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by shagie 11mo ago
Perfect correctness is what you'd expect from a computer. I could write a program that solved it - and that would be an indication of my creativity as a human solving something that I haven't encountered before. Incidentally, th
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by shagie 11mo ago
The challenge is: for someone who is convinced that an LLM is only presenting material that they've seen before that was created by some human, how do you show them something that hasn't been seen before? (Digging in old chats o
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by shagie 11mo ago
Make up a fanciful problem and ask it to solve it. For example, https://chatgpt.com/s/t_691f6c260d38819193de0374f090925a is unlikely to be found in the training data - I just made it up. Another example of wizards an
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by shagie 11mo ago
> For folks who want a bit more, there have been a couple of homages: I believe the Zen Pencils one is one of the better ones... it's not Calvin and Hobbes, but rather about Watterson himself. http://www.zenpencils.com&#x
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by shagie 11mo ago
In 1987, when your audience of bash and awk and sed users was looking for a language to bring those together and were familiar with them... why wouldn't you use them? I would also contend that given the tools at the time (vt100 termi
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by shagie 11mo ago
They were inherited from even older languages and meant pretty much the same thing there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK#Match_pattern_from_command... #!/bin/sh pattern="$1" sh
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by shagie 11mo ago
The question is "what do you want to use it for?" There are a few places where you might dig and find a perl script under the covers. Some that aren't replaceable with bash (and sed and awk). I suspect that my "diff the
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by shagie 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS#Early_development > Reports surrounding an in-house operating system being developed by Huawei date back as far as 2012 in R&D stages with HarmonyOS NEXT system stack goin
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by shagie 11mo ago
The amount of integration between the system and the wifi modem, the frequencies that it can broadcast on, and the regulations for that part of the spectrum. You'd be quite challenged to make your wifi modem connect to an access point
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by shagie 11mo ago
(a few months after that incident) - Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colors https://medium.com/@blakeross/mr-fart-s-favorite-colors-3177... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11231631
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by shagie 11mo ago
The duopoly comes about from a few things forcing it. There's the "it took a while to build it." iOS and android had decades of time to get to where they are now and centuries of developer hours put into writing it. That ma
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by shagie 11mo ago
Malicious transmitters are illegal. There is liability for the person operating the malicious transmitter along with the sale, marketing, and manufacturing of the transmitter. If the maker of a phone allowed a user to break the law by havi
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by shagie 11mo ago
If it's not done on the basis of jurisdiction, then laws about what constitutes illegal content in Germany or China or United States applies to everyone. Taking the stance of "we're not going to follow any laws and publish
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by shagie 11mo ago
You might consider visiting Dublin on the week of June 16th and partake in the readings and pub crawls... though there are other Bloomsday commemoration events. That said, the only time I've stumbled across this was trying to find a s
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by shagie 1y ago
Some roads are attempting to take waste plastic and use it in place of other parts in the aggregate for asphalt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_road > It is currently unknown how these aggregates will perform
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by shagie 1y ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/20/406484294/an-n... ... The rules for the race: Both contenders waited for Denny's, the diner company, to come out with an earnings re
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by shagie 1y ago
> We're going to see an increase in plastic metabolizing bacteria as well https://big.ucdavis.edu/blog/plastic-eating-microbe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETase November 4th : https:&#x
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by shagie 1y ago
My work computer is spotless. My personal conference (and work appropriate - security wouldn't find anything unprofessional or untoward on it) laptop is the one with some stickers that are technologies that I want to put on there. My
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by shagie 1y ago
Seattle: https://undergroundtour.com Buried ships of San Francisco - https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/buried-ships-o... https://www.baylightscharters.com/bay-lights-ch
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by shagie 1y ago
It is about advertising one's (possible) shared culture. For me, my laptop is part of my professional culture and thus I try to keep it as crisp and professional in appearance as one's resume since its a bit... difficult to lapto
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by shagie 1y ago
I have this recollection of some framed / shadowboxed clear case covers that were covered in stickers. Either the laptop was replaced and the new model didn't fit... or the cover was filled up and a new one was used. A way to kee
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by shagie 1y ago
It's fairly readable. https://imgur.com/a/jWhyBmI
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by shagie 1y ago
When I was going to conferences, my laptop stickers were a public display of "these are technologies that I use and you can strike up a conversation with me about them." To an extent, a resume that you can glance at from across t
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by shagie 1y ago
> Do you have some sort of different understanding of copyright law where it's legal to commercially use lyrics (verbatim, mind you) without a license? Some places have a concept of de minimus as applied to copyright. It is often n
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by shagie 1y ago
I'm still trying to work out the lyrics to Prisencolinensinainciusol. https://youtu.be/fU-wH8SrFro ... Alright?
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by shagie 1y ago
I was curious about exploring the motivations of a character (specifically Linter in The State of the Art) and asked a question to start off with (and bring existing understanding into the context) with another character (Diziet Sma)... and
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by shagie 1y ago
“The wonder of it—the horror of it, Sura said—was that unlike the useless wrecks of Canberra’s past, these programs still worked! And via a million million circuitous threads of inheritance, many of the oldest programs still ran in t
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Reexamination of the 9–10 November 1975 Storm Using Today's Technology (2006) [pdf](michiganseagrant.org)
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by shagie 1y ago
https://www.michiganseagrant.org/lessons/lessons/by-broad-co... and Reexamination of the 9–10 November 1975 “Edmund Fitzgerald” Storm Using Today’s Technology - https://www.michiganseagrant.org/les
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by shagie 1y ago
On Sunday, there was a service commemorating its sinking - "Old Mariners' Church in Detroit rings fabled bell to mark 50 years since Edmund Fitzgerald sinking " https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news&#x2F

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