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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
In short, the latest versions of LLMs now include many tricks which have long been known to cause confirmation bias in humans. The reason 4o had a sexy female voice, and giggled, isn't to make it more useful as an assistant. It's
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
"Against traffic" is different as a bike or led though. Sometimes when lanes are very narrow and visibility isn't good, you need to go against traffic (on the shoulder) so that the driver sees your face and responds faster. A
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
Lane splitting motorcycles and bicyclists are literally always illegal btw. Lane splitting is for air cooled engines stuck in traffic, where they literally need to move or shut down. (It is technically illegal to park the vehicle with engin
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
Literally in the article.
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
Key missing component: CAFE needs a rewrite. US emissions laws have a cutout so that larger vehicles have less stringent emissions requirements. The problem is that this is no longer a gap it's a chasm. Slight hyperbole but a Japanese
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
Posted article quality is not always very good here lately. Clickholes get too many votes.
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
"I have run production websites where I didn't patch security for months or years on end." Linux users wondering why nobody takes them seriously.
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
Most modern distros have this out of box. Lot of Linux forums need to update their assumptions by about 20 years.
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
To be fair. All good distros can run from a USB stick or whatever now. The use case for a "liveCD" is limited. Puppy Linux would just be a toy today. It used to matter to me in the days of slow internet, limited storage, etc. Now
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
Geeky Linux forums tend to be people who haven't given new distros a chance in decades, and still think Gentoo and RedHat are the major players. (Desktop Linux it's Ubuntu, followed by Debian and CentOS).
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
Anyone who is overly zealous about anything is always wrong in the end. Including testing. "Why would people mock everything? Why not stand up a real test db and test on it?" Because the test zealous have explicitly declared that
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
This is true of literally everything in the new economy. Internet? Wait until the moment your "promo" cost ends and your bill goes from $80 to $150, threaten to quit, oh wow magically you can have $80 again and a free mobile phone
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
Presumably they mean gig economy aka artists are vastly undervalued. For instance. It's not that AI is replacing artists. It's that people think you don't need to pay a license for generated images, even when they were clearl
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
Baba Is You would be perfect for teaching people security, penetration testing, and so on. Lateral thinking puzzles are underrated, and orgs mostly punish lateral thinkers. Even though the lateral thinker is going to catch way more bugs. Th
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
Opportunity cost. What about Go, or Checkers, or Call of Duty, or...? That's the issue. Yes sitting down and concentrating on difficult tasks for long periods of time is good exercise. So is jogging, which isn't sitting down. Or r
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
DuoLingo is deceptive at best. It's made addictive at the outset so you feel good. You feel like you're learning. But long term the platform has what is now dubbed enshittification. It gets exponentially harder to keep up with rev
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
Demake in modern times is often used for example with porting DOOM to (insert electronic device like a temperature sensor that shouldn't normally play games). Since the target platform has less features, it's not a re-make, it&#x2
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
People naming distros like it's 4chan from 20 years ago. Redhat and Gentoo. Oh my. Linux Mint, Pop, and more, all now provide "Windows without MS" which is what most users really want/need. Even with gaming now that Stea
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
It's both. Especially the out of context tinfoil rage response. They always existed. But now it's so common to see some totally benign article about pizza, and the top comment is "don't let them tell you not to remember
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
Agree. Content was the OG slop. Buzzfeed with monkeys on typewriters. The problem is that dopamine addicts generate outsized engagement. I know a literal crack mom who spends a solid 90+ hours a week watching accident videos to keep her bra
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
The phrase "Eliminate corporations from academic research" does a lot of heavy lifting here. If a company wants to bring a pesticide to market. We would like them to bear the brunt of safety research costs before they launch. You
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
The whole world will be headless content. There won't be any web pages, or bank sites, or TV networks. Nobody will be a developer. We'll all just be content authors, like Google Maps Guides basically being unpaid interns checking
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
Nobody is realizing this coming singularity. Your phone won't do anything else. For 99% of people, they pick up their phone, AI will just decide what they want to see. And most will accept it. Someday everyone in the room will all pick
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
"brother didn’t bother to check the flight code I sent him via message when he asks me when I’m landing for pickup" Yeah but what about people going to the wrong airport, or getting scammed by taking fake information uncritically?
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
"I've seen people get rich off crypto" and I've seen hundreds of gambling addicts lose their house and put their family on the street when the bet didn't go right. Even when you're talking about serious coins,
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
I've been tested to 22+kHz, autistic, and older. It was the worst era. Some of the awful roars of noise I've heard while older people called me a weirdo. CRTs, early checkout scanners, some audio systems. And back when "as s
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
Feynman was not a great teacher. Lots of people love his lectures now. But they're not getting graded on it. Actual students were considerably more mixed. Obviously individuals vary so if I post how most of his students were totally lo
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
"Easier to learn" is abjectly false. "Easier to get code submitted to a code base" is only marginally correlated with learning anything.
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
You're way, way under thinking the problem. People who work at your bank right now are pasting your personal details into language models and asking if you deserve a loan. People will figure out how to get this data back out. "But
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by imabotbeep2937 2y ago
To take a stance much more suited to this forum. It's a massive travesty that without some work Americans are now redirected to BBC.com, which curates news to be American-facing, and thus IMHO bows to advertiser pressure. We can't

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