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by mpalmer 3y ago
You got it wrong, by cobbling together chatbot responses into something that is barely coherent and not particularly engaging. Don't expect substantive replies to a screed you've partially outsourced to a model.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
I took a minute to read up on this rolling cipher thing and WOW. This is not copy protection, this a complex protocol for content delivery behaving as designed. What exactly is bypassed here?
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by mpalmer 3y ago
No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that— (A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of cir
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Sound point, but the fact that we're forced to do this parsing in the comments means readers of the linked piece will happily continue to use "the elite" as a placeholder for whatever they already believe.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
> From the perspective of the marijuana user, suffering and struggling belongs to others, not them. This means an outsider makes the judgement call about who is suffering and to what degree. "Belongs to others"? Did you read th
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Delighted to see work continue on jq, which I use for altogether way too many things. I ask this as a fan of both the project and the new pick() feature: are there any other functions in jq whose interpretation of their arguments is "n
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by mpalmer 3y ago
It never fails to amaze me how many people comment on Problem A: "Why aren't we paying more attention to Problem B?" As though all the people who struggle with marijuana use need to wait in line, and all the world's expe
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by mpalmer 3y ago
> Calling taking a medicine an addiction is strange Treating medicine and addictive substances as mutually exclusive categories is much stranger.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
It very likely bears a close resemblance to a member of the theoretical set of all well-formed answers. Problem is all the other sets it belongs to, including the set of all answers containing unverified factual statements, not to mention t
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by mpalmer 3y ago
> will ultimately have much larger economies Will they necessarily? I would expect culture and system of government to be factors in whether a country can not only support 1 billion plus people, but grow their economy too. Let alone natu
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by mpalmer 3y ago
If what you say is true, wouldn't we already be seeing incredibly sweet things being sold? I don't see why companies would hold back from producing very sweet products with high sugar content; they do so already. I'm not sure
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Because it's not useful, it's an invitation to go fact check everything in the list.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Brief summarization that seems redundant to the topic because it's the model priming itself to generate a response in the requested form, which is usually a: 3-10 item list which mentions certain phrases related to the prompt every tim
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by mpalmer 3y ago
> Do you let anyone into your house? You didn't finish your metaphor, let me. I don't let anyone in my house, therefore what? Therefore I am joining a worldwide program whereby I am able to find out from a source I choose wheth
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by mpalmer 3y ago
It's like the lead up to the mortgage crisis, except the reluctance to price the asset at its true value is plain for everyone to see.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Better not do anything then, certainly not try to figure out a better way. The only safe choice is to oppose every proposal and offer nothing as an alternative.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
> this just add another layer of output verification IMO. It's not verifying the output after it's done, it's constraining the output as it's generated. > But does it really save much as comparing to get the output
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by mpalmer 3y ago
I think it one point in the movie they explicitly say that there is no correlation between what an alien says and what they write. They further say that because it's not a transcription of speech, the writing is not "bound by time
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by mpalmer 3y ago
It's not just Gen X, I had a Pokedex with a full keyboard and a tiny LCD as a kid, and I had exactly this sort of feeling about it. That the thing itself wasn't very practical or even that interesting in the long run was beside th
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by mpalmer 3y ago
"Every class begins with a babe, in a cafe.” https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview
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by mpalmer 3y ago
> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. "and if we make a few bucks along the way, hey, mission accomplished."
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by mpalmer 3y ago
I also found it tough to read. The image descriptions are great for people who need them, but on mobile they take up a lot of space, and present to the scanning eye as part of the post body proper.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
I agree a greater variety of clue types would make it more interesting. And then maybe each clue you reveal increases the chances of some failure outcome (e.g. murderer escapes, kills again, etc)? That would definitely prompt more caution a
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Maybe you're focusing too closely on the specific example. It's interesting to me in the large for sure. For one, since plugin permissions seem to be on the roadmap, users can expect to be able to write and run third-party code wi
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Many captchas add friction for some users, but some types don't; there are relatively fast "proof of work" captchas that aren't surfaced to the user at all.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
You see it as a stark choice between one and the other? I'm not sure that would be the consensus view.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Good luck, we tried it already with nukes!
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by mpalmer 3y ago
To your aside: it's titles in general, too. So many prequels (or movies that want to promise some future franchise) are the "rise" of something.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Except people who involve themselves in dev communities aren't babies, and this parental impulse of protecting people from ideas YOU think are bad is completely toxic and self defeating. Being afraid of disagreement is a cancer in our
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Part of the problem - one that I'm kind of surprised DEI people wouldn't be acknowledging - is that we are all "differently online". Many people will be familiar with the "Karen" meme through the various news s

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