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awestroke··on GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview
There is already a website. It's on chat.openai.com
awestroke··on Counter-Strike 2 – Limited Test for select CS:GO players
Not turning off shadows, turning off high quality shadows
awestroke··on Counter-Strike 2 – Limited Test for select CS:GO players
Why bother with high quality shadows if everyone will just turn them off immediately?
awestroke··on GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview
What's your point?
awestroke··on Thomas Midgley Jr. invented leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons
He knew the negative effects. He also knew that other additives worked just as well (eg ethanol). Still he lobbied hard for using his additive
awestroke··on Thomas Midgley Jr. invented leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons
If you had a time machine, would you go back in time to kill Hitler or this guy?
awestroke··on Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK
Sorry to spoil the surprise, but it seems worse than gpt3
awestroke··on Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine
If you were my manager I'd quit immediately, and I'm a top performer.
awestroke··on Google nixes paying out rest of medical leave for laid-off employees
Snarky and stupid is not a good combination
awestroke··on TypeScript 5.0
TS by itself is not fully sound which could complicate such a compiler.

Example: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/MYewdgzgLgBAtgTwLI...

In the example above, the problem is that typescript allows casting function types to omit optional arguments, and also allows using a function with n arguments as a value where a function with >n arguments is expected

awestroke··on GPT-4 Designed a Programming Language
Prompt: please write a comment expressing fear and anguish over headlines about AI becoming better and better
awestroke··on GPT-4 Designed a Programming Language
Sounds like it performed wonderfully. It included the best parts of python (there are none)
awestroke··on GPT-4
Considering your username, I'm not surprised that you have completely misunderstood what an LLM is. There is no material or data stored in the model, just weights in a network
awestroke··on Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API
If you can be banned from the platform at any time just for having the audacity of using your credit card, maybe they should have a big yellow warning box when signing up with a credit card
awestroke··on User interface design timeframes: from 0.1 seconds to 10 years (2009)
I never experience slow frontends. It's always either very slow requests, probably to some Java monstrosity, or newsletter/cookie modals, that makes me leave a website
awestroke··on New cognitive skills in the age of AI tailored information
I'm guessing you grew up with Leninism, not Marxism
awestroke··on New cognitive skills in the age of AI tailored information
Do you have any idea what you are talking about?
awestroke··on Anxiety can be created by the body, mouse heart study suggests
Is there maybe some kind of link between the body and the brain, perhaps? /s
awestroke··on Regulators rejected Musk’s bid to test brain chips in humans, citing safety
Good. That surgical glue they used in the animal brains made them die horribly iirc
awestroke··on How white can white paint get?
Painting is labor intensive
awestroke··on How white can white paint get?
Sounds like you're pitching white paint
awestroke··on Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
lmao?
awestroke··on John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence
Well, he's not taking risks anymore by doing this. He has already proven himself, he's rich, and he's paid incredible amounts to do whatever he likes.
awestroke··on ChatGPT Plus
They'll probably just shut down the free research preview, or at least make it very restricted
awestroke··on ChatGPT Plus
For now
awestroke··on Netlify acquires Gatsby
Layoffs are rarely done because off lack of cash. It's just cost cutting to increase shareholder profits. An investment means potential revenue growth
awestroke··on Intel's 'historic collapse' erases $8B from market value
No. The board of directors gave Tim Cook feedback on his compensation, he responded with a new compensation level in line with the feedback, the board voted it through, and Tim Cook accepted the decision. It was not on his own initiative.
awestroke··on Intel's 'historic collapse' erases $8B from market value
You're the CEO of Intel?

Nobody ever asks for a pay cut. If anything, they'll do some moronic layoffs get a fat bonus for it

awestroke··on OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership
It's literally a nonprofit
awestroke··on Magnetic method to clean PFAS contaminated water
I wonder how healthy this "magnetic fluorinated polymer sorbent" is to drink
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