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by codebolt 3y ago
Maybe Microsoft holds some sway? Sam made a snide tweet at them a few days ago. Running the whole Dev Day demo on Mac's might also be taken as some kind of statement.
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by codebolt 3y ago
I have a strong gut feeling they're about to mess things up.
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by codebolt 3y ago
Sure, here's a couple of references to back my assertion. https://ourworldindata.org/living-alone https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-13049-9
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by codebolt 3y ago
Wrong. The rates are higher and the main reason is obvious. Fewer families being formed => more lonely adults => more people depressed.
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by codebolt 3y ago
> Thank you! It means a lot to me that so many people were able to use VB both to get their start in programming, and to develop applications that businesses relied on. Oh, then you should know that there are still VB6 apps in heavy use
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by codebolt 3y ago
This is the reason. Too often I will go to a site and find that it's unusable with Firefox.
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by codebolt 3y ago
My 8 year old son inherited an old laptop this week, that was too slow to consider installing Win 11, so I ended up loading it with XUbuntu. The first thing I did was actually to install Edge, because that makes it possible to monitor his w
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by codebolt 3y ago
I don't see how this adds anything meaningful to the Bing Chat Enterprise offering that Microsoft has made available for a while now. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/07/18/furthering-our-a...
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by codebolt 3y ago
At my work we've been using Bing Enterprise for a brief while now, which it states is based on ChatGPT4 and has the same promise of keeping data private. From what I've seen, Bing Chat is superior to ChatGPT4 in many respects.
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by codebolt 3y ago
25 is around the age when you start seeing the consequences of the bad choices you've made during adolescence.
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by codebolt 3y ago
This guy captured the excitement pretty well: https://twitter.com/gbrl_dick/status/1685811395273830401?t=z...
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by codebolt 3y ago
I relate so much to this. The only time I could see myself watching something like this is if the wife falls asleep a bit early on the couch one evening. Or as someone else suggested, if I could get the kids interested. I do listen to a bun
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by codebolt 3y ago
Would you agree that an alien civilization completely separate from humans but equally intelligent would also be likely to discover Pythagoras theorem (with a different name and different symbolics)? To me that would imply that its truth is
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by codebolt 3y ago
One thing this hypothesis has going for it, from a purely armchair metaphysics perspective, is that it gives some kind of answer to the question 'why does anything exist'. If mathematics (or the underlying 'thing' that m
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by codebolt 3y ago
The main utility of Monero is being able to make anonymous transactions. The downside of the crime that this enables far outweighs whatever libertarian ideals I may be sympathetic to. It's just a bad idea for society.
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by codebolt 3y ago
What I do know is that Nigeria was recently forced to cut their fuel subsidy, and I highly suspect that was done under indirect pressure from western environmentalists. Which would be a very concrete example of making a couple hundred milli
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by codebolt 3y ago
"A few percentage points of economic growth" makes it sound so trivial. When what you're really saying is you want to keep billions of poor people around the world away from the chance at a better life.
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by codebolt 3y ago
This is giving me flashbacks to when Digg.com committed a similar suicide, which was a major part of Reddit's growth back in the day.
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by codebolt 3y ago
Couldn't you train the model to keep score (develop a heuristic) for it's own level of certainty for a given answer?
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by codebolt 3y ago
Indeed. As an example, modern era devs don't realize how much of the global financial system is underpinned by decades old Cobol code. Personally I'd rather be working on a system that's massively important with less flashy t
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by codebolt 3y ago
Yes, this is Microsoft (or its employees) siphoning public funds from corrupt governments that those societies sorely need.
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by codebolt 4y ago
My youngest son loves the story about the Three Goats Gruff and also the show Blaze And The Monster Machines on Nickelodeon. One of the first things I thought to do with ChatGPT was ask it to write the story of the Three Goats Gruff as an e
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by codebolt 4y ago
Maybe I was just too young to know better, but I seem to remember AltaVista being pretty decent. My internet was super slow back then anyway, so the search latency probably didn't make a huge difference.
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by codebolt 4y ago
Somewhat ironic that an article about high-performance networking is down.
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by codebolt 4y ago
I still remember how dumbfounded I was as a physics undergrad the first time I worked through the derivation of the wave equation of light from Maxwell's Laws. There are so many beautiful, awe-inspiring and existentially important idea
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by codebolt 4y ago
For Russia and Venezuela you may have a point. But the others in that list still have much better (in terms of risk/reward) options for protecting their wealth than stablecoins.
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by codebolt 4y ago
> In my eyes, it's all about caring about software development: either you do, or you don't. Yes, that's the difference. I'm lucky enough to work mostly with colleagues that share a certain level of craftsmanship abou
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by codebolt 4y ago
The science based counter-argument to all this is the understanding that time is eternalistic, so even though we die our lives never disappear out of existence. I choose to go the complete opposite route of the author here, and try to live
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by codebolt 4y ago
> the proportion of people who use psychedelics and end up on good tracks is way higher than that of those who use psychedelics and end up on bad tracks I'll agree with that, but the real question is whether people who use psychedel
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by codebolt 4y ago
I don't find that surprising, but I'd still be interested to see a survey of what proportion of California's homeless population have used psychedelics extensively _in their past_. Because my experience leads me to believe th

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