jasonfarnon

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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
"then no amount of surveillance could possibly help prevent crimes, petty and otherwise. just look at the UK." I don't understand your argument. Are you suggesting surveillance cameras are somehow less effective in diverse so
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
do we know the debt is "imaginary"? Was this inventory seized in satisfaction of some debt.
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
Do you know all these involved parties aren't mormons in some mormon area/mormon company? Eg the old guy, the franchisee?
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
Actually I was on the defensive. About a month after it happened he said, "Oh I was on your computer and saw a bunch of files where you saved our chats...wtf?" "Um, I just thought,, in the future...it might be interesting to
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
I logged with AIM which was a pain, at least for the late 90s version I was using, bc you had to save each chat manually. Then a Kramer-like friend wandered over when I wasn't home, got on my computer, came across the saved chats, and
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
"your friend just doesn't want to search for new music, and that is ok, it's ok to be lazy" Actually it seems to me like what the friend was doing required a lot more effort than "searching for new music". This
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
Did you prefer the Yahoo/internet frontpage approach to google search though? I didn't, but I remember a time when it was a live debate. It has been interesting to see some sites like youtube or wikipedia evolve a quasi-hierarchic
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
You must not have spent much time looking at derivative lawsuits if you think this is weird. Anyway if ABC could convincingly classify this as a business decision, e.g., a question of the maintaining goodwill, maybe they're OK. If this
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
I'm not defending the honor code or anything, but photocopying students' exams seems like an end-run around the policy.
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
It would be a nice thread on here, to see what people's first hacks were, especially from that era when people were usually just alone and stumbling on these things.
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
Don't I remember doom developing pretty organically from wolfenstein and a few other (what would now be called) first person shooters around that time? The name "hexen" is coming to mind too. I would put that whole era as the
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
OK, I didn't realize they had a stable website all this time. I guess it's all out there in the open with these groups.
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
This seems like a nice compromise. The news orgs get to keep the initial flurry of page views while the free information/universal library role of the Internet is maintained. But still those magazines will want to control their back ca
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
they're stealing page views
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
How does everyone know its ShinyHunters and not someone pretending? I imagine they have some mechanism to authenticate, I'm curious what it is.
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
A fine or sentence is probably on the books but it never comes to that. The main thing is to freeze the family's assets, and more importantly to publicize this procedure so the mafia or whoever knows there's no point in threatenin
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
I interpret "faster than AI" to include writing the prompt. For me (scientific computing) it is more often than not faster to write out a simulation or design in a language I know inside out like fortran or mathematica than explic
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
"has essentially destroyed the shareware model (which was the best way to discover software in the 80s-90s)" funny, I was thinking the same thing with "shareware model" replaced by "warez model".
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
"There's nothing about being a non-native English speaker that prevents you from being proficient." This is the comment's point. We're talking about proxies and correlations here, not physical law.
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
No. Few college or professional coaches weren't themselves college or professional players. Think of all those assistant coaches, QB coaches, DB coaches etc.--all players. Mike Leach comes to mind as a rare counterexample.
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by jasonfarnon 5mo ago
No, what's misguided is equating the legal definition of consent ("It's in the ToS") with actual consent. When everyone (especially google) knows 99% of users don't read the ToS. Can they sue over it in a court of l
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by jasonfarnon 6mo ago
" can be attributed to language choice or role-play." Well, what role? I imagine if the role is "drug dealer" it doesn't work so it can't be "role-play" per se. Does it work with "nazi"? Are
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by jasonfarnon 6mo ago
Was it that only the 85 could connect to a com port, but then you could connect the 85 to the 82/83? I seem to remember pleading with the one kid with an 85 (who didn't even care about games).
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by jasonfarnon 6mo ago
"Anyone know if this is how human cultures form/propagate?" I don't know but can confidently tell you anyone who claims to know is full of it.
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by jasonfarnon 6mo ago
What tier are you using? I have run lots of problems and am very impressed, but I find stupid errors a lot more frequently than that, e.g., arithmetic errors buried in a derivation or a bad definition, say 1/15 times. I would love to g
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by jasonfarnon 6mo ago
and you can be sure mathematicians spent way more than 80 hrs on it
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by jasonfarnon 6mo ago
Yes, but don't we expect GPT 5.5 Pro will eventually be a free tier? Maybe I'm missing something because I only use the free tier. But the free tier has gotten way better over the last few years. I'm pretty sure, based on des
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by jasonfarnon 6mo ago
Is there a known lag that it takes the Pro plan's abilities to migrate to the free plans?
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by jasonfarnon 6mo ago
Also, it's one thing if the AI age means we all have to adopt to using AI as a tool, another thing entirely if it means the only people who can do useful research are the ones with huge budgets.
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by jasonfarnon 6mo ago
"When you use abstractions you are still deterministically creating something you understand in depth with individual pieces you understand." I always thought the point of abstraction is that you can black-box it via an interface.

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