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by weevil 3y ago
I'll bet 1,000,000 Worldcoin it tanks within a month.
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by weevil 3y ago
There's a very loud group of venerated tech bros whose strategy for the last 5+ years has been to promise a brave new world of magic technological solutions to an ailing economy and divided society. Most of these solutions have turned
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by weevil 3y ago
I have a standard battery of prompts for LLMs, mostly to see how well they cope with being tricked, handling ambiguous responses, or handed outright falsehoods. Bard did surprisingly well this time around, though it still fails to respond c
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by weevil 3y ago
Exactly, I wasn't surprised that Meta would be exploiting the Twitter exodus with a barely beta-ready app to vacuum up more data, I was just a bit shocked by how totally brazen it is.
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by weevil 3y ago
The iOS app requires you to share an astonishing amount of data with Meta. Why do they need access to my health data for me to see others shitposting and dunking on Twitter? Until they offer an option for people not willing to share their d
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by weevil 3y ago
I figured that was the intention, but "just an ordinary guy without much money" is a nicer way of doing that than describing him as "average Eastern European basement dweller"
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by weevil 3y ago
> Bertyar88 is your average Eastern European basement dweller - unemployed, and with $1,000 in his account Seems like an unnecessary burn
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by weevil 3y ago
Adobe.
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by weevil 3y ago
Stealing this!
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by weevil 3y ago
Post this comment on LinkedIn and see how long it takes for some unqualified tech 'speaker' to tell you you're about to be left in the dirt!
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by weevil 3y ago
My first step when using an LLM is asking it to produce a test suite for a function, with a load of example inputs and outputs. 9 times out of 10, I've been presented with something incorrect which I need to correct first. I'm rea
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by weevil 3y ago
The decline of social network monopolies will also see a decline in mass political influence in the form of international content farms pumping out propaganda, and grassroots organisations trying to save us from burning down the planet. It
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by weevil 3y ago
I've heard people make claims about it being 'not far off', but in my experience, these people tend to be making a living from speaking on AI (or previously Blockchain) and don't have any actual technical credentials. I
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by weevil 3y ago
No idea. I've seen some mouths-for-hire on LinkedIn make these sorts of claims, but not seen any in reputable print.
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by weevil 3y ago
I spoke to my 70-year-old step-aunt about this yesterday for exactly this reason. She's a self-employed piano teacher with zero technical interest or knowledge, but a generally astute and clued-up kind of person. She said she's he
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by weevil 3y ago
> But prejudiced white people can't see any of the other races as just individual people. If a white man robs a bank, it's just a man robbed a bank. But if a Negro or a Puerto Rican does it, it's them awful Negroes or Puer
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by weevil 3y ago
Agreed — supporting free/libre software is invariably made less attractive to most because of the people* shouting loudest about it. * some of, at least
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by weevil 3y ago
Simple: controversy. It wouldn't get so many clicks otherwise.
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by weevil 3y ago
This mod has been going around for years. I bought a pair of HD 558s in 2012 — phenomenal headphones, still going strong — and I found a number of posts suggesting I do the same thing.
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by weevil 3y ago
I have such strong nostalgia and latent excitement about the early days of OS X. I was just a teenager in the early 2000s, and as a young Apple nerd with several iMac G3s in the house (my parents are graphic designers; there was a family Ma
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by weevil 3y ago
Nice to see people making use of that enormous fusion reactor in the sky raining free energy down upon us.
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by weevil 3y ago
True to their namesakes then; Leicester is pronouned by the locals as 'Lestah' or 'Lestoh'.
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by weevil 3y ago
You should dial back the hyperbole and get some more sources in there, if you actually want to debate, and not come across as a for-profit healthcare shill.
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by weevil 3y ago
There's tonnes of evidence that proportional representation and voting systems other than FPTP are important for the health of a democracy. The problem in the UK is that the parties in a position to make it happen stand to lose a lot o
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by weevil 3y ago
As a Brit, if we're ranking those things in order of practical importance, I'd put the Royal Family dead last. People will whinge about the NHS being slow or badly managed, but generally defend its existence to the hilt. Barring s
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by weevil 4y ago
During the original hype over hooks, I vividly remember thinking: 'I wonder how long we'll wait before these too are reviled.' We're getting there.
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by weevil 4y ago
Comments about Musk's politics and personality have trended upwards along with his increasing political and personal comments. He didn't need to behave this way.