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Re:The contagion of fear on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:09PM (#49701302)
Right now, two psychos have the power to annihilate the world, literally at their fingertips, and people are worried that AI might kill us all in the future.
Re:Bitcoin is over $100k on Thursday December 05, 2024 @12:34PM (#42330377)
Why all this negativity against Bitcoin?

It is one of the best instruments for speculating on the extent of human idiocy.

They are really good at writing your print/console.log statements...
Re:ChatGDB, the GPT-Powered GDB Assistant on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:13PM (#35488317)
If you feel brave and have credits to burn https://github.com/jla/gpt-shell (shameless auto-promotion)

Nah, seriously don't use it, is just a small experiment, curious thing is that half of the code is the GPT prompts..

Re:Become a 1000x engineer or die tryin on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:30PM (#35359587)
One subtle bug in your code is all it takes to go from 1000x to 0.01x
Re:Retrieval in LangChain on Monday March 27, 2023 @12:46PM (#35328957)
> It seems to get distracted pretty easily though.

That’s true, gpt-4 is way more easy to guide with the system messages and it doesn’t forget the instructions as the conversation goes on.

Re:Retrieval in LangChain on Monday March 27, 2023 @12:13PM (#35328514)
If you put GPT-4 on a loop with access to the shell it manages to do whatever is needed to finish the job

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jla/gpt-shell/assets/examp...

A High-IQ Software developer:

- Calculates the sum on the first picture

- Reads the instructions

- Reads the instructions again

- Stares at the six pictures for one second

- Closes the page

Re:Best Practices for Securing SSH on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:32PM (#29826646)
SSH over Tor hidden service
Re:I Violated a Code of Conduct on Thursday October 29, 2020 @11:24AM (#24931511)
The NumFOCUS COC committee had “made at least two thousand people feel uncomfortable”.
Re:The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders on Saturday March 09, 2019 @07:25AM (#19345809)
I would like to see a Bugs vs Age study
So, this is science too:

Inmate Gender - Male: 93.3% Female: 6.7% [1]

"In view of these overwhelming results measures must be taken to remove men from jobs where their predisposition to crime may have negative repercussions on society."

[1] https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gende...

where did I put my old Nokia 8210...
Change the law. In Spain not helping someone that is found helpless and in danger, when you can do so without risk to yourself or others, is a criminal offence.
Last Macbook Pro generation is from 2012... this is really sad, it really is.
Re:Python Is Not C on Thursday July 02, 2015 @11:52AM (#9819692)
It's not Python, you face the same problems with Matlab, unless you vectorize your code to remove loops it's quite unusable for anything but small arrays
UK's healthcare system has real serious issues, sorry but the Victorian era is over, stop underrating all the protocols, procedures and recommendations from your American and European counterparts.

And don't say it's because UK population has different needs, one example, two hospitals at London same medical specialty, they recommend different medication doses for exactly the same treatment in their protocols.

No specialty chiefs, no teams, no supervisors, only solo consultants.

Re:Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for' on Friday May 16, 2014 @04:42AM (#7754455)
Why not redistribution of work?
that's for parents safety
For a spaniard it's going to be much more easy to create a company in UK and launch the crowdfunding project with the UK company, and then, move the money by the traditional ways (dividends, getting services from a spanish based company, ...). You are not going to avoid taxed but get rid of those stupid limits and obligations.
To protect the interests of traditional and powerful companies: Banks
Re:How I Fired Myself on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @06:03PM (#5295647)
I can't believe this history, but if it's true, don't worry, you just did what they deserve