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Only the AI labs are really interested in closed models. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, ... they'd rather go back to doing stock buybacks and being ridiculously profitable rather tha…

I have both as well. Floaters are mildly annoying, but at least when you lie in bed at night you don't see them in the dark.

In every AI-written post, we have the script: some top post complaining it's AI-written, someone cluelessly saying they don't see it, and another person pointing out the claudisms.…

Right, SO was always better at answering beginner questions then advanced ones, except if the complex question had a broad appeal. Part of it is because the format is not good for …

I appreciate the correction. Although it should be said that modern implementations tend to opt to assume that UB never happens.

Undefined behavior is not the same as implementation-defined or unspecified behavior. A program with undefined behavior is by definition an incorrect program. But there are cases w…

Just from the subtitle, you can already tell it's likely AI-generated. Maybe you're lucky enough not to be exposed to claude/codex output your whole working day.

I don't think that's the lesson. What I take from that is that people adapt to norms and incentives they have. Despite all the talk about "academic integrity" and whatnot, very rar…

Caffeine withdrawal symptoms don't last more than 1-2 weeks. And we're talking about headaches, feeling sluggish... not dying, like other drugs.

That's a stretched interpretation. The first sentence says the interval does not exceed 15 minutes. The most natural way to read the last sentence is that the competition rules sta…

Producing the desired output is the purpose of the program, but it's not the only consideration: there's performance, maintainability, security, and so on.

So it's OK if FIFA breaks the rules of the game "only in the final"? (yes, I know FIFA says they didn't but their reading of Law 7.2 is not plausible)

One of the least corrupt countries, whose attorney general had secret meetings with Infantino when in charge of an investigation of corruption in FIFA.

Yes, which maybe is a disadvantage because it limits the speed I read to the speed I can articulate the words in my head. But most of the time I'm not consciously aware of it, just…

The post doesn't call for the sympathy for the publishers, so I'm not sure what you're responding to.

What about when you're reading? You don't have a voice in your head saying the words?

It's not a small fine. It's much more than what each title could be bought for in the market.

> But if I'm reading the ruling correctly, Anthropic might have been fine even with feeding pirated books into their LLM (as long as they planned to eventually deleted them afterwa…

It surely is, but that doesn't change the fact that many cases are not about distribution and the harm is frequently more of a legal fiction, unless by harm you mean something othe…

Like when Google got tired of handling geofencing warrants.

> If you purchased a piece of land and that wasn't recorded in the registry, you are SOL because registration is what conveys title. Sort of. The registration is what provides oppo…

Don't know exactly on it works in Romania, but proving you purchased a patch of land is a different question -- for that you have the deed. You then submit the deed to the land reg…

Yeah, for a while it was not clear that git would win over mercurial. GitHub was decisive.

Yes, yes, the usual narrative. They were not welcoming. I mostly participated in the site around the 2009-2012 and reached a bit under 100k of reputation and these were the dynamic…

The "honest score" is the most annoying claudism of the comment, with the short disjoint sentences a close second.