gamacodre

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by gamacodre 8mo ago
With those examples though, how would we know ahead of time that they "shouldn't be explored?" They sure looked interesting and maybe even potentially beneficial a couple decades ago. Now, of course, we know those algorithms
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by gamacodre 9mo ago
Yeah, I saw that link and had a few thoughts immediately collide in my head: - Wait, WTF? Really?? - But but but it's a *chatbot*, not an authority - We're doomed
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by gamacodre 1y ago
A recent study[1] seems to indicate that polarization is a hard problem, along with some of the other negative effects of social media. Many of the commonly suggested solutions have minimal impact, or no effect at all. That flywheel effect
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by gamacodre 1y ago
As an anecdatum, one of my gen Y embedded engineers is using a little stick phone that can barely text, and avoids all social media except Discord (assuming that counts). One of the other younger folk in a different department has something
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by gamacodre 2y ago
> they convey the meaning and humor much better than the americanized voiceover I'm glad this isn't just me. I occasionally watch anime and the English dubs are seemingly universally terrible compared to the originals. Subtitle
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by gamacodre 2y ago
I could be wrong, but my impression is that GDP is usually thought of (by non-economists) as a trailing index that has some sustainability baked in, by inertia if nothing else. Military spending would normally track reasonably well with tha
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by gamacodre 2y ago
> Instead, they should let people structure their feeds by news organization Doesn't this immediately turn into the kind of problem TFA is bemoaning? Once a news organization gets traction (opt-ins in this case) on a platform, they&
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by gamacodre 2y ago
I expect we'll experiment with that as soon as we get a man and a woman imperfectly supervised in a low-gravity environment for 9+ months.
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by gamacodre 3y ago
Vertical integration in this space sounds like a really bad thing to me ("bad" in the sense of "likely to lead to the creation of products that erode human dignity in new and interesting ways").
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by gamacodre 3y ago
We can surely build more efficient and capable hardware than our current evolved wetware, since all of the details of how to build it are generally externalized. If the chips had to fab themselves, it would be a different story. The softw
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by gamacodre 3y ago
I think the problem here would be figuring out how much of the brain's power draw to attribute to the multiplication. A brain is more akin to a motherboard than a single CPU, with all kinds of I/O, internal regulation, and other a
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by gamacodre 3y ago
I think this is still just a difference in how the output is used. You're presenting text generation as factual and image generation as artistic. It could be reversed - no one will care if a fantasy story gets some in-milieu "fact
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by gamacodre 3y ago
Geez, these companies just keep getting passed around and around. I was working for Time Warner Interactive (aka Tengen, the consumer arm of Atari Games) when Midway bought them in '96.
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by gamacodre 3y ago
Those are more difficult, but we're in the process of killing them off too. As usual, without much regard to consequences.
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by gamacodre 3y ago
Couple of thoughts: You are assuming that a pure function has access to some source of randomness. I think that's a bit less than pure unless a source of randomness is one of the inputs. Doesn't change your point at all, but it di
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by gamacodre 3y ago
Yeah, and Tandy graphics were different from EGA or VGA, just enough that you needed to write different display code for them. And you had to get the user to tell you which ports/IRQ numbers half of their hardware was configured at. We
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by gamacodre 3y ago
I've worked with some of those folks too. It seems to me like they haven't really learned programming the way I understand it; instead, they've learned various incantations that can be strung together, and are just at a loss
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by gamacodre 3y ago
Mine happened a long time ago and the industry was very different, but there are echoes of it in some of the other comments here. I'd say, build a project and ship it to customers. The feelings of accomplishment and agency from doing
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by gamacodre 4y ago
Looking a the other comments, it seems like there's some meta-commentary on the social and commercial positioning of art going on here. Along the lines of "taking no position is really bold," which is supposed to make this an
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by gamacodre 4y ago
I think that this kind of novel problem modeling was always in (comparatively) short supply in programming. It's just so _easy_ to tell the machine to do what you want it to do, that it's a tough sell to figure out how to tell it
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by gamacodre 4y ago
Heh. That would've been nice. Back in the day, after we walked in the snow uphill to work both ways, we wrote our code, ran it through the cross-assembler, burned EPROMs (after waiting an extra 15 minutes to erase the last ones we us
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by gamacodre 4y ago
The way I've seen this choice done that makes it easy (for me as a director of software dev) to buy into is a hybrid. You can pay $x/mo or $10x/yr. If you pay for the year, you don't have to do it as a subscription, but
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by gamacodre 4y ago
> ...does not mean the government should coerce everyone... Here you're presuming that the government's role in a pandemic is to wring their hands and issue PSA's. That might be what some folks want them to do these days,
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by gamacodre 4y ago
This has bugged me since the beginning of this mess. It ought to be possible to say "Hey this looks kind of funny, could the vaccines be having weird effects in this .0000001% of the population?" without daggers coming out all aro
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by gamacodre 4y ago
Epic could also, in that case, offer subscriptions that can only be canceled at a storefront in Peoria between 1am and 4am on alternate Tuesdays.
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by gamacodre 4y ago
And yet, with no functioning Facebook or Twitter account, I seem to have no problem finding businesses that sell the things I'm interested in. Most local issues of actual importance are still mentioned in the newspaper. Facebook could
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by gamacodre 4y ago
What? Those login pages are publicly accessible in their entirety.
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by gamacodre 4y ago
But then who would they blame when the train derails?
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by gamacodre 4y ago
> People who use 2fa are not related to the same group who updates their dependencies This does raise the question though - should they be related? If so, why? If not, why not? From TFA, it seems github believes that a positive correlati
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by gamacodre 4y ago
If your threat model is "someone cloned the database and can now perform unlimited attacks against the stored passwords", then yeah, word + digit protects just about nothing. Assuming a lexicon of 5,000 words, word+digit gives you

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