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by jahewson 2y ago
Why would I ever use perl5 instead of just using AWK? /s
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by jahewson 2y ago
Unfortunately this still results in plenty of hallucinations.
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by jahewson 2y ago
The difference for me is when the menu gets large then it becomes laborious to scroll through a long linear menu vs a rectangular representation of that same data - which allows for much shorter scrolls. Imagine the menu on a restaurant was
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by jahewson 2y ago
Not illegal, because this would be a civil case. But they’re on thin ice because there’s a big difference between “creating something like Her” and “creating something like Scarlet Johansson’s performance in Her”.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Not necessarily, because this would be a civil matter, the burden of proof is a preponderance of the evidence - it’s glaring obvious that this voice is emulating the movie Her and I suspect it wouldn’t be hard to convince a jury.
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by jahewson 2y ago
A frequently touched surface isn’t going to have a problem with oxidation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_rubbing
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by jahewson 2y ago
Set up a company selling remarkably over-priced “medical” door handles and healthcare providers will fall over themselves to buy them.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Allow me to introduce you to Moore’s law…
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by jahewson 2y ago
Ha ha, but no. For starters, copyright falls under federal law and contacts under state law, so it’s not even possible to make this claim in the relevant court.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Instead of a plastic 3D print you might be able to get away with CNC milled foam.
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by jahewson 2y ago
No, no, the government interjecting themselves into housing and creating an artificial scarcity, to aid their favoured voters at the time, is the problem. The idea that the solution to this is not to have the government step back but to hav
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by jahewson 2y ago
Several have! There’s no consensus on the relationship though. Some cases it does, some cases it doesn’t. Unions are a big factor.
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by jahewson 2y ago
“Let’s just abolish capitalism”. Seriously though, a world in which the government runs the economy and picks the winners is a bad one indeed.
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by jahewson 2y ago
This is the 2nd dumbest conspiracy theory ever.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Is it just me or is that not an even grander meta-meta-narrative?
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by jahewson 2y ago
Sorry but moving the goalpost from “one of the safest places to be in the country” to “one of the safest big cities in the country” is not fair game. The US has over 19,000 cities and you discarded all but 91 of them.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Surely Nvidia buying a company in the space increases competition? They have sizeable resources to throw behind their new company. The number of players in the space is the same today as it was yesterday. Remember that many startups are hea
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by jahewson 2y ago
No you’re missing the point - the good intentions don’t matter because they have no impact on the monetary reality - what actually happens is you unleash inflation, just like Trump’s tax cuts, Bidens’s stimulus and ironically-named “Inflati
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by jahewson 2y ago
One reason not to do that is the sales and marketing lead time. Every time marketing changes something there’s a 2 week lag before they can measure the conversion impact. With your usage-based trial concept that lag time becomes indefinite.
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by jahewson 2y ago
This project looks to be long-dead, so the advantage would appear to be that johnny-five is alive.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Would it help the economy though? It helps to think of our current super-rich as an outcome of the asset bubble that currently exists in our economy, due to the fed’s post-2008 money printing; because it’s stock that accounts for most of th
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by jahewson 2y ago
As someone who has studied both computer science and molecular biology at postgraduate level I can tell you that the chance of LLMs leading to higher probability of a “bio-attack” compared with a quick Google search is zero. Do you know how
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by jahewson 2y ago
Extradition is only possible in cases where both countries have (approximately) equivalent laws and the crime is sufficiently serious.
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by jahewson 2y ago
How about some liability placed on members of government for their hopeless legislating? As developers of law shouldn’t they accept responsibility for the harms they cause?
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by jahewson 2y ago
> things like dual use/ITAR apply explicitly to commercial products No, just no. Have you ever been to a University?
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by jahewson 2y ago
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
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by jahewson 2y ago
That’s like banning cars because some people use them to run over other people.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Nothing drives fear into my heart like the phrase “best practices”. Never in my career has it ever meant anything remotely reasonable.
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by jahewson 2y ago
This is a strawman argument. LLMs, like books, are not inherently dangerous. Grenades are, and lack any legitimate purpose beyond indiscriminate killing. LLMs are functions of their training data, nothing more. This is evidenced by how we s
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by jahewson 2y ago
A great many open source maintainers are employed by a corporation that pays them well, if not fantastically well, for maintaining it. Over time, the trend has been increasingly in that direction.

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