GuB-42

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by GuB-42 3d ago
What make you think it is vibe coded? There is no mention of genAI being used, and the methodology looks more consistent with hand-written code he actually understands.
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by GuB-42 3d ago
Net neutrality means that providers don't discriminate based on the kind of traffic, that you get internet access, not just access to particular services. They can absolutely meter and limit your connection as long as one byte is one b
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by GuB-42 4d ago
You just gave your own counter argument. If they find a promising way to use psychedelics for instance, they are not going with straight LSD, they will find some analogue that they show is 0.1% better and patent it. Just like that special k
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by GuB-42 5d ago
The problem with psychoactive drugs, as I understand it, is not the lack of positive results. There are plenty of well recognized cases. The problem is the the unpredictability, because there are plenty of catastrophic results too, and we d
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by GuB-42 7d ago
It is just one approach, often referred to as method acting. But good actors trained more classically can be just as convincing by pretending. One is not better than the other, these are just different approaches, both capable of delivering
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by GuB-42 9d ago
> If I showed up at your place and painted some tactful ads on the walls, would you have an issue with it? Yes, because I didn't call you to paint anything on my walls. But if I hired you to paint me something on my wall every month
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by GuB-42 9d ago
I don't think it is the first time they do this, at least on one occasion, they have shown an ad for Tomb Raider on the lock screen. And I am evidently an minority here, but I don't really mind. I don't really have a problem
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by GuB-42 9d ago
Anubis is not free either, it is a matter of how much it costs to run Anubis vs to let bots in. When I see LKML using Anubis when the pages it serves are tens of kB, all presumably static, I wonder if they do it out of spite rather than to
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by GuB-42 10d ago
There is an interesting case here with the "Hadopi" law in France, a particularly controversial anti-piracy law. They scan IP addresses for illegal filesharing and if it connects to your ISP, then you get a notification, and poten
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by GuB-42 13d ago
I still find it crazy that piston engine aircraft still run on leaded fuel. The only reason it is still the case is mostly regulatory. We can make compatible unleaded fuel, we could have done it decades ago, but it would have required costl
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by GuB-42 13d ago
And the reason it is delicious is because evolution told us it was the best food there is: safe and tons of readily available calories. Funny how in the last few decades we turned a system that has benefited us for millions of years into a
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by GuB-42 13d ago
> That said, particle physics history is full of 3 sigma particle "discoveries" that disappeared with more data. The idea is that because 3 sigma means a ~1/1000 chance of the thing being explained by random chance, 1 in 1
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by GuB-42 13d ago
I am sure that in the past, good or bad food was more about conservation and food borne diseases than it was about nutrition. At least, that's the attitude that would make the most sense. That would explain sugar good / fish bad.
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by GuB-42 15d ago
I will go further and say that people hate on Firefox because they care. We don't see many people here hating on Edge for instance, they may hate the fact that it always wants to force itself in, but not the browser itself. And that&#x
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by GuB-42 15d ago
The thing is, at some point, it takes so much work telling the AI exactly what to do that you are better off doing the damn thing yourself. AI can help with the execution, and for an amateur, this is important. But for real pros, the ones w
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by GuB-42 16d ago
This argument can be applied to anything AI does. AI can do bad writing, bad code, bad graphics and bad music. But AI cannot (yet?) do the job of a skilled writer, coder, graphical artist and musician. And it is the same problem every time,
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by GuB-42 16d ago
> Is Burning Man fun? I got the rather cynical impression that it's mostly very well off tech people and even better off finance/political people. Why not both? Well off tech people can have fun too. In fact, the wealthier, the
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by GuB-42 18d ago
This is how humans behave under anonymity, towards an anonymous crowd of people. It is something you don't see on the streets with the exception of a few assholes, but you see it a bit more on the road, where being in a vehicle puts so
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by GuB-42 22d ago
I think tipping is getting out of hand. Normally, tips pay for service staff, which would be about 15% of the revenue of a restaurant in a no-tip country. So, with tips of 15% or less, everyone get their fair share: service staff get a low
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by GuB-42 22d ago
It is kind of a culture shock between France and the US: - French visiting the US: why is the waiter coming at us, does he want us out? - American visiting France: what is the waiter waiting for, didn't he notice we are finished? If Fr
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by GuB-42 23d ago
What the author did in the article, AI companies can do it too, in particular he used pangram, an automatic AI detector, there is no reason AI companies can't use something like this. It is even simpler because AI companies don't
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by GuB-42 23d ago
Has anyone had success telling a LLM to essentially code golf, with the compromise that names should still be descriptive (so no hard minification). The idea is to first make the code less verbose, LLMs tend to do that. But the other idea i
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by GuB-42 23d ago
It reminds me of an interview with police detectives. They say that some criminals think that using weapons like swords and bows will make the police job harder because police is so used to deal with guns that they may have a blind spot. Th
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by GuB-42 23d ago
It is not a skill that you will use in your day to day life, but I think it is part of the fundamentals now. Sure, LLMs are in a bubble, just like the web during the dotcom bubble, but web didn't disappear, and I don't expect LLMs
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by GuB-42 27d ago
Hating on Windows and Micro$oft dates back from way before 2003. People just forgot. I am sure that in 2050, there will be blog posts about Windows 11 that won't make people enrage.
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by GuB-42 28d ago
No, and it doesn't even have to be provided for free as long as the price is reasonable with regard to the delivery costs. The GPL was made when mailing disks was a common way of delivering software and it is still a valid way to do it
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by GuB-42 28d ago
If you are American, then it is you, for the most part. Most of the US government debt is owed to institution and people in the US. All these retirement funds, social security, health insurance, etc... that own part of the government debt..
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by GuB-42 28d ago
Considering the saying that dogs have masters and cats have slaves, not only you are not responsible if your cat bites someone but your cat should also be responsible if you bite someone. As for agents, it depends on your relationship with
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by GuB-42 28d ago
It struck me as something that could be particularly clever. It is clearly a threat, and most likely a bluff. But should it be brought to court, they could claim it was indeed internal communication (and that you should feel bad for reading
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by GuB-42 28d ago
> At the opposite end of the spectrum we have Sony Mobile, where product names are probably assigned by their worst enemy. Or maybe the USB-IF

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