alickz

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by alickz 1mo ago
I think there's a difference between brandishing a weapon and brandishing a recording device Unlike the sword, the camera itself does not incite deeds of violence My understanding at least is that cameras (or even signs) reducing/
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by alickz 1mo ago
Yeah that was my reaction too If you're a pervert, you wouldn't want the victim to know you're recording them If you don't want someone to know you're recording them, you wouldn't wear the famous Recording Glas
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by alickz 1mo ago
If I was a pretty girl that gets stared at I think I'd want to record the ones doing the staring People generally commit less crime if they think they're on camera If they do commit a crime, at least there would be video evidence
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by alickz 6mo ago
You're right in that it's unreasonable to expect someone else work for you for free But I would also say a quality bug report is a contribution in and of itself Closing it without reason is also, literally, unreasonable
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by alickz 6mo ago
>Because I have a reason to believe it's fixed What reason?
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by alickz 6mo ago
Even if you're not correct, I respect your positivity and constructive attitude It's good to raise people's expectations of themselves
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by alickz 9mo ago
>what if the LLM gets something wrong that the operator (a junior dev perhaps) doesn't even know it's wrong? the same thing that always happens if a dev gets something wrong without even knowing it's wrong - either code re
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by alickz 10mo ago
>There is a lot of money to be made from paid cosmetics, ranks, moderator (demi-tyrant) status, etc on custom servers. Anyone have any idea how much a 15 Tbps DDoS attack would cost? Thousands of dollars? Tens of thousands?
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by alickz 10mo ago
The only GUI products that work are GUIs that you can interface with, or that perform tasks for you Maybe the real value of AI, particularly LLMs, is in the interface it provides for other things, and not in the AI itself What if AI isn&#x2
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by alickz 10mo ago
I use their app on Android and it blocks ads system wide I would recommend it
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by alickz 10mo ago
I think that is an unreasonable expectation given the advice they received from their lawyer Maybe it would have been virtuous to fight it tooth-and-nail from the start, but I don't think it was wrong to comply while investigating furt
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by alickz 10mo ago
You make a good point Though I wonder why it works with Linux, which I assume doesn't have code for a special handshake specific to AirPods
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by alickz 10mo ago
Also if the README is to be believed the following are also hidden behind an Apple DID (not driver): - Multi-device Connectivity - Accessibility Settings and Hearing Aid While the following are exclusive to Apple devices for market reasons:
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by alickz 10mo ago
>Some skills, like framing, values, balance, etc. become even more important differentiators. I agree. I think many artists in the future will be closer to directors/cinematographers/editors than performers Many of the skills a
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by alickz 10mo ago
>AI has no intent or creativity, so it can be neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad. AI is just a wrapper around a tool - it doesn't need intention or creativity because those come from the user in the form of prompts (which
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by alickz 10mo ago
Good single player campaign too, if anyone is interested
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by alickz 10mo ago
Arc Raiders, and their previous game The Finals, uses AI in some capacity for Voice Acting - though they do still hire VA and make it explicit in their contract offer >Some of the voice lines were created using generative artificial inte
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by alickz 11mo ago
I come from a Swift/Kotlin background and I've been learning Rust for fun in my spare time From what I heard online I was expecting it to be a lot harder to understand! The moving/borrowing/stack/heap stuff isn&#x27
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by alickz 11mo ago
>LLM generated code is noisy as hell, for no good reason You can direct it to generate code/docs in whatever format or structure you want, prioritising the good practices and avoiding bad practices, and then manually edit as needed
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by alickz 11mo ago
>LLMs make this even worse Not in my experience Better documentation, more test cases, and an NLP interface to query the code Less cognitive load, more complete mental models >even bad developers can do that many times compared to bet
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by alickz 11mo ago
Agreed LLMs are a force multiplier
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by alickz 11mo ago
>I think some people have more fun using LLM agents and generative AI tools I think I'm one of them The rate at which I can explore new paths, or revisit old ones with a new perspective, has _exploded_ and I love it But then I'
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by alickz 11mo ago
>But happy to be corrected - is someone using these agents in their paid / professional / enterprise / team job? Yes, and I find them quite useful I don't see myself going back to the "Google + StackOverflow&quot
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by alickz 11mo ago
Agreed Infallibility is an unrealistic bar to mark LLMs against
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by alickz 1y ago
I have also had some success with this method I asked ChatGPT to analyze its weaknesses and give me a pre-prompt to best help mitigate them and it gave me this: https://pastebin.com/raw/yU87FCKp I've found it very
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by alickz 1y ago
People have blindly followed GPS routes into lakes and rivers, but that should hardly be a point against GPS With 8 billion people on the planet, you could write a "man bites dog" story about any invention popular enough "You
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by alickz 1y ago
I agree, and my flow is similar I've made great use of AI by keeping my boundaries clear and my requirements tight, and by rigorously ensuring I understand _every_ line of code I commit I believe software development will transition to
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by alickz 1y ago
If you write a screenplay (the idea), and direct actors to act it out according to your vision (the implementation), did you _create_ the film? I think my answer would be "Does it matter?" If it brings joy to you or others, who ca
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by alickz 1y ago
I think it doesn't help that outrage generates the most engagement out of any emotion So the algorithms that prioritise engagement reward outrage, and the social media users who want to be engaged with tend towards posting outrage It l
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by alickz 1y ago
I suspect many of the people on social media who use the word fascism could not define it I think George Orwell was right when he said it has lost most of its meaning https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Ple

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