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by tempodox 11mo ago
They are just reselling OpenAI subscriptions at a markup. Surprise!
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Nothing revives people’s forgotten believe in magic quite like “AI”.
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Those “AI koolaid drinkers” are a very vocal faction, not only on HN. Too many software companies are cramming “AI” wherever they can, users be damned.
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Isn’t every international airport also a border?
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> … agency whose job is supposed to be patrolling the border. They are patrolling the border. The border between desired and undesired citizens. Nobody lifted a finger when “the privacy violations are only used against the bad guys”.
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Of course MS would prove intransigent. They always knew better than their users, that’s nothing new.
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An interesting article. And the HPC footnote puts some perspective on today’s fad: “AI”. The specialized hardware of today will be close-to-commodity tomorrow and today’s data monsters will be nothing but energy-wasting curiosities tomorr
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By definition, when a kid believes an “AI” is their friend, they don’t know it’s fictional.
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When you’re rich, you can even buy vanity CEO roles.
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Linda had an important role as the Chief Bag Holder in case things went bad.
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But less decent people can’t resist the dark pattern of using $x.99 prices everywhere.
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When you’re murdering hookers in GTA, you know what you’re doing (engaging in a fictional activity). Kids who believe “AI” is their friend don’t.
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That wasn’t a journalist, it was an LLM. But they forgot to add the prompt.
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Have you tried mathics? https://mathics.org
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Why future tense? We’re already there.
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I’ll say this: When you can’t distinguish reality from satire any more, you know we’re royally screwed.
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Ha, with the dots I would have realized what it is. I was confused by the 1st version having no dots.
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That’s some funny typo for “ads” in the post title.
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Nowhere in all these updates is any information to be found whether there has been misleading editing, as suggested, or not. Very unsatisfactory. But it's perfectly slippery and empty corporate speech. Making lots of words without a
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Who is “int al”?
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An “intelligent agent” would realize the contradiction in terms.
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Once upon a time, Apple used to be different. Now they’re just another megacorp that abuses you with enshittification, like they all do.
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> The syntax is hard to parse for humans. Funny how tastes differ. I'm glad it has a syntax that eschews all the noise that the blub languages add.
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And you cannot have default arguments for function parameters in F#. They are only allowed with methods.
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“HLADE’S LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man — he will find an easier way to do it.” ― Arthur Bloch
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That amount of wisdom can only come with boatloads of experience. Those are words to live by.
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Deterministic formula evaluation is so boring. You can tell beforehand that the same input will produce the same result every time. With Copilot’s probabilistic formula evaluation you can never tell what the result will be, which makes th
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> Do programmers really find so much fun in creating accidental complexity? I believe only bad (inexperienced) programmers do.
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Of course they can’t. U.S. companies are under U.S. jurisdiction, no matter where their data centers are located.
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> I found a computer. [...] If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not any more, now we have “AI”!

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