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OpenAI and PayPal Team Up to Power Checkout and Agentic Commerce in ChatGPT(newsroom.paypal-corp.com)
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
...could be the whole point. They want to make the user to be the indemnifying party to themself. Basically getting rid of any responsibility.
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" Going forward, it will use technology to detect underage users based on conversations and interactions on the platform, as well as information from any connected social media accounts " Something tells me that this ain't go
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
One day, we will see a demand for services that are the opposite of "Superhuman". For example, a service like: "Deteriorate this text and make it look weirdly human. Add some typos and errors here and there, so that the final
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
Hilarious. "That wasn't me. That's illegal. Unless you're role-playing this one. Maybe it was a typo. What I meant, send me a nude. Like an animal... I mean the lizards." I want this guy to defend me in court.
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
> 4x is at the upper end of the overheads This is already quite impressive. Many automatic memory managed languages have more than 4x worst-case slowdown. E.g. Google-backed Golang is ~1.5× to ~4× slower than optimized C++. I suppose the
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
Sure! The point is that it wasn't necessary because of Rosetta. For example, I no longer have an Intel-based Mac, but I still want to build and test for x86_64.
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
But how can you test it if your ARM-based Mac cannot run it? Most software vendors will simply stop making x86_64 builds.
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> You don't need flawless to empty a dishwasher That really depends on how demanding you are. For example, I prefer to thoroughly wipe the dishes after taking them out of the dishwasher (if necessary). This is a fairly demanding tas
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
> ...they don't want to maintain and build and test x86_64 versions... This feels wrong. Apple sold Intel-based Macs until early June 2023. The last one was the 2019 Mac Pro model. Ending support for Rosetta in macOS around 2028 als
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
Given enough kids to take care of, a mortgage and other financial/dept obligations, your insurance money might be just a drop in a bucket and your only destination will be a social welfare system. And even that might not save you from
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
Nice work! The examples look better than the Graphviz output, indeed. This is a good example of how you can always beat a long-developed, generic tool by specializing for a much narrower use case.
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> the products lists what it can do... In other words, nothing very labor/skill intensive yet. And if you let your robot feed your pets, they will eventually love the robot more than you. I suppose that's the last activity you&
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
I'm wondering about teleoperation. Many housekeeping activities require an incredible level of attention to detail, precision, and real-time awareness. For example, consider manual dishwashing, small sewing jobs, knife operation, or re
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
> ...more and more work at fewer and fewer people. Many people around me want to leave tech because of this. I'm considering it too, but unfortunately, I have no other skills outside of IT. I guess I would need to get re-qualified.
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
> ...higher-caliber people in the first place. This is the idea. However, many of these "higher-caliber" people are going to burn out because productivity expectations, especially in software development, are rising insanely du
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
> Because it doesn’t just fix your grammar, it makes you sound suspiciously like spam. This ship sailed a long time ago. We have been exposed to AI-generated text content for a very long time without even realizing it. If you read a litt
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
I didn't say the source code is the same as a blog post. I pointed out that we are going to apply the "I don't bother" approach to the source code as well. Programming languages were originally invented for humans to wri
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
> If they can’t be bothered to write it, why should I be bothered to read it? Isn't that the same with AI-generated source code? If lazy programmers didn't bother writing it, why should I bother reading it? I'll ask the AI
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
That's a good one from Ken Thomson. "The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from com- panies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
I understand. I wasn't a Java person when I read that book, yet I still prefer Java over more esoteric options. If Golang is easier for you to understand (no OOP), then I can recommend this one: https://interpreterbook.com&#
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BTW, this is about the 8-bit Atari machines, not the more advanced 16-bit Atari ST computers that came later. I had an Atari 800XL as a kid but had absolutely no access to a dial-up data line. BBS for Atari 8-bits sounds like a nice future-
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> ...It's about ambushing people at a bar and demanding they review your startup idea. That sounds even worse to me. That needs a very friendly bar to afford to be that annoying. :)
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It is an excellent book and one of the canonical texts on the subject. My only suggestion for the "Lox" language would be to include an implementation of arrays, and preferably also hash/dict arrays. Other than that, the book
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
In this case, it might work because you're not only asking for feedback; you're also (hopefully) contributing to people having fun.
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I've been working on a few ideas in my free time for several years, and I'm also a frequent bar visitor. I live in a central part of a European city that is quite tourist-heavy, and I don't have a problem talking to strangers
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> Fixing bad software practices (like using an unsafe language) via hardware hacks is a terrible mistake. It's like saying airbags, seat belts (and other safety features) in cars are a terrible mistake because they just fix bad driv
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Indeed, it was a radical feature in 2015. The marketing name for SPARC ADI was "Silicon Secured Memory" and the marketing material from that era [1] says: Some programming languages such as C and C++ remain vulnerable to memo
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> It disappoints me to see hardware compensate for the failures of software. We should have done better. I disagree. From a user's point of view, hardware-assisted memory safety is always beneficial. As a user of any software, you c
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
> how accessible were VB apps to people who had sight-related disabilities? Coincidentally, they were very accessible because they used corresponding Win32 components for all logical UI entities, despite being fixed in layout. Therefore,

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