commodoreboxer

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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
You're in support of life imprisonment as punishment for somebody who gets into a couple fights?
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
People who get uptight about swearing irritate me. I understand getting upset about racial slurs or other actually loaded language, but getting upset about the word "fuck" but not "sex" is just making up things to be ups
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
That removes a lot of the content. Much of this is inside clickable menus that reader mode doesn't capture. For a site that is apparently for people with disorders, the accessibility is somewhat appalling.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
Sometimes you can't help it, sometimes you are related to those people, and sometimes they also can't help it. If I'm out with a friend who has a severe disorder that means he can't help but make a loud "whoop"
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
In state parks, but I haven't seen it really enforced in most of the US. The point is that litter isn't the primary problem with plastic. Most of the issues with it have nothing to do with the littering of random citizens, to the
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
Verizon in particular. My Pixel 3 is still more than capable hardware-wise, but it's years out of software support. I could get much more use out of it, but the bootloader is locked and Verizon will not unlock it, so it's e-waste.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
I don't see a problem with taking the phone, as long as it's returned by the end of the day. The school should have your phone number on file and can reach you in an emergency. The situations where your child would specifically ne
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
It's not well established at all. I don't think a single study has conclusively and causatively linked pornography use to lower testosterone levels.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
Throwing plastic on the ground instead of in a bin is already illegal, and often carries $1000 fines if you are caught. And putting it in a bin already is just kicking the can down the road. I say we blame the corporations who are making ma
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
You're misreading the comment. It's not that "for your safety" always implies tyranny, it's that tyrants always prefers to say that they're doing things for your safety.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
Ah, I've never really been able to discern. There is obvious LLM text, but it's harder to tell the difference in short samples, and with some prompting to get it to write in a particular style, it's been easy to make LLM outp
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
I thought so, but the rest of the comment is worded quite reasonably, so I decided to not interpret it as hyperbole or irony.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
Everything involving any kind of coordination, cooperation, competition, and/ot communication between two or more people involves politics by its very nature. LLMs are communication tools. You can't divorce politics from their use
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
The problem is that for the vast majority of use, LLM output is not revised or edited, and very many times I'm convinced the output wasn't even fully read.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
I agree with you. I think it's a bit wasteful and dumb, I just don't find it either sick or confusing.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
I agree with you, and I'll put it slightly stronger. Ruby is a better language than Python in every way except the very most important two: - Imports in Ruby seriously suck compared to Python. Everything requires into a global scope an
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
I think they would have to here, to support native modules. Jython (and I believe IronPython, but don't quote me) does not support native CPython modules. CPython modules explicitly control the GIL, so if they are supported (as they ar
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. It looked weird to me, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
Eh, it's still a numbers game. Changing your chances of contracting terminal cancer in the next 5 years from 1% to 0.5% is still significant. In this case, the specific percentages are all the significance. When a lot of the factors ar
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
We can and do, all the time. And all puzzles are a "waste of resources", really. I'm not into crypto and I do think Bitcoin is stupid and wasteful, but I don't find it "sick" or all what upsetting that this kin
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
The point is that many (maybe most) of us didn't even realize that "soup" was part of the company's name. I always assumed something like "Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup" was by the company "Campbell&
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
> Killing copyright because you dont like Microsoft would equally kill things like Free Software (because it would invalidate the freedoms enforced by the GPL.) Without copyright, the GPL wouldn't need to exist because the freedoms
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
I think you're overestimating LLM usage.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
The article addresses this: > Computer people adopted a term in use for more than half a century and brought it into the digital world. The wording in the Harvard log book—“first actual case of a bug being found”—suggests the computer pr
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
Maybe it's because I'm working a lot with V8, but that looks quite a lot like most C++ generics I've been looking at lately. Especially when working with concepts, it's easy to end up 5 or more nested angle brackets in.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
The argument was "I don't want to learn Rust, I'm not going to learn Rust, and if you put a non-C language in the codebase, I'm going to break it without giving a shit". Not sensible in the least.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
I have, but only as an idiom, never literally. E.g. "Microsoft just keeps hoovering up companies", but the literal act of vacuuming is only called vacuuming.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
The way we do it is not the same way they do it. They literally only predict the next probable tokens. The way they do it is amazing, and the fact that they can do it as well as they do is amazing, but human thinking is a lot more nuanced t
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
There's also enemy motion, enemy attacks, shooting, and UI considerations, which make the combinatorials explode. And Doom movement isn't tile based. The map may be, but you can be in many many places on a tile.
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by commodoreboxer 2y ago
A 10 line program with two dependencies and all their transitive dependencies.

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