cataphract

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by cataphract 13d ago
Really depends on the kind of upbringing of the child. In Mongolia 5 year olds are teaching their younger siblings how to ride a reindeer.
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by cataphract 1mo ago
Only the AI labs are really interested in closed models. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, ... they'd rather go back to doing stock buybacks and being ridiculously profitable rather than raising capital for all this research and datacenters
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by cataphract 1mo ago
I have both as well. Floaters are mildly annoying, but at least when you lie in bed at night you don't see them in the dark.
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by cataphract 1mo ago
In every AI-written post, we have the script: some top post complaining it's AI-written, someone cluelessly saying they don't see it, and another person pointing out the claudisms. Sometimes someone posts a link to pangram. I thin
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by cataphract 1mo ago
Right, SO was always better at answering beginner questions then advanced ones, except if the complex question had a broad appeal. Part of it is because the format is not good for asking a context-heavy question. Another part because you we
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by cataphract 1mo ago
I appreciate the correction. Although it should be said that modern implementations tend to opt to assume that UB never happens.
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by cataphract 1mo ago
Undefined behavior is not the same as implementation-defined or unspecified behavior. A program with undefined behavior is by definition an incorrect program. But there are cases where the spec actually gives some margin to the implementati
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by cataphract 1mo ago
Just from the subtitle, you can already tell it's likely AI-generated. Maybe you're lucky enough not to be exposed to claude/codex output your whole working day.
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by cataphract 2mo ago
I don't think that's the lesson. What I take from that is that people adapt to norms and incentives they have. Despite all the talk about "academic integrity" and whatnot, very rarely were there punishments for people wh
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by cataphract 2mo ago
Caffeine withdrawal symptoms don't last more than 1-2 weeks. And we're talking about headaches, feeling sluggish... not dying, like other drugs.
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by cataphract 2mo ago
That's a stretched interpretation. The first sentence says the interval does not exceed 15 minutes. The most natural way to read the last sentence is that the competition rules state how long the half-time is under those parameters (i.
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by cataphract 2mo ago
Producing the desired output is the purpose of the program, but it's not the only consideration: there's performance, maintainability, security, and so on.
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by cataphract 2mo ago
So it's OK if FIFA breaks the rules of the game "only in the final"? (yes, I know FIFA says they didn't but their reading of Law 7.2 is not plausible)
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by cataphract 2mo ago
One of the least corrupt countries, whose attorney general had secret meetings with Infantino when in charge of an investigation of corruption in FIFA.
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by cataphract 2mo ago
Yes, which maybe is a disadvantage because it limits the speed I read to the speed I can articulate the words in my head. But most of the time I'm not consciously aware of it, just like people who go one step further and move their lip
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by cataphract 2mo ago
The post doesn't call for the sympathy for the publishers, so I'm not sure what you're responding to.
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by cataphract 2mo ago
What about when you're reading? You don't have a voice in your head saying the words?
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by cataphract 2mo ago
It's not a small fine. It's much more than what each title could be bought for in the market.
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by cataphract 2mo ago
> But if I'm reading the ruling correctly, Anthropic might have been fine even with feeding pirated books into their LLM (as long as they planned to eventually deleted them afterwards) The court says otherwise. > Such piracy of o
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by cataphract 2mo ago
It surely is, but that doesn't change the fact that many cases are not about distribution and the harm is frequently more of a legal fiction, unless by harm you mean something other than suffering inflicted on the victims. I don't
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by cataphract 2mo ago
Like when Google got tired of handling geofencing warrants.
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by cataphract 2mo ago
> If you purchased a piece of land and that wasn't recorded in the registry, you are SOL because registration is what conveys title. Sort of. The registration is what provides opposability against third parties. But between buyer an
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by cataphract 2mo ago
Don't know exactly on it works in Romania, but proving you purchased a patch of land is a different question -- for that you have the deed. You then submit the deed to the land registry. So this situation could at most result in the se
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by cataphract 2mo ago
Yeah, for a while it was not clear that git would win over mercurial. GitHub was decisive.
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by cataphract 2mo ago
Yes, yes, the usual narrative. They were not welcoming. I mostly participated in the site around the 2009-2012 and reached a bit under 100k of reputation and these were the dynamics of website: * Most questions were low effort crap *
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by cataphract 2mo ago
The "honest score" is the most annoying claudism of the comment, with the short disjoint sentences a close second.
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by cataphract 3mo ago
> it destroys the consumer base that capital relies on to buy its goods and services. therefore, society requires broad wealth distribution to function This is becoming less and less true, because now consumption is becoming dominated by
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by cataphract 3mo ago
What is "standard writing"? Isn't cursive the standard you're taught and then everyone writes however they want?
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by cataphract 3mo ago
That is not a fault that's specific to engineers. Lots of smart lawyers think they can learn basically anything over a weekend of hard study. It's probably a blind spot of intelligent people.
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by cataphract 3mo ago
Surely if it was that bad someone would reveal it anonymously to the press.

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