I've largely dismissed the strain of AI alarmism based on the notion the a computer will be so smart that the danger it poses to humanity is outsmarting us.
There are real dangers in AI, most of them relate to people using these technologies in improper ways due to having a poor understanding of what they really are... and most important the exploitation & degradation of the human body of knowledge creativity represented by publicly available digital information. 1/
@futurebird i think the idea is simple to the point of being naive indeed, if we are smart enough to build something smarter than us, then this thing is, by definition, also smart enough to build something smarter than itself. Perfectly logical, but assumes a very unidimensional understanding of intelligence, and the total ignorance of the possibility of different kind of limits.
What an Oxide and Friends last night! @bcantrill and I were joined by the one and only @AndresFreundTec to talk about his discovery of the xz backdoor. It’s an incredible story… so great to get into the details with Andres. Definitely check it out (or on the pod tomorrow).
@BlackAzizAnansi I keep in mind that large groups of people, some of them very smart, are paid significant amounts of money to work on it full time, and we are bombarded with info to be critical about all the time, so it's absolutely not a fair fight, I fell for it before, and I will fall for it again, though I try not to, of course.
This German guy (60+ yo) apparently took as many covid vaccines as the system let him, which is a lot, 200+ over 2 years, commonly taking multiple shot a day, for many consecutive days. Certainly a lot more than could possibly be useful, but at least, that’s a nice datapoint about the safety of the vaccine. Apparenlty no adverse effect, though hard to state if there is any benefit over a more normal regimen.
I've seen people complaining about massive spam for the last couple days, and i have no idea what they are talking about, so i guess a shout out to our admin @trumpet is in order, thanks for the great work!
@BlackAzizAnansi "it's not based on your performance at all", might feel like a nice thing to say on the moment, and might be the actual truth, but surely if she worked her butt off for this job, learning it didn't make the slightest difference when company reassessed its "strategy" will certainly have an impact on her strategy about investing her energy into her next role… fool me once…
Them - it's a virus, every time it changes to a new variant it gets weaker
Me - percent of deaths have not changed and maybe a slight increase, and it's getting more infectious, along with combining covid and influenza together as one
@melissabeartrix the myth that a virus automatically becomes weaker as it mutates is what really has to die out.
It can absolutely get worse, it helps infectiousness if it doesn't kill you fast but if it only kills you after you contaminated many people, it's absolutely not going to be selected out & things that make it spread more can absolutely make it more lethal & considering it's current lethality, it can absolutely become more lethal without hampering its spread.
Uh, i was expecting something significantly harder than that after the last few days, especially step2, it's certainly the least change i had to do so far to any naive step 1 implementation…
So i was happy enough with #rust for #AdventOfCode up to now, even as a beginner, but damn, not only i didn't really expect to be able to build code that stackoverflows, (did i misunderstood what rust promised me?), but debugging that is, as far as i can tell, a very bad experience, i got lucky once fixing my first mistake, but the current one is not obvious, so i'm installing lldb as i read it's one way to go about it, but not very on par with the rest of the (very good) experience so far.
Learned threading in #rust because my solution to today's #AdventOfCode was just too slow without it, i mean, it would have completed in maybe 30 more minutes, considering the progress i could see in the logs, but that was enough time for me to switch to thread, though in a very hacky way, duplicating some data rather than learning how to share it in a way that makes rust happy, but it seems to be working, hopefully should complete in a few minutes now.
But wow, what an insane amount of seeds. 😅
Ok, realized I was already a day late for #AdventOfCode that i wanted to do in #rust this year, to finally get some practice at it.
It's probably not the most beautiful rust code, but i didn't use chatgpt, only the compiler output and the documentation, and it is quite pleasing. Although there are still things that seem very pedestrian compared to Python, but it might be because i've a lot more experience with the latter, and don't know the nice tricks with Rust yet.
Will see how it goes.
Hm, dose booster bivalente covid vendredi, et là je suis complètement HS, avec une légère toux, pas d'énergie pour sortir acheter un test, du coup je spécule, covid ou effet du vaccin bien plus violent que par le passé? (c'est ma cinquième dose, la précédente datait d'un an). la toux me fait douter, mais peut être que c'est possible…
Je sais pas si je suis le seul à être choqué, quand, une fois tous les 5 ans environ, je visite amazon sur un téléphone, d’à quel point c’est inutilisable… tant pour les moyens dont dispose amazon, que leur parts de marché monstrueuses, et l’importance du mobile de nos jours pour les achats en particulier, je trouve ça juste hallucinant.
J’ai pas installé d’app amazon, mais la dernière fois que j’en ai eu une (y’a quelques années) c’était vraiment une sale intégration du site web, il me semble.
Me: "hm, there is no curl or wget in this image, and i’m not root, what can i use to download a binary, oh there is /bin/perl, surely downloading something with that should be possible"
exists, but it provides only some basic actions. I was wondering if you could map the mouse to allow moving split window panes around - something which is painful to do by keyboard. Do you know of something like this?
@scy@ashwinvis@vim@neovim in my experience this works for resizing but not moving windows/panels around.
My solution to that is keyboard driven, but it's a plugin i wrote which allows swapping the currently focused window with a different one, by typing its letter.
I only tested it on vim, not neovim, but if it's possible to make it neovim compatible, i do welcome patches.
