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Kabaka 26 points 6 days ago

we know for sure they did it

This is more difficult than it sounds. I'll admit it's much better than a few decades ago, but still... What if we're wrong and we execute an innocent person? It's not like this is unheard of, and the whole problem is fully avoidable by simply not killing people.

All other considerations aside, it's just not worth it for such a permanent outcome.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution

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Kabaka 2 points 3 days ago

I was just venting to someone about this exact thing a few hours ago. For the last year or two, I tend to get about 1 lucky, full night of sleep per month. Otherwise, same as you describe. This wasn't the case when I was younger! I hate it.

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Kabaka 1 point 7 days ago

This is basically the same as asking someone who knows a bit about everything to recite obscure information from memory. I doubt most humans would do better.

What you're missing here is a feedback loop, validation, skills, etc. For example, if I ask one of my well-configured agents the same question, they go read the help/man page/other docs, start a vim session, quickly test/iterate until the result is correct, then give me a one-page document explaining what I need to know, with cited evidence — far faster than I'd do it, and I can keep working for the few seconds it takes. This rigor is written into my global instructions, not something you get out of the box on most models (Anthropic's models tend to be good at this without handholding, which is part of why they're so popular, aside from the fact that they just don't make as many mistakes).

The same mindset scales to larger software problems, too. As long as you have a well-defined specification and good agent instructions (and/or something like Spec Kit), you can have agents break it down, implement, and then other agents compare the result to the spec, and just keep looping until it is done. The hard part is writing good specs and requirements, but that's not a new problem.

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Kabaka 41 points 2 years ago

fell flat

Too bad. You'd think humor like that would have wings.

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Kabaka 36 points 2 years ago

It's definitely supposed to be visible.

Source: am ancient and saw The Fifth Element when it was new, before the plastic-enhancing remaster.

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Kabaka 35 points a year ago

The joke is that they know it is an egg. The user, somewhat like myself, is clearly trans, and "egg" means something important to the trans community. The extra question marks and the ":3" set the rest of the humorous/teasing tone. The post on here is itself the same kind of subtle meme, with the post text just saying, quite plainly: egg.

I imagine this wouldn't be intuitive or amusing unless you're really in the loop.

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Kabaka 26 points 2 years ago

At my partner's house, there are two cats: Mr. And Mrs. Rizzler. The teenagers in the house started calling them that and everyone went with it. Before then, the term was used basically every single time I saw any of them. It seems to most often be used as nonsense or just a word to shout at each other while trying to be annoying, but sometimes in the actual context of charisma (for example, a charismatic classmate was described as a "rizzler").

So yeah, it's a thing in some circles, but I'm hopeful this is an isolated incident.

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Kabaka 23 points a month ago path: 0 25608770 25609747, hotness: undefined, score: 23, children: 3
Kabaka 22 points 2 years ago

I know this isn't critical to your point (which is a good one), but since tetanus is deadly, I feel obligated to mention that tetanus and rust are unrelated: https://www.discovery.com/.... Make sure your vaccination is up to date even if you aren't dealing with rusty metal.

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Kabaka 21 points 8 months ago

Olympic Blvd and Flower St, Los Angeles. We're looking at 717 Olympic (717 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015), an apartment building.

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Kabaka 21 points 20 days ago

Via "The Making of The Empire Strikes Back."

Lucas has gone back and forth on this one in interviews, but the honest truth seems to be that he wanted dark/death + "invader." Somewhere there's a video of him admitting he had no idea about the translation of the name until well after it was chosen (sorry, I looked and couldn't locate the clip in a timely manner).

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Kabaka 19 points 2 years ago path: 0 12605193 12605448, hotness: undefined, score: 19, children: 1
Kabaka 18 points 16 days ago

It doesn't matter. Wiretap laws, including federal and many state laws, don't care if the recording is saved or even if an audio recording is created in the first place. Under the Federal Wiretap Act (18 U.S.C. § 2510(4)), an "interception" is defined as the "aural or other acquisition of the contents of any wire, electronic, or oral communication through the use of any electronic, mechanical, or other device." Many state laws make it illegal the moment the audio is saved into an ephemeral buffer, which Apple does.

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Kabaka 17 points a year ago

On the whole site, or just that channel? Because that may be due to channel settings which allow channel owners to hide comments containing certain terms. See "Blocked Words" on:

https://support.google.com/...

Not that YouTube has a great track record, but forbidding "cis' would be pretty drastic. For better or worse, many channels choose to filter terms like this to keep their comments sections free of controversy.

The same goes for comments about shadow banning: channels filter terms relating to this so that controversial videos (which many Onion videos will be, especially for those that like eating onions) don't end up with a comments section that's nothing but complaints about being filtered, or at least so that the comments section looks the way they want it to. I've seen various YouTubers talk about this over the years.

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Kabaka 13 points 2 years ago path: 0 15461564 15461657, hotness: undefined, score: 13, children: 0
Kabaka 13 points 2 years ago path: 0 13305174 13305351, hotness: undefined, score: 13, children: 0
Kabaka 10 points 2 years ago

They did not limit themselves to one monkey. From the article:

As well as a single monkey, they also did the calculations using the current global population of around 200,000 chimpanzees.

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Kabaka 10 points a year ago

For sure. But at least those images aren't kept in a secret location where users can't see or delete them. Even if Recall makes this harder, there's a meaningful difference here.

That said, neither one is doing you any privacy favors...

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Kabaka 9 points 7 months ago

Yeah, they got WOPR playing Tic-Tac-Toe against itself. It blasted through a bunch of games, each one a stalemate. It then started playing Global Thermonuclear War and eventually reached the same conclusion, saying:

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

How about a nice game of chess?

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Kabaka 9 points a year ago

Yeah, there is way too much slopslop.

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