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antiquark

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    Exactly the same point where I determined the article is garbage.

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    > write fanfiction about what it thinks those best minds I asked AI what Einstein would be working on today if he were alive, the result was a predictably rosy scenario of modern p…

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    > lines a consistent thickness A "ruling pen" would help. It's like a fountain pen where you can adjust the width of the ink. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruling_pen

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    One shudders to think of the difficulties of launching and landing space vehicles on these balloon-supported platforms.

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    Comment #48174095

    To put it simply, nobody wants to watch AI slop. This should be obvious!

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    That's why they always teach: "never compare floats for equality." Or maybe they don't teach that anymore, I dunno. See link for the Fundamental Axiom of Floating Point Arithmetic:…

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    There is still hope for a compiler book. From Knuth's website: > And after Volumes 1--5 are done, God willing, I plan to publish Volume 6 (the theory of context-free languages) and…

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    Ada doesn't even have a "++" operator to increment a number. SAD!

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    Comment #47127725

    Coincidentally, I did a search for "honda generator." One of the sponsored results was a scam posing as a different company! https://imgur.com/a/3ydKHZe

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    First they came for the stochastic parrots, but I said nothing, because I'm not a stochastic parrot. ( /s )

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    > AI agents will soon be processing payroll, placing orders, paying suppliers, creating policies, sending out contracts, creating marketing materials, answering customer questions,…

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    Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.

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    I seriously looked into it many years ago... One problem with "literate programming" is it assumes that good coders are also good writers, and the good writers are also good coders…

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    Welp, back to nepotism, I guess.

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    I think to remember something, you have to replay it in your mind from time to time. The more you do that, the more you remember. (Reminiscing is probably the right word). I guess …

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    You're a bot, aren't you.

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    Nice ending: > The reporter was banned and now it looks like he has removed his account.

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    In a tech support scenario, Dvorak is always troublesome. You sit down to type at someone's computer, and random characters start popping out.