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by exitb 4y ago
> A.I.-powered system for evenly distributing money to the world’s population, a form of universal basic income. (...) When a person is scanned, verified, and onboarded to Worldcoin, they are given 25 proprietary crypto tokens, which ar
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by exitb 4y ago
> the fact that adults are expected to live lives wholly independent of their parents. (And so often seem to begrudge their parents.) Divorce rates used to be lower. Was that because people were genuinely happier with each other, or wa
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by exitb 4y ago
> And when I read the last line, I burst into tears. So does that make ChatGPT a soulful poet of rare ability? No. I’ve thought a lot about this and here’s what I think is going on: I was primed for an emotional response (…) and ChatGPT
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by exitb 4y ago
ChatGPT costs the same, regardless of the difficulty of the task, which is not the case for humans.
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by exitb 4y ago
It’s even worse. I’ve been using ChatGPT a lot in situations that’d be Google searches before and I love how you can fill in so much detail and it will actually provide you with better results. With Google, additional detail is actually use
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by exitb 4y ago
The use of "macOS" capitalization somehow makes it appear as if it's about the current Apple OS, when in fact this is about classic MacOS.
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by exitb 4y ago
GPT programming abilities are surely influenced by the fact that much of our computing infrastructure runs on open source. There is A LOT of high quality, real world computer program sources out there to train on. I don’t think the same is
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by exitb 4y ago
I don’t think that growing up with a c64 made kids into great programmers, but it did ingrain the notion that a computer is a programmable machine at its core. That complex things are just collections of simpler things. It’s very hard to ha
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by exitb 4y ago
There are diminishing returns to everything, travel included. If you go deep enough, you’ll typically just uncover the mundane, everyday realities, that people are often not willing to share with a foreign, relatively wealthy tourist.
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by exitb 4y ago
As a fellow small ARM machine owner, what's your strategy for getting the photos from iCloud? Is there a tool one shouldn't feel weird to give their iCloud credentials to?
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by exitb 4y ago
I'd be very surprised if that's the explanation and would rather suspect something like the "noisy GIFs"[1], where a strong visual cue may cause the brain to attach a sound that sounds reasonable. That's also quite
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by exitb 4y ago
This is not a technical problem, but a societal one.
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by exitb 4y ago
You may live in a bubble :) https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2016-02-10%202...
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by exitb 4y ago
That's roughly how Mastodon works. Each instance is responsible for moderation of their own users. If an instance does not meet arbitrary standards of moderation, other instances may choose not to federate with them, but nothing can st
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by exitb 4y ago
I wonder which version of GPT will introduce the concepts of pleasure and pain for more effective prompt engineering.
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by exitb 4y ago
Right, I'm not speaking against GOG or id Software. They run businesses and it seems like a totally reasonable decision to exclude these. Doesn't change the fact though, that it is good to have the original releases properly archi
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by exitb 4y ago
The comments indicate that it's incomplete, which isn't surprising, as GOG is not an archive platform and shouldn't be treated as one.
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by exitb 4y ago
That’s a different topic really. There are tools that can prevent going to sleep when the lid is closed with no peripherals attached. When not used, most users would expect for the laptop to go to sleep, even if it’s playing something at th
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by exitb 4y ago
I think that math and programming may be the odd exceptions, as they employ their own language-like constructs. There might be a misconception in the name of LLMs - we say that they’re language models, but really they’re token models, some
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by exitb 4y ago
> What's actually going on is that a LLM is like the language center of a brain, without the brain. I’ve seen this sentiment expressed multiple times, but is that really correct? Maybe this works differently for other people, but I’
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by exitb 4y ago
The show is one of the biggest recent TV releases, it seems like it might be in no one's interest to save money making it.
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by exitb 4y ago
Capacity may not be equal to size.
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by exitb 4y ago
There’s also soo much you can do with just the right light, focal length, composition and makeup. Even with no Photoshop involved, these images are not really life-like.
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by exitb 4y ago
Oh yeah, saw their comment now, that it's a portable monitor. But I guess the point still stands - this could be a sole computer for many people, if they just attach it to a regular desktop setup.
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by exitb 4y ago
I don't think the OP carries the monitor with them, but it's just an option at home. Kind of like you can plug Switch at home and get a TV-based console - you can plug the Deck and get a computer.
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by exitb 4y ago
Well, we tend to assume that the keyboard layout we know from the PCs in the 90s is the only correct one, but these things were always changing and adapting to the needs. Looking at the average modern computer user, I understand why a conte
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by exitb 4y ago
Up until a certain scale, the cost is roughly zero. The planes fly regardless of the balloons, the missiles are periodically replaced even if unused. I'd guess that most of the costs related to the balloons are generated in Washington.
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by exitb 4y ago
If I had a perfect understanding of both technology and the problem domain, I wouldn't need feedback. Yet, usually we find ourselves in a different situation of less than perfect understanding of both, so we seek feedback to avoid goin
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by exitb 4y ago
Doesn’t it become something akin to micromanagement, when tight enough?
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by exitb 4y ago
It doesn't always happen. I learned that the Thinkpad I just bought is prone to that behavior, but after months of not-so-delicate use it never actually happened.

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