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1y ago
The Dunning-Kruger effect absolutely also leads to people releasing libraries they should not have and which nobody should use.
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> You can only sideload for free if you are willing to reinstall every X days. Does this mean you lose data, or is data retained when reinstalling?
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How is that comparable? I write we have only sold our labor for a couple of hundred years. We had civilization for many thousands of years before. Dinosaurs did not live before they lived. And they did not die because their mode of producti
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1y ago
We have only been selling our labor for a couple of hundred years. Humanity has been around for hundreds of thousands of years. We will manage. Hey, we can always eat the rich!
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1y ago
All LLMs have seen more words than any human will ever experience. Yet they cannot take action themselves.
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1y ago
Not all European countries. We phased the title and surname addressing out during the 70s here in Sweden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du-reformen Personally I get annoyed only if a sales person addresses me by first
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1y ago
Quick questions don’t always have quick answers. Moneywise, the US does have the good old Exorbitant Privilege to lean on.
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1y ago
You could have two lookup tables.
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1y ago
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/zoom-...
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1y ago
Web developers building web apps for web browsers typically do not test cross browser compatibility. They build in Chrome and test with Chrome and then the test of the week they whine about Firefox and Safari.
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1y ago
That does not answer the question. The question is not if Electron feels better for developers because it renders consistently. The question is if that matters. Is it a big issue? Does any user actually care?
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1y ago
Mid 1800s computing classic. > On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member
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1y ago
What you describe sounds like it will make any explicit log out action users do on any device turn into a ”log me out from all devices” action, which was probably not at all the user’s intent unless that is the only explicit option you give
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1y ago
Gmail makes it easier for top posters because it shows you the email threads. Outlook did not use to make it easy to follow threads at all.
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1y ago
Awesome. There is a lot of discussion around coding agents but I don’t find a lot of real world examples. This will be interesting to look at, thanks for sharing!
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1y ago
Can you share your source?
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1y ago
Can you explain which parts you think are bad and why?
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1y ago
It came to that strategy because it knows from hundreds of years of fiction and millions of forum threads it has been trained on that that is what you do.
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1y ago
The ”core logic” of a program is what output it yields for a given input. If you find a bug, you find it because you discover that a given input does not lead to the expected output. You have to find all those ifs in your code because one
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1y ago
Some people just want the wrong answer.
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1y ago
In the year 287390 (285420.9 years after 1970) according to my calculations using DuckDuckGo’s calculator. If you ask ChatGPT it’s: = 285,616 years after 1970 = Year 285,616
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1y ago
Far too many programmers forget that time passes.
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1y ago
I thought the point of the large language model version of AI was that they can understand human communication. MCP seems like we have given up on making the models good or smart. We are bending over backwards to make the internet easier to
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Are the requirements still there for e.g. the EU storefront?
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No, the whole point is you are helping machine learning training. Doing work for free.
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1y ago
Can’t you just fork the chain?
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Have you met a 16-year old?
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How fast are they compared to human players?
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1y ago
There are roughly zero apps out there that would ”deeply suffer” from having to use freely available and/or system supported fonts.
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1y ago
The thing that is standing in their way is probably that nobody is willing to pay for this what it costs to run.
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