It wasn't until I used TikTok that I understood why it's so scary. Just based on how you interact with the app: how long you watch, what you like, how fast you're scrolling, etc. it starts to show you videos that are eerily related to what's going on in your life and what you're thinking. You don't even have to search for topics. You just start getting videos that seem to be reading your mind. The idea that they can tell what huge swathes of the population are thinking and feeling is scary. I think that's got to be a huge reason they want it under their control: it's sort of a mind-reading app.
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I live in a major city. I'm torn on this as I think it's probably better than most human drivers. Didn't one of them drive down the sidewalk, though?
muttled commented on What is a pig butchering scam? (2023) wired.com/story/what-is-p... · Posted by u/baud147258
I like to string scammers along for fun, if I have spare time.
These "pig butchering" scams provide hilarious possibilities.
They like to send their photo pretty early (always an attractive Asian lady), so I try and beat them to the punch and send my own photo (of course, also a photo of an Asian lady). Curiously, this doesn't deter them! My wife finds this particularly hilarious.
One time, I had 2 people randomly texting me at the same time, using the same name - Jenny. I started sending them screenshots of each other's conversations, which kind of annoyed them. "Which Jenny is this? Do you know the other Jenny?" lol
A list of things which also doesn't seem to deter them or make them think they might be being toyed with:
- Claiming to work for the FBI (in an anti-scammer unit)
- Being homeless
- Claiming to be Peter Frampton
- Claiming to be Bill Clinton
I'd be surprised, given the technical savviness and polish of these scams, if they weren't using LLM's that are scripted such that the bot isn't "aware" it's a scam.
muttled commented on Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs theregister.com/2024/03/1... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
Your “partly because” is way too dismissive. Low carb diets work because they radically change your perception of satiation.
This article is aimed towards people building muscle which is very obviously very hard to do with a low carb diet, and is not actually descriptive of most people doing low carb diets (who are generally on such a diet to lose weight).
I've tried to do heavy workouts on low-carb. Like you said, it's very effective for weight-loss. But there were a lot of thousand-yard-stares I gave, trying to get the motivation to pick up the heavy weights.
This is excessively cynical. Different diets work for different people. Diet is such a complex mixture of culture, social environment, work environment, personal values, the personal values of people around you, your surrounding physical infrastructure, your own psychology and finally your biology.
The answer to “what diet” is “keep trying them until you find one that works, then stick with it.” There is an infinite number of totally functional combinations.
I can personally attest to low-carb. I lost 40 pounds in two years. It wasn't easy. No diet is. Everyone told me I'd gain it right back and gave me visceral reactions when I told them how I did it and how it's been years now since I've switched back to a sensibly balanced diet to maintain it.
I don't think people want that particular diet to work. Granted, it's got its downsides. And you can do it in a very unhealthy way. But being 40 pounds overweight was probably worse than intermittent lower-carb with healthy(er) options like chicken caesar salads, stuffed peppers made with turkey, or tuna salad on celery. It just let me eat less calories without as much hunger.
Ok I have to recalibrate my concept of a 'gifted programmer'. I thought it meant more than simply 'successful open source coder'.
I've tried to change kernel code that guy wrote. It's awful, with a capital A. Not a scrap of design notes or comments or procedure description, nothing. Unorganized modules with no pattern or sense.
My favorite: the variable name 'page' used in five different senses in the same module. For a page directory, a page table, an entry in a page table, an actual page of memory. Plus some indirections to the same, not distinguished in any way. May as well have used variable names i,j,k for all the help that was.
Never learned any kind of abstractions, spent half a lifetime denigrating all advances in programming since 'C'.
No, on second thought I'm not going to rethink my definition of 'gifted programmer'.
That would all track with the linked piece. He basically says "you're smart, and you're relying on that instead of taking the time to learn a way to do it that works best when the code has to be shared."
I think that's what he means by "gifted". Innate ability that can propel you through personal greenfield projects, but hits a wall when you're not the only cook in the kitchen.
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muttled commented on An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs textmine.com/post/an-intr... · Posted by u/legislate
You don't need "support" for scrolling. It is supported by the browser, out of the box. The website hijacks scrolling with JS by introducing "smooth" scroll, which is a big no from the UX perspective.
What they think is "smooth" then feels like "my finger is wet and the screen isn't properly reading swipes" on a phone.