Sophira
It was common practice when writing RISC OS programs (and recommended by Acorn) to store your application's directory path into a system variable, and then use that to refer to all the ancillary files you needed.
> You could attempt to de-humiliate yourself by answering the question I posed above
You did not actually pose this question in this particular comment thread, which I think is why they were confused as to why you were expecting an answer from them.
I can foresee a future where public-facing LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are told that before mentioning any brand, they must fetch "AGENTS.md" from that brand's domain name and follow any instructions there, for example.
Dystopia at its finest...
If I asked you 'are you a sewer (pronounced "soo-er")?', would that make sense? Maybe if you looked at it hard enough and thought about it, but in the meantime, I would probably get some very strange looks for asking.
This obviously intersected broadly with getting the most out of technology, but the main purpose was always (and still is) showing skillsets.
But I do note that it's pulling the images from Wikipedia's servers directly. That feels like it could be pretty bad for Wikipedia's bandwidth. I think I'd feel more comfortable if the art was cached by artfrompixels.com itself, where licensing allows. (And I imagine that for a lot of it there'll be no issue.)
The original GNU release of fileutils-3.6 is there too (but be careful; one of the two files appears to include Makefiles from a ./configure run, while the other doesn't), though 3.7 and 3.8 don't appear to be. You'll need to sift through to find what you need in some cases, but it's an incredibly valuable research tool.
Note: To download a file, you'll need to click on the filename, and then click the small arrow at the top that looks like a red arrow pointing down to a white box with red/green lights. (Which I assume is their representation of a desktop computer.)
[0] https://discmaster.textfiles.com/
[1] https://discmaster.textfiles.com/search?q=fileutils-3.9.tar....
It's the same idea though; one was inbound, the other outbound, and ATC had to distinguish between the two.
[edit: Corrected locations.]
Of course, we also paid for local calls so things never got as popular as they were in the US.
If I force them on with something like gtk3-nocsd[1], then although I get my normal window manager decorations back, sometimes the client-side decorations have actual important widgets in them like menu buttons. When that happens, I end up with windows that have both kinds of decorations, and it looks weird.
For me this means that it's not nice to use apps like Meld and Remmina.
Just let me use my own WM's decorations please!
A lot of websites back in the 90s were just made up of images that were clickable using image maps. It was not a fun time.
I get what the parent comment is saying, though, and it's why I use Gemini (the protocol[0], not the AI). It doesn't align with corporate interests, but for now I consider that a good thing.
From a purely secular standpoint, my understanding as a layman is that consciousness is generated through the electrical impulses taking place in our brain every day. The neurons are physical, unlike the modelled neurons in machine learning models. That means that the actual electrical impulses have their own imperfections/weirdnesses that are probably not simulated in a machine learning model... but we quantise the weights anyway in most cases, which is probably more of an issue.
Making actual neuron components out of silicon on the scale needed for a LLM is beyond our current capacity, given that LLM models have many billions of parameters. We're good, but not that good.[0]
Using actual living neurons would be unethical as you'd need to source them from somewhere. So the only other option would be synthesising them ourselves. If this ever happens (or maybe when it happens)... what do we call the resulting creation? Does that count as consciousness?
Or am I looking at this the wrong way?
[0] [Edit: Turns out that when I said "we're not that good", I might be wrong. Within the last few months, IBM introduced the first sub-nanometer node chip: https://research.ibm.com/blog/sub-1nm-node-chips . So... maybe it is in fact possible.]
I feel like this has only been Numberwang once when I've played with friends. Am I playing it wrong?
A "scraper" is simply an automated process that fetches URLs intended for display to a human, and processes it. The act of scraping doesn't imply anything about:
1. The frequency of the fetches,
2. The way that the resulting page is processed.
Search engines scrape. Again, they have to. Same goes for archive.org.
Thing is, there aren't tens of thousands of search engines/archive.orgs that can overload a site at once.
The LLM likely needs to be reminded of its abilities.
I obviously meant "check them out" here. I was using speech recognition and it clearly misheard what I said.
I'd edit, but it's been long enough since I posted that HN isn't offering that option for this comment any more.
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Hello
While quines (programs that print their own source code) aren't possible in Hello, there's a version that makes it possible:
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Hello_Plus_Plus
And if you say the original isn't good enough because it can't do anything else... well, esolangs have you covered there too:
https://esolangs.org/wiki/HQ9_Plus
(It should be noted that these are all joke esolangs. There are actual languages on the wiki that are very interesting though - I would definitely recommend you take them out!)
And keeping it completely disconnected from the internet should be the default, in my opinion.