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by hughesjj 3y ago
Based if and only if they provide a book on kotlon in lieu of it /s This is fucked. What's next, they ban legal references in the library? Also lol @ them even giving lip service to be thought America's prison system has any
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by hughesjj 3y ago
Lol I call [bullshit]( https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/100215/why-cayman-i... .) Not surprised the person "who has structured several hedge funds" is spreading misinformation about finances a
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by hughesjj 3y ago
> And while we’re at it, stop polluting my projects root directory! Can’t we all agree on a .meta directory for finding configuration files? Yes, but to nitpick how about `.config` instead? If only because it's reminiscent of the de
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by hughesjj 3y ago
As an American this sounds like my fiancee speaking mandarin any time shit gets real lol English is the new lingua franca, and I'd bet English terms will have as much sticking power 1000 years from now as latin/"Italian"
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by hughesjj 3y ago
Technically speaking I change the tilt of the earth every time I take a piss
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by hughesjj 3y ago
Wait, really? Why not? That's fascinating Edit: ah, you mean for any practical purposes. Duh.
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by hughesjj 3y ago
i loved the idea of reddit gold. if they did a dontation drive like wikipedia i would have donated.
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by hughesjj 3y ago
To be fair I've seen some people interpret the manifesto to mean "never document anything or take time to introspect", which leads to its own set of problems. As with everything, a purposeful balance is best imo.
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by hughesjj 3y ago
its the death of reddit, just like digg before it. And google circles or whatever it was called its been so long. and myspace and friendster and orkut and aol and msn and Usenet and Dubsmash and vine and literally more sites than Wikipedi
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by hughesjj 3y ago
Well, except the mods, he doesn't pay them. Or the people who made moderator tooling to hack around his lack of moderator tooling. Or those who wrote entire third party apps to get around his lack of viable third party apps. Or those p
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by hughesjj 3y ago
Shit, it really does. I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised. I mean, YouTube comments and the like are rife with unintelligible prose. All those people talking in all caps run on unpunctuated sentences aren't uncommon, and tho
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by hughesjj 3y ago
Right before reddit shut down /r/programming was overrun with chatgpt bots
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by hughesjj 3y ago
You can also peg a known good version of Wikipedia and host it locally. That said I can't imagine trying to audit the whole shebang.
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by hughesjj 3y ago
I've seen the former happen for some GitHub docs and when enabling plugins. I agree there's cause for concern, and I hope it's a gradual rollout that's introspected in between each propagation of such, but I definitely t
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by hughesjj 3y ago
I've seen Lemmy paraded around, it ha promise but you gotta diy your community. My biggest concern with the fediverse is trust. Trust takes a while to establish. Looking back, man usenet's format was kinda similar to reddit wasn&
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by hughesjj 3y ago
In that case, wouldn't that select for generally likable people? Idk sounds like evolution to me. Of course, though, that's going to encode some existing biases in the data, but we could keep adding them to protected classes if s
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by hughesjj 3y ago
> For example, there are many people on HN who absolutely cannot comprehend why people prefer single family housing, with a yard, and a car. So much so, that I've considered writing an article from my perspective, about why I prefer
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by hughesjj 3y ago
"in an alternate reality" (/s) some media conglomerate invented equivalents of YouTube, reddit, and Twitter, and they never have to ask for permission to use your content in their pieces because it's part of the TOS for
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by hughesjj 3y ago
Isn't it like literally a data structure issue though? Like you have to route on prefixes? Like how else would you know where to go? Ip routing is kind of like a tree (not a graph) in the ip regards, how would you get around it? I ad
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by hughesjj 3y ago
So many network admins still prefer to configure smaller networks with IPv4 instead of ipv6 due to simplicity, then just nat peer it out Hell even AWS didn't start seriously supporting it until the mid 2010s... And heck I don't kn
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by hughesjj 3y ago
You sure? ..I think we need the source law that prevents California from spending all it's surplus to be sure. If it does count as spending, then increasing the rate of employer taxes so that other programs don't suffer because c
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by hughesjj 4y ago
> I imagine that merely operating the CPUs for ChatGPT requires 2.5 coal generators and 1.5 natural gas generators -- and merely changing the composition of our atmosphere is its 8th trick in a list of 155 'tricks to kill humans ver
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by hughesjj 4y ago
"soft underbelly" is synonymous with "weak point" or "Achilles heel", it's in no way dismissive. If anything, it's the opposite of dismissive.
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by hughesjj 4y ago
Bro documentation is notoriously terrible in almost all spaces. Gpt3.5 is like super Google, and gpt-4 is like a polymath in everything intern. Learning has never been easier for me, I'm stoked.
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by hughesjj 4y ago
100% this. It's also game changing for learning a new language (of any type, not just programming), any of the boring parts of software engineering like most programming tasks (it's like a personal intern -- sure you have to chec
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by hughesjj 4y ago
How is that over fitting? If code accomplishes a task with given requirements, it satisfies the problem. So many devs just copy paste code as is.
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by hughesjj 4y ago
Why? I'm significantly less productive and competent without tools, and this applies to every human I've ever known.
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by hughesjj 4y ago
chatgpt or gpt4? public copilot uses gpt3.5, as does non premium chatgpt.
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by hughesjj 4y ago
yup. we're (we=the public) far from getting access to the full model. that said one of the commentors in the twitter thread brings up how openapi isnt being fully forthcoming about their methods. AI Explained has a good summary of ma
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by hughesjj 4y ago
Yup, always drill down and get/provide more context for when something doesn't align/seems fishy. I've found WAYYYY too many of my issues were really just communications issues. Shits hard to navigate socially. That sai

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