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by gerbilly 4y ago
Yeah sure. ChatGPT confabulates constantly and has no understanding of what it's saying. I think it fails the 'I' part of 'AI.' I've had it confidently invent URLs when challenged to show the sources for an o
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by gerbilly 4y ago
This article echoes a few of my most unpopular opinions. * The current generation could not invent the internet. They don't have the attention span or the culture for it. * People who spurn well thought out technologies like SQL or re
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by gerbilly 4y ago
That there will always be work to be done. Whether you define it as working on yourself, on your relationships, fixing up the house, the car, washing the dishes. I guess I sort of lived as if there would be some kind of 'over the rai
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by gerbilly 4y ago
> this really is just a bunch of correlations without good citations indicating any causal effect. Say your house gets broken into and there is a broken window and you are missing some cash and jewellery. Would you _also_ say that callin
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MS Office lifetime license for 91% off: Real or scam?
5 points by gerbilly 4y ago|1 comments
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by gerbilly 4y ago
I've done a lot of mountain biking, and for years I rode bike trials¹. I think on a bike it's fine to push your limits, because the consequences are less severe than for hang gliding, especially if you aren't doing big drops.
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by gerbilly 4y ago
I do and I also display other strong emotions such as disgust, surprise etc. But I also think that I look angry because I _am_ angry. Anger allows us to increase arousal and helps us focus on an 'obstacle' and programming presents
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by gerbilly 4y ago
Yes, they could, but could they keep everyone in a city of millions in their houses though?
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by gerbilly 4y ago
Maybe this site needs an 'Are you a Robot' captcha because you sound like one. Geez. How cold do you have to be to not understand that being imprisoned or not being able to feed your children might make you 'emotional?'
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by gerbilly 4y ago
It seems like condos and apartments can easily be turned into prisons. I'm glad I live in a house, even if it is in north america.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I think that 'real life' examples are often worse. Learners can get too caught up on adventitious details in the example like the wording or certain irrelevant details. If the example is a real life example they are familiar with
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Nope. I have never used Windows on any of my personal machines, not ever. I am waiting this MS Windows thing out, you could say. At work I have used it in some cases when not given the choice. If some company I am working for is fine with
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by gerbilly 5y ago
It looks nice but I'd never use a shell that phone's home. Period. I mean the CLI has been one of the last parts of my system that I really still trust is working on my behalf only. This product made me rethink that assumption. As
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by gerbilly 5y ago
The problem isn't so much with work, which many people have mentioned, it's with careers. The most famous quote, might be from Into the Wild: "Careers are a twentieth century invention." I'm aware that this quote is
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by gerbilly 5y ago
The bit that gets me is when Oogway ascends. In my opinion it's not because he's really old or just because it's his time. He realises that he has to go because, otherwise Shifu is always going to look to him for answers, an
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A Manifesto Against Sex Positivity(nytimes.com)
8 points by gerbilly 5y ago|2 comments
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> the love in your family certainly did not die with your late uncle or grandfather. You are very kind. But we aren't special different kind of people. I wouldn't want OP to think that. We are like everyone else, and have made
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I'm going to tell you some things you probably already know deep down. * Your son wouldn't want you to spend your life in the cemetery. Think of your son when he was laughing or having fun. He'd want you to find a way to fee
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Sun Microsystems used to have a tagline: "The network is the computer," now it's starting to look like the network is the camera. Basically photography is about Pentagram, Twatter and Faceborg more than it is about the photo
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Dude you come on real strong and tell people that they should work harder, or pay back money or whatever. There's nothing to refute because you can't refute tone. Plus it's not my job to be your debate partner for free. Basi
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> I'm not complaining Sure you are. Your comment is a classic example of what I call 'sore winner' literature. It's characterized by: a superior pontificating tone, a sense of entitlement tell others what to do, a ce
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Pff. Productivity has never been higher and true wages are going down and you figure we owe you something? To whom shall we make out the check sir? Sounds like you're the one who's complaining. [Stopping here because the only thin
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> People don't want to face the facts, that we have to make up for lost productivity. No. We don't. I am unmoved by your attempt at argument from authority.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> When working low end commercially you need to take the photo that the customer is expecting. I found that when a client has a very specific idea of the image they want, the best thing is to take the shot as they requested, but then als
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> "this is binary and I believe in freedom above all else" cohort turns me off pretty hard though. Randroids probably. Ayn Rand is piss poor literature, and even worse as philosophy or life advice.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
That's HN for you. I honestly don't know why I keep coming here. This is a safe space for rationalisation, we can't let 'the feels' creep in and threaten that. Also it would be way too 'political' if we a
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Sorry can't find any since google results seem to get worse year over year. Basically I gleaned this impression from the go message groups more than 5 years ago. Go is pretty nice, but IMHO, it's no masterpiece. There's a rea
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> I would like to understand a bit more about where a lot of the Go criticism comes from. Go is really s souped up version of C. It's a design rooted in the 70s with some fixes to make it a good language for writing small networked
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It’s Possible to Learn the Right Thing from the Wrong Person(nytimes.com)
2 points by gerbilly 5y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 5y ago
When I said wild type I didn't mean ancestral wild type. It might not revert to teosinte (maybe how much time have you got?) but it also wouldn't stay as the corn we are used to with eight inch corn cobs either. But my main point

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