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by rf15 4y ago
I was afraid to hear stories like this. It's already pretty bad that less and less companies are willing to take the (originally completely obligatory) burden of teaching new junior programmers. It feels like we really are doing way to
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by rf15 4y ago
Oh what an interesting post. The visuals are great, and through the paragraphs I was reminded of one of my first video games (At the first mention of Hyper Card I guess). And then in the second to last paragraph it just whacked me over the
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by rf15 4y ago
This is all very interesting (and makes me check out Parquet) but it's painful to see how the text goes to great lengths to describe how it avoids common problems and what they are, but doesn't lose a single word on... how they ac
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by rf15 4y ago
The technology's hype precedes it whenever you try to engage with it. On the surface, it looks a lot like the bitcoin hype, and if you remember IBM Watson you might get the idea that nothing much will come of it. So for me, I will keep
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by rf15 4y ago
Exactly. I am absolutely no fan of the new AI products, and the only question you have to answer for yourself is: can you leverage this technology for what you are trying to do? For me the answer was "yes", and I now enjoy having
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by rf15 4y ago
I'd argue some of them have been, those looking for a more user friendly experience or see it as a premium model/status symbol. I write this as someone who bought a new macbook for their partner a month ago, which was a painful ex
607.
by rf15 4y ago
> I doubt this is about price like some people in here are suggesting. Regular consumers do not buy a regular laptop for 2000+ €.
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by rf15 4y ago
I wonder how you can prevent the usual pitfalls of completely made up nonfunctional code AIs can produce for systems like this. I'd also like to see more complex examples that includes more advanced query features.
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by rf15 4y ago
I was born in the late 80s. As I grew up, my parents worked on Windows Machines, and so did the teachers at my school. Macs were just these funny, cute and colorful machines, curiosities more than serious workstations. Even Linux I mostly u
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UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k(infosec.exchange)
234 points by rf15 4y ago|235 comments
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by rf15 4y ago
I agree with this perspective. But I also see the current crop of AI as a "brute force" method towards AGI, which could still be combined with a symbolic system to make it significantly more efficient at basic reasoning. I sadly d
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by rf15 4y ago
For artists Midjourney/StableDiffusion/etc. are already a very real and surprisingly effective threat.
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by rf15 4y ago
Considering everything, it sounds more like another big wegde hammered into the divide. This will just make the rich richer, because now they can even save on artists, writers and other "expenses", all of which they can just add t
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by rf15 4y ago
What a mess. I guess without all the necessary context tissue that is required to make them work this is little more than a tumor. I wonder what they thought would happen.
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by rf15 4y ago
Worse still in this enumeration, TypeScript isn't a replacement like the others at all: no major js platform (browsers, nodejs) supports it. (here the term "native support" is thrown around a lot, but I feel at this point you
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by rf15 4y ago
> What's the difference Let's be naïve: "not doing something" is indeed, on a literal level, different from "doing something to slow it down". It's a bit like the nuances of a lie by omission vs a prope
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by rf15 4y ago
This sounds a lot like the results you get from CLIP interrogation. Maybe they just use that and made another online service for it?
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by rf15 7y ago
Thanks for speaking out.
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by rf15 7y ago
No, this is bad news; it's a smaller version of the economic bomb/distortion of creating a google campus somewhere. This will be bad for everything from housing up to the general health of startup culture in Berlin. Desperate move
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by rf15 7y ago
I don't think technology can ever fix personality flaws, especially not the desire to find an easy way out instead of doing the work yourself. Or, let's put it this way: any such technology that could overcome your nature would de
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by rf15 7y ago
the basic OS install is rarely what you would consider a "good state" (unless you have superficial use cases, maybe). That being said, I'm surprised people don't use recovery points/custom windows Install images mor
622.
by rf15 7y ago
Except this isn't their fault because their infrastructure provider messed up and didn't even disclose this possible backdoor. If anyone the provider should be named and shamed, not NVPN.
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by rf15 7y ago
afaik they still use cheap switches for the main buttons in those, which lead to problems with the previous model of that line. (mostly the left mouse button failing after 2y). I will still use them, but I am definitely looking for a good a
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by rf15 7y ago
I think Mensa is not a good frame of reference for intelligent people: You have to actively work towards getting into Mensa, which limits the target group to people who are willing to do that work, pay membership and possibly desire the pre
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by rf15 7y ago
Because it is a humourous interpretation of the problems of the latest MacOS update and general imperfections of the platform. Humour is not a lost art, and please accept the fact that the update wasn't smooth sailing for many people.
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by rf15 8y ago
fair, I mixed that up.
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by rf15 8y ago
I'm sorry but have you considered that there are people who don't actually own a Mac? As I see it, this is very centric to a specific system and therefore does not offer the best user experience for everyone.
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by rf15 8y ago
what are you thinking of specifically? I mean genetically and functionally we are incredibly similar as mammals. Most poisons/etc. work the same for example.
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by rf15 8y ago
I'm not convinced that throwing money at the problem is the solution to everything. I think sometimes it takes actual personal effort.
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by rf15 8y ago
There's enough people out there who take this more as a hint that this is an inherently hostile environment through and through and just close themselves off forever/become closet hostile towards all members of the group

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