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by bena 5d ago
Fear of a Black Hat, a rap mockumentary in the same vein as This is Spinal Tap, begins with a warning about the language in the movie that's essentially them repeating the offending words three or four times. https://www.you
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by bena 6d ago
I think this leads to an interesting question. What happens when the money runs out? Right now, a lot of money is going to train new models. And we need to train new models because they get gated by their training data. And models are only
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by bena 6d ago
This is literally "We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing" Why should we trust them?
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by bena 7d ago
If I were the band, I’d do the same. I would not want the potential fallout of the when the AI tool goes sideways. Or stupid requests. Etc Let meta handle redirecting band questions to the proper account.
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by bena 8d ago
To be fair, they don't have many levers to pull
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by bena 10d ago
If I’m encoding video or running a database, sure. But the OS should be as lean as possible because the entire reason is to run other programs.
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by bena 13d ago
That's exactly what happens. The life expectancy of a person who lives to 18 increases dramatically across the board. You even see this today. If you live to 70, you can expect to live 14 to 17 more years. So to about 84 on the short s
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by bena 13d ago
I died at 1 in Mesopotamia in 3966 BCE of dysentery.
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by bena 14d ago
They did it though. And I didn't say it would be easy, just possible. I think that's some of the disconnect for some people. They think that simply because a thing is possible, it should be easy.
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by bena 14d ago
I don't necessarily disagree. But this is getting rather forest for the trees. End point is: If you don't like who is making your software, make your own. Giving up is just letting them win.
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by bena 14d ago
A little bit sorta. Conservatives will come out to say that you can't force JK Rowling to be pro (or even neutral) on the trans issue. Now, they'll also say that certain people shouldn't be allowed to create. Or at the very l
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by bena 14d ago
If he feels that way, he feels that way. However, if you don't like the creator of Brave or Ladybird, and you don't believe Google or Mozilla can be trusted to make a browser that respects privacy, giving up is just ceding to thos
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by bena 15d ago
Are you actually reading my responses? I’m saying the formula is immaterial. It’s also about being able to produce at scale, market, and distribute.
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by bena 15d ago
The “machinery” being the marketing, distribution, and general scale, not the physical vats used to mix it. Even if you could replicate the exact flavor, you’d still need to do it at scale and get it into stores and convince people to buy i
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by bena 15d ago
No, it's because Pepsi isn't trying to be Coke, they're trying to be better than Coke. So having the recipe is kind of moot. Even if they were to take the recipe and publish it for all to see, you would still need all of the
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by bena 15d ago
The issue isn’t every other CEO having access to the “make game” button, but who will buy that game when the customers have access to their own “make game” button?
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by bena 15d ago
Yeah, that's why I can't take game developers too seriously when they harp on overall software quality. They write a specific type of software that is very forgiving of bad architecture. Hell, some games are very forgiving of sl
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by bena 15d ago
Why should patents stay protected? You yourself say that allowing cheap duplication and tweaking is what leads to fast innovation. Why should I be restricted from cheap use of a patent I could use to further innovation?
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by bena 16d ago
To be fair, there's another adage that comes into play here: Build one to throw away, you will anyhow. His second attempt, no matter how he made it, was made with the context of his earlier mistakes. RAII doesn't lead to spaghetti
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by bena 17d ago
I didn't say he didn't contribute. I said he wasn't famous for it. And he's not. He's famous for his streams and talks.
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by bena 17d ago
I watch primeagen mostly for awareness of general tech news items.
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by bena 17d ago
660+ and the game was never finished
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by bena 17d ago
The last hour is a Q&A. I don't know if that changes your perception of how watchable it is. It's also a little fluffy. It's basically the history of how the book Structured Programming came about, because it's that
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by bena 19d ago
I'm a little unclear as to what the disagreement is. I still think in your scenario, we would not be able to prove that that is what actually happened as opposed to someone manipulating the inputs to the brain to make it think that&#x2
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by bena 20d ago
I don't think you're being pedantic. The person you're replying to seems like he wants to cut off the solipsistic argument; the only thing we can be sure of is our own consciousness, everything else is debateable. So while I
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by bena 21d ago
I'm the butler, I like to keep the kitchen tidy.
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by bena 21d ago
Depends on the nature of the grip. He could be trying to protect his junk from the leopards, or taunting the leopards by jerking at them. So many options. The past was just as juvenile and perverse as modernity.
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by bena 24d ago
Yes, Office 2003 and prior used proprietary file formats
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by bena 25d ago
I think it’s a decent hack. Zip is a known format, so library support is mature. It can contain a local file system. And no one is going to casually muck about in it, so you can trust the structure.
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by bena 25d ago
It’s the distance rather than the speed that is impressive. Or, to be more accurate, the distance at that speed. Because, of course the machine which does not tire and is deliberately designed to be durable and exceed natural human toleranc

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