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xthexder

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  • The Guardian view on granting legal rights to AI: humans should not give house-room to an ill-advised debate | Editorial

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  • “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”

    – IBM Training Manual, 1979

    We're going so backwards...

  • Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself"

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  • Well, it's physically impossible to capture more energy from burning hydrogen and oxygen than it takes to separate it. Combustion engines are only something like 30-40% efficient in ideal operating conditions.

    Building a repairable car on the other hand is very much possible.

  • Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions

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  • Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"

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  • The diminishing returns are kind of insane if you compare the performance and hardware requirements of a 7b and 100b model. In some cases the smaller model can even perform better because it's more focused and won't be as subtle about its hallucinations.Something is going to have to fundamentally change before we see any big improvements, because I don't see scaling it up further ever producing AGI or even solving any of the hallucinations/ logic errors it makes.

    In some ways it's a bit like the Crypto blockchain speculators saying it's going to change the world. But in reality the vast majority of applications proposed would have been better implemented with a simple centralized database.

  • Relatable

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  • Check again. Going from 600:1 to 60:1

  • Relatable

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  • On the bright side, after 10 years of doing it, you might improve the ratio to 1 hour of feeling like an idiot and 1 minute of feeling like a genius.

  • NATO could end if US takes over Greenland — Danish PM

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  • This practice was banned already last year in January. If you think this is grounds to invade a sovereign nation then you've got some twisted world views. Maybe the US should be liberated from it's oppressive anti-abortion, anti-trans government, hm? Sounds like the exact same argument to me. Every country has its problems. If you think invading is going to make anything better, then fuck right off.

  • Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longer

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  • It's a struggle even finding the manual these days if you don't already know where it is / what it's called. I was searching about an issue with my car recently and like 90% of the results are generic AI-generated "How to fix ______" with no actual information specific to the car I'm searching for.

  • "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession

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  • It must be hard to admit he spent billions on a slop machine. Sunk cost fallacy is probably one of many things they're fighting.

  • Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge

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  • AI Company: We added guardrails!

    The guardrails:

  • Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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  • Well on the bright side, maybe in a few years when people search for "office software" they'll be directed to libreoffice instead of Microsoft

  • Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1

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  • "High Quality Audio" in terms of the sample rate and bit depth, but considering the quality of most of these DAC/ADCs you get integrated in cables like this, I somehow doubt the data rate is actually the limiting factor on quality.

    Personally I can't tell the difference between 192kHz and 96kHz samples rates, or 16bit and 24 bit either (maybe a young kid with perfect ears could, but they'll probably also notice background noise due to most of these using unfiltered USB power). The dongle manufacturers seem to care more about the marketing value of bigger numbers than actual usability.

  • Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison

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  • Well considering almost every time I reboot it seems to do a windows update, those optimizations are probably running every time anyway. It's almost fair.

  • Beer is for GIRLS

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  • There's actually so little actual Rye left after distillation that whiskey is gluten free. (Beer is not)

  • Venezuela - The Lesson for Canada

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  • That's Article 51, not 5. If you read the very first thing from the link:

    Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty states that an armed attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all members, and triggers an obligation for each member to come to its assistance.

  • What are some cool and obscure data structure you know of?

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  • Check out the benchmark I edited in to my original post. These are not user-provided strings in my case.

  • so many levels

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  • Are we looking at the same image? I can't even tell the brand of the drives, let alone the model or specs. One of them might be an HGST drive? It's too pixelated/JPEGd to tell.

  • What are some cool and obscure data structure you know of?

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  • C++ already does that for short strings

    I've already been discussing this. Maybe read the rest of the thread.

    Also the case in the standard library

    I think you're missing the point of why. I built this to be a nearly drop in replacement for the standard string. If this wasn't the case it would need to do even more processing and work to pass the strings to anything.

    discontinued because it was against the standard.

    Standards don't matter for an internal type that's not exposed to public APIs. I'm not trying to be exactly compatible with everything under the sun. There's no undefined behavior here so it's fine

  • tough choice?

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  • I had blanked this from my memory, but my very first programming job was to reimplement some FoxPro code in... Visual Basic. FoxPro is so strange to work in. It's like programming in SQL, and the codebase I was in had global variables everywhere.