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by hackeraccount 5d ago
I'm not opposed to the use of AI in programming but sometimes it seems like there's a direct relationship between the amount of thought and understanding that went into a project and the reliance the coders had on AI to build the
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by hackeraccount 9d ago
Ah NEC. There's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I used to have an NEC monitor.
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by hackeraccount 11d ago
I think it's somewhere in the process it was asked "what's the most compelling written text?" The answer was things from great speeches "Ask not what you ..." and so on. And that really is great and compelling
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by hackeraccount 11d ago
What you're saying is exactly the question isn't it? I've seen polling on opposition to data centers and "I hate AI" isn't a majority reason. It's more like 15%. The reasons people give are higher electr
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by hackeraccount 14d ago
Do they? I mean so much of learning (certainly of school) is along the lines of "this is the way it is, don't worry about first principles just accept this" If there's learning how to think stuff going on I'm not s
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by hackeraccount 14d ago
Imagine if you had! You might be the 100X JavaScript writer. More seriously everyone knows there are patterns that keep repeating themselves from low level on up. The more exposure you get the better you get at understanding them. I thin
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by hackeraccount 1mo ago
Some of my best friends are lactose.
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by hackeraccount 1mo ago
That Ars these days. They want attention and this is the way their audience wants them to do it. Personally I'm a bit bummed out about it because there's less that I want to read and the articles make the comment section... well,
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by hackeraccount 1mo ago
Meta can't literally force this on people. The idea that looking around would instantiate ads sounds pretty bad. (though the devil's advocate position would be - compare that world to the one we live in today where the ads are vi
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by hackeraccount 1mo ago
I read about an experiment with pigeons. The birds were given a target. For one iteration if a bird pecked a target it would get a piece of corn. For another it got nothing and for a third... sometimes it would get piece of corn and some
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
They aren't. It's still being looked into.
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
Sample size of 1 but I tend to think something like Prokaryotes is common. I'd bet money that it either did or does exist on Mars. Eukaryotes will be much much less common for reasons that I do not understand and we'll never fin
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
> More productivity means less labour per productive cycle, hence less profit. Rising productivity either means more stuff or lower prices.
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
How would that work? I'm a generous guy, I like to help people. I'm also a psychopath who likes to kill people. Kind of like Robin Hood but slightly crazier I go around murdering people who have just taken out policies to help o
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
I mean, it's true isn't it? I guess it's the rare firefighter who unintentionally starts a fire but I guess it's a different game.
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
Wanna bet?
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
It also misunderstands that nature of Musk's fortune. He's not Scrooge McDuck and they pretend he is. Sell SpaceX at a fire sale. What's it worth? A lot less then it is now. Who would buy it? Poor people? Somehow I don
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
Disappointing there's not a Proposal E "require use of LLM's by contributors"
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
No. There are questions you can ask but that's not it. Don't be political in a way that's toxic to half the country - be political in a way that's toxic to the entire country. I'll leave what those lines of inqui
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
If prices go up there aren't lines. You get lines when demand goes up and supply doesn't or supply goes down and demand doesn't follow. Either way the "fix" is either to raise prices or have lines.
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
When it comes to people's take on AI it reminds me of nothing so much as the way people reacted to the introduction of computers in the 1950's and 60's. I'm not quite clear what lesson there is to be learned from that t
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
You're like a smarter more articulate version of me. I used to use Sway - switched to hyperland very briefly and it was so busy and a pain to work with. Niri on the other hand is as complicated as I want it to be.
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
This. I still think AI is at root at UI improvement for working with computers. It's an equivalent to the general move of command line interaction to WIMP. Freaking out over this seems like nothing to me so much as that Tracy/Hep
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
Hey! I think I saw you on Ars. Or maybe someone there copied and pasted this?
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
I dropped out of Kindergarten to make snail teeth powered AI!
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
So the argument is that any piece of regulation will always lead to a positive outcome? How is that possible?
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by hackeraccount 2mo ago
Just because I'm buying something for someone other then myself it doesn't follow that I don't care how the money is spent. If my tax dollars are wasted it's no comfort to tell myself that the money would have been spen
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by hackeraccount 3mo ago
I don't think sovereignty works that way.
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by hackeraccount 3mo ago
decade+ is not really that long, is it? Say you're correct in that time frame. If you put money in now to a venture that seems uncertain then in 5 years it's going to seem much less uncertain - and so the investment will be wort

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