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by joquarky 5mo ago
There was an episode in one of the earlier seasons where Homer falls asleep while driving with a dreamlike montage and when it aired it had this nice little guitar melody, but the song was replaced in all later inatances. I still get that o
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by joquarky 5mo ago
> It's not bad to have it per se It might be bad to have it if the user can obtain the system prompt and make note of any advisories as potential weaknesses.
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by joquarky 5mo ago
What are they even doing with all of this data collection, especially considering that ads still are terrible at pertaining to my interests?
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by joquarky 5mo ago
There is a company that makes a plurality of government software that still used VBScript-based HTML pages that required IE7 compatibility mode for their court management software when I left a few years ago.
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by joquarky 5mo ago
Why would documents have menus? Menus are for applications. And there was nothing wrong with tables for layout, especially back then when the alternatives were very brittle.
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by joquarky 5mo ago
As an aside: why have we allowed marketing people to take over?
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Many people can't abide being something other than the center of the universe, and they get antsy when something might challenge that "unique" position. Imagine if we had social media during the flip from geocentrism.
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by joquarky 5mo ago
I don't hear them refer to themselves as "job creators" much these days. And many of them still claim they are "risk takers", but have effectively insulated themselves from risk by socializing losses.
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Which country are you alluding to?
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by joquarky 5mo ago
When people start using financial terminology outside the natural context, it's either gish gallop or justifying antisocial behavior.
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by joquarky 5mo ago
Its like growing a crop. Except the farmer demands you grow while stomping all over you, and then reserves the fertilizer for the dying crops.
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In the US at least, it is also facilitated by a legislature that is older than color TV.
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This is going to suck for whoever is going to have to explain this to juries.
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Require them to get liability insurance like other important professions.
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by joquarky 5mo ago
> and the other side actually has reasons that you haven’t bothered to consider? Such as?
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by joquarky 5mo ago
You're assigning human capabilities to fancy linear algebra.
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by joquarky 5mo ago
They became obsolete when they stopped clearing obstacles, stopped masking politics, and started acting as a proxy for JIRA. But it's just they way it has always been done, so they get paid to meddle.
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by joquarky 5mo ago
You don't need different models, just different contexts (optimally with different personas).
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I'm starting to think that those who are most aggressively expressive about low quality from these tools are the same who expect everything to be a one shot.
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by joquarky 5mo ago
We are currently in the process of exploiting all short term gains at the cost of long term stability.
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by joquarky 5mo ago
Just FYI, some of us down vote for complaining about down votes.
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by joquarky 5mo ago
> because if it works then they were on the bandwagon, and if it doesn’t work, well then, how could they have known because “Everyone was deceived.” They call themselves "risk takers" to justify their high pay.
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That depends on the company. I worked at an S&P 500 company that muddled along like this. They still make critical software for local and state governments.
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Unfortunately, you're fighting an endless battle. Copyright maximalists always move the goalposts when you pin them down.
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by joquarky 5mo ago
> That doesn't mean that they shouldn't own the right to control What value system grants the right to control what you make? Outside human culture, where does nature exhibit this value?
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Does this matter anymore when everything can be reverse engineered?
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by joquarky 5mo ago
I wonder which is more valuable: commercial movies, TV, music, and games or intellectual freedom?
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by joquarky 5mo ago
> productivity will be so high that we will need to do very little work for a superior standard of living Who is "we" in this statement? How will these gains go to those who need housing, healthcare, and education? The current
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by joquarky 5mo ago
UBI is not a solution either, as it will inevitably fall into the same traps and favoritism as tax laws.
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That's because we built very fast computers to simulate them.

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