rusty_venture

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by rusty_venture 6mo ago
Wait, other people don’t make decision trees and mind maps and pro/con lists and consult chatbots before making decisions? Are they just flying through life by the seat of their pants? That doesn’t seem like a very solid framework for
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by rusty_venture 2y ago
This person is on HackerNews, implying at least enough technical expertise to use a website. Google Drive is a website. Other people have offered this person alternative devices free of charge. Yet they are so fixated on a specific outcome
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by rusty_venture 2y ago
I'm sorry to have to say this, but this whole thread reeks of someone refusing to help themselves. Several people have given you legitimately helpful advice and you have just come back with excuses as to why it won't work for you.
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by rusty_venture 2y ago
Thank you for this concise and comprehensive summary. The DDoS threat had never occurred to me.
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by rusty_venture 2y ago
> short-term motions can get you stopped out with a big loss before realizing profits Can you elaborate on that a little? How does that happen?
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by rusty_venture 2y ago
IMO it's pretty obvious it's being built up for short sellers to have a banner day. I'm guessing the hype bubble will burst sometime after Jan 20 when EV credits are slashed and FSD and the stupid 2-seater with no charging po
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by rusty_venture 2y ago
Yikes. I am very, very lucky to do fulfilling and meaningful work at a place that values me, with people who are a pleasure to work with. But from what I hear this is the exception and not the rule. Knowing this is possible, however, I&#x27
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by rusty_venture 2y ago
Does it say "I am a lamp. I am a lamp."?
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by rusty_venture 2y ago
That's a poor analogy - a house is private property which only you and invited guests may enter. A website you publish on the Internet can be viewed by anyone who discovers it. Not including accessibility features excludes disabled use
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by rusty_venture 3y ago
>> Emulating the policies of a country 'we' think 'is bad' isn't great policy. The paradox of tolerance. >> A highly politicised Supreme Court, a violent attack on the Capitol, a lot of people who don&#
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by rusty_venture 3y ago
This is fascinating. I think this nuanced approach to shifting the perspectives and beliefs of the population of an adversarial nation is exactly the threat that is being missed by other commentators saying "what does TikTok do that&#x
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by rusty_venture 3y ago
What's your point? China literally has a nationwide firewall to prevent Western ideas from entering the minds of its subjects. Why should we throw open our digital borders to Chinese influence campaigns? "The supreme art of war is
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by rusty_venture 3y ago
A Chinese company isn't bound by US laws, so this is a necessary precursor to that. Edit: I stand corrected, they are bound by our laws, but it's orders of magnitude easier to enforce those laws on a company based in the US than
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by rusty_venture 3y ago
You truly didn't read the comment you replied to: > And [AI is] increasingly promoted as a way to reduce human effort in writing, ensuring that people will continue to use it without supervising its output, especially if they are tr
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by rusty_venture 3y ago
Photoshop can't produce anything on its own; unlike AI, it needs a human to control each step of the process. AI generates statistically-likely text to follow a human prompt with no further intervention required by the human. And this
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by rusty_venture 3y ago
As the author points out, young children have no context for good vs. bad text. And when we are young is when we learn our language skills.
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by rusty_venture 3y ago
> Certainly the printing press can enable the spread of a lot of low quality content and misinformation, but we managed to work out the kinks. I think the author's point is that generative AI is a completely different animal than th
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by rusty_venture 3y ago
A fascinating article that raises so many questions. How and why does someone accumulate and store one hundred thousand dollars worth of horse semen? That sounds like a mind-boggling amount of horse semen. Are there special horse semen free
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by rusty_venture 3y ago
> There was a software engineer who went to our church, and I was so excited to show him and get feedback, but he just kind of blew me off. I'm sorry to hear that you had this experience. I'm sure your Pokemon battle simulator
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by rusty_venture 3y ago
In the header image for this article, it appears that the Fibonacci spiral is superimposed on the spiral galaxy in the incorrect orientation, and if the spiral were flipped around the horizontal or vertical axis, it would indeed match the g
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by rusty_venture 3y ago
The lack of attribution on this organized and well-financed operation is the most concerning part of this attack, in my opinion. It seems unlikely that any APT would burn ALL of its 0-days for the iOS platform in one campaign, so they likel