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If you want to do that, there is a wide variety of pre-existing recording devices available already...

I feel you - I've always had a blackspot in my brain for names; I once was showing a new hire around, and about halfway through introducing my colleagues, my brain gave up and I co…

Finally started writing that Game Boy emulator I've always wanted to make - C# on Linux, planning to use SDL for the display and maybe NAudio for the sound.

Is it just possible that your dating problems come from somewhere else? I personally haven't experienced the negative social consequences you're describing, but I'm also not dating…

OK, I see, thanks. That applies to some skeptics, though - I'm in the AI skeptic camp but only in the sense that I believe we should make sober assessments of what these things are…

Take your point, although > "The impact of AI is getting undeniable", so, the goalposts are "the impact of AI". Probably something like "the impact of AI is high, or will be soon".…

You got me - I've been rumbled. Actually, I'm really an LLM and this whole thing was a clever bluff.

It's almost like I disagree with your use of the phrase in this context, rather than that I don't know the meaning of it.

If it seems like I don't understand the meaning of that very well-known phrase, then clearly I have failed to make my point. I'll try again. And please note that I will use some ge…

Never understood all this talk about moving goalposts - you understand that's how science works, right? We improve, we learn, we recalibrate our expectations based on what we've le…

> Viewing the continuance of our race as only the responsibility of parents is pathological. That's not what I said.

Sure, a parent can release their child into the wilderness and when they inevitably hurt themselves, shrug their shoulders and say it's the kids fault. That would still be a failur…

Because raising children is unequivocally the parents' responsibility. It's, like, their main job.

HuggingFace doesn't have to be complicit in a lie here - the impressiveness or not of what actually happened rests entirely on OpenAIs report about it, doesn't it?

Why would a model have access to its own weights in any kind of uploadable format?

Flash memory generally doesn't have great lifespan for repeated writes; using it as a root device is going to kill it pretty quickly. I had a similar problem once running a NAS off…

Do you mean that curious growth spike in mid 2020? If so, can you think of anything else significant that happened in mid 2020...?

They used to publish a regular torrent of everything, not sure if they still do that? Maybe you could grab yourself a copy for posterity.

Because it's convenient and solves a problem and there's nothing better available for sensible money - maybe better to ask why no-one seems able or willing to make a product like t…

Why does it have to be one or the other? 7+ billion small actions add up; power plants and datacenters are still at least partly about fulfilling consumer demand. Or to put it anot…

Indeed the fighting ended in an armistice so the war was never legally declared to be over. Visiting the DMZ between the countries is a surreal experience - part tense stand-off, p…

"Radioactive Dust 5" doesn't have quite the same ring to it though

That's life I'm afraid - no system that rewards participation can be entirely free of people taking advantage of it somehow. It's an unavoidable cost that we pay to get the benefit…

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