? It's awesome for brainstorming, or for getting a first draft of something. > It does work for coding as you can -- usually -- i
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by dirkt 3y ago
The difference to a person is that most (though not all) people actually have an understanding if they know something, if they guess something, if they are making something up, or if they are outright lying. Which is about the first thing y
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by dirkt 3y ago
Bunnie Huang already built himself a laptop with on-board FPGA back in 2012. [1] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686 [2] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3597
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by dirkt 3y ago
So if you have to babysit it anyway (which is actually a correct way of using it, instead of getting fooled into assuming it's an expert: Use ChatGPT for brainstorming, have a human in the loop to validate): Wouldn't it be faster
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by dirkt 4y ago
And I am still waiting for the Russians to "accidentally" blow up Zaporizhzhia [1] while conducting their military operations there. Which will cause a nice fallout in the rest of Europe. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by dirkt 4y ago
I've also seen this in many books. When I learned it at university, we had lots of examples, but you need to be already familiar with a lot of somewhat abstract mathematics (monoids, groups, rings, sets, homomorphisms, ...) before you
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by dirkt 4y ago
> But my argument is that humans are also, at some level, sufficiently advanced stochastic parrots. But humans have a feedback loop called "consciousness" that sits above the stochastic parrot level, can reason about it, and ca
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by dirkt 4y ago
The Apple II keyboard had very similar keycaps (if not the same). I haven't seen them anywhere except for Apple keyboards.
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by dirkt 4y ago
> disposing of power plant waste has never been a real problem. Germany has been trying to find a location to safely dispose power plant waste for about 40 years or so. All the solutions so far didn't work out [1], they are still se
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by dirkt 4y ago
As early CD players were intended for audio playback, your CD player can lie to the software. It doesn't tell if it's reading at the exact beginning of a sector (because timing information is multiplexed into the audio stream, and
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by dirkt 4y ago
We just used cdparanoia back then (on Linux, on Windows you used EAC). Actually, this Python app uses the cdparanoia library for the ripping itself.
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by dirkt 4y ago
It's actually more like an analog record than a tape. It's even layout in a spiral (instead of circles, like for a DVD, or like tracks on a floppy or harddisk).
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by dirkt 4y ago
Most recent fail: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aquarium-berlin-hotel-radisson-...
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by dirkt 4y ago
There's a theory that "eeny meeny" just means "one two" in some original language when humanity spread, and it was conserved in children rhymes, that get transmitted mostly unchanged from generation to generation. Y
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by dirkt 4y ago
There is probably a reason they put that in (as in: they had an incident where this apparently wasn't standard...)
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by dirkt 4y ago
It's just building elevation though, no terrain elevation at all (though the data is there). Also, elevation for many buildings just seems to be a guess.
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by dirkt 4y ago
> working in a functional language and claiming they don't need design patterns because they're the same as having first class functions The point really was that you need different design patterns in a functional language, a
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by dirkt 4y ago
There is a difference between a nuclear reactor blowing up in a country with low overall population density (e.g. the US; in Chernobyl also it wasn't that taxing to designate an exclusion zone for a few centuries), it happening in a ve
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by dirkt 4y ago
Calibre actually does horrible things to the HTML source that hides in each epub. While Standard Ebooks do promote awesome HTML. If you run Calibre on it, it's ruined. An epub is just a zip file. Open it up, look inside, see for yourse
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by dirkt 4y ago
Germany can get coal from somewhere else. Germany cannot get gas from somewhere else, at least not in sufficient quantities. In 2021, gas was used for 17% of the generated electricity [1]. This percentage is artificially high, since CO2 off
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by dirkt 4y ago
Which seems more a problem with Github tooling, and less with git submodules.
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by dirkt 4y ago
They don't realise they don't understand it, and firmly believe in the nonsense they make up.
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by dirkt 4y ago
The goal of a type system is not to prevent all bugs, or to prevent all bad things happening at runtime. The goal is to catch as many bugs as possible BEFORE it runs in production. And even if you just catch a single bug, you have already w
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by dirkt 4y ago
The logic was "if we depend on each other, Russia isn't going to pull crazy stuff". Which works with rational people (and after Gorbachev and the German reunion, the perception was that Russia is rational), but not with Putin
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by dirkt 4y ago
Nuclear power plants can't be used for residential heating, residential cooking, chemistry, and industrial processes like making glass for solar panels. At least not without changing the infrastructure for that completely. Which is not
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by dirkt 4y ago
Knowing that something is a scam is very much not the same as wanting to get onboard with the scam.

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