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871.
by jprete 3y ago
I think I'd start by removing, at the hardware level, the ability of the IoT devices to do general computing and networking. They accept authenticated external control instructions, they execute the instructions, they physically cannot
872.
by jprete 3y ago
Whatever definition of “falsifying research” you have, AI is up to it. The best illustration is the lawyer earlier this year that assumed ChatGPt was truthful and used nonexistent references with complete text.
873.
by jprete 3y ago
You really think AI startups are valued based on the opinions of lawyers and experts? They’re valued based on whether the investors think they can find a bigger fool to hold the bag.
874.
by jprete 3y ago
Empirically it's worked out this way. It's true that it's less satisfying and less attractive, but these subjective adjectives are based on relevant objective truths, namely that LLMs are difficult or impossible to analyze fr
875.
by jprete 3y ago
I don't think I've ever heard of self-driving cars as a freedom-promoting technology. In fact, I remember self-driving car fans of a decade ago being very enthusiastic about the prospect of banning human drivers.
876.
by jprete 3y ago
The fact that it attempts to do more things can, in fact, make it more dangerous in the specific situations where a human interrupt is needed. Human attention works better the more it is needed, so if you need a human in the loop, you'
877.
by jprete 3y ago
AVs aren't complementary to public transit, though. From the customer perspective, the only difference between an AV car service and a taxi service is that one of them has a human driver. Why would any taxi customer take a three-leg tr
878.
by jprete 3y ago
I'm not sure what your point is. Many software engineers blatantly pattern-match and copy-paste code to try to get their own stuff to work without understanding what's really going on. This is a long-standing complaint in the indu
879.
by jprete 3y ago
Thank you for pointing that out.
880.
by jprete 3y ago
The ottoman has a much smaller contact surface with the pizza than a coffee cup has with the coffee.
881.
by jprete 3y ago
> There's plenty of places where you can pay a nominal free to have your data 100% controlled by you alone. Do you happen to have a list handy? If I had to do this today the only clear way would be a personal cloud setup.
882.
by jprete 3y ago
Having to go to court in itself and spend literally months or years with the possibility of being sentenced to most of the rest of your life in prison is itself a very severe punishment.
883.
by jprete 3y ago
I would expect the distribution of inconsistencies and errors to be the same for both sets of topics, in the absence of any other information.
884.
by jprete 3y ago
This isn’t true; it’s entirely based on the contract. E.g. I believe wedding photographers usually make contracts to retain all copyrights. They either sell the couple prints of particular photos, or sell them a license to make more copies
885.
by jprete 3y ago
IANAL, but as far as I know, the artist gets it by default in absence of a contract that specifically assigns it to the other party. It’s possible there are special rules around salaried employees but even then I’d expect almost all businee
886.
by jprete 3y ago
Someone concerned about this is likely to do first-party filming and sign that instead. Of course it’s still word against word unless the camera itself implements the signing protocol.
887.
by jprete 3y ago
If they violate their own terms, nothing happens until someone knows about it and is inclined to act against them.
888.
by jprete 3y ago
Why do people bring this up? People are not LLMs and the issues are not the same.
889.
by jprete 3y ago
This and Substack are the last two places I still regularly read Internet content.
890.
by jprete 3y ago
That sounds like a five-minute job.
891.
by jprete 3y ago
I have to congratulate you on how close this comes to invoking Poe’s Law.
892.
by jprete 3y ago
The annotation does need to be propagated backwards to callers and declarers - and there needs to be a way to "annotate" an existing pointer in the scopes where you've proven that it's not null - but that's better t
893.
by jprete 3y ago
I had to look this up: Motorways in the UK have hard shoulders, and several categories of traffic are not allowed: learners, slow vehicles, pedestrians, and bicycles. They typically do not have traffic lights and the right (innermost) lane
894.
by jprete 3y ago
For what it’s worth, at least this is the kind of brain fart screwup a novice driver would actually do. “Hmm, I was looking at the radio, that guy next to me is moving, I can’t quite see the light, it must be green.” (Source: I think I did
895.
by jprete 3y ago
I think this is a fair view, but C++ has a lot of flaws. It's good enough that it's very hard to justify switching away from it, and it will be a good resume language for quite a long time, but I would hesitate to start any new pr
896.
by jprete 3y ago
std::variant is really cumbersome to use. When people talk about first-class support for tuples, std::tuple does not fit that bill.
897.
by jprete 3y ago
Ah, back when people believed things they saw on the Internet.
898.
by jprete 3y ago
I think the author is simply weak at English, although there are some typos that really should have been corrected even in non-idiomatic English (e.g. missing spaces between words). Really, as long as the premise, evidence, and results are
899.
by jprete 3y ago
I mostly agree with you. But I think great writers have, instead, earned the skill of when and how to be wordy for desired effect.
900.
by jprete 3y ago
Weak writing though. The sentences form a deliberate parallel structure, making it clear how the two voices differ.

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