wizofaus

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by wizofaus 3y ago
You can accuse UBI of many things but unfair it is clearly not, hence the "universal". Everyone gets the same amount - but the assumption is most will then choose to work and earn extra income on top of that.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Again, the media is very much NOT a "random source" of information. I don't know about the US but in many other countries (my own included) the media does have such a responsibility, even if many of the codes of conduct in ex
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Except AI clearly isn't equivalent to a "random person" - as I said, I'm talking about a foreseeable future where we have good reason to trust AI technology as a go-to source for, say, basic medical diagnoses or advice o
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Ok but what if someone's killed due to taking advice from an AI? Certainly it's not hard to imagine a near future where AI is good enough that it's a well-trusted first port of call for medical diagnoses and the like, and a s
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The word might be, but "adolescent" is essentially synonymous and equivalent words exist in other languages (in fact it seems we took it directly from French). And of course the English word has been borrowed into a good many of t
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Storing and transmitting is always going to work with low-level storage units like bytes, so your string will need to be converted to that first. But string manipulation is extremely common in programming, and I would think graphemes are th
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by wizofaus 3y ago
What percentage of content online is posted by famous people though? At any rate you'd hardly agree that such a reaction is a healthy way to enforce social norms.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> It also means that Twitter is not in the business of making judgements on what is socially acceptable to say On the surface this makes sense, except it's ignoring the reality that online-based communications sidesteps all our buil
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by wizofaus 3y ago
That was more or less the thought I'd had, but it could still do a lot of damage of our only recourse was disabling power supply systems.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It does actually seem to remember where you were up to after you do the first simple one.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Technically you don't need to rotate the device (I did it with my touchscreen-enabled laptop), but you will have to get out of your chair!
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It could if it had enough training data that demonstrated "I don't know" is a perfectly valid answer to a question. The risk than is that it answers "I don't know" even when it is actually capable of providing
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It makes sense that there wouldn't be a lot of training data that consists of people admitting they don't know - forums like stack overflow wouldn't even permit such a post/comment anyway. So presumably ChatGPT is very h
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by wizofaus 3y ago
We're already way past the point bots can answer questions like that better than humans can.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Ok, so how do you rate trigger on a particular bot such that it doesn't impact real users negatively? Further, bots that submit enough pseudo-random data have a decent chance of bypassing various security mechanisms, including for auth
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Surely that's completely missing the reality that the reason code is hard to understand is virtually never because of whether you're using some particular syntactical feature like ternary expressions* - it's because the featu
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by wizofaus 3y ago
In many languages it's necessary if it's a nullable boolean...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Except realistically you've never going to accurately gauge exactly which books taxpayers do and don't agree should be purchased with 'their' dollars, nor are individual vote counts going to determine the choice of books
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by wizofaus 3y ago
They're already considered to be gloomy...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
That's not so unreasonable given significantly reduced economic output for long enough would inevitably result in a significant number of deaths that wouldn't have otherwise occurred (and yes, this would also be an argument for no
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by wizofaus 3y ago
One of the user cases listed - being able to send a large body of data to a server for it to encrypt (though it could be any sort of transformation, e.g. reformatting, encoding, format conversion, or even operations like "spell check&q
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Except we can't directly/ immediately alter the global temperature, whereas we can alter emissions rates. If we bring them down to net zero quickly the planet will be warmer than it was 100 years ago but still at a temperature tha
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Surely if the device automatically decrypts data as you read from it without having to supply a key or passcode of some sort then you're not protecting it against anything! It may automatically manage/store the actual keys used to
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I've yet to see a QR-code ordering system that let you choose to pay at the end of your meal. The idea of deciding how much to tip before you've even interacted with any of the staff or tasted your meal seems utterly absurd to me
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'm perfectly aware of what the difference is, thank you. The function you gave to ChatGPT explicitly requests a stream to format integers as decimals, separated by newlines. The version it gave as being 'unit-testable' did
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I've been writing unit tests for over 15 years (actually longer, but before that they were just throwaway run-once testing stubs). I wouldn't consider what you got ChatGPT to produce to be an adequate rewrite of a function to make
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> Unit tests by definition test ONLY internal logic and transformations Output formatting is still a type of transformation! The function explicitly takes the numbers and prints them as decimal integers with newlines between each. A test
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by wizofaus 3y ago
That would be fine if the core thing needing unit testing was the data generation/ transformation logic, but just as often as not it's the output formatting too. Did you try asking ChatGPT to write a unit test to confirm that the
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Except I've seen countless times that users ignore stuff if they can, including important warnings etc. Ideally confirmations should be kept to a minimum anyway (and instead ensure all actions are reversible), but in cases that's
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by wizofaus 3y ago
What do you mean by "anything"? There can't be that many things that can be transported by planes and cars/trucks but not by trains. Are you allowed to take pets on the TGV?

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