PopGreene

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by PopGreene 3mo ago
I received the newsletter. I don't remember for sure, but I probably did opt in. Take another look. I saw this text at the bottom of mine: > You’re receiving this email because you are signed up for the Fastmail newsletter. If you n
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by PopGreene 4mo ago
I am in exactly the same spot you're in. I have two phone numbers available to me and neither is accepted. However, I have a different take on it: Hanlon's Razor says "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explai
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by PopGreene 4mo ago
Extrapolate: > Our clients are already asking: "If AI can do this, why do I need a team of five?" to: "If AI can do this, why do I even need to do business with your company?"
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by PopGreene 5mo ago
The point of the ban was not to ban children from social media. The point of the ban was to be seen to ban children from social media.
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by PopGreene 6mo ago
Astronomers? I know they don't like starlink satellites. Might somebody have access to a powerful enough laser?
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by PopGreene 7mo ago
It would be nice if we could leave a note explaining why we chose the name we're proposing.
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by PopGreene 7mo ago
What do you need a super computer for when you have a sharpie?
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by PopGreene 7mo ago
I've been thinking about how ISO-9000 will be reconciled with LLMs? Will businesses abandon their ISO-9000 certifications in favor of "We use AI" or will ISO-9000 adapt in some way to the "need" for LLMs?
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by PopGreene 8mo ago
While I'm slaloming between and around potholes and recessed man hole covers, my Accord keeps popping up a "Lane Departure" warning. After a couple hours of this, it will pop up a picture of a coffee cup, hinting that I need
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by PopGreene 8mo ago
> The decision is aimed at de-escalating the violence between federal agents and rioters... There were riots? That's the first I heard of it.
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by PopGreene 8mo ago
I'm not sure how to respond because I don't know what you mean by "systems." Can you offer any examples of systems that were built by average people?
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by PopGreene 10mo ago
mRNA vaccine? To be fair, the technology has been around for a while, so it may not meet your criteria.
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by PopGreene 10mo ago
I'm giddy. The megachurch grifters are going to lose their minds. The money people are spending these godless AI companies is rightfully theirs. How are they going to pay for their private jets now?
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by PopGreene 11mo ago
These two don't seem to agree: > Banning mercury fillings is an easy and cost-effective way to cut pollution... said said Richard Benwell, chief executive of Wildlife and Countryside Link > British Dental Association chair, Eddie
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by PopGreene 11mo ago
Great puzzle. I enjoyed that.
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by PopGreene 1y ago
This is like losing an election and accusing the voters of bias.
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by PopGreene 1y ago
Will the LLM recognize that incorrect code is wrong if you add comments?
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by PopGreene 1y ago
Will this do? https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members
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by PopGreene 1y ago
Does anyone know what this is supposed to mean?: > He said a problem with eliminating fraudulent claims is that “the information that we use through knowledge-based authentication is already in the public domain.”
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by PopGreene 2y ago
IMO, I don't think you should necessarily master it, but you should learn it. While I'm sure there is a better language to choose for almost any task, what you learn from Haskell will make you a better programmer in most other lan
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by PopGreene 2y ago
I wonder if we worked for the same company? In my last job, requirements, such as they were, were based on some idea that someone in authority thought we might need. No consideration was given to the needs of the clients of the code. They w
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by PopGreene 2y ago
"I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book" - Albert Einstein
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by PopGreene 2y ago
Are these organizations only specifying "memory safe languages" or are they specifying specific languages?
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by PopGreene 2y ago
There's something I don't understand. In the trap line for the parent process, the variable "$child_pid" appears. How did that get set?
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by PopGreene 2y ago
"C Is Not a Low-level Language. Your computer is not a fast PDP-11." ( https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479 )
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by PopGreene 2y ago
If a vaccine exists, it might be cheaper - certainly easier to get approval - to vaccinate the cattle. Maybe nip it in the bud.
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by PopGreene 2y ago
More people do use Linux. Everyone with an Android phone uses Linux. Linux runs on many web servers. It runs on many IoT devices. I mean, I know the point this person is trying to make, but they did a sloppy job of it. > Now I totally un
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by PopGreene 2y ago
An interesting take on the subject: https://www.persuasion.community/p/yes-you-do-have-to-tolera...
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by PopGreene 2y ago
> ...leaving only a few to oversee the AI's work. What, exactly, would this entail, and how many is "only a few?"
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by PopGreene 2y ago
Start with https://map.blitzortung.org/ . Zoom in to your area. Pull down the hamburger menu at the top right. Select the "Detectors" check box and slide the slider to the right. I found someone operating a detec

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