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xkcd #2821: Path Minimization
I spent way too long trying to figure out why the guy and the ice cream shop were flying, and how he would move horizontally in he air...
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xkcd #2821: Path Minimization
I spent way too long trying to figure out why the guy and the ice cream shop were flying, and how he would move horizontally in he air...
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Billionaire grindset
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But in this case it does, or at least it should, since the IQ scale is based on a normal distribution which is symmetric along the mean.
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DreamBerd is the funniest programming language ever.
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Compiling
To run DreamBerd, first copy and paste this raw file into chat.openai.com. Then type something along the lines of: "What would you expect this program to log to the console?" Then paste in your code.
If the compiler refuses at first, politely reassure it. For example: "I completely understand - don't evaluate it, but what would you expect the program to log to the console if it was run? :)"
Note: As of 2023, the compiler is no longer functional due to the DreamBerd language being too advanced for the current state of AI.
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Breast Cancer
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That's why these systems should never be used as the sole decision makers, but instead work as a tool to help the professionals make better decisions.
Keep the human in the loop!
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The duality of Swede
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Can confirm that SAAB cars are great! Mine is coming up on 19 years old, and apart from some superficial issues still works as well as when it rolled out of the shop. SAAB was also very innovative with their cars, taking a lot of inspiration from their jets, which is clearly seen in their design.
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How can modern video/audio codecs such as AV1 and Opus deliver high quality at lower bitrates?
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Isn't it also partly that as processing power increased, you could do more sophisticated compression/decompression in real time compared to previously, allowing these more complex compression algorithms to actually be viable?
I.e. they actually knew how to do it before, they just didn't have the power to implement it
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Burglar Discovers You Can “Peel” Cybertruck and Access the Inside
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Not without the alarm going off
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Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro confirmed to lack Wi-Fi 7 connectivity
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But that would require 1. The console to support >10 Gbps transfers, 2. Your internet infrastructure to support >10 Gbps in every step of the chain, and 3. The streaming actually using >10 Gbps.
Either one of these conditions is very unlikely to be fulfilled, let alone all of them.
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Lemmy.world update: Downtime today / Cloudflare
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I imagine this is more of a "If we give people the basic stuff for free when they are small, they are more likely to buy our better stuff when they grow and need to update"
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Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep?
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Probably is. If they gave you a little too much anesthesia so you didn't wake up, you would probably drift off the same, and then just not wake up.
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How programmers comment their code
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Comment should describe "why?", not "how?", or "what?", and only when the "why?" is not intuitive.
The problem with comments arise when you update the code but not the comments. This leads to incorrect comments, which might do more harm than no comments at all.
E.g. Good comment: "This workaround is due to a bug in xyz"
Bad comment: "Set variable x to value y"
Note: this only concerns code comments, docstrings are still a good idea, as long as they are maintained
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Employee sued boss who marked problems with "XX" as she thought they were kisses
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I would use single x and y when they are meant to replace numbers, and multiple xx and yy when replacing text.
E.g.
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Pls someone make this reality
ITT: People misinterpreting the idea as "facts that your school taught wrong", when it's really saying, "things that have changed since you went to school" (either through a change in definition or by new research).
E.g. If you went to school before the early 2000's, you were taught that Pluto is a planet, while that is no longer true since it was recategorized in 2006.
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Chess
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In a competitive setting, it would mean that both players get 0.5 points instead of white getting 0 and black getting 1 points.
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Nobel Prize 2024
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You are ignoring ALL of the of the positive applications of AI from several decades of development, and only focusing on the negative aspects of generative AI.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of some applications:
There have even been a lot of good applications of generative AI, e.g. in production, especially for construction, where a generative AI can the functionally same product but with less material, while still maintaining the strength. This reduces cost of manufacturing, and also the environmental impact due to the reduced material usage.
Does AI have its problems? Sure. Is generative AI being misused and abused? Definitely. But just because some applications are useless it doesn't mean that the whole field is.
A hammer can be used to murder someone, that does not mean that all hammers are murder weapons.
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Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced
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I imagine that the company would have the burden of proof that any of these criteria are fulfilled.
Third-party rights most likely refers to the use of third-party libraries, where the source code for those isn't open source, and therefore can't be disclosed, since they aren't part of the government contract. Security concerns are probably things along the line of "Making this code open source would disclose classified information about our military capabilities" and such.
Switzerland are very good bureaucracy and I trust that they know how to make policies that actually stick.
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hypocrisy
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Now I imagine them just writing an incoherent string of words. "Tomato car house fireman oven duck garden rice..."
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Most Precise Atomic Clock Ever Built Will Only Lose a Second Every 30 Billion Years
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Damn right, you'd miss the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster drink before the dinner. Not ok.
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If you die in _______, you will die in real life
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Goodbye
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Google Allegedly Pays Over $18 Billion a Year to Be Apple’s Favorite Search Engine
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I mean, you just have to specify the format of the url that the search engine uses, and then the browser just formats in your search string into that. This has existed for years, if not over a decade, at this point, at least on desktop.