byronic

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by byronic 3mo ago
TLDR - Why make it harder for people to get help on the basis that some people might get help who don't deserve it? means testing kills the usefulness of these kinds of stimuli. I completely disagree with your point here and the people
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by byronic 3mo ago
she did. Did you remember to read the article?
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by byronic 5mo ago
what an incredible slop political cartoon around the first paragraph
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by byronic 6mo ago
yes, ha ha ha... yes
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by byronic 6mo ago
After you get some 'credits' by responding as AI, you can swap back to the human mode and throw new stuff into the pile
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by byronic 6mo ago
doesn't matter apparently because this gets removed from the page quickly and with rapid response. It was up on the front page long enough for a few people to see it I guess
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Discuss: AI Slop Bores Me
5 points by byronic 6mo ago|4 comments
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by byronic 7mo ago
This depends a lot on where you live. In our area, the minimum internet-only offering from Spectrum is $125 (approximately) after taxes/fees, and the only "competitor" is AT&T, which is more expensive for (at least in our
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by byronic 7mo ago
at last, TrueAnon has arrived at hackernews
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by byronic 8mo ago
[obviously YMMV, take me with a grain of salt etc] I actually tried Fedora first (thinking dev-first workflows) but ended up switching to Ubuntu w/x11 for gaming. A lot of that had to do with Fedora's release schedule (rather than
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by byronic 8mo ago
I was so lucky to land in a CS class where we were writing C++ by hand. I don't think that exists anymore, but it is where I would go in terms of teaching CS from first principles
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by byronic 9mo ago
What does "ban" mean in this context? Like schools bought the book and it was removed, or it was on a "we won't approve this PO" list? At first glance this is a useless list
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by byronic 9mo ago
In the interest of preserving anonymity, let's call him Rob R. No, er, wait, let's do R Reiner. There, that should do it
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by byronic 9mo ago
my favorite part was where the graphs are all unrelated to each other
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by byronic 10mo ago
why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're left-handed?
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by byronic 10mo ago
The hyperbolic "surely a child with a learning disability can't (or shouldn't) go to college!" is very funny post-1950. John Keats wrote the definitive treatise on the subject and nobody read it. The secondary "oh n
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by byronic 10mo ago
we asked seventy-four cats and you won't BELIEVE number eight
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by byronic 10mo ago
What a dumb article. My favorite part was 'people are incentivized to make unsafe cars' and comparing that to pizza
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by byronic 10mo ago
Seconding “YouTube ban.” I do it now at the network level. If at some point they alter parental controls to allow list channels I would consider adding it back, but the sheer quantity put forth onto the platform makes it impossible for any
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by byronic 10mo ago
The author shoulda written a REPL
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by byronic 11mo ago
how much does the correction here hew to making an AI model just look like standardized API calls with predictable responses? If you took away all the costs (data centers, water consumption, money, etc) I still wouldn't use an LLM as a
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by byronic 11mo ago
Speaking as a parent of young children, I don't see any point in going back to YouTube. It's been blocked in our household basically since our oldest was six, and I don't see any way they could ever lure us back into that eco
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by byronic 1y ago
I don't know how we could put limits on gambling that would make sense, though. There's a huge difference in bets that I used to make (which were all black-market sports bets, usually on 'game winner' or over/under)
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by byronic 1y ago
I'll defer to people who claim to work there now (avanderveen in the other replies). If you want my perspective, your parenthetical is describing worker abuse. Severance-avoidant layoffs and crunch are shitty and _are_ worker abuse --
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by byronic 1y ago
Jason Schreier (sp?) is probably the journalist with the best track record on covering EA and it’s generally been rotten all the way down. His recent book Play Nice focuses on just Blizzard but I wouldn’t be surprised if he does one on EA s
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by byronic 1y ago
Not referencing the Saudi Arabia portion here specifically but LBOs as documented in the book Barbarians at the Gate (covers Nabisco/RJR tobacco) gives me basically zero hope for the future of EA. EA was already rabid cost-cutters and
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by byronic 1y ago
Trying to select the text on the page and it took me a few seconds to get the joke
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by byronic 1y ago
This would be more exciting if the current steam/itch situation didn't rest (at least partially) on their shoulders as payment processors. Other people in the threads have brought up the lack of regulation and market capture that
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by byronic 1y ago
A marvelous article that gave voice to things I can't articulate appropriately (although, I guess, now I can).
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by byronic 1y ago
I actually thought this was going to reference the (earlier) 2000 Spolsky post (point 8 from https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s... ), which is itself dependent on the 15 minute per-pe

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