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by notduncansmith 3y ago
Maybe ironic but I wouldn’t be where I am without Windows APIs. I was 19, and I was a member of some forums where folks shared knowledge on how to (ab)use various technologies for profit; many of these technologies were Web-based. I didn’t
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
This is like asking “what’s the alternative to nicotine?” - it may sound trite, but basic health is the alternative. A replacement is not the answer. You just need to quit.
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
I think something that happens between 2 and 3 times per day is “very common” in a colloquial sense. I drive a car with less frequency and I’d call it a “very common” occurrence.
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
> preventing infiltration I believe this is correct. > by organized crime I believe this depends on the precinct.
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
Nothing’s perfect but I’ve enjoyed this thread, lots of decency and interesting anecdotes. Thanks for your contributions.
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
I’d add in some variance of coastal/inland and urban/suburban/rural environments, which can reveal a lot of differences within a single state. I see tons of online comments generalizing about California or the West Coast (I’v
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
When I first joined this website I was working as a programmer and barely above the poverty line. It took years for that to multiply, and my income and costs have both fluctuated heavily. I currently don’t struggle to make ends meet but I’l
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
This has been my experience as well; however, when I want to get an encyclopedic summary of a topic, I’ve noticed that 3.5-turbo is more willing to reply directly to a handful of keywords, whereas GPT-4 typically tries to suss out a more sp
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
I think one-shot model interaction may never be fully resistant to manipulation, but I don’t think it will ever need to be. If you have a first pass where you try to detect manipulative input and reject the prompt entirely, then you don’t n
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
The parentheses are a bit intense as well IMO, though I appreciate the distinctness of vertical characters (ilI|1!)
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
I think counteracting the market forces that drive exaggerated journalism would be far more expensive and difficult than simply developing some software to filter the exaggerations locally. Also, we can work on the first more effectively wi
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
Slightly longer and more substantial original article this blogspam was copied from: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/50-of-vinyl-buyers-do... Interesting trend overall. I got my dad a vinyl record for Christmas, and
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
The “little bunny trick” makes me think of Pyroland from Team Fortress 2: https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Pyroland (watch the “Meet the Pyro” video to get the full effect)
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
> Even the most staunch (but sane) capitalist libertarian will admit mega income inequality is baaad juju. True as this may be, one must also consider that “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
A lot of it is junk I don’t want to spend time reading but nonetheless have to look at in order to get to the content I want. For instance, try finding recipes on the internet. While some recipes are accompanied by real human stories and in
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
I can’t tell if this was written by ChatGPT or not (I’m guessing it was) and the same goes for a mounting percentage of comments over time. I suppose this means the enshittification has well and truly begun.
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
(USAn here) As others have mentioned, it’s not really that something “has happened” — the country isn’t a monolith and there have always been folks that kick and scream as they are dragged into the future. The European immigrants that settl
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
Google implements a zero-trust security model[0] they call BeyondCorp[1], which basically assumes any device may be compromised at any given moment. I'm not intimately familiar with their implementation but it seems designed to make pr
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
Poe’s Law strikes again
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
This is hilarious, great work! I guess we can add satire to the list of industries being disrupted by AI.
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
I was about to say, they’ve been told for years how toxic it is! Just not by enough people I think. Great talk indeed.
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
This snippet from the article: > In 1994, the computer scientists Noam Nisan and Avi Wigderson helped resolve this confusion by demonstrating that randomness, though useful, probably isn’t necessary. They proved that one of two things mu
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by notduncansmith 4y ago
That is a valuable observation. Juice engages our senses and creates a more full-body experience. In a game, that level of immersion is desirable, because it puts us in a world we want to be in. I think it’s important to respect that not ev
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by notduncansmith 4y ago
Side note, while I don’t know the trends in Ibiza, in the USA pants marketed to men usually have pockets that can hold a smartphone (and often wallet too, though mine gets a separate pocket). It’s not really a matter of personal size so the
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by notduncansmith 4y ago
The leadership career track for programmers already closely resembles this process (providing natural language prompts for ICs and then reviewing/correcting the output), with AI just shortening the feedback loop. This has me wondering
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by notduncansmith 4y ago
React underlies a lot of the “new hotness” like Next.js and Remix.run (I’m not sure if Vue, Angular, or Svelte have equivalents but I wouldn’t be surprised).
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by notduncansmith 4y ago
Even better
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by notduncansmith 4y ago
It seems like a nice balance might be a compiler config that accepts a list of paths to unconditionally compile, so that users can enforce stricter checks in their own project without forcing authors of their dependencies to do the same.
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by notduncansmith 4y ago
This is true of many well-meaning conservatives, as well. I think we get tripped up forgetting there are rational people on both sides, who are not going to change their views but nonetheless accept that they might be wrong. It’s very conve
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by notduncansmith 4y ago
I think 2016 was a big turning point for US (and to some extent global) culture, where politics became a 24/7 spectacle for many that had been previously disengaged. I think all that energy then carried over to lots of pursuits that pe

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