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Comment · 1 year ago
Wow, the false positive rate on that will be interesting. from OpenAI's point of view, having it flood the parents with false positives is _way_ safer than having some slip past.

so needless to say....

Comment · 1 year ago
> with Ophiocordyceps are the ants it infects "happy"?

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Yeah...... It's all kinda crazy.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is why once you are using to using them, you start asking them for there the plan goes wrong. They won't tell you off the bat, whuch can be frustrating, but they are really good at challenging your assumptions, if you ask them to do so.

They are good at telling you what else you should be asking, if you ask them to do so.

People don't use the tools effectively and then think that the tool can't be used effectively...

Which isn't true, you just have to know how the tool acts.

Comment · 2 years ago
UE is going to be amazing (It mean it already is, but WAY more so) once verse is integrated into it.

The "so, you have a choice of c++ or drawing lines between boxes" is missing a lot of middle ground :)

Comment · 2 years ago
Yep, that is exactly what I was going for.
Comment · 2 years ago
> The makers of these tools promise they will boost efficiency and productivity by making workflows easier and faster. The problem with this message is that art is not about efficiency, productivity, or smooth workflows. Art is not about “executing” a task. Art is certainly not about the metrics of quantity, low cost, and speed that characterize industrialism.

This here is really the crux of the issue.

Making art as an expression of yourself isn't about these things.

Making assets for games, etc is more about about the metrics of quantity, low cost, and speed that characterize industrialism

Having the systems for the second, doesn't remove the first from existence.

Comment · 2 years ago
Can't you give it a different -O level?

-O0 gives you what you are after.

Comment · 2 years ago
Yes! This is exactly the point. It is undefined, so given that, it could do what the other branch does, so you can safely remove that branch.

you get it, but a lot of other people don't understand just how undefined, undefined code is.

Comment · 2 years ago
Things where equality is on more than one axis, _but there is a primary one where people use._

Think things like vectors or complex numbers, or people.

The absolutely classic example however is types which have a signed zero...

Comment · 2 years ago
Leading to many of the NZ fetish scene jokes :)
Comment · 2 years ago
To be fair, Scott revealed the amendment was satirical prior to a vote in New Mexico House of Representatives.

prior.... so they knew it was satire.

Comment · 3 years ago
> Unpredictable compression ratios weren't as much of a concern for me as physical failure.

totally. I just think that their quirk in how they advertise has pushed people away from using them at all is interesting.

As one guy said, "I can compress stuff on my disks as well, it doesn't mean that they have twice as much capacity, and shouldn't be advertised as such"

I thought people would have just kinda shrugged their shoulders and just went "I guess it is just a little weird" but it really has pushed people away.

Comment · 3 years ago
This is going to sound pretty damn weird, but the last couple of places where I though tape backups would have been the right plan, we had people who saw the tape industry as a bit untrustworthy. Not the tapes, but the industry.

It took me a while to find out why, but the whole tape storage size not being their actual size has left a long shadow.

It is amazing that something so small can leave such a large bad taste in people's mouths for so long.

Comment · 3 years ago
They absolutely think about the consequences of their actions. What makes you think for a second that they don't?

> Perhaps we should slow down this frenetic pace of AI development and think about it for a bit?

Perhaps you should actually talk to them sometime and get a clue.

Comment · 3 years ago
Right? It is CUDA, that is why they are winning.

AMD has the patents for putting a SSD directly on the card, they could be killing it in the home AI market, but.... they just can't get it together.

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