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by thefz 8mo ago
I have always thought that AI code generation is an irresistible attraction for those personalities who lack the technical skills or knowledge necessary for programming, but nevertheless feel undeservedly like geniuses. This post is proof o
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by thefz 8mo ago
You made me imagine AI companies maliciously injecting backdoors in generated code no one reads, and now I'm scared.
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by thefz 8mo ago
Can AI fix a leaking pipe? Identify a faulty power wire? Care for farm animals? Et cetera. So far it looks like a faster search engine that a human has to double check every time, so not really.
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by thefz 8mo ago
> Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. Manipulation is the other business model of the Internet.
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by thefz 9mo ago
> Seems like a pretty small effect - if I'm 58 and I have the brain of a 57 year old, and to achieve that I did an entire year of exercise (as was done in this study) ... you'd have to evaluate it against many other things to d
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by thefz 9mo ago
Maybe try presenting them 15 seconds at a time, in portrait mode with bouncy subtitles.
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by thefz 9mo ago
> This is exactly why the Human Router architecture exists. In a world where you cannot even trust your operating system vendor, every decision — every execution — needs a governance gate. > D = G × S. If G ≠ 1, D = 0. No action is ro
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by thefz 9mo ago
Did you read it? It's exactly what I posted, but 100x longer, and with memes.
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by thefz 9mo ago
> The scams were enabled by the internet, does the internet exist for this purpose? Of course not. But did it accelerate the whole process? Hell yeah.
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by thefz 9mo ago
I'm a little tired of "hey I installed Linux!" posts. Ok, you installed Linux. Great. Wow! Now what, wanna show a screenshot of your desktop with an anime girl as the baackground and neofetch in a terminal window?
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by thefz 9mo ago
> why does the USA not have the concept of buying home made meals from other people? capitalism->companies lobby->corrupt government->zero regulation->shitty food that costs less to make, will kill you and is addictive
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by thefz 9mo ago
I can buy this and install whatever OS I like, though. And I am pretty sure I will 100% own the hardware.
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by thefz 9mo ago
Stephen Toub https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pfxteam/author/toub/feed/ Raymond Chen https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/author/oldnewthin... Cory Doctorow https:/&#
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by thefz 9mo ago
> I feel all of this has been going on for the last 50 years. TV and video games were a substitute for a normal environment for kids to develop in the at the end of the last century. Not really, I was born in the 80s and video games did
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by thefz 9mo ago
Man, in the clearly forged "trusted by professionals" part you have names that do not match the faces, unless Anika is a middle eastern looking guy and Elena really has a baseball hat and a beard.
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by thefz 9mo ago
What if I rent a cheap VPS overseas and wireguard my traffic to that?
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by thefz 9mo ago
After watching the documentary about him I don't really like the person, but here's my take: will he be doing the same if there was no TV, nor social media?
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by thefz 9mo ago
Sometimes I wonder how great the united states will be once they will not have a single ally left (bar Russia fo course).
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by thefz 9mo ago
> Discord can be great when people treat it properly. That is, treat it as IRC for the modern age, rather than a replacement for forums. For certain needs, like support, forums are abysmal too. See Unraid as an example. Got a problem? Dr
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by thefz 9mo ago
> Are you going to add ads? > Nova needs a sustainable business model to support ongoing development and maintenance. We are exploring different options, including paid tiers and other approaches. As many of you have already anticipat
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by thefz 9mo ago
Iphone X borrowed almost all its UI from the Pre
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by thefz 9mo ago
Pretty sure Apple copied the Palm Pre
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by thefz 9mo ago
> Must everything in AI threads be so negative and condescending? Because if I own a website or a service and it is being degraded or slowed by some third party tool that wants to slurp its content for his own profit and don't even
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by thefz 9mo ago
> Meanwhile, my cofounder is rewriting code we spent millions of salary on in the past by himself in a few weeks. If the LLM generating the code introduced a bug, who will be fixing it? The founder that does not know how to code or the L
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by thefz 9mo ago
> Is a small indie dev "dodgy" if they use AI to unblock a tricky C# problem so they can actually finish their game? What about learning the tools you use everyday by yourself?
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by thefz 9mo ago
Notch too. I never understood the urge to self destruct online. Jesus, take the money and fame and disappear like Tom of myspace.
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by thefz 9mo ago
Hm, good point
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by thefz 9mo ago
Assuming a steady surplus of 500, and considering that a kg of human fat is roughly 8000kcal, it will take two weeks to gain a kilo. But a larger person consumes more to simply stay alive so the curve flattens out once a certain mass is rea
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by thefz 9mo ago
Or that it happens overwhelmingly in specific places with a very broad genetic mix.
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by thefz 9mo ago
So it's either black or white for you.

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