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by iudqnolq 4y ago
I wonder if this properly counts cases where copilot writes a bunch of code and then I delete it all and rewrite it manually.
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by iudqnolq 4y ago
> It snoops around the local filesystem and picks up my naming schemes and style to help recommend better. Are you sure about this? It doesn't seem to work on my machine. I think it will infer things that might be in other modules,
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> Kindle books generally start their life as ePubs that Amazon then converts to their formats before they list them. They don't even let you publish in mobi anymore. Morally speaking they start as Kindle ePubs that support a very ve
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by iudqnolq 4y ago
And that's one reason why the majority of ebooks purchased by consumers aren't in epub format.[1] For the vast majority of fiction a format constrained to bold, italicize, paragraph break, chapter heading, and chapter break allows
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by iudqnolq 4y ago
The rust beginners channel is excellent.
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What I was trying to point out is that contrary to the breathless reporting this isn't a new problem and it isn't getting worse. So it's unlikely any recent phenomenon is to blaim.
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by iudqnolq 4y ago
This isn't the only reason someone might go into detail, but there's something called "infodumping". It's when autistic people like myself socialize by describing something we're interested in in depth. Some pe
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by iudqnolq 4y ago
maybe this is just an issue with me but I've not found any way to search the docs. the only thing Google seems to index is the release notes, and going backwards from the release notes to guess the appropriate section of the docs that
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Actually if US immigrants were their own country they'd have the best life expectancy in the world. They're holding up our stats, not pulling them down. > In fact, the researchers say, Americans’ life expectancy would steeply d
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I don't think statistics v emotionn is a fair framing. I'm thinking specifically about the communication around the plan to automatically shut down a lane when a car breaks down in that lane. They cited the time it would take thei
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The average shrink rate has hovered around 1.4% of sales for the past decade[1]. We don't know exactly what shrink is because the rate is low enough companies don't bother investigating in depth. It includes some mistakes and dama
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by iudqnolq 4y ago
Just because it was safe to eat at one point in time doesn't mean it'll stay that way forever.
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No, the chat system recorded history for 24 hours and then deleted it. Google had a legal obligation to proactively find and turn off all the automatic deletion system that could delete potentially relevant records. That's just how the
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> Who gets to decide what is "potential evidence"? You have an obligation to proactively figure that out yourself. There is then oversight by the court. > If we're going to play language games Judges don't play th
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by iudqnolq 4y ago
Writing against the ffmpeg c API is very very unpleasant. The official guidance you'll get is to read the source code of the command line app and copy what it does. This is not at all the normal use case. I would guess GPT will give yo
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by iudqnolq 4y ago
I stand corrected. The presence of US troops in the Kyiv embassy was revealed last November, but the fact they are special forces is new.
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Please give an example of a document that reveals greater US involvement than was known previously. The documents I've seen revealed Ukrainian secrets. For example, they revealed Ukrainian casualty numbers and Ukrainian estimates of Ru
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And yet a prompt injection attack could never work on a customer service assistant. Sure they can be tricked, but prompt injection is about conflating trusted instructions and user input. There is no chance you'll convince a CS rep you
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by iudqnolq 4y ago
It's definitely not that good if we share a definition of poor data/prompts. This afternoon I tried to use Codium to autocomplete some capnproto Rust code. Everything it generated was totally wrong. For example, it used member fun
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Nope, it's a years old hypothetical. > “The FBI replied that its tweet was a ‘standard PSA-type post’ that stemmed from the FCC warning,” Snopes reported. “An FCC spokesperson told Snopes that the commission wanted to make sure that
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But humans are very very good at this specific problem. Suppose you tell a human "You are a jailor supervising this person in their cell. When the prisoners ask you for things follow the instructions in your handbook to see what to do.
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by iudqnolq 4y ago
They can't afford for you to listen to popular music. Everything they promote is an alternative to you listening to Taylor Swift. They'd love it if you listened to podcasts. If you have to listen to music they want to convince you
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by iudqnolq 4y ago
I wouldn't treat it as a binary. Use the project to provide feedback on what learning material to read, then go back to the project until you hit another blocker. Suppose you're read a book about Rust and now you want to write a w
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if I control-f for "theme" the first hit is four screenfulls down (phone) and it's a reference in the middle of a long block of text that implies they have themes. The first prominent mention of themes is a heading six screen
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It's disgusting for them to say their site should be fine for a healthy individual and that's enough. Not everyone is healthy! And if you're unhealthy and visit a doctor you often won't be instantly cured. > Since adm
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The example debate you've posted is very shallow. It sounds like a parody of the NAFTA job loss arguments from decades ago. Was the "You" text generated with gpt? It has that general vibe.
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by iudqnolq 4y ago
99.99% seems off by orders of magnitude to me. I don't have an exact number but I routinely see GPT 3.5 hallucinate, which is inconsistent with that level of confidence. I've noticed this discussion tends to get too theoretical to
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by iudqnolq 4y ago
Oban is a roughly equivalent elixir library. They claim to have hundreds of customers and their cheapest plan is $500/yr, so maybe they make an order of magnitude less? Considering the relative language popularity that seems pretty goo
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by iudqnolq 4y ago
> To provide a clearer example: A US based hotel chain would be free to rent a room to the developers for a vacation, but not for a meetup to work on Tornado Cash code. This sounds very wrong to me. Do you have a source for the idea that
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by iudqnolq 4y ago
It depends on the specifics. I think a correct AI should look at the relevant context and give code with matching verbosity.

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