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by thefurdrake 3y ago
The problem partially stems from an overabundance of those resources while lacking resources for determining the integrity of the information being shared. Or, more succinctly: There's more noise than signal. Considering all the YT cha
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
I haven't used OpenAI's API, but I might soon, and I've read tangentially that you can specify the checkpoint version in API calls to gpt3.5. Is this not the case with gpt4? Did they backport shitty alignment to older model v
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
WSJ fails to establish why I should care. This isn't news. This is Gee Whiz content that WSJ is trying to pass off as a serious issue. Such ominous phrasing. I get it. Tiktok bad. But this ain't why.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
There are very few resources to provide Gen Z with the knowledge they need to establish technical competence on computers. It is a serious issue, and it's really not their fault.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> Lmao it’s Oakland. In many cases you can just walk a block to the next city. That doesn’t actually prove anything. From the PLOS article: "There were no detectable changes in purchases of untaxed beverages or sweet snacks or purc
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Agreed. It's wrong. Pretty sure I didn't say it was alright in any circumstance, but if you can hilight where I did, I'll correct it from my post, as that wasn't the message I wanted to send. There are degrees of wrongne
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Ah. I suppose that is fair. Maybe. Almost. ... I still don't know though. It feels like humans still have an out-of-band advantage in how we /remember/ data for creativity. Maybe I'm just not prepared to understand how w
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Hey, CSV is hard, guys. I've found template injection in a CSV upload before because they didn't anticipate a doublequote being syntactically relevant or something. It was my job to find these things and I still felt betrayed by a
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Is this even a real question? Yes. Yes they are. If a human has looked at wikipedia, that information is in their mind and available to be used as creative fodder. That's how creativity works; you experience something, it creates a mem
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
They're probably going to be banning consistent connections coming from datacenter IPs. That was the impression I got from how other entities have handled this. Once you rule out VPN usage, there are (probably?) very few reasons a post
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
The Pixel Watch always came across as half-baked trend chasing to me, so it's not surprising that Google would have flaccid support for it. ...And they'll probably abandon it or sell the business to squarespace in a couple years a
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Except if we're splitting hairs on this level, it's not actually that person, it's a likeness of that person. ... I don't think that has merit as a position, really, but I also don't think that "consensual porn
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Really? Care to share with us some similar quotes of commissar origin? Super curious :)
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
It's very "You'll think about the consequences of your actions if everyone else also does the same actions, and you'll like it" Kantian energy, you mean. Or maybe, "You'll stop engaging in activities that
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> > > And when has someone like an elementary teacher made a child better at using a computer..? It feels like a joke just asking that question. You're quoting this again as if it isn't critically damning to the position
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> I disagree on 1 I disagree with your disagreement. Your statement has achieved nothing as it doesn't address that it is a frustration users have (I'm not the only one) that might incline someone to thinking a product is garba
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
... This really should have been obvious to me before replying to him, but I didn't check the post history first. Maybe I should start doing that for such blatantly-obvious poor-faith throwaways.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Yikes. > Most of us suck at using software. It's so weird to me that you'd use this as logic for NOT teaching tech in schools. If only there were some mechanism society had to convey knowledge about how to interact with society
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Barcodes aren't unique.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Spitballing here, but I'm pretty sure stores maintain a local database of their product prices in order to attach them to POSes. My knowledge may be outdated with the advent of things like Square, though... But it seems to me that, giv
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Snarky? Absolutely. Vitriolic? Please, spare me. You might be upset that I chose to convey my data in a tone you dislike, but don't pretend my reasons aren't valid. Also, practice what you preach-- community guidelines say to flag
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> Who should never have been using computers in the first place. Is... is this comment in good faith? Are you sure about that, bud? Parents and teachers shouldn't be using computers in the first place? What a concerning and confusin
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Yeah! We should keep kids away from technology that has reached 100% saturation in all other parts of society. Schools, as places for learning, definitely shouldn't integrate tech into teaching-- after all, school is definitely only ab
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Does normal linux provide firmware updates for chromebook-specific hardware?
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Really terrible ones, if they think that using data already tracked by the store's internal systems (you know, the database attached to the POS, the one that stores all the pricing data and names, the one you could conceivably track ch
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
If businesses weren't so intent on lying to customers, I'd feel some empathy for them. But I don't. Liars deserve to suffer.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Cool, as a customer I'd stop purchasing products that had short records.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Cool, as a customer I'd stop purchasing products that had short records.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> no reason 1) The UI is trash, bloated and unreliable. 2) The UI regularly tries to convince me to look at their junk TV/movie sales pages. 3) The UI doesn't provide proper feedback during the media library tagging/discov
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
I think we should place a QR on every product label, and scanning that QR takes me to data about the product such as its historical mass/volume, cost, and unit price, as well as its brand owner right on up the chain. I see you, Nestle.

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