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by xigoi 2mo ago
The part where, instead of “liking” posts, you “zap” them, which involves paying Bitcoin to the poster.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
Only if you forget the final part, “…when it sounds like ‘ee’”.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
IIUC, game mechanics are not copyrightable.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
> Because "cc prog.c; ./a.out" offers you the most direct way to interact with your system. Except for anything more complex than a hello world program, it needs to be something like cc -Wall -Wextra -Werror -O3 -lm -l
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by xigoi 2mo ago
The statistical nature means that what an AI produces is basically the average across all training data, making the generated text extremely bland and personality-less.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
Perform the same tasks as a human can, given only the amount of training data and energy that a typical human has access to.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
How much money do you think the scientists who wrote the papers are getting from the access fees? (Hint: it’s the only number that stays the same when you multiply it by sometting.)
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by xigoi 2mo ago
I’m guessing that due to the way highlights can cross element boundaries, it would be difficult to support any styles that could change the layout.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
I personally like having keywords and built-in identifiers in italic.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
Really cool! It’s a shame that the CSS Highlight API only allows changing the color and not the font.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
Vietnamese can easily be recognized because most words are one syllable and the vowel may even have two diacritics stacked on top.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
Even worse, in Czech it’s A B C Č D Ď E F G H Ch I J… • „če“ goes after both „ca“ and „ci“, but „ác“ goes between „ab“ and „ad“ • „cha“ goes after „da“ and „ha“
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by xigoi 2mo ago
Even my faculty, which otherwise licks Microsoft’s boots at all opportunities, uses self-hosted GitLab.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
I still haven’t seen anyone point out how this is more dangerous than running an executable that you obtain any other way.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
When my girlfriend was conversing with an LLM in Czech, it often made grammatical mistakes or even switched into a different Slavic language (including ones that use the Cyrillic alphabet!).
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by xigoi 2mo ago
In order to be packaged, it first needs to become popular, so this is a chicken-and-egg problem.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
Being able to read a website at night without blinding yourself is a part of accessibility.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
In non-English languages, LLMs seem to make typos way more often than humans.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
Open source would mean publishing the training data and code.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
> Running a GC takes time, pollutes the cache, and is often run at an unpredictable time. Isn’t this only the case for tracing garbage collectors? (And even then, not all of them are stop-the-world.)
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by xigoi 2mo ago
> What does weight affect? Obesity is strongly associated with several health problems.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
Every physical gift card I’ve seen had an expiry date.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
But then there would be no space for the extremely useful Copilot key!
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by xigoi 2mo ago
> Especially if you use square brackets for generic instantiation, so your example is semantically close to std::array<char*, 10> of C++. Yes, it is like that.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
I don’t use AI for ethical reasons. I don’t want to support companies that are destroying the planet and inflating hardware prices.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
You can have that without writing them in C or C++.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
A Microslop employee won’t get promoted for that.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
F-Droid makes it much easier to discover apps.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
Or even var str: array[10, ptr char]
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by xigoi 3mo ago
> The lack of digital evidence is not proof of innocence. A claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

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