fungiblecog

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by fungiblecog 3y ago
All of these methodologies fall down because the incentives of the people involved rarely align. the more people involved the worse it gets
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by fungiblecog 3y ago
With 3 routers you can isolate your home network from external-facing services very securely. https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-545.pdf
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by fungiblecog 3y ago
i disagree with a lot of this. there's enough incorrect and duplicate rubbish on the internet without encouraging more of it. In the old days - before narcissism became an acceptable personality trait - people were encouraged to think,
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by fungiblecog 3y ago
it's obviously humourous
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by fungiblecog 3y ago
try mal instead. all the fun and much less frustration https://github.com/kanaka/mal
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by fungiblecog 3y ago
People here are conflating two separate issues. 1 what should the policy be and 2 how to deal with AI generated content flooding the system. in the absence of a foolproof "AI detector" the only sensible approach is to validate tru
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by fungiblecog 3y ago
that's an operational issue not a policy issue
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by fungiblecog 3y ago
Seems like a sensible policy to me. instead of trying to work out if content is AI generated (which isn't possible in general) just check if it's true. not sure why this is a problem. truth is the only thing that matters in this c
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by fungiblecog 3y ago
this is very readable if you know to read the operations inside-out instead of left-to-right
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
or will it prove to be useless at everything... except showing us how many jobs that exist these days are bullshit jobs that can be done just as well by a machine with no understanding... David Graeber would love it as a bullshit job detect
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
It doesn’t matter who writes the laws. It’s on whose behalf they are being written. And that’s already a tiny minority of extremely wealthy people with the power to manipulate public opinion and bribe politicians.
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
The boilerplate code problem was solved by Lisp in the 1970s but we keep insisting on coming up with worse solutions because ‘parens look funny’
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
Learn stuff don't "consume content" FFS
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
Stupid law. The only way to get pay transparency is to publish actual salaries. but we can't have that because... privacy. funny how privacy is really important when it protects corporations
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
There's always a built-in assumption that this AI robot will be really useful. But most conciousnesses we know about ie people are actually really stupid and you wouldn't put them in charge of anything important.
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
Engineers also want to build faster-than-light drives. Doesn't mean it's going to be a reality
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
emacs is the programmable text editor
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
Yep, in the old days you would provide the ability to set a price. now we need teams of marketers to introduce pointless complexity...
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
Many people here are saying this is a search problem, but actually there are two distinct ways of finding information: search and browse. Unfortunately it is hard to support both without a lot of work. Sometimes you want to locate a specifi
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
This looks awesome… installs app on iPad… oh it doesn’t support the full screen. Useless.
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
When I was 17 (I’m now 50) I was at a careers fair at my school. I was told “don’t go into computer programming, there won’t be any jobs because the computers will program themselves”
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
If you simultaneously enforce on the younger generation the idea that a) you must be successful and b) you cannot be allowed to to undertake any remotely risky activity or think for yourself it's not surprising that the first time they
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
I do a lot of work as a contractor to the public sector and I can tell you that very little of the $86M will be spent on software development. The vast majority will go on hiring a massively bloated team of non-technical people to go throug
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
the irony of this is that we have all the bloat but we also have to live with decisions that were only made because of the limitations of the past. I'm referring to things like arbitrary limits on filename lengths. And worst of all dat
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
If i had a dollar every time a developer said "we're going to get it right this time"...
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
Another editor bites the dust - another reason to stick with Emacs
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by fungiblecog 4y ago
This is dumb. Math is not just a set of tools you take out of a toolbox to solve specific problems. Math is a way of thinking. It's invaluable for solving all kinds of problems.
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
like most technology today it is now being forced on us rather than being available as a tool.
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
Just make everyone’s pay public domain. Then let market forces take effect. “privacy” just helps companies have all the leverage in negotiations so that those who are less assertive (esp women and minorities) get the worst deal.
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
Maybe I'm weird. I've brought up my kids without applying the dumb rules i hated as a kid and they're both happy and well adjusted. And i'm happier too because i've avoided all the usual stupid family arguments that

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