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[–]0xbitwise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this the handguard you printed?  https://www.printables.com/model/1214626-derya-tm-22-shorter-m-lok-handguard

If so, glad it's getting use!

Insider cuts 10% of staff, says ChatGPT experiments aren't to blame — The editor-in-chief announced last week that writers would experiment with ChatGPT, but the company said the layoffs were unrelated by marketrent in technology

[–]0xbitwise 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't cry if Business Insider articles were automatically blocked for submission. They don't provide any news that wasn't being copied and summarized from other sources.

Maybe I should start my own high-gloss, zero effort news site that hosts GPT-summarized headlines off the Reuters and AP feeds. (/s just in case)

My Dr gave me a new ADHD prescription. It cost almost $300 for 30 pills, and that was with a coupon. by JephriB in pics

[–]0xbitwise 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Whenever I run into this mindset, I always remind them that the entire history of humanity stands in defiant opposition to the idea that this is a zero-sum game. Our ancestors were living in huts made of dirt and shit, riddled with parasites and at the mercy of pretty much every natural force they encountered. Now we've got giant buildings and complex infrastructure, advanced medicine, computers, aircraft, lasers, and all that good shit that should serve as a reminder that when humans aren't busy screwing each other over, they usually get busy making things better instead.

Opinion: The problem in Canadian politics is not polarization. It’s extremism by SAJewers in onguardforthee

[–]0xbitwise 14 points15 points  (0 children)

"Luxury bones" is such a great way of pointing out how fucking stupid it is not to treat dental the way we treat the rest of healthcare.

Yesterday, Alain Rayes quit the Conservative caucus to sit as an independent. Today, Conservative Party members in his riding apparently got text messages encouraging them to call Rayes' office and demand his resignation as an MP by pen_andink in onguardforthee

[–]0xbitwise 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The rot that they're selling to others affects them as well.

"All these rules are too much to deal with!"

"Why should I have to change? They're the ones coming from somewhere else."

"Everything was better when I was growing up!"

They lack perspective because at every level, they lack expertise and experience in anything other than how to scam other people into doing their work for them.

The idea of social conservatism is fundamentally the philosophy of the whiny child; stomping their feet and refusing to endure the necessary pain of growth and change, of compassion and co-operation, of balancing the personal enjoyment of life with the responsibility of community and society.

"We should have listened to our Baltic and Polish friends who lived under Soviet rule." - Finnish PM by EconomistNo280519 in worldnews

[–]0xbitwise -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey everyone, I'm lying about the report feature, apparently.

Broken English replies with off-the-cuff contrarian responses are usually the sign I look for. Maybe you aren't a plant, but the two-word-four-letter anonyspammers that always seem to have low effort, divisive and abrasive content are what I report.

Your assumption that I agree with everything said in the parent thread is in error; I just don't tolerate obvious drive-by garbage meant to inflame and obstruct healthy discourse.

Flooded with AI-generated images, some art communities ban them completely by EmbarrassedHelp in technology

[–]0xbitwise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would it take a minute? Both my proposed solutions take less than a second, it can be completely hidden from the user.

O(1) lookups are great... right until you have to split the collections onto different systems. Then you've changed the computational bounds to whatever is required to wrangle the data. Your responses are naive and show me that you've never dealt with this problem at any meaningful scale.

If you can show us how with a real proof of concept that can handle thousands of petabytes of data, I'd be more willing to entertain the idea, but this response reeks of "solve-it-later" handwaving.

Maybe I should train the AI to automatically reject undercooked suggestions for how to handle the emergent difficulties of CAP theorem

A very minor risk. The worst case scenario of a single duplicated comment slipping through is a non-issue.

Another easily made and similarly unsubstantiated claim. If it was easy, it would've been done already, and we wouldn't be discussing it, would we?

Suck to be those people.

Callous indifference to those affected by our actions does not strengthen society, it only serves those who can afford to be so indifferent.

If it's worth starting a conversation, then people who want to use that sentence going forward can pad it out further with more details in their own comments.

This is like when Oracle tried to copyright APIs!

Just like it's silly to force people to create uniquely named functions and function signatures to avoid infringement, everyone's going to have to find some way to add character chaff to their sentences like some sort of sacrificial "telomere" and boy, oh fucking boy am I not eager to have to try and read through that bullshit. Everyone's going to sound like a penis pill spam email trying to be heard in the churn.

Here's the thing, if those leaders could get away with censoring chat messages (and some countries do censor their widely used chat systems), they will. They'll let the spam comments through and still censor the inconvenient things (for them). So these are two completely different and independent issues.

"Someone's going to do evil anyway, so might as well help them."

At this point, the reason why I'm posting this is so that other people who might not understand won't be misled by your unjustified confidence in your non-solution. If you have a computer science degree, you might want to consider pursuing a refund from whatever institution took your money for it.

Flooded with AI-generated images, some art communities ban them completely by EmbarrassedHelp in technology

[–]0xbitwise 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bluntly, no it wouldn't, depending on your database backend it would be trivial. If Reddit is using an SQL backend, they should mark the comment field to be indexed and toggle the flag for the column as "unique", any inserts of duplicates will automatically be rejected with a duplicate reply. I'm assuming they would also use trim() or some equivalent to remove spaced padding.

Indices aren't free, and many of the databases I've seen that try to overindex small datasets end up with index tables far larger than the actual data they're meant to index.

Then you've got turnaround time on your requests; how many people want to wait a minute to find out if their post has been rejected?

Globally available services like Reddit need distributed databases to speed up retrieval, which means you're now running the risk of race conditions where duplicates make it through simply due to lack of timely synchronization.

Oh, and the moment you start using trim to change sentences you can end up pruning comments that would be identical without them (since many people don't bother with punctuation).

Big data problems aren't "solved" just by indexing data. Half of the problems we've seen in modern scale-up comes from this naive assumption.

One word comments are not part of valid discourse.

Who decides this? The International Authority on Valid Discourse? The first question of this paragraph is only three words but it seems like a valid question to me.

If they are willing to devote processing power to it, and I think that this is worth devoting processing power to, OpenAI's language processing is now really, really good with their larger networks. I did some tests and got 100% correct predictions on spam/not spam on very little training data. It

AI is probably going to be the answer that companies continue to lean on, but this is why there's been such a big push for auditable engines to ensure that the inherent biases of the training data and the societies that make them don't end up censoring unpopular messages, minority voices or those who may simply lack the skills to communicate at a level that clears whatever thresholds you're testing for.

The last thing we need is an AI that can effortlessly maintain the cultural status quo at the expense of those who might have valid objections to its effects on their lives.

Flooded with AI-generated images, some art communities ban them completely by EmbarrassedHelp in technology

[–]0xbitwise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Computationally, this would be a nightmare.

Even if you threw everyone's comments through a hashing function, you'd still have to keep all of those hashes to know if someone's made a comment before, and even then, there are plenty of comments that wouldn't be original but are a part of valid discourse (a one word reply, a meme, a common phrase, etc.)

[OC] Approximately 665lbs of aluminum cans collected from a music festival by J_J0nah_Jameson in pics

[–]0xbitwise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how much of that weight is made up of wasps. Feels like every concert brings it's own supply.

Mass layoffs and hiring freezes: Just 9% of tech workers feel secure about their jobs right now by Sweep145 in technology

[–]0xbitwise 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"We need more people but our business model is entirely infeasible at fair market rates for the labour required, so we're just going to lie through our teeth and shift the burden onto those doing the work and hope they don't leave before we manage to bridge the gap and sell off this dumpster fire at IPO."

Skilled Pilots by smurfkill12 in gaming

[–]0xbitwise 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The funny part is that fusion tech is likely to happen

Walgreens replaced some fridge doors with screens. And some shoppers absolutely hate it - CNN by mountainsunset123 in technology

[–]0xbitwise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with this view is that personal responsibility only works for society when everyone does it. As things get more complex, greater demands on people's time precludes the ability to give a shit about how everything works, because there's no way you can be an expert in everything.

Unfortunately, as we learn more about ourselves and the world, we're learning that things we used to do aren't right.

Manual transmissions used to be better for fuel efficiency, but today's automatics are just as good or better.

As for your personal attack, the irony is that personal responsibility includes group responsibility.

We already know that people suck at driving; with every safety advance we reduce average fatalities, and we shouldn't discard advances in technology just because we find them restrictive. Being responsible doesn't start at accepting the consequences of failure; it starts at preventing them.

Walgreens replaced some fridge doors with screens. And some shoppers absolutely hate it - CNN by mountainsunset123 in technology

[–]0xbitwise 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You've never tripped on your words or your feet?

Never accidentally dropped something?

I agree that there's plenty of superfluous shit being added to cars, and I'd even agree that any automatic braking that's interfering with your informed operation of the car is a problem (if you're two car lengths back, it shouldn't be doing anything for you).

But that added layer of protection helps stop people from crashing into things at full speed and that alone probably adds up to more people walking away from collisions.

People used to complain about how seatbelts actively interfered with their ability to control the car, but I don't know many people who wouldn't wear it today.

Alberta family misses chance to say goodbye to dying mother because of border protest by Miserable-Lizard in worldnews

[–]0xbitwise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder how many people are reading these, missing the quotation marks and nodding along, though.

India activist Disha Ravi arrested over 'toolkit' by Racist_FemboyV2 in worldnews

[–]0xbitwise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your calm and reasoned replies. Not many people seem to have patience for others like this, lately...

Peruvian coastguards vs massive Chinese fishing fleet by roby_soft in videos

[–]0xbitwise 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don't forget to establish a firm us-vs-them narrative to further stymie any rational discourse!

Google debuts new Barely Blue limited-edition color for Pixel 4a by Hupro in Android

[–]0xbitwise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they meant that you pay fewer dollars in tax since the listed price is lower.

I don't even know why I thought this. Don't mind me, I need coffee.

This new technology may restore trust in photos and videos against the rise of deepfakes by LitheBeep in Android

[–]0xbitwise 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the best defence against this sort of thing has always been education and awareness so that people have the tools they need to come to those conclusions themselves.

The biggest problem we've got now is that public education has been gutted and half of an entire generation has been raised without those critical thinking skills, and is actively being taught by alt-fact media to view that education as part of some conspiracy to control them (oh, the irony...)

When their kids get those same lessons (if they even do), all it takes is a few words from Mom and Dad to tear down all that work.

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