raynr

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by raynr 15d ago
I am currently surrounded by hyperventilating corporate and country level leadership who are fully swept up and captured by the AI craze. I have seen some wild failure modes from people who are outsourcing their thinking to LLM. Amendment
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by raynr 2mo ago
I'm surprised this happens between workers within the same knowledge domain. If you're a software dev asking another software dev for an opinion on code, can't you just... talk shop? In my experience this sort of thing happen
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by raynr 4mo ago
Josef Prusa also commented on this last year: https://www.josefprusa.com/articles/open-hardware-in-3d-prin... The motive appears to be to get tax credits as opposed to becoming a full-on patent troll, though with how q
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by raynr 8mo ago
There are also DCTs which IIRC don't use a torque converter. But chances are pretty good that an automatic transmission car uses a torque converter.
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by raynr 1y ago
As a layman, this too strikes me as the problem underlying the "confidently wrong" problem. The author proposes ways for an AI to signal when it is wrong and to learn from its mistakes. But that mechanism feeds back to the core ne
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by raynr 1y ago
I saw a post on this subject in the android subreddit back in 2019 [0] and it was clear that everyone had already accepted by then that the market was too small to sustain this. I too loved Sony's series of compact phones - the XZ1 Com
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by raynr 1y ago
I think that's the cart before the horse. People buy the big phones and so businesses cater for that.
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by raynr 1y ago
> Congratulations: you have successfully turned your cool idea into a chore. The article gave me a vague, off-topic sense of unease but your comment crystallised the feeling for me. I really wish less emphasis is placed on this kind of b
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by raynr 2y ago
I played around with the website. I will take the author's advice to not take it seriously. Many of the changes are active voice to passive voice. It might sound more polite, but in reality comes off as sneering or condescending. For e
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by raynr 2y ago
It's interesting, this isn't the first time Shopify's CEO Tobias has looked to videogames to find skills he wants in employees. He's a longtime Starcraft fan for example, and offered an ex Starcraft pro a job on the stre
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by raynr 2y ago
> Something went very wrong in negotiations here. That's all I can say. Who allowed this deal to be penned in its exact fashion? I'm not sure this is the right way to look at it. It's more likely that nobody "allowed&
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by raynr 3y ago
IAAL but likely not in your jurisdiction, and I agree with this, because the biggest "legal" concern I would have as the linked OP is the company coming back and blaming me for some software I wrote that was out of my job scope en
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by raynr 3y ago
> I propose that the differences in opinion are likely differences in understanding the ill-defined context of the question. The whole point of the article is that *on large platforms* it is impossible to have policies on moderation, etc
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by raynr 3y ago
I exercise to maintain healthspan and keep fit, but I am by no means "fit" by the standards of people who are fit. I've seen what strong looks like (I'm not very big, at the oly gym I used to frequent I saw someone my he
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by raynr 3y ago
Most people I've talked to want farm animals to be treated "well", and whatever that word means in their heads, we all agree that it's some standard higher than industrial scale factory farming. The problem is that meat
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by raynr 3y ago
I didn't get that from the poster you're replying to. I agree with you that people will create because people are people and want to create. But people also have to eat, need shelter, want kids, have to take care of health issues,
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by raynr 3y ago
I was deeply sceptical of LK-99 and simply chose not to comment on it in public on the internet because: (1) confirmation or contradiction will come soon enough, and (2) being sceptical, however measured, usually attracts accusations of bei
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by raynr 3y ago
> In fact, I don't think it's reasonable that they should even have access to view what you're uploading and sharing in private meetings. There may be a setting you can set in the application to disable this. I don't
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by raynr 3y ago
Agreed. The concepts were floating around before, but nothing presented the idea of an LLM quite as coherently and presciently like Rorschach did. (I hasten to add that this is in my own limited experience - I am an SFF fan but I have not r
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by raynr 3y ago
3. Drones, autonomous or not, aren't anywhere near reliable enough to do autonomous remote delivery. Final delivery is fraught with a myriad of things that can go wrong. GPS is not 100% reliable or accurate in urban areas. Failure in f
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by raynr 3y ago
The slighted musicians, as you put it, have made plenty of experience-based comments on what the drawbacks are, and why the decision matrix is wrong. They accord with my own (admittedly amateur) experiences. I think it is disingenuous to di
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by raynr 3y ago
I think you've got it. /r/worldnews, /r/news, /r/askreddit, /r/WTF, /r/games, /r/politics, all fairly large subs, all still up and running. Enough for that dopamine hit. Some
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by raynr 3y ago
I understand the sentiment and agree with it, but I think you have the cause backwards. It's not so much that lawyers win when people fight, the problem is lawyers. It's that people fight . The problem is people. And life is comp
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by raynr 3y ago
To be more specific, the Betamax case is the reason a specific person can store a copy of a TV recording that they made, for timeshifting purposes, because SCOTUS held that that person's use of the recorded TV content, in that ci
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by raynr 4y ago
This may be of interest to this crowd. Singapore has explicitly set out exceptions to copyright infringement in its new copyright act. Sections 243 and 244 of the Copyright Act 2021 [0] permit copies of works to be made for "computatio
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by raynr 4y ago
I thought the list was missing Japanese phones too! I went on holiday to Japan in the early 00s, and I remember thinking how all of the phones were way ahead of their time. Phones with flip-and-swivel screens, phones that looked sleek, meta
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by raynr 4y ago
Whatever frustration I feel at some of the actions of some environmentalists, pales in comparison to the frustration I feel when I read about the inaction and iniquities of so-called leaders, the wealthy, and those with influence. What a st
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by raynr 4y ago
The point about the effects defensive writing has on writing quality resonates. Writing is a big part of my work and I've begun to realise that I write defensively - spending time couching things in a context, inserting caveats everywh
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by raynr 4y ago
This is, still, an extremely common practice here in Singapore. In my experience this is because of racism. I say this because I present as the majority race and I know Chinese landlords who have complained to me, in person, about "all
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by raynr 4y ago
The main difference between this, versus using a web search engine, appears to be the readability sorting of definitions and the fact that the definitions are scraped from government resources. The sorting is quite a bit of fun to see in ac

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