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by jll29 9mo ago
In my view, to be brutally honest, a man smart enough to be at MIT should be smart enough to protect his family; it's not that we didn't already know Trump from his first presidency. His second time to be elected, but before he to
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The post tells you there is a single point of failure: if you wanted to DDOS OpenAI, you'd target write-heavy operations. For that reason, I find it actually bold that they disclosed it, and I appreciate it. The article reminded me of
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by jll29 9mo ago
Yeah, right - when PostgreSQL starts to struggle, Microsoft Azure CosmoDB[tm] comes to the rescue (mentioned 3x).
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There once was a lady in France, Whose right fist struck as if by chance; Her husband, called M...on, Said his eyesight was gone, “Just an eye infection, come on!”
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by jll29 9mo ago
> Charlie Brown, Donald Duck, Goofy, George Costanza, Eeyore to name a few. What about real people (not animation characters for children)? Could "Mr. Bean" only be created by the Brits, or if not, where is his U.S.-American co
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The great minds that - after WWII - built the new Europe had in mind that there should never be war again, which is best realized when former enemies become friends and closer bonds are established at multiple levels: politically, economica
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by jll29 9mo ago
I have a colleague who does that. My students then often ask me to do the same, to permit them to bring one page of notes as he does. Then I would say: just assume you're writing the exam with him and work on your one-pager of notes, o
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I like your "context" proposal, because it adds information about developer intention to error diagnostics, whereas showing e.g. a call stack would just provide information about the "what?", not the "why?" t
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Make sure to create a "Getting Started" video with Nano Banana.
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by jll29 9mo ago
Slightly off-topic: does anyone know how to reach Starlink by phone or email? They started billing me but I never received a sat dish. And their support Website is a chatbot :-(.
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What you say is true, but I'd like to add one point. What's toxic for childrens' development is the low bar of entertainment associated with something like an iPad connected to the Web: immediately, without any effort, you ge
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by jll29 9mo ago
Nice story; that's exactly why people always warn from the eval called "premature optimization without measurement".
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For what it's worth, as a O-1 scientist you have to provide evidence that you: ...are a member of scholarly/professional organizations; ...have published original research works scientifically and internationally (peer reviewed pu
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Not sure if he was told to stop the paper and fire the team, or whether he decided that himself. But in any case, it's a stain on an overwise exceptionally brilliant career with wonderful software engineering achievements. I wonder if
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To say "AI ethics is useless" is itself useless. Morality is not there to be useful, right or wrong in moral sense are normative categories not utilitarian ones. But what you possibly may mean is really AI ethics self-regulation b
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> But it doesn't show that the system isn't promoting bozos too, and keeping other excellent engineers down. Has anyone worked at GOOG and also other corporations? How do the alternative cultures compare?
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The OP's point is well-taken: a new language usually forces you to change 100% of your environment and tooling, whereas a new library respects your habits and preferences. I follow new language developments with keen interest, but few
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You can very well write that prompt from the top deck or from one of the office cabins on said yacht (no, not speaking from experience). I'm not envious of anyone's big yacht, but I wouldn't waste my money that way (you can p
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by jll29 9mo ago
Medically speaking, your proposal would perhaps prevent a lot of heart attack deaths. It has been shown that not working is not just unpleasant, it's a strong stressor [1,2]. [1] https://academic.oup.com/geronj/art
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How about finishing off that Ph.D., Mr. Brin (alas, you would need to find yourself a new supervisor, given Prof. Motwani's tragic drowning)?
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> Rust's philosophy, which is to find the best solution to the problems it's trying to solve, at any cost, including breaking compatibility, at least to some degree. But the Rust team found a great way to avoid breaking backwar
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BTW, the study referred to in 1.2, which claims that SQLite was faster than the file system is not supported by the numbers in the study referenced: https://github.com/chrisdavies/dbench
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It's good that tools create the OP's positive feeling about being on top of the full Web stack again. I just wish the tools that provides that feeling was a deterministic front-end code generator built from software technology and
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Given with yesterday's article on here about the issues of PGP, it looks like all software encryption short of a one-time pad are decorative. I like the idea of a key part of the the CPU (comment below); does anyone know why Intel&#x2F
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Both Pascal and C (and their offspring) are wonderful gifts for us to receive from their designers, and I enjoy writing code in both. > It's funny seeing the problems with C Niklaus Wirth pointed out originally still trying to be so
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[Hunspell has been very successful as the OP correctly points out, and my comments are intended to improve over the state of the art rather than badmouthing the fantastic work of its authors, two of who are friends of mine.] Hunspell uses a
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Communicating the number of XKCD comics, especially in binary, is a very efficient and energy-preserving way to get a laugh. A: 10000011101 ! B: ACK. LOL !
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There's no reason not to use Rust for LLM-generated code in the longer term (other than lack of Rust code to learn from in the shorter term). The stricter typing of Rust would make sematic errors in generated code come out more quickly
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Orkut Büyükkökten's orkut.com might have been a semi-private project (Google, like any company, doesn't normally name its products after first names of its coders). Also, as you say, it was populated by many Brazilians, an imbalan
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Perhaps time for a revival - text mode only, please, to keep out those that I don't want on there (the platform appearing too unattractive might be the way forward to avoid the TikTokers).

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