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by xwdv 4y ago
What do you want to exit for? There’s only two reasons for a software engineer to use a computer: web browsing and Vim. Since you can already run commands and create files within Vim, there is nothing else to do. And soon, the web browsing
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by xwdv 4y ago
In my experience, it's not worth discussing or even mentioning men’s issues with anyone that isn’t a man. And even then, the type of man matters, because a straight white male will have a totally different perspective than say, a gay b
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by xwdv 4y ago
Bad news for devs but good news for users and their mental health. Many people who didn’t even know about the benefits of journaling will now have a new app on their phone to help introduce it to them.
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by xwdv 4y ago
Let’s write some regulations that say every code review must require a lawyer to comb through the code and look for possible copyright violations or compliance issues. The lawyer can then tell the author to change the lines of code and subm
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by xwdv 4y ago
Kenyans are super cheap. With an average yearly income of roughly $2500 USD, that’s not even more than a single paycheck for a typical software developer. IMO, it doesn’t make sense to purchase expensive licensing to use GPT, when you could
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by xwdv 4y ago
Depends on what country you’re from.
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by xwdv 4y ago
low calorie stuff is very difficult to get right. You are more likely to mess up and actually reduce your lifespan while also living worse quality of life (weaker, low energy, low endurance). No way around it, the body needs fuel to build c
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by xwdv 4y ago
It is not patently untrue. It wholly depends on the reader’s opinion of Bob. Also most people’s intelligence is not that much greater than that of a little kid. They are only more knowledgeable, but not necessarily more intelligent.
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by xwdv 4y ago
One demolition team member had commented that his butt was clenched the whole time and when he finally saw the rocket explode it was like a euphoric release.
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by xwdv 4y ago
But that’s not really the way information works. If you say that and don’t immediately follow up with saying “but Bob is an untrustworthy source of information and is often full of shit, don’t believe it”, then a person looking for informat
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by xwdv 4y ago
I think being able to find others like you is actually what really sends mental health spiraling. Back in the day, if you were a pathetic loser, that’s all you were, and that’s how you had to navigate life. This would force you to take an h
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by xwdv 4y ago
I would vote for it in an instant. Population control is not something that we can just leave to the pages of sci-fi anymore. The increasing fragility of our planet and societies means we simply won’t have the luxury of letting populations
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by xwdv 4y ago
Be careful about wishing people were valued independently of economic output, because the value judgement might not go the way you think. It could easily be concluded that most people are a net negative to the world, and that we should disc
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by xwdv 4y ago
People think something magical happens when AI are wired together and give each other feedback. Really you’re still just predicting the next word, but with extra steps.
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by xwdv 4y ago
At first I thought when he said a “different” calendar app, it would be something perhaps that didn’t measure and record events in standard units of time, but perhaps I guess that is too different to be useful for most people.
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by xwdv 4y ago
I want someone to do a whole Tupac album of AI generated songs, call it “Tupac is AlIve”. Tupac is an artist who has managed to come back from the dead several times, even as a Hologram. I think he’d be fine with it.
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by xwdv 4y ago
Not really. They seem fine.
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by xwdv 4y ago
It seems that way at first, but for years hackernews have used steganographic techniques to hide memes encoded into comments for years, just gotta know what to look for.
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by xwdv 4y ago
This trust problem has been solved for humans in the past because humans have some responsibility over the outcomes of their work, and there are incentives to ensure you do the right things and not make errors. Your reputation and job depen
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by xwdv 4y ago
It’s easy to create such zones. We’ve made such zones before. Simply irradiate a large area of land with nuclear radiation and it will be untouched by humans for hundreds or even thousands of years. I imagine this could be a plot for some e
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by xwdv 4y ago
If this is something you need for work you should have co-workers you could talk to.
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by xwdv 4y ago
Used to think that story was a fiction, that clearly anyone would realize didn’t make sense and could draw the right conclusions. Unfortunately in our modern era it seems some people took its lessons as a playbook. It’s hard to push for equ
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by xwdv 4y ago
Well, there’s always hackernews then
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by xwdv 4y ago
It never had an “understanding”, you just pushed an LLM conversation into a state where it would give higher quality answers. Like I said, most of these applications of GPT currently just seem like a toy. Until GPT can be put to work to tac
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by xwdv 4y ago
I think LLMs will be like the steam powered toys of Ancient Rome: a curiosity that implies greater utility, but ultimately requires too many other discoveries to be made first in order to be put into practice.
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by xwdv 4y ago
Google’s finished. Reddit is the number one place I go to first to find information about something, and often the last. Only when I’m desperate for info and can’t find it on Reddit, I decide to wade through the toxic swamp of search result
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by xwdv 4y ago
Why does it have to aid you in finding anything? We’re so obsessed with efficiency and “productivity” these days. Let’s be honest, when you came to this site you weren’t looking for anything in particular. Instead the site invites you to si
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by xwdv 4y ago
I imagine a world someday where browsers no longer exist. Everything is just an app that you download and the internet is infrastructure for pushing data around to apps from content servers. Some people probably live in this world already,
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by xwdv 4y ago
Or, if you had invested after 2008 and kept investing every year, you’d find yourself gaining money every year, and start to think “this shit is easy…always goes up”
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by xwdv 4y ago
Rest assured I have utmost respect for those fighting tyranny. I always take a moment to admire their patience as I pass by them on my way to the front of the line.

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