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by jprete 2y ago
I'm semi-convinced my current doctor is using ChatGPT to write messages to me. I'd rather she sent 2000s hyperabbreviated chatspeak than read another trite statement about how "she" "understands" my human reaso
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I've never been able to see any benefit in this because typing the code takes much less time than deciding what code should be there. I could get a little bit of benefit out of an autocomplete that only showed legal suggestions, but ev
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Quote from the post: > As someone who still sometimes develops web things, I need to be able to see the web as users see it, not as some elite cadre of tech enthusiasts gets to enjoy it. He's empathizing with users that can't o
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Rvalue references et al are a valuable addition to the language if you're trying to avoid gratuitous copying. The performant alternative is a messy variety of functions that have the same effect as move semantics, except with ad hoc (o
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To run anti-cheat in that way, you need all game mechanics to be run server-side, and you need to not let the client ever know about something the player should not know - e.g. in a first-person shooter you need to run visibility and oc
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LLMs aren't an abstraction, even a very leaky one, so the analogies with compilers and the like really fall flat for me.
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Really it's not revealing anything at all about the value of essay-writing as a skill. It's just revealing that people will cheat in ways that are hard to directly prove, and grading writing is really hard when people have access
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I used to care, but eventually got good Bluetooth earbuds and haven't looked back. Credibly waterproof phones are a big selling point although there's still fine print on warranty coverage. I think it's still the case that Bl
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All of your communications make me think you have no specific knowledge of anything technical to bring to the table.
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If I remember correctly, both Bernie Madoff and SBF had a vast number of victims of all economic classes. I think this is more related to the ability to build a criminal case.
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I've read that this movie is, at best, wildly out of date. I can't say for sure since I have no direct experience of the subject.
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I'm not a psychiatrist, but it might be hard to tell them from the psychotics who can model the standard view of the world well enough, for long enough, to lie to the police about their condition. More practically, I doubt they get uns
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by jprete 2y ago
Yes, I agree and this annoys me. From a privacy perspective, it's still better to have fifty siloed data stores that aren't allowed to mix than for your data to be in a single large store that can do whatever it wants.
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The law doesn't ignore the history. Two identical objects can most definitely differ in legality.
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IANAL but I think for the specific dismissed claims in this specific case, reproduction is the issue, and it doesn't indicate anything about training. I think it would be extremely hard to make claims against GitHub for training AI wit
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by jprete 2y ago
This headline is deeply misleading, it's the author's prediction rather than an actual announcement.
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That's an inherently biased sample, so not that useful for research.
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A huge part of the arbitrage here is cost of living and cost of labor across national borders. They'd never make the same aboveboard doing employment assistance because their clients would all get locally competitive salaries, which ar
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by jprete 2y ago
I am one of those people! I got over it once during the Doom era, then a second time during the Counterstrike era. I keep trying to get used to it a third time but it hasn't worked. I don't know whether the games changed rendering
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by jprete 2y ago
I get what you mean, but that stops mattering with companies that go into full enshittification mode. Your point only applies when tacit cultural norms have power, not when they're being broken for all the advantage companies (and peop
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by jprete 2y ago
Clever. I definitely figured it "had" a limit that varies by path - I'm not a mathematician but I instinctively distrust singularities like this one's 0/0. But it's a surprise to see a function whose limit vari
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by jprete 2y ago
You're absolutely right on a legal basis, but people (and companies) act on a spectrum between "legal", "moral", and "what I can get away with".
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I think the two errors - imagining non-existent rules, and ignoring rules that exist - are related errors. The foundational skill is accepting that the machine is never wrong because the machine is also never "right", the machine
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Coding requires a willingness to understand and manipulate systems made of unbreakable rules. Most people don't want to deal with such an uncompromising method of communication.
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Is the word only for unpleasant surprises, or for all such situations, even when the surprising outcome is also a good one?
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I don't have the source anymore, but it was an article about why Patreon is successful and other similar platforms/systems aren't. The per-creation billing option was described as a way for creators to create on their own sch
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Optimization is one of the more useful terms for it, but I think a big part of the problem is foundational. It's easier to trade in measurable values than unmeasurable ones, so the trades with something measurable on both sides get pri
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I guess they felt, correctly, that they were not just making a weld, not just making an engine or a rocket, but helping to put people on the moon. "Building a cathedral", indeed.
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It sounds like they're outright killing per-creation patronage, so...yes? This seems to affect all their users?
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I remember reading that per-creation billing is a very important feature for Patreon creators, because it removes the moral obligation to produce content just to justify a subscription. If Patreon really doesn't want to kill the featur

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