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901.
by jdiff 3y ago
Twitter did no such thing, Twitter now personally silences loud dissenters and engages openly in anticompetitive behavior meanwhile doing less moderation than they ever have. Plugging your ears and ignoring it is not "fixing" the
902.
by jdiff 3y ago
Apple's business model existing isn't an argument against other business models.
903.
by jdiff 3y ago
No, audio compression doesn't filter out high frequencies, that's just what computer audio as a whole does. And I don't think there's enough of those high frequency components in what humans typically record for a cat or
904.
by jdiff 3y ago
The article mentions the death of HDMI altmode. Is it actually widely supported?
905.
by jdiff 3y ago
It's like you said, "...our much older and simpler systems... keep us grounded in reality." Memory is far from infallible but human brains do contain knowledge and are capable of introspection. There can be false confidence,
906.
by jdiff 3y ago
Not really, because LLMs aren't human brains. Neural nets are nothing like neurons. LLMs are text predictors. They predict the next most likely token. Any true fact that happens to fall out of them is sheer coincidence.
907.
by jdiff 3y ago
Humans hallucinate far less readily than any LLM. And "years and years" of improvement have made no change whatsoever to their hallucinatory habits. Inductively, I see no reason to believe why years and years of further improvemen
908.
by jdiff 3y ago
Where's the evidence that upstream cares? Many package maintainers are also upstream project maintainers or contributors at a minimum. I may be "just" a user but as a user of the unstable version of my particular OS I've
909.
by jdiff 3y ago
No, just actually represent the situation accurately in what's supposed to be a good-faith discussion. Maybe provide any evidence of the claim you're making. It'd be appreciated.
910.
by jdiff 3y ago
Combined with the other changes that were also hastily and sloppily implemented and are now getting slowly rolled back, I think that strengthens the theory that Twitter was facing extreme capacity crunch and threw a whole bunch of slapstick
911.
by jdiff 3y ago
That's not what's happening in this report. This is answering the question of whether an all-encompassing metapackage should prefer to match upstream or integrate more with Debian's philosophy. "Upstream only tests with
912.
by jdiff 3y ago
I've used GNOME for a long time and never seen any sentiment like that. You'll also note that the GNOME project is split across many, many dozens of repos and isn't one enormous monorepo. I've also never seen a distro th
913.
by jdiff 3y ago
That's entirely up to your distro. The core GNOME shell doesn't require hardly any of this.
914.
by jdiff 3y ago
The problem is caring about productivity too much.There's more to life than your work output. A minmaxed, micro-optimized life is a horribly miserable one.
915.
by jdiff 3y ago
People were absolutely doing countdowns with gifs that were constructed and delivered to the client a frame at a time. I can't say that I personally ever saw any madman building a live chat feed with that technique but there's unf
916.
by jdiff 3y ago
Open source isn't a collaborative work environment though. It's a collaborative community effort. People will hang out, chat. That even goes for a work environment, honestly. People are people, people will get to know each other a
917.
by jdiff 3y ago
There's no reason to believe we can successfully run away from all the problem's technology's caused with more technology, specifically tech that doesn't even exist yet and that, more importantly, is not profitable. Even
918.
by jdiff 3y ago
Using ints forces you to deal with all that. Using floats lets you easily ignore it and sweep it under the rug.
919.
by jdiff 3y ago
Visibility has little impact on commonness. Something can be ubiquitous and invisible. That doesn't make something common-but-less-so rare.
920.
by jdiff 3y ago
Every browser I've come across suspends `requestAnimationFrame` callbacks when the page is not the focused tab. You won't be wasting resources, the animations will all suspend when you're not looking at them.
921.
by jdiff 3y ago
A footgun doesn't stop being a footgun with time. New generations of programmers and shell scripters are constantly rolling through and shooting their toes off. Just because there was a "well, that sucks, but it's the least w
922.
by jdiff 3y ago
It seems to have its output limited to a pretty short amount. Even natural language gets clipped after a paragraph or two.
923.
by jdiff 3y ago
Let's not get ahead of ourselves and assume we know how they'll turn out.
924.
by jdiff 3y ago
Is it? For a single-line function, that parses and runs just fine. Also it might just not have the text formatting of ChatGPT. That doesn't make it terrible, just makes it significantly less wieldy for formatting-heavy tasks like code,
925.
by jdiff 3y ago
People going off topic and talking about their lives in IRC isn't injecting politics, dude, it's human.
926.
by jdiff 3y ago
> a rule saying you shouldn't take drama from other sites to ours The inverse is also a problem, and it's the one addressed by that type of rule. Taking drama from this site to other sites. If someone has pre-existing beef with
927.
by jdiff 3y ago
I'm no PRNG expert but xoroshiro seems to fail a lot of statistical tests. It might be faster but it seems to be very deeply flawed.
928.
by jdiff 3y ago
Slick front page with one of the best documentation pages I've come across. A sprawling v4 rewrite is in the works and Julian seems to have been picking up steam on it lately.
929.
by jdiff 3y ago
There is no CoC in existence that goes full thought police on your full internet history. That's not nuance you're holding, it's straw.
930.
by jdiff 3y ago
Didn't say anything about copyright, in the US at least that's already been ruled on saying that the raw output of one of these models is not copyrightable. Being able to trace something back to a service can be useful anyway. Ima

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