fabianhjr

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by fabianhjr 10mo ago
> “The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra The point of the Turing Test is that if there is no extrinsic difference between a human and
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by fabianhjr 1y ago
Most of the world provides funding for research, the US used to provide funding but now that has been mostly gutted.
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by fabianhjr 2y ago
`rm -rf /` does have a safeguard: > For example, if a user with appropriate privileges mistakenly runs ‘rm -rf / tmp/junk’, that may remove all files on the entire system. Since there are so few legitimate uses for such a
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by fabianhjr 2y ago
Good thing that is part of the wikipedia entry: > Any piece of digital information is representable as a number; consequently, if communicating a specific set of information is illegal in some way, then the number may be illegal as well.
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by fabianhjr 2y ago
There are illegal numbers in the USA land of the "free". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number > An AACS encryption key (09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0) that came to prominence in M
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by fabianhjr 2y ago
> The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra LLMs / Generative Models can have a profound societal and economic impact without being in
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by fabianhjr 2y ago
It is not the only claim in the video. There are at least the following claims: - Inserts its own affiliate link (even when no discount is found, uses strategies to push for interaction like adding a dismiss/pay with paypal link that a
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by fabianhjr 2y ago
> we need to intercept cocky executives before they incriminate themselves in media res. Please don't, just let them. Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.
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by fabianhjr 2y ago
> 4. Rewarding employees who make value for the business and think like founders/equity owners, not employees. That is simple to do but not something many companies want to do. Just give employees equity via mutualisation. (Real own
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by fabianhjr 2y ago
I thought that non-governmental business association was pro-competition; guess not. Edit: it was a dig to the pro-competition façade some pro-business people put forward.
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
Repugnant imperialista thought; political reforms on a foreign government? Take out the stick like in Latin America and the Middle East? Laughable from the country that proclaims itself "leader of the free world"
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
Aren't you thinking about Twitter/X and Facebook/Meta?
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
One that promotes laissez faire capitalism and proclaims to the world the moral virtue of pure market competition? Though, most of the world has quite the different experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
If that was the case why not go for Ryzen + ECC memory?
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
If one release a hobbyist blueprint to put an electric motor on a bicycle and then a megacorp uses that (without any due care) to release a mass-produced e-bike marketed worldwide which ends up catching fire or otherwise producing injuries
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What the Hell Happened at OpenAI with Karen Hao – Adam Conover [video](youtube.com)
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
I am more worried about US stuff with the whole PRISM thing and other three letter shenanigans. Aditionally the comment you are replying to is a dongle to provide a single board computer (or a computer in general) with ZigBee conectivity. I
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
Scala 3 with Braceless Syntax (scala-native for x86) https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/other-new-featu...
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
Wish you all good health and fortune until 2.0 short billion > Wednesday May 18 2033 03:33:20 GMT
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
Meanwhile working class people have lesser and lesser purchasing power to the point were renting and homeownership are out of their reach; subemployment / "gig" employment ("innovating" by removing without workers r
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
Some good options might be - LPIC-1 for Linux (More Ops) - CKAD (Kubernetes / DevOps) - Security+ (Security certs are slightly more useful/requiered for DevSecOps or AppSec)
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
There is a rule on mostly not editorializing titles and in this case that is the title of the source article. > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
China has been averaging a 9% wage increase yoy or about 41% per 4 years. This wouldn't be news in China instead it would be the average case. https://www.statista.com/statistics/743563/china-average-yea...
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
And in the US they got civil forfiture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United... > To get back the seized property, owners must prove it was not involved in criminal activity. Some cases: ht
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
> most of them have "var" or an equivalent which saves on typing Do you mean type inference? Most typed-languages have that, even Haskell/Scala. It gets iffy on dependent type systems like Agda/Idris.
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
Orbea has a lifetime warranty on frames + standard components + is a worker cooperative. Disclaimer: Own an Orbea Vector and love it.
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
Removing the need of wage labor is not the same as promoting idleness. How many people want to experiment and try new ideas but are stopped by economic insecurity? (In arts, crafts, engineering, and science) How much _very valuable_ non-pai
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by fabianhjr 3y ago
to each according to their need, from each according to their ability
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by fabianhjr 4y ago
That's called a long scale (also in use in LATAM) in contrast with a short scale (in use in the US and Canada)
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by fabianhjr 4y ago
According to github, 46% of new code of their organization clients is copilot written. https://github.blog/2023-02-14-github-copilot-for-business-i... So we get about 2-fold increase on code to debug and fix later.

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