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by ekidd 3y ago
I'm guessing it's an alternate expansion that was popularized by some group who was deeply doubtful about this technology. "Trusted Platform Module" sounds good . But what it actually means is that the platform can be &
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Has there been a similar shortening of the lifetime of commonly-advertised LED bulbs? We bought a bunch of Philips Hue bulbs around 2015 or 2016. They were expensive bulbs, but every single one is still running fine. The downside for Philip
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by ekidd 3y ago
I'm pretty sure I've provided French localization for some of my software at some point, just on a whim. Which is an EU language. And I know that some of my non-EU users of free, online tools have travelled to Europe occasionally.
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> EU legislation doesn’t stifle innovation. It stifles abuse of technology. Honestly, my biggest complaints with EU software legislation are: 1. It doesn't scale down to tiny non-commercial or barely-commercial activities. 2. It t
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by ekidd 3y ago
One good approach is to have separate "byte array" and "string" types, and say, "Strings are always UTF-8. Anything else is a bug. Deal with it." Then you can have a nice, user-friendly string class for basic U
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RDS is very useful for companies which are big enough to employ, say, 2 programmers, but still too small to employ a DBA. The hard part of running a database, in my experience, isn't setting up or running it. The hard part isn't e
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by ekidd 3y ago
I've tried a few of my favorite ChatGPT 3.5 & 4 prompts, and I am getting terrible results compared to GPT 4. Claude 2 is hallucinating on almost every response, giving wrong answers, and saying things like: > The problem is
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by ekidd 3y ago
As other people have said, I normally run unit tests after changing comments . It's part of my check-in routine. That said, I maintain close to a dozen Rust utilities, some of which only get updated every two or three years. And when
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According to the article: > Ramsay grabbed a copy of Stachiw’s acrylic handbook from his spare bedroom. When Stachiw’s team was doing its tests, “they would pressurize it really fast, the acrylic would implode, and then they would assig
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> The other side of the argument seems to hold very odd assumptions about things like thermodynamics and robotics work, or even intelligence itself. There are two major types of arguments for why we should be cautious about ultra-smart
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> The article said that two former California governors threatened to sell public land to balance budgets so the private ownership seems to be a mitigation. This is a well-known concern in land preservation. There's apparently an
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> call/cc is a single instruction that is sufficiently expressive to implement e.g. exceptions, coroutines and lots of stuff for which people typically use monad-style embeddings. The flip side of this is that call/cc prevent
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> but today you will get scolded for asking such a complicated task of it. Huh, I just double-checked ChatGPT 4 by feeding it a moderately complicated programming problem, and asked it to solve the problem in Rust. Performance looks so
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I am not a big believer in the various "fast takeoff" scenarios, where an AI rapidly self-improves over a weekend, becomes intelligent beyond all human comprehension, invents nanotech, and eats the world. I read all those science
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Knuth writes people checks for reporting bugs in his software or errors in his books, including at least one $327.68 check for a TeX bug. According to Wikipedia, he has written over $20,000 in checks. (Relatively few of these are ever cashe
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Apparently, one of the reasons that RedHat survived the dotcom crash was that they were absolutely merciless about companies that didn't pay on time for RedHat's engineering/consulting services. I recall someone who had sever
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Knuth has only so many productive years left on this planet and he wants to spend them all on TAOCP (and a few other projects). He had given up email by the 90s and he is incredibly disciplined on what he devotes his time to. If you want to
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> If the government wanted to buy another one, the contractor would have charged them an extra $435. This claim appears to contradict what the story says, as far as I can tell? He's the original: > The military bought the hamm
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I can confirm that GPT 4 fails pretty badly on Middle Egyptian texts that are outside of its training set, using both MdC encoding and transliteration. I get translations which have at most a word or two in common with the original text. Al
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Exactly. In order to make this work, you'd have to license "software engineers", and you'd need to pass laws requiring a signature from a licensed software engineer before shipping certain products. And if a product fail
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> The majority voted for him. Just to be precise, the popular vote was 62,984,828 to 65,853,514 in favor of Clinton, with roughly 60% turnout. The majority did not vote for Trump. But that doesn't matter in US presidental elections
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by ekidd 4y ago
Nice example! LLaVA's language model appears to be weaker than GPT-4's. And we've already seen the featured GPT-4 demo where it explains a visual gag with a modified phone charging cable. So GPT 4 might get this. On the oth
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by ekidd 4y ago
ChatGPT 4's math abilities are really hit or miss. I asked it to act as a "Socratic tutor" for the de-biasing terms in exponential moving averages. And it walked me through the problem, and it actually pointed out errors in m
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> I fear how AI based generative media may continue or even amplify this effect. ChatGPT has such a clear writing style, once you really see it. It has a suprisingly good model of how stories work. But it has a heavy preference for w
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I could imagine that! Out of curiosity, how do you think you might do in a 1-on-1 coding interview doing something incredibly basic, like: - Sum an array. - Write FizzBuzz. - Count the words in a string. - Compute the length of a linked l
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What percentage of candidates would you believe freeze up so badly that they can't program at all? Over the years, I have seen significant numbers of applicants who couldn't write FizzBuzz, and even one who couldn't sum up th
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> The current GPT models are not going to "wake up" or accidentally take over the world. This is very obvious. It's pretty obvious that GPT-4 isn't consistently coherent enough to carry out complex plans or to do se
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Yup! Two well-established alternatives are "rake", in the Ruby community, and "just" in the Rust community. Rake is fully programmable in Ruby. Just is a bit less flexible, but it doesn't require learning Ruby, and
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The only entity I'm referring to as "it" in the above post is ChatGPT. That seems like the most appropriate pronoun to me? No existing AI system seems to have achieved personhood in a sense that would incline me to refer to i
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> ChatGPT just doesn't do anything on its own and will never follow through with anything. Yeah, I should be clear: the specific context in which I often see junior developer quality performance is when I'm essentially "

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