pmoriarty

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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Do any of the languages that are popular today have object systems that are as powerful and flexible as CLOS?
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
What technical advances do we need in order to test them?
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Why oes it matter if we call it "art" or not? AI creations are going to be enjoyed or not, used or not, given attention or not, just like human creations, regardless of what we call them. More and more I'm leaning towards see
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Humanity is just starting to get some competition. Some people just can't deal with that. If genuine, unaided human creativity is so great then AI generated creations should not be much of a challenge. The sad fact, though, is that a l
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
I've noticed something similar on youtube. I search for "how to do X", and instead of just showing me how to do it, which might take 30 seconds, they put a ton of fluff and filler in to the video to make it last 5 minutes. Ty
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
How much of the rest of the vim ecosystem is Lua-based, though? As far as I know it's still mostly vimscript. Vimscript's dominance in vim is one of the things that got me to switch to emacs when I got interested in Lisp and Sche
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
If you're interested in seeing a modern, full-featured tracker, check out Renoise.[1] [1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renoise
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UPS driver pay and benefits deal in US to be worth $170k a year, firm says(bbc.co.uk)
40 points by pmoriarty 3y ago|54 comments
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
The vast majority of employees get paid to do something they would rather not do, had they a choice. They would rather be entertaining themselves, being with their families, relaxing, etc. Yet they have to work, and do things they don'
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
What would you all think of naming an annual award for the greatest contribution to vim in Bram's honor?
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
The quintessential signature of the BBS era was the sound of data that you heard coming out of your phone receiver.
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
I got a lot of telemarketers calling from numbers that only show up on my phone as "Restricted". So there isn't even a phone number to trace.
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
"institutions should formalize and normalize a method for broad open access to research in progress and broader collaboration." This goes double for government-funded research, which the overwhelming majority of basic science re
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
So how sure are we that this isn't yet another in a long line of disappointments?
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
About 25 years ago, after being absolutely blown away by Crime and Punishment , I gave The Brothers Karmazov a try, and was disappointed to find it was very soap-operaish. I really couldn't care less who was sleeping with whom or a
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
I never believe privacy policies anyway. I go on the assumption that anything I ever reveal on the internet will become public knowledge at some point.
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
You could just use an IRC bouncer. But, yeah, I understand this is beyond the capabilities of your typical user, and not something most users even know exists. This is really a UI/UX deficiency of IRC, not a functional deficiency.
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
I don't know if you ever used IRC to get help on technical issues, but I've done that a lot, and going back to figure out what the solution was to a particularly thorny technical problem that someone told me about years ago has be
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Discord has shitty logging and log-search capabilities. Discord's logging is shitty because: 1 - The logs aren't yours, they're Discord's. If you get banned from the server, your server shuts down, or Discord bans you a
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
"If you put too much requisites and ask for only ideal flawless careers, made in some unicornia university; in the short time the candidates interested in your job position will start lying. After a while all that remain at your door
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Seven AI companies agree to safeguards in the US(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by pmoriarty 3y ago|0 comments
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
"I'm skeptical on their usefulness compared to existing things that can actual be observed with the naked eye. I'm a big fan of trouble shooting with an ohm meter and I could apply the same to a techniques to a visible light
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
"The current record for the most fault-tolerant qubits in a single device is 1." Can you comment on Google's[1] and IBM's[2] announcements of 70 and 433 qubit quantum computers? Is this just marketing hype? Are the qu
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
I've played around with Claude quite a bit, but mostly with creative writing, at which I think it is stronger than any other LLMs that I've tried, including GPT, Claude+ (which as far as I can tell has now been rebranded as Claude
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
There aren't many of them left.
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
"Copyright and licensing is one model that has worked for a long time. It has flaws, but it has produced good things." By some definition of "worked". If we define "worked" as "made money for", who
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Red Teaming Language Models to Reduce Harms [pdf](www-files.anthropic.com)
1 points by pmoriarty 3y ago|0 comments
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
It absolutely needs an export feature, because browsing or searching through long online conversations is so painful. Offline text processing tools are infinitely better than online ones, and archiving one's own conversations offline s
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
What are AMD's top of the line laptop and desktop chips?
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Imagine you are suffering day in and day out in crushing poverty, that you see nothing but crime and hopelessness all around you, that your friends and family have been killed or are rotting away in jail, that you are looked down upon, spat

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