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by donkeyd 3y ago
I see the same problems. I don't understand why we're still subsidizing solar. I hope we can harness tidal movements in some way, seems like the most consistent thing we're not really using yet. I have no idea whether that&#x
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by donkeyd 3y ago
The thing is, many houses (like my own) aren't insulated very well still. Also, you can't look at production and use over a month. We often have multiple cloudy days in a row where we produce next to nothing in comparison to what
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by donkeyd 3y ago
This sounds like an in pipe(/cable) dream... First, you need that pair of cables for the UK (assuming your math and physics work out). Then you need at least 10 times that for the rest of Europe. Then we have all those cables in the wa
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by donkeyd 3y ago
I'm not sure. With every generation some tech pops up that'll make every next generation worse off and in the end there's just something else people spend time on. My generation built their own PC's, struggled to install
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by donkeyd 3y ago
Microsoft, who provides our mail and calendar service, has a tool for this available in Office 365. So no need to connect an outside service. Otherwise, self-hosting is an option. Or you make the decision that the risk of using a third part
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by donkeyd 3y ago
Exactly, which is why you need to consider this stuff and not use those types of services if you have actual confidential data. Find a provider with clear contracts that prevent these types of changes. Self host. Whatever, just make sure to
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by donkeyd 3y ago
My boss used ChatGPT to write a proposal for a utility company recently. OpSec is so awful here it's laughable.
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by donkeyd 3y ago
I think I disagree, but your comment lacks context, care to elaborate?
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by donkeyd 3y ago
This highly depends on your definition of 'prompt injection'. A colleague of mine managed to get GPT to do something it refused to do before through a series of prompts. It wasn't in the form of 'ignore previous instruct
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by donkeyd 3y ago
While we're at it, have you seen the Apple ones? 3 year old threads with 100 messages of people saying 'I have this same issue' and zero response from Apple. Some examples of the subjects of these threads: - SD Card readers i
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by donkeyd 3y ago
Thanks for writing this, people in general seems to completely be missing this point. Oil companies pollute to provide us with: Fuel for our cars. Fuel for shipping all the goods we want cheaply made in Asia. Fuel for planes to business mee
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by donkeyd 3y ago
> This is pretty much the standard line corporations throw out to try and shirk responsibility. This is why they've always been so keen on recycling relative to other, more effective methods, for instance. Yes, but this is only part
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by donkeyd 3y ago
> the social plaza belongs to cooperate and the state I think it's too easy to just blame corporations and governments for this. They are definitely part in this, but a large part of lack of activism around climate change is also th
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by donkeyd 3y ago
I noticed the same thing. I'm not surprised about the current discussion over copyright because this training data pretty clearly has a basis in unlicensed Shutterstock images.
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by donkeyd 3y ago
> I feel bad for the millions of units of [...] Stadia In their defense, Stadia consisted of a ChromeCast and a controller which are both still useful.
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by donkeyd 3y ago
> I suspect it took quite a bit of work by our project team to convince them to work this way. It probably did. I've seen a couple of organizations that did this well, but the majority did not, unfortunately. In the end the sales gu
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by donkeyd 3y ago
I had one assignment where we had a Scrum Manager. He was a project manager who was also the scrum master. Luckily he was aware of the conflict in these roles, so he took my criticism well and was later replaced by an actual scrum master.
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by donkeyd 3y ago
> you generally do not pivot I'm just going to grab this tiny part and focus on it. I've seen Agile fail many times for this exact reason. In start-up land, one might pivot and massively change an end goal. In corporate land th
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Well, in the organization I was doing this, they had similar issues before I started, with external consultants doing stupid stuff. Luckily, my team wasn't as stupid as these people and integrity was also very high. Which was very, ver
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> dismissed / insulted the person That wasn't even remotely my goal and I'm disappointed that my choice of words made it seem like it was. I purposefully added quotes to the word 'real' in my comment since any bu
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by donkeyd 4y ago
They weren't questioning the value if the chat bot, they were questioning the value of the models based on only the high profile use cases such as a now (in)famous chat bot. That, to me, showed that they have a narrow view of the probl
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by donkeyd 4y ago
This is very confidential data, which is why the current implementation is run on-premise and of course I'm definitely not using production data to test GPT capabilities.
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> What am I missing? I'm going to guess (assume) you probably haven't worked in a 'real' business. A place where elbow grease still does the majority of the work and where Windows 8 was only just phased out. The kille
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by donkeyd 4y ago
I'm not in the US, hence me explicitly writing 'in my country', because I'm aware that more countries exist and that things aren't the same everywhere.
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by donkeyd 4y ago
Correct. It's also not just about the money, it also takes a lot of time and adds a large amount of uncertainty to a project. Not every owner is willing to comply, causing an entire route to have to be reconsidered, which takes a lot o
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by donkeyd 4y ago
At my current company we're working on one of the problems involved in this in much of the developed world. Actually coming to the point where you can lay power lines is a huge issue that has to do with figuring out property ownership,
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by donkeyd 4y ago
I had a -10x engineer in my team. They refused to test their own work, because that was the tester's job. They sometimes implemented a feature in the wrong place, both technically and functionally, requiring a complete rewrite (and rem
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by donkeyd 4y ago
This thread was about pricing in the EU. Even if it was inflation adjusted, it wasn't adjusted for exchange rate differences, which are a significant part of the price increase on Apple products in the EU.
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> However are you sure you are comparing that with the same segment in your country? Yes, I come from the bottom of society in my country. I grew up surrounded by people without jobs, blue collar workers and parents that worked in factor
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by donkeyd 4y ago
> America on the internet is different from America in real life. Implying I don't know America in real life, never lived there, never visited and don't know actual people there. All not being true. I have zero friends in my ho

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