mylastattempt

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by mylastattempt 4mo ago
Definately agree, that was included in the "or for worse" in this sentence I wrote. As for creating the addicts, nobody had a masterplan. It's all the pieces spiraling together, >> The world will just keep rushing forwa
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by mylastattempt 4mo ago
The human is designed to interact with small groups, to understand several smaller groups, and perhaps to imagine a big group of smaller groups. In a literal sense, let's say 100 people per group. At that level the human can actually k
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by mylastattempt 4mo ago
Though I am convinced this is intentional, i.e. a backdoor and not a bug, it should be noted that for goverment agencies there was already access anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735545
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by mylastattempt 4mo ago
Just finished reading, love these kind of stories. Thanks for sharing
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by mylastattempt 7mo ago
Me, on the other hand, love ffmpeg, because I notice my ytdlp using it and my vlc player sometimes using it and I have two homemade powrshell scripts using it to convert flac to mp3 and whatever. I don't want to open a program and figu
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by mylastattempt 8mo ago
Going in without understanding the underlying basic concepts is, just... well let's just say I completely agree with your comment!
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by mylastattempt 1y ago
And surely the other way around as well, if not more so. Places with more pollution will generally be in poorer areas, where life happiness/satisfaction are already lower, most likely worsened by negative effects of pollution. Indirect
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by mylastattempt 1y ago
That's on her then for fully believing what marketing and business execs are 'telling her' about LLMs. Does she get upset when she buys a coke around Christmas and her life doesn't become all warm and fuzzy with friendli
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
Irreversible might not be the thing to wonder about. Can it be changed to a more desired state or result? That has a much more definitive answer: pretty much always 'yes'.
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
Is that a reference to something (emporer..clothes)?
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
If you are correcting my use of millions to trillions: I was refering to the author himself, who writes like this giant AI bubble is pushing him forward to the edge of the cliff as people keep believing in it, and he is desperately trying t
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
Agreed on this being a painful read. Starting with this being a 10 minute job. Based on what? Assumptions are the.. etc. You assumed everthing was plug&play ready. Who told you that? Anyway, after the second trip, before going on a thir
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
On LLM/ML itself: it seems a lot of cynical people start with some unreasonable idea that "AI" should be able to do what it will perhaps be able to in 10 or 100 years, and are subsequently upset that it is not capable of that
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
You left out the most interesting part: why _were_ you a part of it. Did it not work out, why not, or did you leave because of reasons not related to the (un)succes of this system?
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
You may be missing the feeling of being a human being with atonomy over the course of your life. Missing in the sence of absence, definately not in a sense of sadness or regret - be happy to not have to worry about the most existential thin
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
>> I have spent the past few months teaching/mentoring another resident in a different facility in Maine who I was put in contact with. I had heard he matched my level of discipline by putting in 14 hour days learning every singl
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
If they implement that without an opt-out in the settings, even if buried deep, using the web as a 'power user' will become even more painful!
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
This way of working is marketed as such by Chinese manufacturers. They will refer to it as something along the lines of: Made in South East Asia. Sometimes they produce the products in (e.g.) Vietnam, but more often than not, everything is
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
Offtopic and meta, but, you share a screenshot using Twitter/X? That's really bizarre to me. That is all, just had to say that.
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
tl;dr when normal people start using things, it becomes noramlised!
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
Live status here but doesn't seem to mention all outages (anymore): https://metastatus.com/
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
It's litterally the last sentence: ...any competitor. It’s over. And IMO it’s awesome.
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
Now confirmed by MS https://x.com/MSFT365Status/status/1860973220662280356
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
Thank you. Now I can let them know they're alone!
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Microsoft Outlook Outage(downdetector.com)
7 points by mylastattempt 2y ago|4 comments
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
EU customers receive HTTP 503 errors from outlook.office.com Microsoft says all systems are up and running, not sure if this is a localized problem or not. Can anyone pitch in?
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
Perhaps a small help for you might be "reader mode" or "focus mode" or whatever your browser of choice calls it. It's usually embedded in the url bar (probably a hotkey for it), and gives you only the text. A major
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
Lessons learned by Adam: no more signing long term commercial real estate leases with borrowed (investment) money, whilst renting out short term. Let's try to game the residential real estate market this time. He's still valued at
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
Only going by the title I was thinking of quite a different website.. ProductHunt has become a circle jerk, for some time now. Wether it's legal or not to buy or sell likes on the platform will not bother the type of people selling the
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by mylastattempt 2y ago
tl;dr the town has two large mines that supply a lot of high quality Quartz, used somewhere in the process of (computer)chip production There are other locations within the US, as well as Norway Brazil and Russia, that can supply similar qu

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