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> thinking hard does not burn significantly more calories Up to 50 Cal extra over ~2 hours of intense thinking IS significant given brains consume 240-400 Cal over 24 hours. > Star…

The source and documentation is the context. And it's not like we don't have to deal with undocumented, uncommented, ancient patchwork code from time to time. I'd rather solve the …

Why would I ask annoying questions when I can identify, reproduce, pinpoint the bug, locate it in code, and fix it? Doing it alone should make it clear I don't need to ask to under…

The datacenters are still going to be built, and their usage won't suddenly fall just because the companies behind some of the products on them suddenly lose value. The demand is n…

Sounds textbook to me.

The registrar should ignore reports of abuse, especially if coming from an authoritative source with vast resources that's been collecting reports on its own? No. The source should…

Next up, 2% cut whenever you use any banking or payment app. Only 1.5% when you use Apple Pay!

Funny because it would mean the guess is a hole in one when essentially blindfolded. Glad it looks like it!

I've noticed this also. But I didn't ascribe it to LLMs, rather figured there is some sort of rogue educator in India who's instructing students to do this on public repos and they…

[1] Sounds difficult without any other detail. But it would be funny if it's this: https://archive.org/details/teachyourselfweb00lema/page/n9/m...

Angry unicorns seem to be over.

Making strawmen. Your position of "policy is impossible to write" is inane.

This notion always puzzles me. It's not a complex idea. Just like, say, banning GMO bananas. But such regulation is a whole text which may need to define or refer to definitions of…

It'd simply have to be carefully drafted policy rather than an internet comment.

Simple. Don't protect it just like sharing nuclear secrets or CSAM isn't protected.

I imagine the random person, if they were to accept, would likely find themselves out of depth and simply outsource most of the job to whoever convinces them they're the right choi…

I see it. Overworked special effects artists, I suppose. It's funny how well some movie CGI from the 90s holds up in comparison.

Yes, but that doesn't potentially waste your opponents' time.

I'm extremely picky and Atkinson Hyperlegible was my favorite variable-width font. Never knew there's a "Next", so +

I remember a protocol which required the text to be replaced with random-length output of a Markov chain text generator, and only then pixelizing. Oh, you've spent hours on unpixel…

You should be blacking out information, to be sure, but credit card numbers are one of the very few examples where cracking makes sense, given that otherwise you don't know the pat…

Please move on, then.

That reminds me when I got a server-grade Xeon E5472 (LGA771) and after some very minor tinkering (knife, sticker mod) fit it into a cheap consumer-grade LGA775 socket. Same microa…

The idea matches, but 2019 is a far cry from, say, 1930.