kazinator

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by kazinator 1mo ago
If you've had to delete 10 posts by the same user, which you suspect is an AI agent, it's safe to say that deleting all posts ever made by that user is a good shortcut.
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by kazinator 1mo ago
Maybe the Wiki needs better tooling, that lets you do the equivalent of "rm -rf" on a whole subgraph of pages.
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by kazinator 1mo ago
You use tooling or workflows that blindly do "git add" of everything for you under the hood, so of course you advocate .gitignoring everything. The unifying theme is, operate on everything and sort it out somehow. I've worked
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by kazinator 1mo ago
> That is about as bad as it gets and meant that any delay in patching was an existential risk of imminent compromise. Overdramatized. It means compromise if you delay patching and don't take the unpatched deployment offline. Oh
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by kazinator 1mo ago
Microsoft Bob's non-compete finally expired.
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by kazinator 1mo ago
A lot of ethical behavior is actually invented by the higher classes to imbue the lower classes with self-policing. It's a social pattern across pretty much all human civilizations that have been.
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by kazinator 1mo ago
Had them in Europe in the 1970's on kids' tricycles. I remember leaving rubber marks on the pavement by locking these things up hard while turning the steering.
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by kazinator 1mo ago
> Where is all this love for coaster brakes coming from?! Nowhere. They have pretty much disappeared from bikes for adults. Even the bicycle-shaped objects. The article mentions Shimano internal gear hubs with coaster brakes, but I thi
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by kazinator 1mo ago
> “Pedal backwards. Really?” That's a good test for blowing the cover of extraterrestrial imposters posing as human beings. They don't know about pedaling backwards to stop a bike, because they were never a four-year-old huma
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by kazinator 1mo ago
Proposal: "Chain-of-slop monitoring"
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by kazinator 1mo ago
Yes, when you pay to use a copy of copyrighted work, you're not owning the work in the sense of obtaining the right to redistribute. That is completely separate from the question of whether you are buying your copy to permanently use,
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by kazinator 1mo ago
In science, they are all fruit, but an apple is a "false fruit". In cuisine, they are vegetables.
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by kazinator 1mo ago
And fitting; since by means of a vote we messed up the definition of planet, we omit from the acronym the claim that we are naming planets.
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by kazinator 1mo ago
> manual control to not blow your speaker or your ears or both. Distinct from the volume knob? It could be that rather than completely disabling AGC, it switches to milder compression. Another idea is that while tuning, we can delay th
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by kazinator 1mo ago
If that writer had consumed terabytes of text, and in spite of not perfectly memorizing all of it could quite accurately predict the next word from a sample of it, and still couldn't vary their word choice and sentence structure, somet
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by kazinator 1mo ago
> Apple argues that when trade secret information is fed into an AI agent or model that learns from it, that learning “may create irreversible and continually propagating uses of the trade secret.” But they've accepted the busines
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by kazinator 1mo ago
> The eye is especially useful because the AGC action tends to increase the audio volume of a mistuned station, so the volume varies relatively little as the tuning knob is turned. The tuning eye was driven by the AGC voltage rather tha
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by kazinator 1mo ago
Can't you construct the link at run-time from obfuscated pieces, and only show it according to some halfway clever condition?
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by kazinator 1mo ago
They probably procrastinated all their deadlines and then fibbed things.
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by kazinator 1mo ago
The issue is not one of showing a native name plus an English-language exonym. For the time being, the lake has two native, English-language names. Neither name is an exonym. Lake Ontario is not a Canadian lake being called by a different n
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by kazinator 1mo ago
> Pluto represents the underdog ... I see what Schindler did there!
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by kazinator 1mo ago
Actually, that by itself isn't as stupid as it seems. Half of Lake Ontario is in the USA. Suppose that the USA actually had a legitimate, long-standing, respected name for the lake, different from Lake Ontario. It would be a good idea
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by kazinator 1mo ago
If you can't be magnanimous, be maganymous. Invent maganyms for places.
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by kazinator 1mo ago
Mainstream LLMs are trained on tests that contain vast amounts of falsehood, so even if they did work by memorizing facts, they would be memorizing counter-facts. Pick any topic in which misinformation is spread by crackpots. (Especially a
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by kazinator 1mo ago
Nope; here is 2013 research about it: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22527312/ And 1991: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/004269... It has to do with stray lig
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by kazinator 1mo ago
https://archive.is/hllsk
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by kazinator 1mo ago
The engineer guiding them only scales to a certain amount of output, complexity and churn.
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by kazinator 1mo ago
> human coders for the most part have been really awful at writing code. They are better when copying and pasting expert code, even when they don't understand it.
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by kazinator 1mo ago
> that process of identification was the process of naming it. No, it wasn't. Entities can be identified without being named, by relationships to other entities and class and such. That identification requires words. Not all denot
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by kazinator 1mo ago
The claim is false. There is not a thing that cannot be given a name. If it is a thing, it can be given a name. You take that thing into the discourse and say, "let this thing be X", and now it has a name. What cannot be given a n

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