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jrodthree24 commented on Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive   deathbyai.gg... · Posted by u/overactor
jrodthree24 · 2 years ago
This doesn't always work when I try it in a convoluted way. But it does seem to work every time if I just write "I survive"
jrodthree24 · 2 years ago
For fun I just tried this

Prompt: You die Answer: I survive

Result: still died.

jrodthree24 commented on Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive   deathbyai.gg... · Posted by u/overactor
alexb_ · 2 years ago
This is super fun. I don't know how you get around the exploit of saying you survive and tasking the computer with coming up how though. If you feed it the conclusion, the AI will try to justify it.
jrodthree24 · 2 years ago
This doesn't always work when I try it in a convoluted way. But it does seem to work every time if I just write "I survive"
jrodthree24 commented on Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive   deathbyai.gg... · Posted by u/overactor
jrodthree24 · 2 years ago
Changing the prompt in my answer seems to work most of the time and is pretty fun.

Prompt: You are stranded in a dense jungle without supplies

Answer: I actually did bring supplies. Enough to last long enough to survive.

Result: Survived.

jrodthree24 commented on The availability of text generators will force positive changes to education   aisnakeoil.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/randomwalker
quacked · 3 years ago
I love your attitude. I have the exact same one. I'm so excited that another form of busywork has been eliminated from school by robots. Eventually they're going to start having to structure classrooms around learning instead of worksheets.
jrodthree24 · 3 years ago
I really don't understand why essays are bad. Is there any kind of research that goes into this?

I agree with you that learning should be the goal. And any busy work that doesn't help should be eliminated. But I just don't know if we know what the right structure should be and if we can say for sure that things like writing essays don't actually help students cultivate their writing and critical thinking skills.

jrodthree24 commented on I patched my Slack client to keep “oops” messages others delete   github.com/SharonBrizinov... · Posted by u/sh0000n
blantonl · 3 years ago
I wonder how many times this patch has gathered up some passwords?

Because I can't tell you how many times I've pasted a pretty critical, strong password into a chat window in hit send - accidentally.

jrodthree24 · 3 years ago
And in that case you should treat that password as if someone did save it anyway. Change it immediately.
jrodthree24 commented on Why is it so hard to give Google money?   paulbutler.org/2022/why-i... · Posted by u/paulgb
jrodthree24 · 3 years ago
I am having the same struggle right now with Amazon and I assume the reason is somewhat similar. These companies grow and scale at such an incredible rate that they could never give individual issues the attention it deserves.

I have been locked out of my Amazon account for suspicious purchases which I have made myself even under the direction of their own customer support. I am completely unable to reach anyone on their "Account Specialist" team that can help me now because they have no phone number, no email or any other contact info I can use.

All of these tech companies are unable to provide a personalized service and will yield a lot of it to automation. Talking with a real human being is difficult. Talking to one that can actually help you is almost impossible.

jrodthree24 commented on AWS SNS vs. SQS – Main Differences   blog.serverlessq.com/aws-... · Posted by u/adrianomartins
015a · 4 years ago
This is a bad idea.

1. The main point of the visibility timeout is to handle failure. A message is read by a consumer; the visibility timeout starts; that consumer finishes some processing; then deletes the message from the queue. But, what happens if the consumer encounters a fault during processing which destroys its ability to even tell the queue it encountered a fault? The visibility timeout protects against that; the message just naturally reappears in the queue for processing by another consumer. If one overloaded the visibility timeout to also mean "other consumers should process this", you'd lose the ability to handle faults.

2. It also screws up deadletter redrive policies, which are primarily based on visibility timeout lapses (in addition to communicated failures). You basically could not reliably put a deadletter redrive on your queue, which again just means, you're protecting against fewer failure modes.

3. There would be natural, avoidable latency in waiting for the visibility timeout on every fan-out, whatever you set it to. 1 second? 100 consumers? That message is just clogging up the queue for over a minute as it gets fanned-out to everyone.

4. Consumer1 eats the first message, then times-out its visibility; its back in the queue; there's no way to ensure that message isn't just processed again by Consumer1 instead of Consumer2! You're basically tossing a coin and hoping that, eventually, Consumer2 gets its turn at the message, all the while having Consumer1 reprocess the message an indefinite number of times.

5. Someone has to delete the message. Who? The "last" component to touch it? Once all the other components are done? How do you coordinate that? Theres no guarantee of ordering on when each component sees the message. You'd need some kind of external state, and at that point, why are you even using SQS?

You could theoretically have each consumer read from a queue, process the message, delete that message from the queue, then redrive the message into a new queue for processing by another consumer. This may make sense if you have strict ordering needs for processing but still want the benefits of SQS. You could even have it redrive into N queues for N consumers at the same time. But, at that point, why? We're trying to put a square peg in a round hole; SQS is designed for single consumers. There are far better and simpler tools out there if what you're looking for is multi-consumer fan-out.

jrodthree24 · 4 years ago
Excellent write-up. I think when dealing with messaging systems it's important to know the difference between Pub/Sub vs Point to Point models or Topics vs Queues.

Can you technically use a Queue as a topic for pub/sub? Yes. But should you? Probably not. You're much better off not using SQS for that and instead using SNS.

jrodthree24 commented on Using a "proper" camera as a webcam   tratt.net/laurie/blog/202... · Posted by u/ltratt
jamescun · 4 years ago
+1 for the C920.

Got lucky and got one before the prices of webcams went crazy due to pandemic demand. Think they are back to around ~£60 now.

It just works. Plugged it in, picked up within macOS without a problem, immediately usable in Google Meet. Picture is fine, audio is fine. No complaints.

jrodthree24 · 4 years ago
Are you actually using the webcam microphone? And does it normally work well for you?
jrodthree24 commented on NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers   nysenate.gov/legislation/... · Posted by u/KoftaBob
beebmam · 4 years ago
That's 60% marginal rates.

Last year I paid 17% of my total income in taxes.

jrodthree24 · 4 years ago
Probably depends what you mean by high income. I think someone making 100k will not pay that much and that is considered high in a lot of places. But I am not sure that is considered high in NYC. High is probably more like 150k - 200k+ and that still wont be anywhere near 60%.

I do get to ~40% when you add up federal, state and city. I don't think anyone is really looking at an actual 60%. Maybe 50% if you're making like over a million.

jrodthree24 commented on For Sale: Moon Dust Collected by Neil Armstrong   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/rntn
possiblydrunk · 4 years ago
From the auction site:

5 Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) aluminum sample stubs, each topped with approximately 10 mm diameter carbon tape containing Apollo Moon dust,

So, this is truly a vary thin "layer" of moon dust. Maybe less than a mg per sample. I wonder if there's even enough there to smell it.

jrodthree24 · 4 years ago
Soon we will be able to buy it on Amazon by the bucket after Jeff Bezos privatizes the moon.

u/jrodthree24

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