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by rectang 1y ago
I still think it's ideologically consistent with insulating companies from externalities. Without official investigations, companies can assert their own interpretations of events. Boeing did this with the NTSB recently: https:/
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by rectang 1y ago
It feels that way, but this legislation is ideologically consistent with reducing regulations which constrain companies and force them to take the externalities of their actions into account.
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by rectang 1y ago
You're probably right. It was somewhat reassuring to learn of the money printer variant — to me, the Warthog "brrrt" meme evokes human flesh being torn apart (also tanks, but strafing runs often target ground troops, and the
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by rectang 1y ago
Apparently it's a 2020 meme about "make the money printer go brr". I didn't know that one, so I assumed it was a reference to the A-10 Warthog's Gatling gun, which used to be stylized as "brrrt".
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by rectang 1y ago
Thank goodness you weren't in charge of the Herculanum scrolls.
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Disney Files Landmark Case Against AI Image Generator [video](youtube.com)
3 points by rectang 1y ago|1 comments
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by rectang 1y ago
I have only ordered groceries once because of all the "reusable" bags I got stuck with. Those things are incredibly durable. I have two as my backup grocery bags and I've been using the same ones for nearly a decade.
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by rectang 1y ago
The Anthropic CEO wants companies to lay off workers and pay Anthropic to do the work instead. Is Anthropic capable enough to replace those workers, and will it actually happen? Such pronouncements should be treated with the skepticism yo
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by rectang 1y ago
MentourPilot is not exactly the only YouTuber going off of actual technical reports, and I did not question his accuracy — I said I find him "grating". I'd rather watch old Mayday episodes than MentourPilot — Greg Feith, for
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by rectang 1y ago
Haha, I don't ordinarily spend a lot of time in the Google Cloud Console but just now I was debugging a squirrely OAuth issue with reCAPTCHA failing to refresh several days running. I'm getting this weird page error, and I think,
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by rectang 1y ago
I find MentourPilot’s consultant persona grating and avoid his content, but in terms of sensationalism there are far worse.
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by rectang 1y ago
There’s always a balance to be struck when avoiding premature consolidation of repeated code. We all face the same issue as osigurdson at some point and the productive responses fall in a range.
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by rectang 1y ago
ChatGPT is great for debugging common issues that have been written about extensively on the web (before the training cutoff). It's a synthesizer of Stack Overflow and greatly cuts down on the time it takes to figure out what's g
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by rectang 1y ago
> (3) is valued at the exact cost of all inputs to it, including salaries (uh oh). Thanks, that really gets at the heart of the issue. Are any other business processes and elements — e.g. accounting mechanisms, print design, sales funn
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by rectang 1y ago
>> what if we treated prompts as the actual source code? You would not do this because: unlike programming languages, natural languages are ambiguous and thus inadequate to fully specify software.
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by rectang 1y ago
Do you support any regulation of anything, or any laws for that matter?
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Alabama paid a law firm that used AI and turned in fake citations(theguardian.com)
5 points by rectang 1y ago|0 comments
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by rectang 1y ago
A properly designed volume control affects the sound power output logarithmically, but is labeled linearly (with 1-11 or 0-1 or something like that) to reflect how humans perceive the effect. People in the field get this wrong all the time
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by rectang 1y ago
It’s not true that I want to build “well but not fast” — I’m trying to add value, and both speed and reliability matter. My productivity is high and I don’t have trouble articulating why; my approach has generally (though not universally)
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by rectang 1y ago
I embrace my fallibility, and enthusiastically pursue testing, code reviews, staging environments, and so on to minimize the mistakes that make it through to production. It seems to me that this skeptical mindset is consonant with handling
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by rectang 1y ago
I don't trust myself to craft a prompt in natural language which completely specifies my intent as codified with the precision of a programming language. I also tend to turn to AI for advising me on difficult use cases, and most of the
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by rectang 1y ago
> We will cover state-of-the-art [...] how we approach techniques that allows the system to offer virtually certified correct answers. I don't need AI to generate perfect SQL, because I am never going to trust the output enough to c
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by rectang 1y ago
Just to be clear, my recommendation is more to confirm what it is that you don't like. :) Kenya might be the most IPA-ish thing Starbucks sells.
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by rectang 1y ago
Ok, you've convinced me. I hate coffee.
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by rectang 1y ago
I’m sure I’ve experienced “roast defects” at some point. However, I’ve tried a lot of light roasts — some of which I’ve liked quite a lot — and surely not all of them were afflicted with such defects. What I’m describing as a general ch
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by rectang 1y ago
Kirby64: “Ur doin it wrong. Ur coffee is defective.” me: :( Kirby64: ”What?”
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by rectang 1y ago
This doesn’t ring true to me. My understanding (and experience) is that coffee beans have abundant flavor components which get burnt away by the roasting process. Brewing issues like grind and proportion of beans/water are a separate
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by rectang 1y ago
Leave it to the experts to make the experience of discussing anything miserable for the amateurs.
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by rectang 1y ago
Your IPA analogy is apt. (I love IPAs!) As an experiment, try Starbucks Kenya. It’s one of the most aggressively citrus-y among the coffees they serve — that sharp flavor even survives the darkish Starbucks “medium” roast.
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by rectang 1y ago
The terminology is subjective, and the idea that something someone somewhere on the internet characterizes as “woodsy” necessarily is defective is going to result in a lot of false rejects.

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