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by nkassis 4mo ago
I had the same experience in the mid 90s. We had a computer lab with windows 98 and VB was around but all the library books were for qbasic and older things. Luckily 98 did have qbasic installed so I was able to use the code. I then asked m
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by nkassis 5mo ago
Because it rarely does end up in courts. But having a fair and strong judicial system is a feature not a bug. The parent points out, in the end there must be a way to resolve accountability and ideally it's done in a manner where both
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by nkassis 6mo ago
I am a bit (ok very) worried AI will most likely kill language diversity in programming. I also don't see it settling on a more optimal solution it will probably just use the most available languages out there and be very hard to push
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by nkassis 6mo ago
When you say leap ahead do you mean leap forward of their current position or lead ahead of competitors in the world? I would agree many countries are making progress but I would contend they are mostly closing the gap. I don't see co
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by nkassis 6mo ago
I've been wondering, Stallman was driven to create free software after an incident trying to get the code for firmware on his office printer. I'm wondering if today, would he have just reverse engineered it with AI? Edit: I'm
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by nkassis 7mo ago
Just understand that you are one of the player groups that Blizzard targets and they found that a significant if not plurality of their player groups were solo players. This is why they've actively changed the product to try to keep th
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by nkassis 7mo ago
That's not really the comparable here, you need to find a person with vested interest in the outcome of the student loan forgiveness program.* Someone that was working within the agency responsible for the program and actively was in
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by nkassis 7mo ago
Just like then we were naive about folks not abusing these things to the point of making everyone need to block them to oblivion. I think we are relearning these lessons 30 years later.
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by nkassis 7mo ago
OpenAI's post about their contract has the "redlines" described and they don't match what Anthropic wanted. (even if the text tries to imply they do) https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-d
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by nkassis 7mo ago
This blog post really doesn't make it sound any better there is no clear refusal to participate in the questionable uses Anthropic was against. Merely must be legal and must be tested. This feels like IBM in the 1930s selling tabulatin
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by nkassis 7mo ago
Basically now all those projects are screwed and need to restart with another provider. I'm sure that's not going to be a massive PITA and delay for all involved.
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by nkassis 7mo ago
That's argument is a bit rough given manufacturing is one of the areas seeing the most automation progress and success. One of the main reason it's not more successful is labor costs can be lower than automation that wouldn't
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by nkassis 7mo ago
This feels like the same moment for me when I realized I couldn't keep using Gentoo and needed to move on to a Linux distribution that was ready to go without lots of manual effort. I have a family and kids I need those hours. I had t
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by nkassis 8mo ago
Yep sorry fixed typing too fast missed an I
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by nkassis 8mo ago
Henry VIII* or Louis XIV?
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by nkassis 1y ago
Was the same in the 1990s I'd contend. I distinctly remember talking to my dad about how the internet was going to revolutionize everything. As a teenager I was all into everything going on. His words were "This won't last th
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by nkassis 1y ago
That kind of gives a point in favor of AI enabled IDEs, these kind of operations could often be achieved with simple refactoring tools available without AI today and save massive amount of trees.
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by nkassis 1y ago
Ah that's sad, haven't been in several years that's unfortunate.
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by nkassis 1y ago
Really depends where you live. Obviously if you live in tech hub cities you'll do better than other non hub cities. Some recommendations: Seattle has Ada technical books. Portland has Powells. Strand in NYC has some technical books. a
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by nkassis 1y ago
My tinfoil hat says they want to privatize this through one of the administrations friends. A disastrous decision here.
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by nkassis 1y ago
Research grants come with stipulations on how research is conducted, these grants were already granted so this is essentially breaking their contract. So there is no by default grant, generally the grants also don't delve into what the
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by nkassis 1y ago
Ok have that argument on it's own and do it right legal, go through the legislature and discuss the appropriateness of public funding for private institution. The Trump administration is not arguing or even considering that as part of
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by nkassis 1y ago
This is why they needed to be the one to fight, if they folded no one else had a chance to stop this government overreach.
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by nkassis 1y ago
Banking as well, this is the kind of offering they've been looking for a while. Google just saw the demand decided to jump in while OpenAI and Anthropic probably calculated they don't have the manpower to deal with the support for
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by nkassis 1y ago
His signature could be the size of a full size rack on this one.
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by nkassis 1y ago
I have a hypothesis that the proportion of really nerdy kids that take to technology hasn't changed and it was always a subset of society. People with affinity for understanding their computer and that find technical concepts natural m
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by nkassis 1y ago
Timelines are very uncertain, also definition what would satisfy this statement of operating as a high income knowledge worker is very unclear. Is it for one task? Many tasks? Any task? It's highly likely that these CEO will continue t
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by nkassis 1y ago
Are we really looking at the best group of people that the current president could find to do these roles that agree with his policy platform? There was no one else with relevant experience willing?
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by nkassis 2y ago
The guilt isn't due to the simple fact of being prosperous it's more about the prioritization of self-interest over that of a win-win option that helps the broader good.

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