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by drpixie 4y ago
#1 I'm not a script monkey. #2 It's just as easy to write stuff, than to carefully check for dumb AI errors.
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by drpixie 4y ago
A great list. I'd like to add #9: Look at how they think other people behave. Most people assume other people's motivations are similar to their own. So someone who is paranoid about small time thieves might be assuming that oth
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by drpixie 4y ago
If your system has frozen and you can't get a terminal with ctrl+alt+F1 (or F2 etc) then consider it dead, and hit the hardware reset or power. You do have a hardware reset button?
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by drpixie 4y ago
I suspect that Tom Cruise has always been a deep fake ... so do we now have fakes of fakes?
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by drpixie 4y ago
I like your shorter list - but I'd suggest concerned people also avoid the obvious attack surfaces: * Windows * storing data on other people's computers (cloud apps) (Yes, they're all safe under the right circumstances. But t
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by drpixie 4y ago
crypto-anything i-almost anything - usually mindless marketing.
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by drpixie 4y ago
The abbreviations way pre-date SMS - they were standardised back in the teletype days, 1940s-1950s, when printing speed was 30-100cps! Now NOTAMs (mostly) comply with global standards so, like VHF AM aviation radio, substantial changes are
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by drpixie 4y ago
So ... the majority opinion here is that it's fine to break things, because we use Linux on Intel/AMD, and clients from other backgrounds will have to sort things out for themselves. Even though we took X from systems with other b
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by drpixie 4y ago
And that is why it is so important to solve the problem first. Best and clearest advice I've seen for quite a while :)
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by drpixie 4y ago
If the generative AI gets so good... I'm waiting, but don't believe it is/will be "that good". Language models are about language, not knowledge - our human gullibility and hopefulness is a vital factor in the cur
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by drpixie 4y ago
In practice, there's not a specific distance but planning convenience. For short manually planned tracks (eg VFR planning), most people will plan from one visually helpful waypoint to another, and measure the heading at the mid-point o
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by drpixie 4y ago
Also, for small packets, disabling consolidation means adding LOTS of packet overhead. You're not sending 1 million * 50 bytes of data, you're sending 1 million * (50 bytes of data + about 80 bytes of TCP+ethernet header). Disabli
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by drpixie 4y ago
I've been around enough projects to pick up on warning signs :) That google has been able to manage such a project is truly impressive. Chrome is clearly the most popular browser out there but, for me, popularity counts for little. Ch
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by drpixie 4y ago
Yeah - my first thought, on seeing the list, " the project is completely out of control and it's amazing that it works as well as it does! " I guess it's a tribute to what you can get if you throw enough money and effort
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by drpixie 4y ago
Or until they change the terms & conditions...
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by drpixie 4y ago
I see only a single example discussed. It's interesting but begs the question - if I give it 1000 problems, how many of its results are correct programs?
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by drpixie 4y ago
That's how to do a comparison :) Clear and straight-forward explanation, results, and no time-wasting video. Well done.
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by drpixie 4y ago
Noooooo (but it will happen) - so we can have convincing but wrong content about company products! Readers are commenting that chat increases "conversions" (I guess that means sales). I'd be interested to see what convincing
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by drpixie 4y ago
They might be insignificant costs to the user who wants that niche feature, but they affect all users. So millions of people are pay costs associated with something used by a tiny niche.
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by drpixie 4y ago
Bugs accumulate until people give up Yes - all those additonal (seldom used) features have costs ... more bugs, harder to use, slower app, more storage & memory.
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by drpixie 4y ago
we would miss out on new customers You're right about the thinking. But that thinking is flawed. Must product X be used by everyone? No, there are (literally) millions of customers out there - pick a segment and serve it well.
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by drpixie 4y ago
I still hate it - it takes attention, and I want to give the app as little attention as possible, so I can concentrate on what I'm writing, not the process of typing.
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by drpixie 4y ago
Makes a good case why most programing languages should not provide simple numeric types - being the types we're so used to using that we don't even think about it. Squashing everything into one or two numeric types leaves us wide
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by drpixie 4y ago
Will we, at some point, recognise the difference between appearing meaningful/rational/considered and being meaningful/rational/considered. Our continuing obsession with the Turing Test, and now with language models,
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by drpixie 4y ago
Yes - that's my problem - an interface should be stable. Disable selections, fine. Remove them, no. Reorder them, absolutely not. The changing layout of buttons in Office - yuck - I just want to do it, I don't want to think about
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by drpixie 4y ago
All of the above/below, and many config changes (eg. prefer local storage) seem to be reverted to MS preferred defaults by system upgrades :(
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by drpixie 4y ago
So is thefarside.com - any relation to gocomics.com which has been showing a server-fail message for several days?
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by drpixie 4y ago
> That’s not how typical users work, and I don’t think it’s how they want to work. That's true. But if people were routinely offered convenient ways to automate, build pipes, or whatever the technique, then perhaps normal people w
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by drpixie 4y ago
> but only being able to run programs that were programmed 30 years ago Take the swap. I don't think you'll loose much. Most programs are doing pretty much the same thing as 30 years ago, but with hi-res graphics
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by drpixie 4y ago
There's no reason why we couldn't come up with a nice GUI than piped output. I don't think the problem is GUI specifically - the problem is poor/no provision for automation. Our widely used apps either discourage (by mak

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