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by gwervc 2y ago
This is in a way very good, as it will be another differentiator between smart people and others: average Joe will indulge himself in hallucinations while a few will retain the knowledge of querying a search engine, citing a source and crit
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by gwervc 2y ago
It was bad, then Microsoft bought it and it became even worse.
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You may throw a Godwin point as introduction, it doesn't change the fact that some groups indeed doesn't integrate well into France. And this is despite billions of welfare money given for housing, free education, free access to
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by gwervc 2y ago
> generative systems are basically always hallucinating: they do not have any concepts at all. That they are "right" as often as they are is a testament to the power of curve fitting and compression of basis functions in high d
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by gwervc 2y ago
Maybe paper-based book will be fashionable again.
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Still, it looks like from the email that the website creator didn't read the ToS, and consistently consumed significantly more resources than allowed for a few months.
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by gwervc 2y ago
Expectations: Russia, China or North Korea will take the Western tech infrastructure down. Reality: the infrastructure took down itself.
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by gwervc 2y ago
Exactly, corruption is more sophisticated, but it exists and is huge nonetheless. The big difference is that the starting GDP is higher, which allows for a little more to reach normal citizens after corruption is taken into account.
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by gwervc 2y ago
Heck no, I'd rather protect my (future) kids from a lot of ideas spreading in the English speaking sphere until they reached some given age. There's enough cultural, scientific and entertainment content in French and Chinese to fi
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by gwervc 2y ago
> - Even in language learning. We have the useful fiction that there is a 1-1 relationship between words in two languages, but there almost never is. It's not really a problem: space repetition is a way to build familiarity with voc
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by gwervc 2y ago
Given that most of the listed countries are hot, a more reasonable take is climate change.
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by gwervc 2y ago
It's 2024, you obviously missed the Ministry of Truth updating the status of the lab leak hypothese from "conspiracy theory" to "that's what happened (PS: China bad)".
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by gwervc 2y ago
I wish I could have work hours more fitted to my sleep pattern. Everyone is loosing including the company I work for since I'm staying at bed until the daily, then do basically jack shit in the morning.
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by gwervc 2y ago
Then walk one kilometer and cross the border to France and it's... 50 cents/page. So totally not viable of you have any significant printing to do.
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by gwervc 2y ago
That's the most realistic simulator I ever play; and that's not a good thing.
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by gwervc 2y ago
The pretending part is the problem. As soon as you have requirements like answering on a chat, replying to email within a half-day of work, sitting at your desk, using corporate hardware... it adds mental workload and physical constraints t
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by gwervc 2y ago
> I really, really like that I can, more often than not, take a program I wrote decades ago and it will still run properly. "Cool kids" languages like Python and Rust really put in the mind of people that a program written two
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by gwervc 2y ago
There's already a government website to check some diploma (like brevet, bac, etc.), this app and some universities have deployed a blockchain-based system to grant and verify degrees. I wish less public money were spent on N different
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by gwervc 2y ago
I feel like it highly depends on what people are doing with a device: if there're only a consumer (of digital content or physical product), only owning and using a smartphone is fine. However for creating things (writing a PhD thesis,
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> things that on the surface seem very plausible but are complete fabrications LLMs are language model, it's crazy people expect them to be correct in anything beyond surface level language.
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by gwervc 2y ago
> You can even publish papers yourself It's becoming harder and harder because of APC fees :(
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The biggest difference is gate-keeping by peer review, which is quite random. Reproductibility is a meme in most fields.
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by gwervc 2y ago
>- I pledge to only make GET requests to http://example.com/foo/ * Doesn't solve any trust issue since data can be send as part of the URL, and the backend response can change at will.
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by gwervc 2y ago
> This guy just shared a video of people engaging in a hate crime. [...] China [...] Marine Le Pen was charged in France for promoting jihadism when she shared a picture of a beheading or some other gorry crime to denounce daesh.
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by gwervc 2y ago
It's cheap only for a few sports. The martial art I'd like to do is at least 200€/year in the few clubs of my town, plus additional fees for administrative stuff like license and "passport". And then membership is o
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by gwervc 2y ago
It's because Microsoft isn't really serious with C#. For years it has advertised other languages (e.g. JS on WinRT) or runtime (wasm), support in VS Code is still rather interesting, UI frameworks were never made truly multiplatfo
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by gwervc 2y ago
Around Firefox 4 it became a shitshow of questionable UI redesign every version. And performances where not up to Chrome. Also Chromium is open-source, and Firefox is mainly funded by Google so it not like Firefox has a real proposition val
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And before learning words, learning and practicing phonology. Then, add vocabulary while still practicing phonology. It's insane people and institutions assume one could be understood when speaking a language when its most basic buildi
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Because the price of electricity is (unfairly) based on gas price by EU regulations, imposed by Germany. One of the propositions of one party running for the next election is to renegotiate this so we can use our cheap electricity as the co
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by gwervc 2y ago
> Why even comment on an article if you're not going to read beyond the headline? I skimmed the article: it's not interesting, basically whining about dick pics or something. > From all sides, it's a shale that the beha

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