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by jbstack 1y ago
I agree with this in principle, but the problem is what happens to the in-between generation that cheats their way towards getting the piece of paper before the world moves on to a better way? At least for previous generations you got the p
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by jbstack 1y ago
> I've experienced cognitive decline when using AI tools a bit too much to help solve programming-related problems. When dealing with an unfamiliar programming ecosystem it feels so easy and magical to just keep copy / pasting
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by jbstack 1y ago
Yes, I should have clarified that I was referring to memory of training data, not of conversations.
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by jbstack 1y ago
It seems to me that they way you have divided up the roles, you actually need 4 devices, because you need one to run commercial apps which are linked to identity (which rules out device 1) and which will only run on a "secure" dev
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by jbstack 1y ago
Are LLMs really lossier than humans? I think it depends on the context. Given any particular example, LLMs might hallucinate more and a human might do a better job at accuracy. But overall LLMs will remember far more things than a human. As
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by jbstack 1y ago
> Use your banks website. Installing a banking app is asking for trouble. If you can. In order to be able to login to my bank's website I need a OTP which is generated by... can you guess? Yes, their app. Which I can now only run if
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by jbstack 1y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm not criticising manual keyboards in general. Just specifically on a device for which your primary purpose will be reading (which is what the OP's article is about). If I'm going to be mainly readi
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by jbstack 1y ago
Providing a place to live is surely not one of those services though. There will always been some portion of the population that can't afford to buy a home. Without landlords, what are those people supposed to do?
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by jbstack 1y ago
The keyboard is a huge negative for me. Why would I want a significant chunk of my screen space taken up by a keyboard on a device that I'm aiming to use primarily for reading?
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by jbstack 1y ago
Sure. My point is that it's not unusual for the quality of work of a junior coder to be fairly low, and that work typically needs to be double checked by someone more senior before it can be used in production. Often, an LLM will produ
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by jbstack 1y ago
But what is meant by "real coder"? Does it mean an experienced senior coder? In that case, no, AI isn't ready to replace one. How about a junior coder who is fresh out of university and starting his first job? Surely that cou
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by jbstack 1y ago
How do you find the hardware compatibility to be? I've been keen to switch away from Ubuntu for years now and Debian would be my first choice but I'm wary of having problems e.g. with Nvidia GPUs, random peripheral devices such as
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by jbstack 1y ago
I think the point isn't what the author knows or does not know but rather a question for the rest of us - what does this tool offer that bash history doesn't? The list of features on the Github page doesn't provide an answer:
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by jbstack 1y ago
> I used to be a free speech absolutist in the past. Not anymore, though I still prefer more free speech to less. The UK and India are terrible at protecting free speech. And the laws dealing with defamation/libel are bonkers based
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by jbstack 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what is it you don't like about the UK system given that you're saying that it's "eerily similar" to the US system? As someone who works in the UK system, I can point to two things I don't lik
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by jbstack 1y ago
I can't comment on the US, but as a legal professional in the UK, this isn't my experience at all. The vast majority of cases aren't novel - they're issues that have come before the courts many times before. Everyone kno
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by jbstack 1y ago
I (and I assume I'm not alone in this) rarely even bother clicking on Instagram or "X" posts because I can't be bothered with all the hassle when all I want to do is quickly view the content, and I'm not willing to
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by jbstack 1y ago
I don't deny that there will be less apps available to sideload. However, the claim I was responding to was this one: "After this change you will have to tell Google your real name and home address to install anything on your An
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by jbstack 1y ago
This isn't how I've understood the change. My understanding is that developers will need to have their ID verified before they are authorised to allow their app to be sideloaded. So long as they have done that, why would the use
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by jbstack 1y ago
The issue is with Android, not desktop. Linux Mint and PopOS run on desktop. They aren't alternatives to Android.
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by jbstack 1y ago
Is there a list or other easy way to find out which phones are not Google-certified going forward? Is it purely a country specific thing or are there (and will there continue to be) mainstream manufacturers with non-certified phones? I&#x27
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by jbstack 1y ago
I don't see anywhere in the official announcement that you will be required to "tell Google your real name and home address to install anything on your Android device". The announcement is about developer verification, not
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by jbstack 1y ago
Definitely by far the best way to learn to write characters. It is very expensive (compared to most apps, anyway) but its essentially obligatory to spend the money if you are serious about learning the language. When I'm learning Manda
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by jbstack 1y ago
I agree that sentences are generally superior to vocab. Vocab cards are extremely problematic once you go beyond beginner level, because words can (and often do) have multiple translations in both directions. This could be because there a
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by jbstack 1y ago
I can't agree with this when it comes to language learning specifically. I've used all sorts of tools to learn the language of my in-law side of the family: books, audio lessons, videos, tutoring, apps, etc. I've never made a
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by jbstack 1y ago
"People aren't going to starve to fill their gas tank so you need to grow more corn to offset that used for biofuel. To do that can require destroying other carbon sinks (wetlands are the example given, sometimes dried and then bu
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by jbstack 1y ago
Here's a couple of recent Yougov polls: https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/52187-political-favou... "Keir Starmer falls to lowest net favourability rating on record" "Labour’s popularity hi
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by jbstack 1y ago
Humans can achieve more within one (or two, or a few) narrowly scoped field(s), after a lot of hard work and effort. LLMs can display a basic level of competency (with some mistakes) in almost any topic known to mankind. No one reasonably e
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by jbstack 2y ago
Same if you're a host. I used to have a business which managed a few Airbnb properties on the side and I was getting plenty of word-of-mouth interest from property owners that could have let me expand quite rapidly. I gave up after 6 m
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by jbstack 2y ago
A reasonable libertarian however would require that all externalities be paid for (under the principle of doing no harm). If the price per unit of oil includes the cost of all the negative externalities (e.g. selling that unit comes with a

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