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very cool however

wifi scanner is named bluetooth scanner and doesnt show any networks. im typing this on wifi. also code has 15 levels of indentation.

weather app search doesnt work

e-commerce cant fake-buy anything

dog-app lit says instagram, nothing is clickable, tons of deeply nested jss

but which delimiter.

if you choose pipe ok, now you have to make sure nobody typed a pipe into the input field or spreadsheet, and you cannot store unix commands

if you choose tab, ok, now people will get confused when they try to edit the text file to replace tabs with spaces, and now you have trouble putting code snippets into data fields because they have tabs.

this is the problem and it's why xml/json exist.

in my particular domain, tab separated works pretty well but in a general context of the world at large, i feel like JSON has reasons it exists.

why do i feel most of whats good about "agile" was actually already being done in the open source world before Agile was even a thing?

i just asked Chat GPT to write a python program that does rot13 decoding and it was flawless.

then i asked it to do the same thing without the codecs library

and it was also flawless.

what that reminds me of is if you asked a human to decode rot13 theyd probably get bored and make a mistake. but they could write a program to do it well.

then.

i asked if it can run python programs.

"Yes, I am a large language model trained by OpenAI, and I have the ability to understand and generate natural language, including the ability to understand and execute simple programming commands. However, I do not have the ability to execute programs or access external resources like a typical computer or device, so I am unable to run complete Python programs or interact with the external world. I can only provide explanations and examples of how a program might work, based on my training and knowledge"

so.

what we need is to give ChatGPT access to a shell on a linux box and the ability to run python.

then just ask it "please write a python program to rot13 decode this text and then run the program and show me the results. "

another food analogy would be how farmers started grinding up dead animal carcasses and feeding the results back to live animals (i.e. making cannibals out of vegetarian ruminants), which resulted in an outbreak of prion diseases like Mad Cow / CJ.

in private companies this is solved naturally when they go bankrupt or the owner shuts it down.

in the government this is solved when elections change power. (sort of)

in universities... i think they might just be better off having the administrators elected by the... alumni.

all of the whistleblowers and internal critics that they fired and blackballed, all the times they ignored anyone who pointed out flaws in their models, all the ways they ignored the conflict of interest for ratings agencies being paid to rate garbage securities as AAA, etc etc etc.

i went a little Meta

"It is difficult to say for certain whether an artificial intelligence with emotions would get tired of people asking it about the trolley problem, as this would depend on the specific design of the AI and how it was programmed to experience and express emotions. However, it is possible that an AI with emotions could become frustrated or annoyed if it was asked the same question repeatedly without any variation or new input to consider. It is also possible that an AI with emotions could become more engaged in discussions about the trolley problem if it was able to have thoughtful, nuanced discussions about the topic. Ultimately, the way an AI with emotions would respond to being asked about the trolley problem would depend on its individual characteristics and how it was designed to function."

plot twist - this entire HackerNews comment section was created by an AI comment bot. including this comment.

i hear that it has sockets built right in. no more Trumpet.

We could send many more Strongly Worded Letters to criminals and they would be on much nicer paper.

And after Lehman brothers collapsed... nobody was arrested.

I think the problem is something that we dont actually understand yet. Like there needs to be some kind of psychologist to study it to figure out what is going on.

When I am in the goggles, Its kind of cool, but Im completely disconnected from the real world.

Its not a group activity either, like board games connect you to other people. VR connects you to the matrix. When one person in a family puts on the goggles, everyone else just leaves the room. There is nothing to see or share. (if you have a TV on, maybe its interesting but you are still like watching a person move their head around and look at things that arent there like a person whose mentally ill, its a strange experience)

And the physical barrier is always there. You walk up to the zone you have defined in your real life room, which is probably a few dozen square feet. You can touch invisibility, some bizarre barrier exists to your hands but your eyes tell you the exact opposite - you see infinite space, but are trapped inside a tiny grid whose barriers appear when you walk too far. Your eyes and ears tell you theres a whole world, your hands and feet understand you are still in your living room or whatever.

So when I come out of VR i have this bizarre, uneasy, queasy, unpleasant, feeling, for which I have not the word to describe. It is not like waking up from a dream. It's like shifting uncomfortably from one reality to another, one you have been to by yourself, completely alone.

TiltFive AR (formerly Cast AR) is still a thing. they are shipping product to early backers and people are working on games for it.

the proof would be to find how many people he fired and blackballed because they disagreed with him or told him he was wrong.

SBF himself said he donated the same to Republicans but did it secretly through dark money thanks to Citizens United because he thought Reporters would like him better

in other words thanks to Citizens United we have no idea who is funding US political campaigns, and that is by design. So people looking at the open records are only seeing the tip of the iceberg

no, warehouse workers, nurses, other people with extreme work hours requirements and tons of metrics, are constantly being fired for failing to meet quota or whatever.

its the "the higher the pay the easier the job" paradox.

reminds me a lot of Ford Circle / Farey Diagram / Stern Brocot tree

Basically a tree of fractions where you take two rational points on a number line, a/b and c/d, then the next point in the tree is (a+b) / (c+d). Turns out that every single point you create this way has a unique position and never duplicate each other, and it forms a tree like structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_circle

not sure if this would be useful, but basically it could be a fractional index that has a built in tree structure, since it basically means any fraction is a leaf on a Stern-Brocot tree.

because the people in the government who write this stuff are going to go into industry in a few years trying to get jobs.

see also https://dwitter.net

literally an episode of Star Trek TNG, episode title Conspiracy, season 1 episode 24

the time you spend pulling your hair out figuring out why your program stopped working due to some obscure problem with the caching mechanism, is alot more than the time you save by doing the caching. at least for a lot of people. for others it might make sense

why i prefer modern languages number 800.. no autoconf. (rust, go)

I agree this is horrible.

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all the communities that survive by selling diesel will see it as negative.

thank you, i thought i had lost my damn mind. i was like wtf are people talking about 20 years old. it shut down and i lost all my stuff , years and years ago. i dont know what it is anymore but its like last.fm in name only

uhm so i dont know if I'm having Mandela moment or Senior moment but I distinctly remember last.fm sending me an email telling me they were completely shutting down and i remember having to close my account and all my carefully curated stuff just disappeared into nothing.

the old service was really cool but it stopped. i have no idea wtf people are talking about when they say its '20 years old'. it literally ceased to exist.

i realize it may have been replaced with something else, but that something else bears almost no resemblance to what it was.

please help - a confused old man

politics. on any political spectrum there is no origin point, there are just differences.

for example in the UK they have socialized medicine and conservative politicians run campaigns on defending that socialized institution because its popular with the public.

in america if you propose socialized medicine you would be considered a radical communist by half the population. no conservative would ever propose it. (except for military, then its ok)

does this stuff happen automatically? is there a robot that goes out and reads about all the new zero-day exploits and patches all the software without human intervention?

Citizens United case means that, by design, there will be no evidence of money transfers from foreign powers to US elections.

so the idea we can 'find no evidence' is because people rigged the system so there would be no evidence.

Democrats could start taking money directly from Xi Jingping or from some communist in Venezuela and we would never know about it. Republicans can take money from the Saudis and we would never know about it. This is the reality of modern politics in the US.

infinite invisible money and zero evidence that anything happened, by design