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by hnlmorg 5d ago
Forums have their share of negativity too. HN included. There was always this curve where a forum would be fun because it was a small group of likeminded individuals. And as it got larger, more trolls came in, more newbies with different in
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by hnlmorg 5d ago
> Re speechwriters, he’d never get another job if he didn’t say that. That would explain why he might say that if directly asked. But not why he volunteers that information nor talks about his research into Obamas speaking style before w
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by hnlmorg 6d ago
Yeah, you’re right. I might have attempted to do mental arithmetic before coffee…
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by hnlmorg 6d ago
The number of glyphs available by adding additional bytes drops exponentially because each subsequent byte has one less bit available. So I think if we ever were in a situation where > 1 million code points isn’t enough, then we should l
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by hnlmorg 6d ago
Depends on the individual. It’s usually a highly collaborative process. But in general, you’re correct that you’d expect a good writer to write better than the person who hired them.
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by hnlmorg 6d ago
> Speech writers do not write in the voice of someone else, they create the public image of say a president who is inarticulate and make them seem polished and articulate, if anything they lend their voice and ideas to someone else Nope.
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by hnlmorg 6d ago
Oh wow, was UFO really that early on? I thought it was a mid 70s. Though admittedly I did watch the reruns rather than the original airing. Space 1999 was another interesting show. One Sci-fi I never got to see was Blake’s 7. I’ve heard a l
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by hnlmorg 6d ago
Except that there are such things as speech writers, whose job is literally to write prose in the voice of the person who’s going to read it. And there are countless other jobs out there where people are the “voice” of another party. From t
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by hnlmorg 6d ago
> But for a lot of things I can with high probability discern between AI and human in every day appearance and I know many other people can as well. It’s easy to say that when you already know the answer. But my point is people frequentl
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by hnlmorg 6d ago
It was also recorded the best part of a decade later than TOS too. People’s expectations of computers had grown.
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by hnlmorg 7d ago
This is exactly the problem. Most of the time when people criticise the output of genAI, what they’re actually commenting on is the ethics of AI rather than the output of it. And they then attempt to use the demonstration as a proof of thei
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by hnlmorg 7d ago
Bash doesn’t just stop working because the x86 CPU is inside a different form factor. And actually Linux (and BSD too) did used to run on commodity desktop for local ISPs, newsgroups and so on and so forth. That was part of the reason for t
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by hnlmorg 8d ago
You’d be surprised just how often systemd calls bash scripts.
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by hnlmorg 8d ago
People working at OpenAI have stock options. People working at MS and Rockstar do not. Leaking negatively affects investment while the “whistleblowers” are largely just saying “our tech is too good” which increases investment into those com
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by hnlmorg 11d ago
Because otherwise it would be an act of war. At which point they might as well have just fired a rocket into the country.
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by hnlmorg 11d ago
You’re now talking about ethics of these companies whereas we were talking about their requirements by law. And the reason those laws existed was precisely because companies couldn’t be trusted to regulate themselves.
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by hnlmorg 12d ago
Tobacco companies are responsible for not promoting to minors. But if we take a more relevant comparison: In the financial sector, banks are responsible for detecting abuse. They’re not the only ones responsible, but they don’t get to absol
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by hnlmorg 12d ago
It depends on the shell you use and how your file names are handled. Bash is a clusterfuck waiting to happen when it comes to file names, but not all shells would be at risk here. For example the shell I maintain would be fine because file
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by hnlmorg 13d ago
And in Europe too. Social media was definitely the start of that downfall. Yeah people used to spread misinformation longer before social media was a thing. But what Facebook changed was the way how misinformation could be targeted with sur
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by hnlmorg 13d ago
Until they don’t. Maybe the old team leave or a new requirement comes in.
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by hnlmorg 13d ago
I don’t see how they’re any worse than spaces in file names, which is an edge case you need to cater for already anyway.
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by hnlmorg 13d ago
That’s a gross over exaggeration. Most electrical equipment did come with a plug. The white appliances that didn’t was because they were kitchen appliances that either wired into a separate ring, or the wire had to be threaded through small
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by hnlmorg 15d ago
As a Brit I will tell you that not all of us like this processed shit that passes for bread. However the plug is actually a really good piece of engineering. There’s so many subtle design features to it that can be genuinely life saving. Th
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by hnlmorg 16d ago
It wasn’t just marketers he talked about though. There were a few topics he touched on.
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by hnlmorg 16d ago
I was recently rewatching one of Hicks routines for the first time in possibly 20 years and his content is just as relevant now, if not more so, than it was 30+ years ago when he wrote and performed it.
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by hnlmorg 16d ago
> the Speed of Light is pretty slow Professor Farnsworth: That's why scientists increased the speed of light in 2208.
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by hnlmorg 17d ago
> Isn't that just sidestepping the issue? No. It’s addressing the risks of the issue. > Setting up backups isn't a security task, it's just normal IT which businesses do indeed spend on because there are clear goals and
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by hnlmorg 17d ago
I went through a phase of reporting scams and every single time my report was rejected. I guess I shouldn’t have expected any differently when their income is dependent on displaying those scam ads.
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by hnlmorg 17d ago
You’ve identified that the risks of nuclear weapons are theoretical. ie in theory we could blow up the world even though we haven’t yet done so. Well the worries about AI are equivalent in that those risks are discussed now because discussi
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by hnlmorg 18d ago
You wouldn’t talk about ransomware like that for precisely the reasons you’d described: it’s a poorly defined open ended problem. You should tackle security in the same way you’d tackle any other kind of engineering initiative in IT. You br

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