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ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study (gizmodo.com)

The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....

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unready technology that spews dangerous misinformation in the most convincing way possible is being massively promoted

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Holy mother of false equivalence. Google is not supposed to be a random dude on the Internet, it's supposed to be a reference tool, and for the most part it was a good one before they started enshittifying it.

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Cut it out, Mr Rafael (don't forget to always use someone's birth name) Cruz is a perfectly socially acceptable gigant spineless worm.

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I'm in this photo and I don't like it.

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?

I've never completely understood this, but I think the answer would probably be "no," although I'm not sure. Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data (this is a habit from my pre-VPN days), although I guess I should probably just keep it on since using strange Wi-Fi with a VPN is ok (unless someone...

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Only if you trust your VPN service more than your mobile Internet provider.

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He means they are trying not to be the Nazi bar, and added an homeopathic amount of moderation to the platform.

jmcs ,

There's no reason why 114MB of static content over 5 minutes should be an issue for a public facing website. Hell, I probably could serve that and the images with a Raspberry Pi over my home Internet and still have bandwidth to spare.

I think they are throwing stones at the wrong glass house/software stack.

jmcs ,

It's like the joke about the invoice charging 0.10$ for a screw and 100$ for knowing which screw to replace.

Coding is easy. Software engineering not so much.

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AI stands for "Absent Indian".

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That's also how the most damaging attacks on proprietary software work. At some point all organizations need to trust their members and co-workers need to trust each other - I can't think of a way to be more miserable at work than having to second guess everyone around you.

jmcs ,

You probably could make a 3rd printer capable of printing the steel components for a bridge. If you pour enough money and time down the drain, there's no reason why you couldn't have some robots handling the scaffolding and "3D printing" the concrete too. It would be several¹ orders of magnitude slower and more expensive than using the normal processes, but hey why build 10000 bridges when you can build just one that tech bros can masturbate to.

¹ this "several" is breaking the world record of heavy lifting

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How the fuck is no one in jail over this?

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And when it goes to the court you move under the nearest bridge.

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It depends on the kind of discussion. Incentivizing other people to break the law is illegal in most places

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That wouldn't solve the patent trolls issues, only getting out of the United Corporate States would.

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It's mandatory in roughly half of Europe.

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TIL Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland are not in Northern Europe.

jmcs ,

And you don't see Mozilla's reliance on financing from its main competitor as a huge issue?

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And thematically I would have gone for something evoking the actual Berlin wall:
an AI generated black and white "picture" of Apple Wall inspired by the Berlin wall but with a huge apple logo and a row of Apple Store storefronts

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I didn't, the article did by paraphrasing Reagan. And hyperbole is a perfectly valid figure of speech anyway.

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"need" is a strong word to describe driving in Paris, at least as far as personal cars are concerned.

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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

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That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to contain the blast radius.

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The users are the ones getting screwed. The costs of business are always passed to the customers. In the case of Google's and Apple's taxes this means all the customers and not even the ones doing IAP purchases because unlike actual sales taxes, apps aren't allowed to charge them directly to the buyer.

Biden Presses Netanyahu on Working Toward a Palestinian State (www.nytimes.com)

President Biden pressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Friday to agree to the creation of a Palestinian state after the war in Gaza is over and raised options that would limit Palestinian sovereignty to make the prospect more palatable to Israel....

jmcs ,

Extra steps? It's literally proposing to make Palestine a Bantustan on paper - which it kind of is in practice.

You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.

jmcs ,

I'm using Qwant and it gives me better results than Google. Even Startpage does and it's using Google behind the scenes.

Google managed to fuck up their personalization so much it makes the results worse (it's almost like they only really care about tailoring the ads /s). And I'm suspecting it's by design, if the results suck the users are more likely to either press the ads or go through more result pages, therefore seeing more ads.

jmcs ,

At least that's the same continent and not literally on the other side of the world.

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I think he means he's running the name server for his zone (i.e. the authority for subdomains of his domains), which of course doesn't help if the top level domain gets suspended and the NS record gets deleted.

jmcs ,

Technically it was just a Microsoft Tech Evangelist that said that, in a non official capacity, and I'm pretty sure the sales people took him to the torture chamber after that.

From a technical point of view, there was nothing stopping Microsoft from making Windows 10 a rolling release, so I can see how some naive fools might have convinced themselves that their employer wouldn't be shitty to their users for the first time ever.

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The European Commission would appreciate the multi billion euro "donation" from Microsoft if they did something so obviously anti competitive.

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