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by routerl 2y ago
I'll accept my reading comprehension mistake if you can quote the passages you're referring to, but I don't see what you're talking about in the GP link
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by routerl 2y ago
Hey, that's great! But wait, we already had a working mechanism to signal exactly this type of opting out[1] so let me rephrase the OP question: why does OpenAI get to be exempt from existing opt-out mechanisms and implement their own?
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by routerl 2y ago
> Windows 2000 was great IMO, and peak Windows! > XP was peak if hardware compatibility is important. It all started with Windows NT 4. It had its own kernel and was enterprise (and network) focused, compared to Windows 98 (which was
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by routerl 2y ago
One of the main problems with Facebook's metaverse was precisely that none of the developers working on it actually wanted to use it, to the point where it had to be mandated by management. Like, guys, when even the people who are maki
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by routerl 2y ago
> Write the code. Make sure it passes some tests. Move on to the next project. Let's mention the missing step: don't even bother to run the code . I'm simply embarrassed to admit how often I've been in teams that not
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by routerl 2y ago
In which a constitutional law professor at Columbia discusses the role of a university president in general (particularly as it relates to maintaining and extending the university's endowment), and Columbia's response to the curre
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by routerl 2y ago
This is not about golang. It's about toilets.
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by routerl 2y ago
I generally agree with what the article says, but.. > Taipei is an extremely clean city, and completely devoid of pigeons due to the absence of food leftovers on the streets Yeah, no, that's not the reason. It is true that Taipei
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by routerl 2y ago
> The Tencent one is fairly close to the book. Not really? It both overexplains simple concepts (e.g. the billiard table scene) and underexplains important concepts. The Netflix show just has awful writing, and only cares about visuals.
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by routerl 3y ago
> Canada is one of the largest countries on the planet. So is the USA but it's still very expensive to live in NYC or SF. This isn't a Canada problem, it's a Toronto/Vancouver/Montreal problem (and their wider me
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by routerl 3y ago
Lovely. Thanks for posting that. With all our popular narratives about the inevitability of scientific progress, it's always refreshing (from a historical point of view) and important (from a personal, ethical perspective) to remember
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by routerl 3y ago
It's a cute thought, and a good point. But the author is exclusively relying on "English major novels" for making this point (even though they ignore things like the very cool long chapters in Hunchback of Notre Dame that a
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by routerl 3y ago
> Dick's genius was recognized only after his death. Which we should give credit for: I only found PKD due to Jonathan Lethem's advocacy. PKD fans are likely to enjoy Lethem's sci-fi, especially Gun, With Occasional Music
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by routerl 3y ago
€1100 base price. Not too bad given the specs.
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by routerl 3y ago
It's a testament to the poem's truth that you misquoted: "corpse, corps, horse and worse"
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by routerl 3y ago
GameSpy. The original video game match-maker. Also the original home of another relic, Penny Arcade.
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by routerl 3y ago
> Every generation laughs at all the stupid stuff the previous generations believed, and then acts so confident that they’ve got it right this time. Voltaire (1694-1778) wrote a satirical account of a medieval university's oral exam
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by routerl 3y ago
They you haven't spent any time at all searching. Software-induced plane crashes have been happening for decades, with the extremely high profile case of the 737 MAX being quite recent.
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by routerl 3y ago
While interesting, that podcast episode is just a watered down version of Tom Mullaney's work. Here's the man himself covering this subject in more depth and with more seriousness: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KSE
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by routerl 3y ago
> Isn't new jersey right across the river from new york, with rapid transit lines going into new york? In Chongqing, map apps will often recommend a "nearby" restaurant which actually is several hundred meters away, vertic
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by routerl 3y ago
Every time I see this, I try to make it as far as possible without laughing. Today I made it to "She had no horses but thought she did".
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by routerl 3y ago
So, Khan Academy is experimenting with providing every student with (what they call) a "personal tutor". Examples given are: in coding and math, identifying potential mistakes in partial solutions, and suggesting how the student m
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by routerl 3y ago
That's my understanding also: protect the house from being ignited, rather than "protect the plot from fire". But Americans seem to care more about their land than their house, so maybe they confuse these concepts on purpose.
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by routerl 3y ago
Thanks for that, you nailed everything that was bugging me about that timbre. Someone else mentioned the Chapman stick, and this instrument is equally disappointing.
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by routerl 3y ago
Clear and concise prose does not "trash literature" make. Vide Hemingway. Code absolutely should be readable and as obvious as possible, but that itself can often be a sign of virtuosity; you've broken down the problem into s
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by routerl 3y ago
Very cool stuff. I got interested in ancient Chinese plumbing after watching the water dragons[1] at the forbidden city, during the recent flooding in Beijing. Interesting that both this system, and the one described in the article (over 20
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by routerl 3y ago
> I think it is helpful to communication to resist changes to language Your opinion is wrong. The most widely spoken languages, in every historical period, are the most adaptable. Adaptability is the single most important factor in a lan
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by routerl 3y ago
Given the substance of your comment, you're not actually complaining about "Godwin's Law", as stated, but about "slippery slopes". And your point is good in the abstract, but in practice this slope is actually
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by routerl 3y ago
Oh right, the "original meaning" of "smart"... so you must mean "pain or ache"? I really don't see how that's relevant to the article. Words change, they always have, they always will. Get over it. An
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by routerl 3y ago
I'm getting stuck in a login loop.

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