[-] bric@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Separation of church and state is always a good thing, I'm not arguing against that, but this feels like a whole different level. If anything, this is the state taking an active role in changing the rules of the church. That's not separation, that's state sponsored atheism

[-] bric@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Innocent until proven guilty still matters though, even when it seems like the justice system moves at a snail's pace. His actions are coming down on him, and I think he'll be behind bars before the election, but until then there's no legal basis to block him from anything

[-] bric@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

They're saying that someone that makes $250,000 today lives the lifestyle that would have been considered middle class 20 years ago, not that that salary is at all a median

[-] bric@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they all download files in a proprietary format so you can only watch using their app, it's not just a .mp4 that you can use whenever

[-] bric@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Being an actor requires pointing guns at people, it's just part of the job. You can't apply gun safety to things that are supposed to be harmless props. That's why it really isn't his fault for pointing a prop at someone and pulling the trigger, it's the fault of the armouror for handing him something that wasn't a prop.

Granted, he hired an under qualified armouror, didn't take safety seriously, and allowed the stage gyns to be used with real ammo, and that's all on Alex the producer from a civil liability standpoint. But it's not a slight against Alex the actor

[-] bric@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The problem is that these things never hit a point of competition with humans, they're either worse than us, or they blow way past us. Humans might drive better than a computer right now, but as soon as the computer is better than us it will always be better than us. People doubted that computers would ever beat the best humans at chess, or go, but within a lifetime of computers being invented they blew past us in both. Now they can write articles and paint pictures, sure we're better at it for now, but they're a million times faster than us, and they're making massive improvements month over month. you and I can disagree on how long it'll take for them to pass us, but once they do they'll replace us completely, and the world will never be the same.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Yep! Pi might be a "Normal" irrational number, which is a really poorly named classification that basically means that the "random" arrangement of numbers in pi isn't weighted and so you'll end up with 1 in 10 digits being 1, and that that will be true for all bases. We're kind of at a point where we think Pi is "normal", but we can't prove it.

If it is "normal" though, then that means that you could find any arbitrary sequence of numbers inside of pi, somewhere. Meaning that in base 128, pi would contain the ascii sequence for every book ever written, every book that ever will be written, every book that could be written, the accurate date of your death, and anything else you could ever imagine. Again, that's not proven, but we think it's the case

[-] bric@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

The part they're misremembering is that if you used 39 digits of pi as pi (not 45), it would be enough to calculate the circumference of the observable universe with a forward error of less than the width of a hydrogen atom (not the distance between 3)

[-] bric@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

This. There an infinite number of ideologies that you could have, but our first past the post voting system (in the US) only allows for two candidates, so an infinite spectrum gets funneled into two camps.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

This. It is able to tap in to plugins and call functions though, which is what it really should be doing. For math, the Wolfram alpha plugin will always be more capable than chatGPT alone, so we should be benchmarking how often it can correctly reformat your query, call Wolfram alpha, and correctly format the result, not whether the statistical model behind chatGPT happens to use predict the right token

[-] bric@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

It's a really cool technology, but the main problem is that letting people around the world inspect and verify just isn't needed in most use cases. It does a great job at removing the central source of truth, but rarely does anyone explain what the problem with a central source of truth was. Especially when you're talking about a company setting, startups don't want to build open source software without a source of truth, they want to be the source of truth

[-] bric@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

What would you say is holding IPv6 back?

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