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by nerdbert 3y ago
> Which is why (shameless plug warning) I spent 12 years and $1 million dollars with my team to build it. How much of that one million dollars dollars went to creating the confetti effect following the mouse cursor around on https:&#x2F
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by nerdbert 3y ago
We found it to be nothing but trouble. Disappearing data, database servers bogging down under what should be trivial load because of inefficient SQL design, painful upgrade process, etc.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> One can not even pay or use public transport without smartphone! Children are not allowed to ride the bus inside the classroom either. So I guess we're okay. > Large number of students in Nederlands do not speak local language.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
They don't seem to have medical emergencies that can't be solved by one of the surviving kids running out of the mysteriously unattended classroom and fetching an adult to triage.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> If kids rather want their phones than to listen to school, maybe it's time to change how school works. Once you start to demand that schools become more entertaining than the most addictive thing the world's entertainment te
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Based on visiting a lot of Dutch schools this year, that's still very much happening. I tried to google a photo but couldn't figure out what the word for that thing is.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> It will be interesting to see if the Dutch can overcome either (or both) of these problems. Having recently toured about 20 secondary schools in the Netherlands I can say that most of them had a system for this. In each classroom, near
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> What do you think your brain does when deciding the next word to speak? It is scoring words based on the appropriateness considering context and all the relevant known facts I mean, it's not. It's visualizing concepts interna
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Except that people could explain how you could make an airplane faster and larger. Nobody can explain how you can make an LLM understand what it's saying.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
To many people, a computer program that can output in kind of natural-sounding sentences but can't be trusted to give you the right answers is not progress. I am sympathetic to that view. It's an impressive technical feat to mimic
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I'm sure you can buy a table that says what size subnet to block for various ipv6 ranges.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
The park stabbing was a lone crazy person, that was clear to everyone. The police murder was perpetrated by a member of an omnipresent institution that people in disaffected communities have negative interactions with regularly.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Not quite the same though - if you teach me how to operate a drill press, I'll be able to do it today, I don't have to spend 8 hours in bed before the knowledge is available to me.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I'm a real person, been a fastmail customer for almost two decades, and it's one of the very few companies that I cheerfully evangelize for. They provide all the features I need, plenty of configurability, and it's very relia
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Cool, I'll just base32 my encrypted traffic and sail through!
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Yep, laminated color copy is the way to go.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Except that an XML file that passes the spec and contains the required data is as good as it will ever get. The world's foremost XML-typing genius is not going to improve on that. On the other hand, with hibernate, you get mediocre, in
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by nerdbert 3y ago
It's unlikely that it was deliberately done for evil reasons. However it contributes to a misunderstanding that may in some way favor richer countries, and that could be a reason why nobody's trying very hard to focus kids' e
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Obviously not. And nobody said that. Talk about straw men. People have internalized a sense of the relative sizes of different countries, and that internal representation is what they refer to.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I tried the amiunique fingerprinter with my iPhone, software updated to the latest version, stock Safari browser, and it said I was unique among all however many users had tried before.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
- and then they will discontinue it after four years even though hundreds of millions of people are using it happily
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by nerdbert 3y ago
When I go to deep links on lemmy.ml I get an nginx error, and when I go to the default page (/) I get a broken-looking mess.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
The issue isn't paying the bills. The issue is trying to reach to a huge IPO payday for the handful of people placed to cash out. If all they cared about were paying the server bills, there would be easy compromises to be made.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
It's not reasoning, it's predicting likely text, which it can do because the bits of input you provide overlap with enough bits in its training corpus, because most programming tasks are repetitions of similar patterns. The outcom
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> and can reason enough to synthesize information from what is given That's a qualitative leap from what it does now, and there's no clear basis for believing the current trajectory of these systems can make that leap.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Yes but the storage used by that instance is shared among 1000 users, rather than all devoted to just one user. Theoretically there would be a fair amount of duplication and therefore less net resource use.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
To me this is a weakness; it requires me to read between the lines of a whole horde of different instances' statements of principles and try to make an informed decision based on that. Many people don't have that kind of time&#x2F
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Same here. I was immediately turned off from Mastodon and even more from Lemmy by my initial interaction with them. As soon as I tried to get involved, I was required to pick from a list of instances with weird-looking descriptions and make
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I think you'll end up using a lot of storage space; in my totally uninformed understanding, you would end up storing the full contents of any community/sub that you follow.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
It's not necessarily a problem to use a service, (Signal?), which is funded by an intelligence agency. It can serve their purposes while serving yours too. If the service gets wide enough adoption, then the huge volume of traffic becom

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