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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Beliefs, yes. But which part of the Inquisition was specifically about banning long lists of specific words, replacing them with semantically identical equivalents? Perhaps they did it, my history isn't that good, but the wiki page doe
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
The fact that you can only name a handful of people who survived full frontal attacks (for now) indicates that this is more than merely annoying. The ranks of the cancelled far outnumber them and we should recognize the disturbing historica
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Yeah. Over time this has killed my interest in charitable organizations, sad to say. I just don't trust them anymore because I think if I donate to an apparently well defined cause it'll actually just be embezzled and put to use h
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
It's fascinating how such trivial differences make such a big change to the result. It seems ChatGPT is tuned to be very sensitive to the views of critics, which is I suppose exactly what you'd expect given the way California corp
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
> It's actually not. Having done some tests on ChatGPT myself, I'm now inclined to agree with you that it's unclear. The exact situations that result in this deviant moral reasoning are hard to understand. I did several te
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
If it justified the answer by saying it thought the question was nonsense, yes. It doesn't. It takes the question seriously and then gives the wrong answer. These are deliberately extreme scenarios to show that the moral reasoning of t
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Would you mind revealing what the segment is? Now I'm curious!
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Why are there no examples of actual code reviews made by this tool? The screenshot is just of the install script. Surely review quality is the primary question here?
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Some radical suffragettes were actual terrorists and did their cause no good, quite possibly harm. Female suffrage came about as a result of the Great War, not verbal abuse by radicals. At any rate, you seem to be agreeing with me but justi
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
It would be nice if this linked to the README rather than a dump of the commit log, which makes it hard to know what's new or interesting in this release. It would be double nice if the readme talked about JVM language interop or perfo
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Touché!
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Lots of very well informed people disagree with you; you'd also have to consider all the other evidence beyond the genome.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
No, that's not the most dangerous interpretation. The most dangerous interpretation of "lab leak" is the one backed by the most evidence - that they were artificially enhancing viruses so they could develop vaccines against t
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
The US government is so large and sprawling that essentially every agency concerns itself with every possible topic.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
That WaPo article isn't about the quality of research at the WIV, it's an attempted (failed) debunking of the "fringe theory" that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab. It has nothing to say on what good science they produced,
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
That's not how civilized societies work. If you make an accusation you have to explain what you mean, not simply echo words back at the speaker - that's what children do because they haven't yet learned how to debate or reaso
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
In this case "powerful" means faster chips. It's not clear that this translates into 1,000,000 smarter given that current AI might end up bottlenecked on availability of text and information to train it on. I guess if you cou
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
I wonder how much of this is specifically Docker related pain? (I try to avoid it) It's super fascinating to see how much ARM support is coming up in this thread. I guess ARM servers are finally happening, huh. Our CI cluster has an M1
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
> I think you're missing some of the perspective. I Yeah that's why I'm asking. It's genuine curiosity so thanks for your answers. Yes if you wanted to make the same product as these guys you'd have to spend the
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Yeah if you just use Windows as a way to run Linux VMs then some of the issues don't apply, but are you really using Windows at that point.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
I run Mac daily and use Windows in a VM. Windows is frustrating. Especially for development purposes you may hit problems with the weak filesystem: 1. It's extraordinarily slow. 2. It sometimes has weird path length limits. 3. Symlinks
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
I'm running a bootstrapped startup so a special case, my salary is nearly nothing :) :( :) At a bigger company you'd just ask a junior to set it up or maybe a sysadmin. You can probably contract to get part timers too. I guess I s
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Worst case scenario, I mean, maybe? I don't have many data points. It does feel like cloud costs come up more often lately. I don't think there was anything particularly special about that company though. It felt like almost the d
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Billing? Custom software? Docker expertise? I don't quite understand. You have to pay for something no matter what, right, and you still have to write and test your Dockerfiles locally? Where's the custom software? The alternative
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
I dunno, this makes me feel weird. So far I've tried AI for programming assistance but every time I do, the results are disappointing and I give up. Yet I hear from others that it's made a huge difference and been a massive boost
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
> Dating apps don’t make their data available to scientists, that would be nice though! Actually OKCupid did do that at some point, well, it was their own employees but they did extensive and very honest data analysis. After the company
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Yes, maybe. I do know Linux pretty well and don't consider sysadmin costs a big drain on my own company or time. I can see that it'd be much more expensive if you hire people who don't have much UNIX experience. On the other
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
They've found Code Jam to be a pain for a long time now, because the results never align with their ideology. Men (mostly eastern European and Asian) dominate these competitions to such an extent that Google created another Code Jam th
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
I see. So it's $50/month plus .05 per minute of build time after 60 minutes is up in that month. Let's say you need 10 hours of building per week, so that'd be another $120/month on top. I'm not sure how fast t
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
OK let's work through the claims. 1. The vaccines cause cells to take up the mRNA and express the spike on their surface. This is uncontroversial and covered in any detailed enough intro to how the vaccines work, see the diagram here f

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