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by worrycue 4y ago
> (in fact, in researching this I discovered, horrifyingly, that it’s not uncommon for Treasury bonds to be described as literally risk-free) Correct me if I'm wrong, they are practically risk-free if held to maturity no? It's
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by worrycue 4y ago
If you want the best sound quality, CDs are definitely the way to go - they are better than vinyl and compressed digital audio files; although it's perceptually hard to tell the difference from the latter 99.9% of the time. Given anoth
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by worrycue 4y ago
Black and white photos are just missing information - specifically color. No new made up information is introduced.
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by worrycue 4y ago
Is Apple’s AI adding hallucinated details? The last I read it’s just used to merge multiple images - up to 8 or 9 images - to form the final image. While I could see details getting lost or artifacts being added, I don’t think it can add ac
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by worrycue 4y ago
The changes the AI makes are perceptually noticeable though when compared to source. No one complains about image or video compression either if the quality is good enough - because it’s not perceptually noticeable vs uncompressed; people c
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by worrycue 4y ago
That’s what photos used to be good for. They don’t fudge stuff like our brains.
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by worrycue 4y ago
I want game content generation by AI, like for dungeon generation in an ARPG - it likely won’t be as good as hand crafted level by a developer but it should be more interesting than the current techniques where prefab pieces of a dungeon a
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by worrycue 4y ago
> unaccountable bureaucracy of staffers and advisors 'guiding' the forced citizen through what must be done / can't be done legislatively Sounds like the UK civil service in Yes, Minister / Yes, Prime Minister.
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by worrycue 4y ago
It’s still a factor in a potential offender’s mental calculation. If the penalty is very high you will still think very hard about it even if you are good at evading detection.
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by worrycue 4y ago
People do things because they get something out of it and most will weight the risk of penalties vs the benefit. A long sentence would probably be harder to justify in the minds of would be offenders.
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by worrycue 4y ago
I think the penalties of many laws weren’t made with fairness in mind but deterrence. The penalty goes up until crime rate comes down. It makes sense I guess, it’s not meant to be a trade - much less a fair one - but to stop/reduce cri
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by worrycue 4y ago
Humans who don’t understand what they are talking about we should not listen to nor trust. By the same logic it would be stupid to listen to / trust ChatGPT.
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by worrycue 4y ago
> its answers are an amalgam of the most frequently repeated views on a topic Or complete bullshit. As long as the problem of AI hallucinations remain unsolved, I can't trust AI like ChatGPT - at least Google will tell you if it has
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by worrycue 4y ago
But if they can't afford to keep it running then they will have no choice but to axe it.
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by worrycue 4y ago
Apple still might shift some non-leading edge node work over though. It's not good for Apple to have only one supplier. Having an alternative to TSMC is in their interest.
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by worrycue 4y ago
That said sometime it’s worthwhile to try something completely different. If all we did was “adjust” we would still be using epicycles to describe orbits.
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by worrycue 4y ago
Sounds a bit like epicycles. When they found data that doesn’t match, they just added more epicycles until it did. Took until Kepler and the idea that orbits were mostly elliptical for people to throw out epicycles altogether.
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by worrycue 4y ago
Am I the only one still searching Google primarily though keywords/phrases (and the exclusion of keywords/phrases)? I don't see much degradation in Google's results.
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by worrycue 4y ago
So Facebook is the one most likely to survive. Reddit, Twitter, Hacker News, ... etc. soon to be flooded with LLM generated spam.
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by worrycue 4y ago
What concerns me is the government’s ability to evaluate said merits and their responsiveness to market changes that would require a change in the standard. We have plenty of example where governments got it very wrong - see the USSR. In t
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by worrycue 4y ago
Does the government really knows what the market wants in a standard? Some people will benefit from their standard being chosen as the winner. This is just corruption waiting to happen. It’s fine I guess if the choices are functionally iden
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by worrycue 4y ago
I think the categories should be: - Accept all - Mandatory for function non-tracking cookies only - Reject all There should be a standardised browser accessible interface so browsers can automatically choose the one you want on your behalf
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by worrycue 4y ago
Personally I’m uncomfortable that a centralised government is “choosing the winner” rather than having the standards duke it out on the open market. In this case, USB-C is pretty much expected to win and be the dominant standard - even Appl
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by worrycue 4y ago
> Should we lobby to limit the rights of an estate edit posthumously? Maybe a law that requires the old version be made available for free with the digital purchases. This way people can choose which version they want to read. It cost pu
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by worrycue 4y ago
Organizations tend to be self-perpetuating. People whose power is derived from the organization and people who make money from the organization will want to keep the racket going.
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by worrycue 5y ago
> That the East Asian nations managed to do it really is a miracle, and they did it on the back of nationalism. It's worth noting that East Asian nations are not clones of each other. In the one I grew up in, I don't think nati
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by worrycue 5y ago
> elisp is dead. Not because it is dead, or deserves to be dead, but because everyone "believes" it dead. Same goes for Perl. I wonder if it's possible to move on from elisp. Create a EMACS 2. Maybe with Scheme. Maybe a la
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by worrycue 5y ago
> social media turned it into a pull model Not really. Facebook pushes stuff to you via its Timeline. Twitter has a feed. Reddit and HN has front pages. Social media does plenty of pushing. It’s just instead of a biased human editor with
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by worrycue 5y ago
I doubt they will care whether they are selling energy to you in the form of gasoline or electricity, as long as they make a buck. It’s like saying telecoms won’t provide internet services because it might eat into SMS and phone call fees.
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by worrycue 5y ago
I still wonder though, just how much production non-comment source code is not written in the ASCII character set. The libraries of most programming languages (developed in the west) are in ASCII - frameworks and middleware too. Have people

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