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@schratze @xarvos

@thomasfuchs @h5e also I vaguely remember that at least one quite popular SQL library for Node.js by default for some unfathomable reason interpolated queries on client instead of running them as parametrized queries; even when the way you called that library looked like parametrized queries.

@futurebird is this a decent set of photos? https://embracing.space/@IngaLovinde/116072674347116406

@whitequark @mcc SK-8855 is what real productivity looks like

@schratze they should make jewelry that protects autism

@thomasfuchs
> “The challenge is that these devices were built for a different era and are not equipped to run newer, more data-hungry services and features,” he told the BBC, adding that “ageing hardware” could also pose problems.

It's a fucking book reader, why would it need any "newer, more data-hungry services and features"

@drchaos @thomasfuchs I'm using e-ink book readers since Sony PRS-500 which in 2006 IIRC was the second commercial e-ink reader ever (the first one being some other Sony device that was only available on Japanese market).
It never occurred to me that they need to have "services" or "features". Although having dictionary support in my current Kobo Aura H2O (released in 2014) is nice.

@dalias @mirabilos @aredridel which still means that at best the generated code cannot be copyrighted, and at worst it violated copyright and license terms of the original authors (whose works were ingested to train the model). In both these cases, the resulting code cannot be incorporated into any FOSS project with any license.

Typically when people submit code to FOSS projects, they also (implicitly or explicitly) claim that they hold the copyright on the submitted code, and agree that this code will be licensed under the license the project uses (which they only have power to do if the first claim is actually true).
When LLMs are used to generate code, the first claim is false, and it _is_ a contamination.

@aredridel @dalias
> but not actually true under the copyright regime that exists

Under the copyright regime that exists in the US specifically, the generated code is at best not copyrightable at all (and therefore cannot be included into any projects with licenses relying on copyright).
Of course maintainers of said projects might decide to yolo it, but also they might decide to not; and in this case, the intentional deception by antropic becomes even more significant fraud.

Who called it "switching to Linux" when "defenestrating" is right here?

@mcc @futurebird and they didn't even give us HAL

Turns out German farmers grew too much potatoes last year, so now all the extra potatoes have to be consumed (the alternative is just burning them for biodiesel).
This means free potatoes for everyone in Berlin! :boost_ok:
They accept applications for batches over 1 ton until Monday; and also on Thursday and Friday there will be multiple distribution points across Berlin for picking up smaller amounts for personal consumption, measured in kilos.
https://www.4000-tonnen.de

@whitequark "white - british" has the highest priority in cop dispatch queue, and "white - other", the second high priority. They had another person with white voice calling them about another problem, and only one ready cop at the moment, so they needed to decide which white caller should that cop visit first.

@evan @futurebird @emilymbender
> ChatGPT has 800M weekly active users. It is one of the fastest growing products in history.

Because it's being shoved down everybody's throats.
It is the most marketed and advertised product in history. For the last three years all the media kept pushing one piece after another about how wonderful it is. Of course people went to try it!

> The company has revenue around $10B/year.

That's an accounting trick intended to make you think it's bigger than it actually is.
That's not $10B/year, that's $10B "annualized revenue". If you're selling cookies on the street, and on town festival day your stall was especially successful and you sold $100 worth of cookies: now you can brag that you have $36.5k in "annualized revenue", even if outside of the town festival you only sell one $10 box per year.

And that's before we even get to the fact that this company is deeply unprofitable, that its operating expenses vastly exceed its revenue: that is, the more users and the more revenue it has, the more money it loses.

@whitequark @s0 @buzzyrobin @hailey usually bosses treat workers who mattered that art and practice it even worse :/

@whitequark why would there be lead in a regular (not crystal glass) mug?

@whitequark @Infoseepage
> PRC
> communist countries

I'm sorry what 😅

@whitequark @Infoseepage I never heard this shit being made up about USSR, only about modern PRC?

Anyway in my fairly large city (but not Moscow) during certain periods grocery store shelves were quite empty (you had to eat what was in stock that day, which wasn't much, and queue for that for hours) and there was no toilet paper and tooth paste. (That's an oversimplification to fit within a normal-sized post.)

@elilla this chart doesn't do it justice. They should have made it so that not 100% but either light blue or dark blue bars line up.

Bayes theorem tells us from these numbers that crimes in which the suspect is a foreigner are ~20x (2000%) overrepresented in newspapers; ~40x (4000%) overrepresented on TV.
I guess if one excludes victimless crimes that start as "we checked the documents of this person and the visa was expired" or "we searched this person and there was weed closer than 100m to the kindergarten" (and we all know who do the cops search and whose documents do they check), it will be closer to 40x/80x overrepresentation.

@whitequark I have written xslt and I really liked it.
I even based the entire template engine of my largest personal project ever (web boards software) on xslt.

What I especially liked about it (that was 2010 though) was that it was all about _transforming_ data, and not just a general purpose language with general purpose constructions; so it kinda forces the developer into a different mindset where one has to think about how input maps on the output rather than (which is the case with other template engines) how to write a general purpose program producing the output, or how to put the data in the placeholders.