jameslars

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by jameslars 6d ago
> Provenance is hard to track - you would hope OpenAI has very good tools for this, but a full data trail of all inputs is difficult to trace through. What would OpenAIs incentive for this be? They've gotten away with scraping ever
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by jameslars 1mo ago
Definitely agree. I don't understand how "thinking harder" about what the word MIGHT be solves any problem. I might just be part of this older generation who is hard trained on reading and not skimming, I don't know.
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by jameslars 1mo ago
Did you look at the original? I assumed it was censoring "killer" which also meshes with my perception that "trigger words" get censored in certain social media circles now.
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by jameslars 1mo ago
The estimated travel times displayed in major cities along highways are calculated by license plate sampling from what I understand
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by jameslars 2mo ago
You are definitely not alone. I love Java and I will always defend it. Java's perception is tainted by baggage from decades ago.
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by jameslars 4mo ago
I like this argument/reasoning more than any I've encountered so far. Thank you! Enabling the disabled is definitely a positive and this is a strong argument for the "pro AI" column.
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by jameslars 4mo ago
Is the hard evidence of AI being a net improvement for society in the room with us now?
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by jameslars 4mo ago
Back in the late 90s the Michigan Tech CS labs had 2 preferred machines for students to remote into, Colossus and Guardian. I always enjoyed the reference as well as this movie’s a kid!
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by jameslars 6mo ago
And your life might be very privileged to so flippantly disregard anyone’s reality that is just that difficult.
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by jameslars 7mo ago
I can appreciate that Discord is dealing with a lot of sides on this issue, and this response seems well measured with meaningful changes to the roll-out. As someone who has been fretting about replacing Discord communities with an alterna
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Discord Delays Global Age Assurance(discord.com)
7 points by jameslars 7mo ago|4 comments
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by jameslars 8mo ago
I think Java has plenty of features that end up implicitly banned at least. e.g. you will really never see a `java.util.Vector` in any modern code base. No one `implements Serializable` anymore in practice. `Objects.equals()` and `Object
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by jameslars 8mo ago
I always advocate that TODO comments include a link to a ticket tracking the TODO during code review. It’s easy to get a team to make this 2nd nature and gets immediate debt in the backlog. It can of course still be ignored and unfinished
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by jameslars 11mo ago
Java 8 -> anything 11+ wasn't great at scale. It's been smooth sailing for a long time again though.
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by jameslars 1y ago
Who is characterizing the other evidence as "equally specious" besides you in this new strawman argument? Is your position that there are zero reliable indicators that fascism is on the rise in the United States
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by jameslars 1y ago
Looking at this in a vacuum, sure maybe it's time to touch grass. Looking at this in the context of everything else going on in the country, maybe there are a lot of warning signs that are pretty hard to ignore?
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by jameslars 1y ago
Notably, a lockfile does not solve this problem either.
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by jameslars 2y ago
I think you misread my response. I think assuming Amazon did this to hurt “s3 compatible” services is cynical. Amazon implemented a feature, well within their rights. Writing a blog post saying they “broke backwards compatibility” is cyn
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by jameslars 2y ago
Less charitable or More cynical? How is Amazon supposed to track a 3rd party pulling their SDK and then reverse-engineering their own service side to work with the SDK? Assuming we're all okay with that premise to begin with, all sor
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by jameslars 2y ago
Hard agree. If AWS were offering “S3 compatibility certification” or similar I could see framing this as an AWS/S3 problem. This seems like the definition of “S3 compatible” changed, and now everyone claiming it needs to catch up aga
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by jameslars 2y ago
Does 5 of a kind beat a royal straight?
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by jameslars 2y ago
If an Uber driver caused you to miss a flight by driving around a parking lot in circles at a speed you can't exit the vehicle, you don't think it would be a reasonable request for the customer to ask Uber to make it right?
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by jameslars 2y ago
When you call from a cell phone, public safety answering points get your gps data from the carrier. Landline calls have their associated address data sent. This is called e911 and has been a thing for over 20 years. The person answering the
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by jameslars 2y ago
It would be less weird because I'm in public with a different expectation to privacy, but your point about surveillance in general is noted.
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by jameslars 2y ago
As a cost-to-entry for a casual player, this seems like a pretty hard sell. I'd rather just find something else to play personally, than deal with a webcam and some invasive recording situation to play.
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by jameslars 2y ago
Assuming you mean "undefined" as "unprovable", this still seems like an extreme stance to me. I also think, even if we had this the next goal-post would be "provenance of the video".
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by jameslars 3y ago
I read this as 20% on top of the 30% that already happened 3 months ago.
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by jameslars 3y ago
Actually, I'm asking Google to serve me a file via a GET request . The response they send back includes the content along with an ad. Google would prefer I watch the ad but since the bits are on my computer and Google has no say in
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by jameslars 3y ago
And yet it's optional and they also keep sending me the same videos for free along with ads. I could opt to close my eyes and ears for every ad they send instead and it would have the same effect at the cost of my personal time. Ad bl
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by jameslars 3y ago
If this is the analogy, why doesn't Google try something like protecting from sticks in the first place? For example, they could lock all of YouTube behind a login & paywall. It seems like YouTube is attempting to FORCE people to

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