wizofaus

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541.
by wizofaus 3y ago
It's hard to see how adaptation won't end up being far more disruptive to the lifestyles we currently take for granted than if we'd actually put in place measures 20+ years ago to gradually phase ourselves off fossil fuels. I
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I wad genuinely surprised the title track on Dream of the Blue Turtles was all 4/4 - it does change between swung and straight though.
543.
by wizofaus 3y ago
It absolutely is for pick ups though, many restaurants in our area have almost no parking available at peak times. The delivery riders just leave their bikes on the footpath/sidewalk. Larger delivery vehicles can make use of loading zo
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If that were a feasible option I'd think we'd be seeing at least some already in use (actually the postal service here does use vehicles not unlike that). They still take up a lot more space to park and are subject more to traffic
545.
by wizofaus 3y ago
But how would they get to that sort of carrying capacity? They almost never use cars around here and I doubt it would be viable (parking issues, cost of vehicle ownership/maintenance etc.).
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by wizofaus 3y ago
All the food delivery riders I see have carrying capacity for 2 or 3 orders at most - there's no way it's a dozen. Most of the time I'm pretty sure they're only carrying a single order.
547.
by wizofaus 3y ago
Surely that can't include manual mowers? I like the idea though.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
That genuinely surprises me, as the sorts or errors made or at least non-idiomatic English used by non-native speakers are not something you typically see from LLM output. Though I don't doubt you could get them to generate text &quo
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by wizofaus 3y ago
v3 or v4?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
OTOH WeWork became an attractive option for small enough businesses that they terminated office leases during Covid and afterward wanted to have an office space available for employees that can't/don't want to WFH full time.
551.
by wizofaus 3y ago
WeWork certainly provides value to the companies that rent their offices (including the one I work for). If someone else were looking for office rental options I'd recommend WeWork on the basis of the experience I've had working w
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> Is this a reality though? Most certainly in the age of the gig economy. Even my own partner has about 4 different jobs now - as a registered nurse. They don't necessarily add up to a massive number of hours a week but she'd
553.
by wizofaus 3y ago
You might as well ask why people bother asking it questions or talking to it at all on that basis. The fact it does typically respond differently to commands than to questions is part of the power of how LLMs work (whether that's ent
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Apparently Stripe stores its keys as strings, though not the usual UUID string representation.
555.
by wizofaus 3y ago
The ultimate Turing test? I'm willing to bet not even ChatGPT-11 will have the sheer boneheaded level of determination only a human could ever achieve...
556.
by wizofaus 3y ago
Sure, and the fact that .zip is both a common file extension for downloading AND now a TLD is not a good thing (I don't know who though having .zip as a TLD was a good idea), but I still don't think it's the main risk here.
557.
by wizofaus 3y ago
Yes but the truly immoral part is designing cities and infrastructure such that attempting to move around them using non-polluting (and fitness enhancing!) modes of transport is unsafe or unrealistic for so many.
558.
by wizofaus 3y ago
The fact that browsers will silently strip out everything before @, including "fake" slashes is surely the real problem here. That .zip is now a valid TLD doesn't strike me as making the situation vastly worse - something lik
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I thought I was pretty knowledgeable in music theory but I'd not heard of the H transformation. I'm a bit nonplussed as to why it's even a thing, and indeed Google doesn't even find any hits in the first page describing
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by wizofaus 3y ago
But the number and type of fundamental mistakes it makes (C maj. and F# maj. triads sharing a common tone??) are just not ones I can imagine a human with basic understanding of music theory making, which does point to some fundamental lack
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by wizofaus 3y ago
By "work" I assume you mean "convince people of their value"?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
To me the "I suspect" gives it away as something human-written.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Still, I doubt an LLM would ever start a sentence with "Funny enough" (the normal usage is "Funnily enough" but even that doesn't seem like something the current crop of AIs would use without explicit prompting).
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by wizofaus 3y ago
In countries with socialised health insurance systems any political party that threatens to take it away (or defund it) tends not to get chosen at election time, strangely enough.
565.
by wizofaus 3y ago
Fine as long as you're able to keep earning said salary. It's the state you end up in when you're not for whatever reason that's arguably the big difference. My own partner's a nurse and has gone through extensive p
566.
by wizofaus 3y ago
Pretty sure sending plaintext HTTP requests on port 443 doesn't actually work though. ..
567.
by wizofaus 3y ago
Except they're not - the spam/ phishing emails are almost invariably obviously not genuine even at a casual glance. Maybe 1 in 50 has me partially convinced it might be genuine and requiring me to double check the addresses etc. I
568.
by wizofaus 3y ago
Almost certain that all animals have it? The conjecture that, say, a coral polyp or an earthworm (not to mention something like a trichoplax) might have a subjective qualitative experience of existence seems to be an extraordinary claim r
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The argument about the name of the class representing a single entity not matching doesn't hold for me - why would I want that to match anyway? What I want to match is the name of any variable/property that represents the table as
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by wizofaus 4y ago
With the exception of agriculturally marginal land, using land to produce food by way of animals is typically vastly more wasteful than using it to produce human-edible food directly, certainly on a per-calorie basis. There's no shorta

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