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by nox101 2y ago
"Exception" has a meaning. Exceptions are supposed to be used for just that, unexpected situations. Not being able to parse something is not an exception. It's a normal thing. RegEx doesn't throw an exception when there&
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by nox101 2y ago
> Nothing kills an edgy contemporary art platform faster than censorship I don't know the solution but isn't 4chan an example of what happens with no censorship? That would also kill an edgy contemporary art platform as the &qu
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by nox101 2y ago
I loved planetariums as a kid but I wonder now if they still have much of a point with space simulators on computers and especially with VR space simulators. I'm far more WOW!ed with a good VR sim. In fact just hovering over the earth
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by nox101 2y ago
I know people disagree with me about this. I certainly hate it that governments gave local monopolies to companies like Comcast That said, I'm pretty confident municipal internet is bad thing in the long run (compared to actually compe
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by nox101 2y ago
I think it's more like an exponential curve where it looks flat moments before it shoots up. mapping th genome was that way. On a 20yr schedule, barely any progress for 15 and then poof, done ahead of schedule
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by nox101 2y ago
In general, it's getting harder and harder for men and women to find people they want to be with. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/10/05/rising-... > roughly four-in-ten adults ages
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by nox101 2y ago
I'm comparing two OSes and pointing out when one OS has issues there's a single source to point a finger at. When the other OS has just as many or similar issues there is no one to point a finger at. So if you total up the finger
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by nox101 2y ago
I know I've seen YouTube videos about that maybe this one? https://youtu.be/ge_j31Yx_yk
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by nox101 2y ago
I'm not sure what your point is except when it's Windows their is a single company to blame vs when it's linux there are only random contributors from all over https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acisa.gov+l
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by nox101 2y ago
I'm actually curious, if there is anyone here that's actually an expert on this stuff can you explain (1) How do you tell a state actor from just hackers looking to make money? (2) Is this a solvable problem? I can't imagine
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by nox101 2y ago
Is that really fair? We had the xz thing recently, that was open source. I'm not saying MS isn't the worst. But there are plenty of linux exploits. An expert IT person might keep that up to date but your average business, governme
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by nox101 2y ago
He also gave so many actors their first break. Just copying from the news: Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, William Shatner, to name a few. While we're on it, what are some of your favorites? I probab
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by nox101 2y ago
The company is paying the people working by providing a free service. It's like youtube. Youtube provides a free hosting of your videos. In exchange they monetize them. You're free to host them on your own servers. That will likel
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by nox101 2y ago
doesn't this assume they all vote as single block? if their vote is diverse then it won't make much difference
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by nox101 2y ago
And Apple and Google signed up for this.
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by nox101 2y ago
Interesting? I don't generally find forest to be quiet. The cricket noises, shuffling leaves, etc keep me up. Of course city noises keep me up to but suburbs are often quiet
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by nox101 2y ago
The google ad was showing you your data, what's important to you, is safe. The Apple ad is showing things people love being destroyed and replaced by a inferior replacement
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by nox101 2y ago
> A random laptop however is a different story. Except for premium brands (closer to Apple prices) they tend to have garbage battery life, infuriating track pad, massive thermal issues, and preloaded with bloatware. Apple was always bett
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by nox101 2y ago
I suspect, if ChatGPT quotes an answer or a snippet it will show attribution and a license for snippet. If it instead only uses the knowledge it gained from the answer/snippet and writes it's own answer, then, just like a human, i
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by nox101 2y ago
Then they'd likely get sued because the license for the answers are CC-BY-SA, putting them in a book, claiming they wrote everything themselves, and selling them are all against the license. On the other hand, if they read my answers a
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by nox101 2y ago
(1) The announcement ( https://stackoverflow.co/company/press/archive/openai-partne... ) says things will be attributed in both the 2nd and 3rd paragraph (2) It's only likely to attribute if it quotes verb
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by nox101 2y ago
> SO users are still serfs building them a dataset for sale That is a very negative spin. Users get access to other people's answers for free. They get that free service and are required to contribute nothing. Those that do contribu
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by nox101 2y ago
Akihabara, there are new and old parts of the station. The new part (lower level) are relatively clean. The old parts (upper level, Sobu-sen) are less clean (unless they've been renewed - I haven't been up in a 2-3 years)
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by nox101 2y ago
That's generally true of all bathrooms in the USA vs Japan. I think I've seen 1 disgusting bathroom in Japan a restaurant/mall/store in the more 15+ years I've spent there where as in the USA it's like 1 of 5
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by nox101 2y ago
IIUC the USA spend near the top per student of all countries. Why is it other countries get better results with less money? https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...
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by nox101 2y ago
price-performance is not a thing for a vast majority of users. Sure I'd like a $40k car but I can only afford a $10k car. It's not nice but it gets me from a to b on my min-wage salary. Similarly, I know plenty of friends and fam
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by nox101 2y ago
I agree with your general points and I don't know what worked in Japan would work in the USA. I'm pretty confident what works in Europe will probably not work in the USA either though :( > That means facilities are spotless I c
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by nox101 2y ago
Why do you think nobody needs more than billion dollars? I know if I had a billion dollars there are lots of things I'd fund. Why should I not be allowed to do that? If I had a trillion I also have things I'd fund that I couldn&#x
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by nox101 2y ago
Was that sarcasm?
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by nox101 2y ago
I'd expect lots of employed people with families not to have 15 spare hours X the number of companies they are interviewing with

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