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by kijin 1y ago
Only if the GPT companies can resist the temptation of all that advertising $$$. I'll give them at most 3 years before sponsored links begin appearing in the output and "AI optimization" becomes a fashionable service alongsid
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by kijin 1y ago
True. Major search engines and bots from social networks have a clear value proposition: in exchange for consuming my resources, they help drive human traffic to my site. GPTBot et al. will probably do the same, as more people use AI to rep
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by kijin 1y ago
Contrived examples are okay if they help trigger a click in the reader's mind, "wow, I could use this to solve problem X in an actual project!" The difficulty with these examples is that they are very different from the actua
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by kijin 1y ago
In 13 years, the Unix timestamp will probably be a much bigger problem.
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Liquid pyramids that rearrange their own molecular structure in response to a gravitational field. They're like self-landing rockets, but cooler and cuter.
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by kijin 1y ago
<permission> looks like only the elements inside will have access to the feature. But we all know that's not how permissions work.
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by kijin 1y ago
According to a traditional East Asian world view, your life is influenced by the powers that govern each unit of time -- hour, day, month, year -- that you pass through. Under this system, the number of distinct powers that you were influen
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by kijin 1y ago
Korean age is a hack that helps ease the friction that all those rules of seniority and different speech levels impose on us. It gives you an age bracket within which everyone is equal, once and for all, regardless of their exact date of bi
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by kijin 1y ago
For most advertisers, sure, there's no need to go all the way back to the training data. Advertisers want immediate results. Training takes too long and has uncertain results. Much easier to target the prompt instead. If you're so
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by kijin 1y ago
Pen on paper, written without consulting any digital display. Just like exams used to be, before the pandemic. Of course, the output will be no more valuable to the society at large than what a random student writes in their final exam.
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by kijin 1y ago
Only a small number of packages in Debian belong in contrib and non-free. Redis is safely in main. Ubuntu throws 90% of its packages in universe and doesn't even bother to pull security fixes from Debian. It's absolutely irrespons
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by kijin 1y ago
You're right about Debian. Ubuntu is a different story. You're probably better off using an alternative repository for anything important that you find in the "universe" repo. That stuff is not "distro-maintained&qu
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by kijin 1y ago
Redis has always been in universe as well. Most things in Ubuntu are in universe and practically unmaintained. Getting your software into the default package managers is not necessarily the best choice for a new and fast-moving project. You
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Yeah, since they use so much bamboo, it might be feasible to grade the pipes by thickness and/or some other objective measure of strength. Heck, they probably already do, informally. As for imperfections, the bamboo masters seem to kno
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by kijin 1y ago
There is no scarcity of diamonds for industrial use, only for ornamental use -- and both are equally "real". An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold. Apart from the cost of turning it into a desired shape, gold is entirely fungible.
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by kijin 1y ago
Gravity is boring, at least in Newtonian physics. It involves a whole bunch of calculation but not much to experiment with IRL. Alchemy on the other hand was the perfect hobby for any medieval or early modern nerd. Alchemists were basically
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by kijin 1y ago
130+ cardinals aren't going to be stuck in Sistine Chapel for months just to assuage some hypothetical concerns about America.
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by kijin 1y ago
Yeah, it's a neat trick but kinda pointless. In a world with CDNs and HTTP/2, all this does is waste bandwidth in order to look slightly better in artificial benchmarks. It might improve time to first paint by 10-20ms, but this is
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by kijin 1y ago
Loyalty develops naturally in a good relationship. It's a fruit to be cherished, but it's not a goal that you should pursue for its own sake. There's no point in asking first, whether employers should be loyal to their employ
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by kijin 1y ago
Looks like they got their hands on a dataset of every restaurant that is licensed to serve alcohol -- or at least a decent subset of such restaurants, filtered by menu or whatever. I checked a few dots near where I live and they're all
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by kijin 2y ago
With medications, 1% chance of a traumatic side effect is indeed considered very serious.
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by kijin 2y ago
It looks like this startup tried to hack the system by streamlining one of the key mechanisms of artificial constraint: the difficulty of getting permits. Not a fundamental cure, of course, but it sounds like a promising hack to squeeze out
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by kijin 2y ago
> Prima donna developers who publicly call managers/teammates stupid in meetings ... (snip) ... telling newer team members to get a new job if they don't like how things are done. I think the author covers that point to some ex
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by kijin 2y ago
Apple watch maybe. Most people don't wear full-size phones on their wrists...
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Not really. You can access any Korean bank or government website using Chrome, and they actually recommend Chrome these days. They still want to install a bunch of programs on your computer, though. It's more or less the same stuff tha
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I saw a fair amount of that kind of behavior, too, mostly around the summer of last year. At some point it dropped off sharply. Over the last few months, at least for the servers I keep an eye on, most of the trouble has been from Chinese c
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by kijin 2y ago
Exactly. They're renting infrastructure on well-known clouds, not cycling through consumer IPs like yesterday's botnets. Block all web traffic from well-known cloud IPs, and you can keep 99% of the LLM bots away. Alibaba seems to
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by kijin 2y ago
If it's a menu or toolbar and it mentions GEGL, it's wrong. GEGL is not something that end users should have to care about. Not to mention superfluous, since almost every fancy operation uses GEGL under the hood anyway.
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It's also about risk management from the government's perspective. You don't want to be beholden to a potentially hostile foreign corporation for tasks as essential as managing your own documents. Compared to how much money t
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It's not just about job security. Even at a young age, some people find it super fascinating to work with old stuff and study the traces of people long gone. If you're that kind of person, digging into an old assembly codebase is

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