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thewakalixon OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

Did you read the article?

thewakalixon CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective

> Additionally, the kid that I "stuck it to" wasn't even in high school - I'd guess middle school or possibly even grade school.

"Okay, but that's worse. You do get how that's worse, right?"

thewakalixon Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

> Bastardica can make simple fonts feel a little, hmm, richer?

This is truly the YTP of fonts.

thewakalixon Claude is only available to people over 18 years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34116211

https://www.fox9.com/news/new-us-food-label-law-unintended-e...

> Some companies include statements on labels that say a food "may contain" a certain product or that the food is "produced in a facility" that also uses certain allergens. However, such statements are voluntary, not required, according to the FDA, and they do not absolve the company of requirements to prevent cross-contamination.

> Instead, some companies have taken a different approach. Officials at Olive Garden said that starting this week, the chain is adding "a minimal amount of sesame flour" to the company’s famous breadsticks "due to the potential for cross-contamination at the bakery."

thewakalixon Choose Boring Technology (2015)

"Weirdness points" are similar: https://www.lesswrong.com/w/weirdness-points

thewakalixon Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

Phantom Obligation, the post that Gruber says brought Godier to his attention, seems pretty AI-generated: https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation

thewakalixon App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours

What could be more explicit than this?

> It has no tarot function, no horoscopes, and nothing that I, or anyone else I’ve asked, would associate with astrology.

thewakalixon Against Usefulness

How do you plug a keyboard into a sheet of paper?

thewakalixon An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

Was this announcement AI-generated?

thewakalixon Why is the sky blue?

The cloud is getting light from both the sky background and direct sunlight.

thewakalixon Why is the sky blue?

The slider in the first demo under "What's so special about blue" is broken; the colors are correct when the slider is all the way to the left or right, but not when it's in the middle.

thewakalixon The largest number representable in 64 bits

To be more pedantic, yes you can, but only with a meta-language.

thewakalixon F (2006)

For Haskell, there's always Hoogle (https://hoogle.haskell.org).

thewakalixon Fast linked lists

Wouldn't using push_back prevent the need to reverse the Vec at the end?

thewakalixon Algebraic Data Types for C99

Java doesn't have pattern-matching yet. Haskell is not an imperative language.

thewakalixon Algebraic Data Types for C99

> The intent is to introduce a more-advanced construction called pattern matching in a later release.

thewakalixon Why SQLite Uses Bytecode