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Re:GPT-5.2 on Friday December 12, 2025 @06:44AM (#46243213)
How do you know the confidence scores are not hallucinated as well?
According to Google Maps "measure distance" tool it's ~630 miles, or ~1000 km. I am very surprised it was felt so strongly at such a distance.
Re:The Tiniest of Impact Craters on Sunday October 20, 2024 @01:21PM (#41896937)
Mare Tranquillitatis pit solves these problems. And there are likely many more caves that haven't been discovered yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Tranquillitatis_pit

Re:JavaScript Structs on Friday October 11, 2024 @06:21AM (#41808130)
> Microsoft has a large team dedicated towards improving these languages constantly

… and the people working on these projects need to deliver, else their performance review won’t be good, and their financial rewards (merit increase, bonus, refresher) will be low. And here we are.

Edit: I realize I’m repeating what you said too, but I wanted to make it more clear what’s going on.

Well, they do tell you in the UI that chats are stored for 30 days even when you disable history. And then there's a link to this:

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7730893-data-controls-fa...

I see a lot of complaints regarding ChatGPT 4's performance in coding tasks. My hypothesis is that Microsoft wants to launch Copilot X based on GPT-4 [0], and they can't have OpenAI's ChatGPT 4 as a strong competitor.

[0]: https://github.com/features/preview/copilot-x

Re:What to Do About Aggressive Moose on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @04:24AM (#36135875)
How did the encounter go? Don’t leave us hanging here!
Out of curiosity, where are you from?

FWIW, I agree with you, although I experienced the medical system only as a patient / outsider. I live in a former communist country in Eastern Europe.

Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:47PM (#35992374)
How can you create a US account? Don't they ask for a credit/debit card and/or phone number?
> I'm sure it's because the number of people on 5G is drastically lower than the number of people on 4G/LTE.

5G has increased capacity over 4G, so even if all 4G users would switch to 5G, you will still have better service.

As I understand, OpenAI started as a non-profit entity and has taken on large donations. Then, the for-profit entity has been created and is using the technology developed by the non-profit entity, which was developed presumably by using the donated funds. So, maybe it's not about altruism at all, but instead Sam Altman is just protecting himself against potential lawsuits from the donors? There was probably some agreement on how the technology will be used.

Elon Musk has donated $100M USD, and does not look happy about the developments, based on his tweets.

Re:Little Snitch Mini on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:28AM (#35276327)
Not disagreeing with you here, but buying full licenses adds up too. And you will likely have to buy "upgrade" licenses when new versions are released.

That being said, I do like the license model that JetBrains uses for their products: if you pay for the subscription for more than 12mo, when you stop, you get to keep a perpetual license for the latest version that was released during the last 12 months of paid subscription (I hope I got it right).

Too many people make the mistake of thinking there’s an infinite number of sinks to get under.
> AI won't take plumber or electrician jobs away in the foreseeable future.

I see this argument way too often. How many electricians and plumbers does the world really need? And if the market becomes over saturated, how much will those jobs pay? How often will you actually have a job to do?

Re:Building a Better World Without Jobs – 20M Video on Thursday March 02, 2023 @07:29AM (#34994866)
Why do you think robots would not be able to do those tasks?
Re:30k lines of SwiftUI in production later on Saturday January 28, 2023 @10:08AM (#34558117)
> What's wrong with Xcode?

I still have no idea how I can quickly switch back and forth between open files. Either the feature is entirely missing, or completely unintuitive to discover and/or use.

For the record, I am writing this message in 2023.

From my experience, you get them with your first salary.
I remember the time when it was "reading books on something without paper and ink is goofy in the first place". :)

I gave up on e-ink readers a few years ago and donated a couple of them. I am reading books in eletronic format on iPhones. It's just more practical, I don't need to carry a second and usually larger device with me, and ... I don't need an external light when it's too dark to read. Plus, the newer iPhones with OLED displays are pretty good for reading.

Tap on the screen, somewhere close to the vertical center line to avoid triggering a page change.
Re:Paul Le Roux is Satoshi? on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:31PM (#33977054)
It’s worth sharing the entire paragraph:

On 12 June 2020, Le Roux was sentenced to 25 years in prison. According to the presiding judge, Ronnie Abrams, "the scope and severity of Mr. Le Roux's criminal conduct is nothing short of breathtaking. I have before me a man who has engaged in conduct in keeping with the villain in a James Bond movie." However, she also added that the sentence reflected Le Roux's cooperation and the danger he faced.

Re:Paul Le Roux is Satoshi? on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:22PM (#33976905)
In case you wonder who Paul Le Roux is, here’s the Wikipedia page [0] and what I believe is the original investigation by Evan Ratliff [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux

[1]: https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind/

Re:Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @02:49PM (#33441014)
Proton Bridge has a local cache, which can be disabled. I do wonder if doing so would fix this problem.
Re:Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @01:59PM (#33440230)
> It's is really annoying I have to use a bridge at all to be honest.

That is literally the selling point of ProtonMail: the email is encrypted in storage on their servers (they don't have access to it), and thus you have to decrypt it locally on your machine, and the Bridge does that for you, because your email client does not know how to handle the encrypted content otherwise.

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