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by semicolon_storm 3y ago
> 1. Customers are engaging in return fraud where they “return” an expensive item for a refund, but send back a different, cheaper item. Amazon’s warehouse personnel don’t catch it and then the cheaper item ends up in inventory as the mo
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by semicolon_storm 3y ago
There have been zero masks mandates in place for over a year and Covid policies are only getting more relaxed, so that "issue" doesn't really seem to have any teeth.
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by semicolon_storm 3y ago
1. You believe Covid no longer exists? 2. It's not, you just don't want to accept it. 3. Would it surprise you to hear that people are still wearing face masks for that same reason? Your "magic invincibility cloak" is a
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by semicolon_storm 3y ago
Complete strawman, I never claimed everybody in Japan wore masks daily and that's an argument I've never even seen made. I live in an area with a dominate Asian culture and have visited numerous eastern asian countries.
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by semicolon_storm 3y ago
>Immunocompromised people existed before covid yet they weren't walking around like Darth Vader. It's almost like there's a serious and highly infectious virus still circulating. Perhaps one that has a reputation for serio
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by semicolon_storm 3y ago
Pretty wild you think millions of people are making up a debilitating illness because they "don't want Covid to ever end". Further, you seem to forget immunocompromised people exist. You don't seem to realize that people
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
There's a big difference between something intentionally built to solve wordle and an LLM. Certainly it's not impressive that humans can build programs to solve wordle, but the fact that a NN that's basically supposed to be f
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
If you fully believe this, why are you even using a cloud provider? Why not buy your own hardware and set up your own server racks? Of course it's because you agree on some level that DIY and "knowing how to use your tools and ins
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
How do you figure that we can still confidently say it’s just a language model? It was trained on language for the primary purpose of producing text, but that’s not necessarily all it can do. The billions of nodes and parameters it contains
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
“When it dreams about annihilating all of humanity, it’s not really feeling the same rage coursing through its veins as we do. It’s just fancy autocomplete, nothing to write home about.”
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
Your entire career hinging on the ToS of a single AI company is not a good position to be in. Not to mention, the ToS forbids it due to the experimental nature of the tool. In a few years, I doubt the restrictions will be as tight as they a
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
You’re confusing AGI with useful AI. AI doesn’t have to become an AGI to change the world. I also haven’t seen anybody claiming the recent breakthroughs are AGI.
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
It's not bad writing if it conveys the desired message to the target audience. Every big industry has a distinct prose & style of writing.
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
Copywriters calling GPT content soulless is truly the pot calling the kettle black. Copy is the most useless, soulless content out there that for some reason every product is expected to have.
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
Until somebody comes out with a better way to trace back output images to training data, this is the best "data" we have so far. Before this, there were anecdotal examples of SD outputting an image with some Shutterstock watermark
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
Funny, the general sentiment about Minecraft's backend was the exact opposite back when I was doing server hosting a number of years ago. Maybe that's changed though. At the time at least, it was very clear that Minecraft was writ
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
Even if you ignore the design issues that let contractors corrupt the database, it's still a massive failure of system design & policy because they clearly didn't actually have a backup system. > When the system began havin
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
Good policies account for people not following the policy. Since this is aviation related, let's take "no smoking on a plane" as an example. There are "No smoking" signs everywhere and it's announced over the s
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
As someone who works at a place that previously lived by: >It's okay to not organize your code. It's okay to have files with 10,000 lines. It's okay not to put "business logic" in a special place. It's okay
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
For most modern programming problems that we get paid to solve, a bit of duplicate or similar looking code is the least of our problems. Conceptually integrity and managing dependencies/coupling is far more important.
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
Exactly, these flaws feel like the kind of thing that pops up due to a conflict between product UX people and security people. Surely they had at least 1 engineer who was aware that unencrypted website URLs, EBC Mode, and not upgrading work
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
Sounds about right. Awhile back I noticed the LastPass password generator was not in fact outputting a random password but that at least a few characters of the password followed a predictable pattern. I reported it and it was fixed, but it
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
Even if you were to stay frozen, the radiation you'd be exposed to in space would shred you at a cellular level way before the technology would come around to bring you back.
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
You're implicitly trusting the 3rd parties developing the software & protocols you use to send money anyways.
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
Azure definitely has the ability to charge differently per region. They do it pretty frequently.
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
Pretty slick, SD 2.0 performance actually seems to be better than 1.5?
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
Elon is going far beyond "attempting to make the place profitable"
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
Digital and real world hobbies are not mutually exclusive. If you have an outdoor hobby, you've probably noticed it being busier than ever over the last few years. Hiking trails, beaches, surf breaks, running paths, etc have all been t
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
The problem is when interesting and engaging design starts taking priority over functionality. This is fine for entertainment focused sites that are meant to capture your attention and help you burn some time. This is terrible for sites tha
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by semicolon_storm 4y ago
How else will some random news site you're visiting for the first time know whether or not you want to subscribe to their newsletter, allow them to send you notifications, and know your current precise location?

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