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FFP999

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    Comment #38367716

    Poe's Law and all.

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    Comment #38364394

    Little tip for the younger folks reading this: if you are given two contradictory explanations for something, the correct explanation is probably the third one.

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    Comment #38364371

    HOLY GOD. Worst possible wording.

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    Comment #38364323

    > Use an LLM to do a real world task that you should be able to achieve by reasoning. Such as explaining the logical fallacies in this argument and the one above?

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    Comment #38364269

    If you're trying to tell me there's a sucker born every minute, I knew that.

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    Comment #38364100

    Not ready to mount weapons on, if that's what you're asking.

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    Comment #38364075

    This reminds me of the contemporary use of e-bikes in Ukraine, which I understand is one of the many reasons that this war was not the curbstomp Russia seems to have expected.

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    Comment #38364043

    I think I've just seen the perfect vehicle for commuting in Boston.

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    Comment #38364017

    At the moment I read "how to reason" in the headline my bullshit detector started to go off. LLMs do not reason, they do not think, they are not AGI. They generate by regurgitating…

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    Comment #38349017

    I mean I don't doubt that it happens, but the swimsuit rule probably cuts down on it. And to be fair, that pool is possibly the sexiest place in Berlin.

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    Comment #38337737

    The EZ is the keyboard I have. I found that almost harder than getting used to the layout, was the extra pressure that's required, going from using the squishy keyboard that came f…

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    Comment #38337688

    I don't think anyone is holding Ireland responsible for "Irish" pubs. It somehow just became a genre of bar on its own, and it's easy to do in a lazy caricatured way, suitable for …

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    Comment #38337417

    The dome pool is also the one part where you are required to wear a swimsuit. I'm pretty sure the reason is that if you didn't, let's put it like this, that water would become a he…

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    Comment #38337401

    I was last there three to four years ago, nudity was required except in the pool, there you had to wear a swimsuit.

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    Comment #38335991

    > Vic 3 being another example Isn't that the truth...I love Paradox games as a rule but you have to accept that they'll be slow.

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    Comment #38335928

    Oh, sorry, I thought you wanted to have a discussion, I wasn't clear on the fact that you just want to be a condescending dick. Have a nice life.

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    Comment #38335914

    I am also a dedicated worker-from-home, and I know plenty of other people who are smarter than me who work by choice from the office every day. Even confining the discussion to tho…

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    Comment #38335577

    My point is not whether the rationale is valid or invalid: the point is, they're not going to do it. Is that wrong, in the ethical sense? Quite possibly. Do they care? No. Try goog…

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    Comment #38335481

    Perhaps nobody has told you yet, but other people might have different tastes than you do.

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    Comment #38335434

    Why _would_ they block themselves? How would that be to their advantage?

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    Comment #38319632

    They want a free market _for everyone else_. What's the point of being rich and well connected if you can't socialize your losses and keep your profits?

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    Comment #38308641

    True--I was talking more towards the end of the use of coax for Ethernet, which was also the peak of the dialup days.

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    Comment #38305490

    > Despite this it felt speedy!! When the most common data transfer technology is a POTS modem that can do 56kb/second...

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    Comment #38305471

    And if a single vampire tap comes loose, the entire network segment goes down. Don't miss that.

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    Comment #38305453

    You remember correctly. This was the most common form of Ethernet cable when I was first starting out roughly 3,000 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE2