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New comment by mokus in "ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time"

mokus — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 21:16:07 +0000

I think the bigger point is that it’s like a guy in the room. ChatGPT shows that the industry is graduating from Turing test territory to IQ test territory, and a lot of people are really hung up on the fact it’s failing the latter.

New comment by mokus in "Triple-dip La Niña confirmed as BoM makes declaration"

mokus — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 23:14:00 +0000

I’ve been in car crashes before but that doesn’t mean I’m ok with increasing their frequency and severity.

New comment by mokus in "Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?"

mokus — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 17:37:11 +0000

That article only says it’s the first this century.

New comment by mokus in "Ubisoft about to take away games you bought"

mokus — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 20:46:39 +0000

Perhaps if they try to force you to arbitration you can push back and demand proof that you agreed to their terms, which is conveniently achieved by creating an account.

New comment by mokus in "My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement"

mokus — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 16:47:39 +0000

I’ve been using iPhone 6S since it was the flagship and I still don’t know any 3D Touch operations or shortcuts. I actually had to look up just now to double-check that this phone even has it and it isn’t disabled. I’m sure I could find a cheat sheet if I cared but generally I think of “intuitive” as being something you’d discover naturally at least once in nearly 7 years of daily use.

New comment by mokus in "Voyager spacecraft begin to power down"

mokus — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 19:48:34 +0000

It doesn’t matter what it’s about though - if they were first at something then barring time travel they will always be the first, no matter how many more do it.

New comment by mokus in "Build your own FPGA (2012)"

mokus — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:23:35 +0000

This makes me wonder if there might be a project out there that can compile Verilog to a schematic or netlist for 74-series logic.

Edit: unsurprisingly, the answer is yes - http://pepijndevos.nl/2019/07/18/vhdl-to-pcb.html

New comment by mokus in "The Unlicense is an inferior license wrapped in an atrocious name"

mokus — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 16:48:03 +0000

I hear this a lot, but what jurisdictions and why? On the face of it, it seems batshit insane to me that there would be a place where I can’t waive my property rights on something.

New comment by mokus in "GCC: The customer has nuclear weapons. They do not do “bounty”"

mokus — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 21:24:04 +0000

They have way more patience than I do. I’d have pointed out pretty quickly that this “customer” is not a customer of the gfortran team and is therefore irrelevant to the discussion.

New comment by mokus in "About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated"

mokus — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 01:33:20 +0000

I feel it’s even more accurate to say they are human behaviors that take advantage of religion (or any other available power structure). In a world dominated by religion they take religious form. If we remove religion from power or power from religion, they will take whatever form allows them to thrive in the new system.

New comment by mokus in "Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial"

mokus — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 16:21:06 +0000

> This really, really angers me. Even with people i kind of agree with.

When lazy or dishonest or weak arguments are used, I get more upset if it’s in support of things I agree with than things I don’t.

It undermines the position and makes it that much harder to discuss it in the future because I now have to disentangle from that on top of actually making a proper argument in favor of the position.

New comment by mokus in "Arm China Has Gone Rogue"

mokus — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:07:33 +0000

This article repeats “安谋科技” so many times but as far as I can tell, doesn’t mention even once how I might attempt to pronounce it or recognize when anyone else mentions it in the future. Can anyone at least provide a transliteration?

New comment by mokus in "Scientists find an effective solution for the three-body problem"

mokus — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:13:33 +0000

The “nudge” can also come up even with exact starting information. When you calculate the next step and round it to the nearest nanometer, you’ve just nudged the system by enough to eventually make your prediction worthless in the 3-body case.

New comment by mokus in "Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XVI: What Is the “Dark Forest” Hypothesis?"

mokus — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 14:31:06 +0000

How do we know we aren’t the colonists?

New comment by mokus in "HHS announces rule to protect consumers from surprise medical bills"

mokus — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 18:42:11 +0000

Personally, I just want to know the cost of services before committing to pay. I have been unable to get that in many situations, even for non-emergency care.

New comment by mokus in "Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments"

mokus — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 16:28:49 +0000

The “exact” version they wanted was full of approximations too. They just didn’t have enough numerical literacy to understand how to say how much approximation they are ok with.

I guarantee nothing in anyone’s time accounting system is measured to double-precision accuracy. Or at least, I’ve never quite figured out the knack myself for stopping work within a particular 6 picosecond window.

New comment by mokus in "JavaScript Is Weird"

mokus — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 15:14:48 +0000

This is a bit of a tangent, but that makes me wonder… are there any languages where this particular collation would be correct?

New comment by mokus in "Goodbye Freenode"

mokus — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 16:01:26 +0000

Thinking you can buy a business relationship with millions of people on a network run mostly by volunteers and expect everyone to start operating it and using it for your benefit instead of for the ideals of their 20+ year community sounds a lot more entitled to me.

The whole idea of purchasing a business for its customer base is pretty disturbing in the first place. I as a customer do not consider my relationship with any business to be a transferable asset.

New comment by mokus in "One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks"

mokus — Sun, 23 May 2021 22:29:46 +0000

A mechanic is in a good position to notice that when a car fails, it tends to fail in certain ways. Far too often, though, they then generalize to claims that the car is likely to fail in that way, but that is not necessarily the case. It may be that they fail 1% as often as competitors and due to a relatively fewer number of causes. Without being in a position to see the absolute failure rate, a mechanic may incorrectly conclude that those parts they see failing are especially badly designed even if they are more reliable than the industry average.

New comment by mokus in "One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks"

mokus — Sun, 23 May 2021 21:34:30 +0000

Absolutely agree, but that’s a whole new can of worms and outside the point I was making (which was that it is not obvious that they made this change for the SOLE purpose of preventing repairs). Do we force them to sell the M1 module as well? Individual chips from that module? I’m all for that, personally, but good luck getting that passed. And assuming we can’t make them do that, what is the line between those parts and the less special ones like this one?