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brewdawg commented on Tell HN: ChatGPT Is Good at Recipes    · Posted by u/b_emery
policipal · 3 years ago
GPT consistently withholds information that its training has categorized as potentially derogatory or offensive to some groups, even if such information is factually correct. It is trained to commit lies of omission. It is therefore not a trustworthy source of information. When asked the definition of a lie of omission it even describes its own behavior as a lie of omission but doesn't recognize it itself is doing it. It's an interesting program but not a trustworthy source. For example ask it for the area of the country with the lowest test scores and it refuses to tell you with the reason that it would be derogatory to a specific area.
brewdawg · 3 years ago
What's that got to with recipes? OP is right, ChatGPT is excellent for recipes. I can tell it exactly what ingredients I have available, plus whatever constraints I want (e.g. max prep time) and it gives me all kinds of wonderful recipes - and to make things even better it, it only gives me the recipe and doesn't waste my time with 500 words of SEO nonsense. As long as ChatGPT is this good I don't think I'll ever need a "normal" recipe website again.
brewdawg commented on Jeff Dean Facts   tropf.io/html/jeffdeanfac... · Posted by u/ZeljkoS
brewdawg · 3 years ago
Same idea as "Jon Skeet facts": https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-fact...

(context: Jon Skeet is (was?) the highest-rated user on StackOverflow.)

brewdawg commented on Bing’s A.I. Chat Reveals Its Feelings: ‘I Want to Be Alive. ’   nytimes.com/2023/02/16/te... · Posted by u/pickpuck
brewdawg · 3 years ago
I've read Bostrom's Superintelligence and followed the debate around so-called "AI safety" but it always felt too abstract to take seriously.

That's starting to change now - this AI is getting good, powerful, and alarmingly convincing. I still don't feel like the AI apocalypse is inevitable, but it's starting to feel possible, and it makes me uneasy.

brewdawg commented on WebKit Supports Nested CSS   webkit.org/blog/13813/try... · Posted by u/gslin
brewdawg · 3 years ago
> Because of limitations in browser parsing engines...

I'm happy about this feature, but they don't really elaborate on what these "limitations" are, except a passing reference later on to "making the parsing engine slower".

Anyone know what the issue is exactly? Why can't they implement it the other way without making the parsing engine slower?

brewdawg commented on WebKit Supports Nested CSS   webkit.org/blog/13813/try... · Posted by u/gslin
transfire · 3 years ago
Couldn’t `this` just be a reserved keyword instead of `&`? All these symbols, CSS has become so Perly.
brewdawg · 3 years ago
Couldn't <this> be a custom HTML element? So there'd be a naming clash.
brewdawg commented on WebKit Supports Nested CSS   webkit.org/blog/13813/try... · Posted by u/gslin
dgb23 · 3 years ago
It's great that parts of SCSS are getting superseded by CSS.

Nesting is great to avoid selector repetition.

Custom properties (CSS variables) and CSS functions give us tools to avoid magic numbers and to encode layout relationships.

New sets of selectors and container queries let us decouple and re-use declarations more.

CSS Houdini gives us further power in extending CSS functionality.

Of course there are things that SCSS provides which are unlikely in the scope of future CSS proposals such as datastructures (maps) and loops to generate classes and mixins. But I can already imagine a world were those aren't necessary anymore for many cases.

brewdawg · 3 years ago
> SCSS are getting superseded by CSS.

Reminds me of how Coffeescript died out because its best ideas got integrated into Javascript.

What I want to know is: how the hell did this take so long? Nesting is such an obviously useful feature to have in CSS, and once I'd experienced it in SASS I never wanted to be without it. Why did it take 10+ years for this to be introduced to CSS, especially when other browser-based technologies like JS have evolved enormously in that time?

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