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by cabalamat 6mo ago
Working on boring accounts software.
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by cabalamat 6mo ago
I don't even try to read newspaper sites, I just look at the Archive Today version.
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by cabalamat 6mo ago
I'm sure the UK government (which is against VPNs because they help people circumvent their Online Safety Act) will love them.
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by cabalamat 1y ago
What does it mean when it surrounds a word in red? Is this signalling an error?
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by cabalamat 2y ago
> and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment So if an AI can't change its weights after deployment, it's not really an AI? That doesn't make sense. As for the other criteria, they're so vague I think a thermos
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by cabalamat 2y ago
> strongly suggestive that they have been trained on copyrighted materials Given that everything -- including this comment -- is copyrighted unless it is (1) old or (2) deliberately put into the public domain, this is almost certainly tr
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by cabalamat 2y ago
Putin. It solves the problem of Putin.
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by cabalamat 2y ago
EU countries are not required to join the Euro. They are required to say they will at some unspecified future date, but that's another matter.
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by cabalamat 2y ago
> high-quality modern UI I do think that some UIs are more complex than they need to be.
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by cabalamat 2y ago
> Creating websites and apps is simply too complex And the solution, of course, is a framework on top of a framework on top of JS and the DOM. OK, maybe I'm being too harsh.
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by cabalamat 2y ago
This includes some railways but not others. For example the Edinburgh tram is missing.
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by cabalamat 2y ago
Is it intentional that the 3D plan image doesn't show the positions of doors and windows? They seem kinda important to me.
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by cabalamat 2y ago
I still can't get the "Walk" mode to work. (Firefox 129.0 on Ubuntu 22.04)
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by cabalamat 2y ago
You need to count from 0. 1 BC should be renamed year 0. Then the years 0-99 are the 0th century, the years 1900-1999 are the 19th century, etc. To avoid confusion between new style and old style centuries, create a new word, "centan&q
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by cabalamat 2y ago
Imagine Ladybird is developed and is successful. Lots of people use it to read websites. But then Badcorp takes the code and builds their own varient with extensions. Badcorp is big and has lots of market share. Lots of people use Badcorps&
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by cabalamat 2y ago
But if they embrace, extend and extinguish, in a way that harms your users' freedom, that would not IMO be a good outcome.
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by cabalamat 2y ago
I note form the demo that there's a "Flat" button that looks like normal text. This is a mis-feature and should be removed; controls should look different from things you can't interact with.
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by cabalamat 2y ago
> the general public still gravitates towards more general content I'm not sure that's true. The vast majority of the stuff I watch on YouTube is way too niche to be on television.
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by cabalamat 2y ago
Not if a small number of people are victims of multiple crimes.
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by cabalamat 2y ago
> to the point that knowledgeable users have to tiptoe around all the UI that breaks styles I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way.
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by cabalamat 2y ago
Dumbfuck-oriented design. As neilv's comment[1] puts it: > The Microsoft Word way has always seemed to support styles more like they were grafted on as an afterthought, without wanting to disturb the least-knowledgeable users, to th
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by cabalamat 2y ago
Also, in 2009 someone suggested re-implementing Eurisko[1], and Yudkowsky cautioned against it: > This is a road that does not lead to Friendly AI, only to AGI. I doubt this has anything to do with Lenat's motives - but I'm gla
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by cabalamat 2y ago
> Up until about GPT 2, EURISKO was arguably the most interesting achievement in AI. I agree. > I suspect its achievements were slightly overblown and heavily guided by a human hand So do I. We'll find out how much of its perform
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by cabalamat 3y ago
If people typically get 10s of errors on a single form, it might well be better to split it up into several sub forms.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> What about complex validation rules? I wpould use my server-side form and database library, Bozen[1] to do this. > [1]: https://github.com/cabalamat/frambozenapp
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> Consent is a thing and this wasn't consensual The whole point of a fediverse is it's a federation. Therefore there is implied consent to copying from one instance to another. > but the intent of posting to Mastodon isn&#x2
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by cabalamat 3y ago
It works if you say "futuristic looking". a picture of some futuristic-looking 23rd century scottish kings playing golf: https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-picture-of-some-futuris...
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> microblogging Would it be possible to use it for macroblogging, i.e. long posts with markdown markup, embedded images, etc? If so is there a python library tghat implements atproto?
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> "Generate a scene of 17th century kings of Scotland playing golf." -> The result should not be a bunch of black men and Asian women dressed up as Scottish kings, it should be a bunch of white guys. It works in bing, at lea
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by cabalamat 3y ago
It's a shame Andrew Yang isn't running this year, as his 2020 platform of UBI because of AI is looking very prescient.

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