grumpymouse

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by grumpymouse 7mo ago
It’s actually a cookie experiment
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by grumpymouse 1y ago
As a user, I feel like talking to them is pointless because nothing we agree to is actually agreed until a human agrees it. The chatbot promising me a refund doesn’t mean I’m going to get a refund. The HR chatbot promising me paid time off
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by grumpymouse 2y ago
Even if it does only cause psychosis in people who have a disposition to psychotic illness, why is that fine?
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by grumpymouse 2y ago
I’m not going to install this because I’m not looking for a band, but it would be cool if you could keep in mind solo musicians often need to hire a band in order to play This could be a good way for people to find that when they don’t have
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by grumpymouse 3y ago
This is already somewhat available (check out Dreamtomics Synthesizer V and the voices like Solaris etc)
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by grumpymouse 3y ago
I would argue that many of the big tech companies have also been subsidised rather than being efficient. It has just been private investors rather than governments (and it feels like we are starting to see the end of that).
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by grumpymouse 3y ago
It always feels like open source enthusiasts would never pay for something themselves, but expect that their boss will for some reason. What would your boss get by paying that he/she isn't already getting for free?
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by grumpymouse 3y ago
I think things like being able to contact anyone are important to people, but decentralisation doesn't necessarily provide that (e.g. if I sign up on a Mastodon instance will I be able to see the messages of everyone on every Mastodon
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by grumpymouse 3y ago
LLMs always remind me of pigeons you see in the city that have spent their whole life eating out of bins and pecking dropped chunks of kebab. We trained it on a bunch of stuff, but we're not sure quite what. Looks like it works OK, so
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by grumpymouse 3y ago
It’s probably the same deal as with LLMs generating code: it can crank out something that’s probably broken, and the person using the LLM needs to be able to know how to code to see where it’s broken. Companies might be able to reduce the h
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by grumpymouse 3y ago
I think the point is to avoid a situation like with Uber (where investors subsidised Uber rides to try to destroy most of the world's taxi industry, then replace with Uber and gather all the profits for themselves). It's going to
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by grumpymouse 3y ago
Searching a phone is not fundamentally different to searching a home or searching a diary. The key difference is that encryption makes it impossible for the police to force their way in (as they would with a physical lock). We can then choo
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by grumpymouse 3y ago
It's not entirely clear to me how this would work though. Right now we don't have AI-powered reporters scouring the streets for articles to write about - we have humans who write articles about things that humans would find intere
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
From an employee perspective I don't think it's really worth being outside London right now. I want to live somewhere where there are more than a handful of places that I could work locally (and I don't count companies bashin
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
I used to work for another company where it's acceptable for people to move from management to IC roles (and I wish it were possible everywhere). They're going to do it anyway, whether it's going back to being an IC at the sa
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
Why don’t you study something in your spare time? There are plenty of grad students who moonlight as tutors that you could pay for a couple of hours a week to keep you on track.
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
I think for a large part of the population getting in a car with a stranger is fundamentally not a trustless activity, and no combination of tokens, hashes, customer reviews or market forces is going to make it so. Even more if the driver i
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
How would a blockchain ride-hailing system work for women - would it expect people to jump into any car with a driver who claims to own blockchain address X (with ratings from other addresses)? The world looks quite different when a signifi
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
I'd love it to be faster, but (when I bought in the UK) a lot of the things my solicitor checked were things that I'd definitely want to know before handing over money: Whether the seller actually owns the property or lease, if th
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
Some from an English background, some from a Scottish background. Parts of the north of Ireland were colonised by Britain in the early 1600s - have a look at the Wikipedia articles for ‘Plantation of Ulster’ and ‘Ulster Protestants’
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
Yes, historically 50% or above of people in NI have wanted to be part of the uk and considered themselves British (often to the point of marching around waving Union Jacks etc). Over time that number has gone down relative to people who con
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
I searched for a product on Youtube recently, and the main result was a computer-generated voice narrating words that felt like they had been generated from the product spec (rather than written by somebody with experience with the product)
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
I have schizophrenia and have been involuntarily hospitalized in the past. For the love of god, if I end up homeless and unable to care for myself do not leave me there out of some notion of how freeing it must be to lie in the gutter with
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
Part of the 2008 crisis was maturity mismatch of assets and liabilities. That's a fancy way of saying 'I get paid in 3 weeks but I have to pay the gas bill tomorrow'. If you lend money that's paid back over a long period
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
I have seen homeless people with their own card readers in London (plus many people playing music in tube stations with their own card readers) - otherwise it's hard to find somebody with actual cash any more
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
I do pay quite a bit for content. It needs to be high quality and I want to know what I'm getting before I pay for it. I pay every month for the Financial Times - it's good quality news coverage. Though it often comes from a parti
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
As well as the risk of relying on a business that fails, what happens if the business you're relying on succeeds? It feels like a lot of startups people discuss here are really just set up to give an 'exit' to investors throu
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
I can’t hear ‘folks’ without thinking of Neddie Seagoon from The Goon Show. Probably not what proponents of the word are going for, the show being from the 1950s and in many ways ‘of its time’.
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
They’re used a lot to maintain uniform exchange rates across Defi projects etc. In theory allowing anybody to borrow a lot of tokens to exploit arbitrage opportunities means that the rates will converge simply due to market forces (becaus
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by grumpymouse 4y ago
It would be interesting to create a cryptocurrency where transactions take an additional time to settle based on amount from the time the transaction is requested. $20k? No delay other than getting the transaction through the mining pools o

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