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by woah 4y ago
> Smells like: “ I stole this lousy apple that wasn’t any good” Then why did you steal it? The lousy code trained copilot in what a switch statement looks like so it can autocomplete mine for me
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by woah 4y ago
> The only way you can get it to do that is to bait it with the function names of functions that have already been copy and pasted thousands of times onto GitHub without proper licenses What? You left out the second line of the quote. It
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by woah 4y ago
Correction: The gif in the article is actually a depiction of Dogecoin mining
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by woah 4y ago
It would be sad if someone succeeded in shutting down CoPilot for this kind of copyright stuff. It is genuinely useful. I don't care that it reproduces copyrighted content. The only way you can get it to do that is to bait it with the
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by woah 4y ago
It seems like these AI tools, if anything, will take away the least enjoyable parts of creative careers. Artists will less time thinking about how to adjust a camera lens or mix paints, and more time thinking about how to tell a story that
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by woah 4y ago
I'm not an expert on AI, but your complaints sound like minor versions of the major problems that these image generation AI's had a couple of years ago. It used to be that they could only create a mishmash of textures reminiscent
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by woah 4y ago
> It's all just passable garbled nonesense that the reader (goes to lengths) to interept based on their prior knowledge, which is not expressed in the syntax of what these systems output. > It's still little more than a fanc
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by woah 4y ago
Have you ever used Github CoPilot? It does a lot of useful work, automating away rote typing in programming. Have you tried Dall-E or Stable Diffusion? They make good looking images. This comment seems completely unmoored from where the sta
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by woah 4y ago
There are lots of industry groups that do PR to benefit the whole industry, even if members of the industry compete with each other day to day.
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by woah 4y ago
If we start allowing airtags in luggage, who knows what's next?
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by woah 4y ago
This article is replete with examples of the weaknesses of a federated system run by people who aren't looking to profit. > This made me realize how little joy I’ve been getting from being an admin. How I’ve come to resent the work
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by woah 4y ago
> Like putting HTML inside strings or whatever they are doing. That's exactly what they're not doing
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by woah 4y ago
> You could build a very complex UI with Ext.JS back in 2010 with a lot less code and very little time What's stopping you from doing that now?
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by woah 4y ago
Their crappy code might be generating millions of dollars in revenue while you fix it and curse their name
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by woah 4y ago
Lots of shady people were involved in web startups in 1999 (and still are tbh).
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by woah 4y ago
This isn't crypto, it's just a shady investment fund that happened to invest in crypto
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by woah 4y ago
You don't have to use any of that stuff. You can still have React act as a glorified template library, drill all your data down through props, etc.
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by woah 4y ago
Pretty sure the money a scientist can personally earn with grants is far less than they can at a tech company.
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by woah 4y ago
> only one obvious goal Running a functioning insurance? If you want to pay rates which allow them to rebuild your home for you every ten years (annual rate = your home's cost / 10), I'm sure they'd be more than happy
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by woah 4y ago
Except you get a pay cut when the market goes down
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by woah 4y ago
Sounds like they are gearing up to go even further than phone calls: > In a statement, an NYPD spokesperson expressed concerns that the proposed law could lead to violent conflicts between drivers and civilians reporting illegally parked
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by woah 4y ago
Then don’t invest I guess
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by woah 4y ago
Then they should maintain it themselves, or pay the maintainers what they are asking for
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by woah 4y ago
The health danger cited by the article is PM 2.5 particles. From a quick skim, your proposed solution does nothing to help with fine particles.
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by woah 4y ago
You double check things that you think are important, in this case, passages that will be used as evidence in court.
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by woah 4y ago
Couldn't they just not upgrade the Akka dep?
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by woah 4y ago
Building with no affordable units in it? Beyond the pale, the evil developers hate poor people and the units will all be bought be foreign billionaires who won't live there. Building with x% percentage affordable units in it? Not enoug
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by woah 4y ago
If you can have the team work well without you, you could probably spend the same time that you used to on one team on five teams. If you're not getting promoted to the level that you can do that, you should probably find a different p
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by woah 4y ago
Does it make sense to look at producing a power hungry product and selling it as a way to sidestep all the bureaucracy and monopolies in the public utility space? Or perhaps it would make more sense to colocate with someone already producin
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by woah 4y ago
Here's a video of a guy making this stuff in jars and styrofoam cups in a dirty possum infested shed in Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y Apparently it's not as bad as they say.

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