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Funny that you mention "accessible"... Because most of these components are anything but. Modern HTML and CSS are awesome tools on their own, and are able to do so much without nee…

That's covered by the very first line of the main body of the article: > Because a VPN in this sense is just a glorified proxy.

More than just needing an oracle - the keys and the house are both physical items. There's not really any practical way for a contract on the blockchain to validate that a particul…

How big of a problem are "snake bite victims"? I live in Australia, one of those countries that people would class as "dangerous" with regards to snakes, and... There's only been a…

I did read the article, and it only vaguely describes the "problem" with smartphones in one paragraph, then it spends the rest of the article talking about the effects of the pande…

They have strict specifications about the types of nails and wood that they can hammer, but they're not documented anywhere. If you send them the wrong type of nails or wood, they'…

Ok. I don't like React.

https://blog.samuellevy.com/ - I haven't posted in a few years, and I really need to upgrade it/clean up everything. It's not remotely mobile friendly. I've had a few relatively po…

Ehh... my dog is alive, thinks, and "speaks" in a manner - not a cute term for barking, but he communicates (with relatively high effectiveness) his wants and desires. Maybe not us…

That's kind of the point, but also kind of not. GPT isn't making true or false outputs. It's just making outputs. The truthiness or falseness of any output is irrelevant because it…

Nah, my issue with both terms is that they imply that when the answer is "correct" that's because the LLM "knows" the correct answer, and when it's wrong it's just a brain fart. It…

Yep, the "chinese room" is the classic thought experiment, but I feel like it fails to get the point across because the characters still represent language, so you could conceivabl…

I don't really know anything about AlphaGo. There's more types of "AI" than LLMs, but that's not really the point. You don't need AI for people to lose their jobs... but nobody is …

So humans have a level of knowledge, understanding, and reasoning ability that LLMs simply don't have. I'm writing a response to you right now, and I "know" a certain amount of inf…

There's definitely a few echo chambers around AI, but it's definitely not something that "just techies" are onto. ChatGPT made some waves at the end of last year. My in-laws were w…

You haven't seen them already? The "AI Lawyer", all of the people trying to sell LLMs as search engines, and just generally hundreds of projects that are outright dangerous uses of…

There's an interview with Bo Burnham where he puts it clearly... > Don't listen to people who just got very lucky. Taylor Swift telling you to "follow your dreams" is like a lotter…

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Yeah, there's a process. It's something that I've done a bunch of times for a bunch of clients. There's so much low-hanging fruit there that's so easy to fix _right now_. No versio…

> silently take a null instead of a string Oh, so you _haven't_ used any of the recent versions of PHP, then. You're just talking shit with no actual recent experience. Gotcha. Wel…

The rules are a bit more complex than the original, but I'll try to summarise them. * An empty cell has a chance to breed if there are two or more neighbours of breeding age (10-65…