zehaeva

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by zehaeva 7d ago
Seriously, it feels like services that were once rock solid are now trembling every time the wind blows.
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by zehaeva 13d ago
I think the difference here is that sony is in the middle of taking down their ps3 store, and while they say you'll be able to download the games for the "foreseeable future" I don't think many folks have a great deal of
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by zehaeva 1mo ago
Or, in certain cases, forfeiture of liberty, material wealth, or in extreme cases, their existence.
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by zehaeva 1mo ago
It's wrong or It's mistaken or It failed
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by zehaeva 1mo ago
I can totally buy that this is a larger contributor! Thank you, I wasn't aware that it was going on right now.
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by zehaeva 1mo ago
I don't think this portents anything great for software in general. We're a good year+ into the use LLMs for all major bits of software that we all rely upon and GitHub here is down to one 9 of uptime. I've been using GitHub
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by zehaeva 2mo ago
The only thing I really hope for if this continues for an extended period of time is everyone optimizing their programs to use a minimal amount of ram.
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by zehaeva 2mo ago
I nominally agree with this sentiment. BCBS does have issues like this happen, but not at the same level others, in my experience. Anecdotally though, I've found that my current insurer (United) denies and delays care far, far, more of
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by zehaeva 2mo ago
Everything old is new again. Back in the 2010s Sharp tried to release a TV with an extra yellow colored subpixel. Commercially, it failed spectacularly.
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by zehaeva 3mo ago
If you had a large stock of stolen CCs you could use this to pay a buck or two on everyone's bill and verify that the cards are valid.
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by zehaeva 3mo ago
Thank you for this! I have read Blindsight but I have long wondered why everyone thought it was so revolutionary. I kept thinking I was missing something. And I think this is it! In that I already thought/knew that everyone is basicall
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by zehaeva 3mo ago
It's just an analogy, you're not supposed to think too deeply about them. The main take away for a lay person is that _like_ the mattress space is being deformed. That's where the analogy stops. Taking it further, like with a
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by zehaeva 5mo ago
There truly is an xkcd for everything.
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by zehaeva 5mo ago
It's also a a problem because not all states are the same, some don't allow O, some do. Some allow 0, some don't! The cameras need to be able to read both.
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by zehaeva 5mo ago
The cameras that they have to read plates in a lot of different conditions and various states of cleanliness. Some states allow O and some states allow 0, and some states don't care. Combine the two issues and cops get lazy and want to
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by zehaeva 6mo ago
>He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it.
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by zehaeva 7mo ago
I think at this point you need to consider how the human eye see color. It's not like each wavelength gets picked up and then communicated perfectly. (I'm going to skip over some basic stuff, and use some generalities) Each Cone i
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by zehaeva 8mo ago
Off topic, but I feel like this could be made into a Zen Koan from The Codeless Code[0]. You're almost there with it! [0] https://thecodelesscode.com/
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by zehaeva 10mo ago
I am blown away that one of the programmers on Theme Park is now one the leading researchers in modern AI. Wonders will never cease.
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by zehaeva 10mo ago
What he's talking about is that the CGI in B5 was filmed in 4:3 and not in 16:9 like the rest of the show. When they did the "high res" releases they had to make the choice of doing everything in 16:9 or in 4:3. In 4:3 it loo
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by zehaeva 10mo ago
Isn't this basically what Jonathan Blow is trying to do with his "new" programming language, Jai?
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by zehaeva 11mo ago
When I went to Portugal I was struck by how much Portuguese there does sound like Spanish with a Russian accent!
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by zehaeva 11mo ago
I don't think this _really_ contributes to the conversation, but I think we can sum this entire post up with just one XKCD comic. https://xkcd.com/927/
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by zehaeva 11mo ago
I have said much of the same about dune in my own life to others, about how the main thesis is "hard times make strong men, ...", but that still does boil down to might makes right. Saying that the first book alone doesn't m
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by zehaeva 11mo ago
A lot of what is great about Dune are the inversions of the story past the first novel. If you take the first book alone you're left with only one facet of a much grander story. You're also left with the idea a white savior story
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by zehaeva 11mo ago
The point of Dune, or the Butlerian Jihad within Dune, isn't that Humans are more capable than the Thinking Machines. It is that Humans should be the author of their own destiny, that and the Thinking Machines were enslaving humanity a
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by zehaeva 1y ago
What if you had told it again that you don't think that's right? Would it have stuck to it's guns and went "oh, no, I am right here" or would it have backed down and said "Oh, silly me, you're right, here&
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by zehaeva 1y ago
If there exists some such set of algorithms that could get a "pretty darn good approximation of truth" I would be extremely happy. Given the pushes for political truths in all of the LLMs I am uncertain if they would be implemente
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by zehaeva 1y ago
There are limits to such algorithms, as proven by Kurt Godel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...
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by zehaeva 1y ago
I'm more reminded of Tom Scott's talk at the Royal Institution "There is no Algorithm for Truth"[0]. A lot of what you're talking about is the ability to detect Truth, or even truth! [0] https://www.youtu

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