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by wizofaus 4y ago
Or working with better people, particularly those setting the requirements. The worst code I've written/worked with has always come about because of unclear/unstable requirements.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
If I see a link for a corporate site whose domain is not {company-name-or-abbreviation}.com I assume it's phishing spam.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
By that argument you should never cross a road as a pedestrian... FWIW I do agree, the safety aspect is by far the biggest downside of motorcycles/bikes. But there's plenty that can be done to make both a lot safer, and examples o
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Surely we can come up with a better term than "anti-car" laws. In virtually all the cases I've seen they're basically attempts to reverse over-dedication to car-specific infrastructure of precious urban space - i.e. to
785.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Asleep is clearly a temporary state. Babies/sleeping people still have the potential to become self-aware and the expectation is that they generally will. At any rate I don't think it's relevant to the discussion at hand.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Whether it's OK to kill them is a far more difficult question and to be honest I don't know, but my instinct is that if all their loved ones who clearly have the individual's best interests at heart agree that ending their li
787.
by wizofaus 4y ago
The examples I've seen from Sydney/new Bing suggest it's trained on quite different material or at least doesn't have the same filters ChatGPT does. In fact if I didn't know better I don't think I'd assume
788.
by wizofaus 4y ago
I would say it's probably impossible to have complete short term amnesia and fully- functioning self awareness as we normally conceive of it, yes. There's even an argument that memories are really the only thing we can experienc
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I'd say by far our biggest problem for the foreseeable future is granting other humans too much power.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Really? How often and in what contexts do humans say "Why was I designed like this?" Seems more likely it might be extrapolating statements like that from Sci-fi literature where robots start asking similar questions...perhaps eve
791.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Do you think Google's search engine can do that now? Actually ChatGPT does appear to have the ability to distinguish the two, the big problem it has is presenting made-up information as though it were factual.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I asked ChatGPT for some other examples - it listed "the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua in 1979 [by] the Sandinista National Liberation Front" and "the overthrow of the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippine
793.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Interestingly enough, it immediately got "Hated for ill" (presumably because there are source texts that discuss that very anagram). But it took about 10 goes to finally a correct anagram for "Indebted sniper", though th
794.
by wizofaus 4y ago
It can't do anagrams though (every now and then it might get a common one right but in general it's bad at letter- based manipulations/ information, including even word lengths, reversal etc.).
795.
by wizofaus 4y ago
The missing piece seems to be that for certain questions it doesn't make sense to extrapolate, and that if it's a question about what will happen in the future, it should answer in a different manner (and from my own interactions
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by wizofaus 4y ago
But regular search engines only regurgitate what they've indexed, yet don't invent outright nonsense when they don't know (if you asked Google who won the superbowl in 2024 the nature of the results make it clear it simply do
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by wizofaus 4y ago
A little premature to be calling such a prediction "silly". I think it's safe to assume some sort of LLM-based tech will be part of the most successful search engines within a relatively short period of time (a year tops). An
798.
by wizofaus 4y ago
The Nazi Reich? Arguably it brought about its own downfall via its misguided attempts at "invasion" - at any rate it was about as violent and sudden an end to a regime as you could ask for. But history is full of coups d'etat
799.
by wizofaus 4y ago
It reads to me like others are talking regime collapse, whereas you're concerned about societal-level collapse. I'd agree few with good intentions would wish for the latter. Regimes can and do collapse without it meaning anythin
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I'd hazard that cooked meat is more likely to have that issue than raw meat. And as another poster pointed out, it's possibly more relevant what food sticks to the outer surface of your teeth, though I'm pretty sure any sourc
801.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Sure, but humans often have issues with cavities well before even reaching adulthood.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Other animals don't eat nearly as much sugary food, or food of a sort that tends to get stuck in your mouth (non-processed food like corn on the cob can do so, but even that's a product of domestication and not so widely eaten by
803.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Is there actually an offical list of stdlib functions compilers are "permitted" to inline - and why shouldn't they be able to do it for any such function? If they're statically linked I can't see how it matter, you&
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by wizofaus 4y ago
The "air pollution" part is measurable enough but it's obviously impossible to attribute the death of any individual that was caused by, say, a natural disaster or extreme heat event bolstered by global warming to any particu
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Anyone seeing that the topic tag for comments on this thread is truncated after the "The", presumably something to do with the < character?
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Our family was basically middle class growing up but we traveled to Europe (from Australia) twice within a few years, both times in the 80s. But sure, you don't have to go a full 100 years back for that sort of luxury to be a rare thin
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Assuming than implies "somewhere between 45-50%", that's higher than I would have thought. But a much higher percentage would have traveled 100s if not 1000kms over land surely.
808.
by wizofaus 4y ago
None of that debunks the reasonable assumption that a random individual from any previous century, particularly those before there were widely available means of travel other than walking and perhaps horseback, would have moved around a lo
809.
by wizofaus 4y ago
Yeah, haven't used it seriously in many many years, which is why I hedged my bets with the past tense option!
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by wizofaus 4y ago
ASP sends actual HTML! And definitely not http/2.

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