zephyr9

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by zephyr9 1y ago
You were so close! The takeaway is not that LlmS represent a bottomless tar pit of piracy (they do) but that someone can immediately perform the task 58% better without the AI than with it. This is nothing more than “look what the clever co
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by zephyr9 1y ago
That’s interesting. I thought your cat analogy (which I really liked) was going to be an example of how LLMs do not have understanding the way a cat understands the skill of jumping. But then you went the other way.
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by zephyr9 1y ago
A robot could certainly be programmed to get food for a sick, dying friend (I mean, don't drones deliver Uber Eats?) but it will never understand why, or have a phenomenal experience of the act, or have a mental state of performing the
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by zephyr9 1y ago
> isn't this also telling us what "understanding" is? When people start studying theory of mind someone usually jumps in with this thought. It's more or less a description of Functionalism (although minus the "me
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by zephyr9 2y ago
I'm surprised at this. I find music discovery easy. Some tips: On Bandcamp: in addition to obviously following artists I like, I follow several fan accounts of those artists, then I can see what they buy. I also try to sample the Bandc
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by zephyr9 2y ago
It seems the total disregard that the tech community showed toward copyright when it was artists losing out has come back to bite. Face-eating leopards, etc.
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by zephyr9 3y ago
Old software is depreciated . To deprecate software would be to call it names.
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by zephyr9 3y ago
Hello mathematics, meet philosophy.
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by zephyr9 3y ago
As always, the best way to protect your house is with the law, not a better lock. Regulation is constructive, deregulation is destructive.
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by zephyr9 3y ago
Great framework. Unfortunately Apple hijack certain arrow shapes (e.g. the home button) and incorrectly display these as emoji. There’s a CSS override you can add to prevent this but I don’t remember off top of my head.
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by zephyr9 4y ago
> many tools and developers rely on or automatically assume that commit hashes are collision resistant. Solution seems to be don't. Use the tool as the tool was intended.
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by zephyr9 4y ago
SourceHut is more reliable than GitHub. I mean this in the truest sense of the word, I can rely on SourceHut not to act against my interests, both ideologically and just basic usefulness.
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by zephyr9 4y ago
And Restic just got the ability to rewrite snapshots, i.e. retroactively remove material added to backup.
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by zephyr9 4y ago
Do you not remember high school? Nerds hate artists.
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by zephyr9 4y ago
Is this just a site for people to steal authors' work?
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by zephyr9 4y ago
Also OpenBSD.
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by zephyr9 4y ago
Yeah man I get it. I was pointing out a good ol' case of "rules for thee but not for me".
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by zephyr9 4y ago
Lol. "Information wants to be free, man!" Steals music and movies 20 years later: "Let's sue Github"
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by zephyr9 4y ago
My prediction is that a large number of comments on this post will be programmers desperate to justify writing more code. I'm not a good programmer, but the one thing I think I have over bad programmers is the awareness that adding mo
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by zephyr9 4y ago
I'll add my provider of choice, Purelymail. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27707857
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by zephyr9 4y ago
I think you have the wrong country, PM of NZ is Jacinda Ardern, and I mean, who doesn't like her? Bond villains?
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by zephyr9 4y ago
> 1. Use bash. Credibility gone.
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by zephyr9 4y ago
There's always icloud.com
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by zephyr9 4y ago
I vehemently disagree, Snow Leopard was the champion.
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by zephyr9 4y ago
Agree. The synonyms really look like buttons that may be clicked/tapped.
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by zephyr9 5y ago
Yep. The author is a legit sociopath. This should in no way be considered acceptable human behaviour.
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by zephyr9 5y ago
Something that really freaks me out about the world is how much power tech people have and that their sociopathic behaviour, like treating all your personal relationships as transactional data, is considered a "simple system".
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by zephyr9 5y ago
Linux does all the arguing for me.
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by zephyr9 5y ago
> It's so incredibly silly how owning a smartphone isn't even a matter of preference any more; people just expect everyone to have one. Most of society has transitioned now to just being custodians of smartphones -- moving the
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by zephyr9 5y ago
Short answer, yes, long answer, it depends. A lot of camera capabilities hinge on the physical size of the sensor, i.e. how much power it consumes to shoot and how much heat it generates. An iPhone camera sensor is tiny and so can do pretty

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