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an engineering manager said during an interview, “OK, we’re going to build a To Do List app right now,” a process that might normally take weeks.

Tbf you can do that in one day with ChatGPT, although it requires some generic software engineering skills. But that's the point.

Even if you don't complete the task, the process of coding can prove your skill level in a positive way.

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Also, they often don't read more than a few lines. I applied as a dev for a company which I had many friends inside. They all knew my skills. The problem was the high-level managers because they didn't read the memo (and didn't even read my CV), assumed I can't do engineering because I was an academic at the time.

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I mean, if you argue that way during the interview I'd pass... Nobody thinks you're asked to do all that in a one-day interview.

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They can buy a HIMARS with that $50 /s

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Tbf it was always a nightmare to manage driver conflicts on Windows 95.

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I feel like Google results these days value the domain rather than the individual webpages instead. Always the same websites..

Faster backup solution?

I use Beyond Compare to sync files from my laptop to my NAS which is a QNAP (my laptop is Linux Mint). It is incredibly slow, to the point that it is driving me crazy. Admittedly, I have lots of large files on my laptop that I move around frequently, so that may just be how it is. I do have my laptop setup to sync to my phone...

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Sure, diff tools aren't meant for this. At least you could try dedicated backup tools like borg.

Another thing: schedule the backup to happen while you sleep or have lunch.

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This: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_comparison

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Give medieval people 200 years. Someone in the lineage will cheat, I guess.

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As I always write, trying to restrict AI training on the ground of copyright will only backfire. The sad truth is that malicious parties (dictatorships) will get more training materials because they won't abide by rules. The end result is, dictators would outperform democracies in terms of future generation AIs, if we treat AI training like human reading.

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The consequence of falling behind is gravely different from most heinous acts. It can impact the military, elections, espionage, or whatever.

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ChatGPT, I think Air Canada owes me $1B.

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Okay, it rusts. Now, ride SpaceX ships...

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BS.

According to him, people drive their Hondas into a supermarket after playing VR.

Adam Rogers is a senior correspondent at Business Insider.

Guessing he's not a researcher. He has no idea what he's writing. Just cherry-picking scientific articles to push his weird ideas. Might be a flat-earther or antivaxxer.

And Business Insider employs him as a senior correspondent. Fucking hell...

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Which for the Apple Vision Pro can only be the case as it hasn’t been out long enough to conduct anything more than a short term experiment.

Nah, we've had AR stuff for like a decade by now. That's enough to call this article pseudoscience at best. It's flat-earth level stupidity, not a valid speculation.

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Ah, that's right. But there have been people wearing VR goggles very long. And MS Hololens (although AR) was similar enough to not ignore imho.

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Okay, that's fair, but it doesn't really change much about the article in my opinion.

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I don't really understand why Apple defends its position on this. I don't see anybody benefiting from iMessage being in the current form. Not even Apple.

It's the exact kind of stuff Apple ditches usually.

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I think the replies should mention the maintainers' job. If they accept a PR they are supposed to understand the changes.

That said, AI-assistance on tests are as important as the code generation itself.

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If Notion starts forcing you to pay $30/month just to read notes, you'll be fucked. There's no way you can rescue your data.

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Takeshi's Challenge made it to smartphones. Maybe it's time for me to try it finally after 38 years.

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I think Reddit really enjoys the power of community effort. r/science removed every single personal anecdote, for example.

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Maybe they don't want to give rival AI devs data access? It's not typical for Google to give up data.

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You want them, not need them. Also, I prefer The Guardian model.

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Ask for donation, plus no ads in the first place. Maybe in the paying process they do need your contact info, but that's inevitable if you want to pay with your credit card. 100% better than lying about necessities of email.

Google's Chrome Browser Analyzing Your Browsing History with so-called "Privacy Sandbox" Feature

For nearly two years now, Google has been gradually rolling out a feature to all Chrome users that analyzes their browsing history within the browser itself. This feature aims to replace third-party cookies and individual tracking by categorizing you into an interest category and sharing that category with advertisers. It’s...

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I want my browser just to render websites, but it's so difficult these days.

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But when was the last time they did it without Jobs?

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Does it come with Genshin Impact?

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To me it's like the XReal Pro 2 with a bigger screen but bloated into 10x its price and basically the same gestures that were garbage on Microsoft Hololens. Tbf Hololens was astonishingly horrible at gesture recognition.

And imagine you have to tap the software keyboard floating in the air... Yup, that's how it worked with the Windows OS on Hololens. Jesus, I had to input my 30-letter workplace account PW on a keyboard that had some petite keys floating mid-air and away from me, switching between the alphabets and symbols modes every few air taps.

I could almost never log in because it was impossible to tap the correct keys for 30 times straight. Make one mistake, BS, but then the BS key was also small and I rarely could tap the BS correctly. Yeah, you try to remove a character and instead insert another wrong one till you miraculously manage to BS for exactly the correct number of times.

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Meanwhile, chrome and desktop apps (Electron-based) like Slack, note apps, etc, takes 1GB just to open... Well, tbh I don't know if they really use physical RAM space, but anyway.

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And most people just use a web browser apparently. Oh, and HP printers that break every few weeks. "Hey, you're a programmer, fix my printer."

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I do have 16GB RAM, but that's not because I wanted to run just the OS and without a game.

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Alas, AI critics jumped onto the conclusion this one time. Read this:

Further, OpenAI writes that limiting training data to public domain books and drawings "created more than a century ago" would not provide AI systems that "meet the needs of today's citizens."

It's a plain fact. It does not say we have to train AI without paying.

To give you a context, virtually everything on the web is copyrighted, from reddit comments to blog articles to open source software. Even open data usually come with copyright notice. Open research articles also.

If misled politicians write a law banning the use of copyrighted materials, that'll kill all AI developments in the democratic countries. What will happen is that AI development will be led by dictatorships, and that's absolutely a disaster even for the critics. Think about it. Do we really want Xi, Putin, Netanyahu and Bin Salman to control all the next-gen AIs powering their cyber warfare while the West has to fight them with Siri and Alexa?

So, I agree that, at the end of the day, we'd have to ask how much rule-abiding AI companies should pay for copyrighted materials, and that'd be less than the copyright holders would want. (And I think it's sad.)

However, you can't equate these particular statements in this article to a declaration of fuck-copyright. Tbh Ars Technica disappointed me this time.

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Well, regarding text online, most is there fir the visitors to read fir free. So, if we end up treating these AI training like human reading text one could argue they don't have to pay.

Reddit doesn't pay their users, anyway.

But personally, philosophically, I don’t see how Microsoft taking NYT articles and turning them into a paid product is any different than Microsoft taking an open source projects that doesn’t allow commercial use and sneaking it into a project.

Agreed. That said, NYT actually intentionally allows Google and Bing servers to parse their news articles in order to put their articles top in the search results. In that regard they might like certain form of processing by LLMs.

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In Japan, companies > people. Because the ruling LDP has won the election for 80 years almost 100% and people believe economy = stock market.

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I don't understand the point of buying the Watch. Much less for updating one.

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Was that Bender or Star Wars?

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the dream that originated with Elon Musk’s so-called “alpha paper” in 2013.

People better trust actual researchers instead.

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Microsoft promised Win 10 to be the last version and failed

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Wait, I'm allowed to dis Wayland here!?

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No. Seriously, you underestimate how much these companies can make by transferring data to their server.

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...this is a tale as old as time: people lie and steal content online.

Boy, how old are you

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So, they were not talking about the internet. Maybe in the '70s they saw Soviet steal US secrets on ARPANET.

YouTube screwing itself with adblockers again

I use Firefox and uBlock Origin. Not sure what kind of experience anyone else is having with YouTube, but recently my home page has been empty because I “don’t have watch history turned on”. Okay, fine. I won’t be able to browse suggested videos, and I’ll spend less time on their platform....

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I love the empty top page. It's the single best update they've ever done.

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I don't have sympathy to GAFA, but the article oversimplifies the reality and jumps to the conclusion here and there. Broken logic is dangerous...

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For example,

Since its inception, Facebook have been very careful to kill every competition. The easiest way of doing it being by buying companies that could, one day, become competitors. Instagram, WhatsApp to name a few, were bought only because their product attracted users and could cast a shadow on Facebook.

This is oversimplification. Facebook not only acquired WhatsApp, but wanted access to its user data. So, it's not "only because" they wanted to control WhatsApp before they become a rival.

The article's logic becomes sloppy like this every few sentences if not words.

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See my edit.

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They're astonishingly poor at data ownership. When they started Dropbox Paper, a note taking web app, they sent the inline images to a different web domain. The image, doing so, became publicly visible to anyone knowing the URL! They did this without explaining anything to the user.

They also did not clarify who owns the copyright of these images sent to an apparent third party company.

Seriously, Dropbox's user privacy and copyright management is incompetent and untrustworthy.

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Yes. It's hard for me to understand, too. Maybe China did have rather free news organizations in the past.

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