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bybuchner.johannes
ember 09, 2025 @07:53AM
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Attached to: Evidence That Humans Now Speak In a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger
Some feel weird when people say please and thank you when interacting with chat bots. If what TFA says is true, I am curious whether norms of politeness (or lack thereof) in chat bots, treating them as disposable, emotionless tools could also leak from chat bot interactions into human interactions. It seems plausible that humans cannot maintain a clear mental separation.
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bybuchner.johannes
vember 29, 2025 @02:56PM
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Attached to: Major AI Conference Flooded With Peer Reviews Written Fully By AI
Maybe they should introduce meta-moderation, where authors and institutions get Karma assigned for the quality of their paper and review. Low Karma could then result in more oversight, more reviews, fewer allowed submissions, or a 1-year ban.
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bybuchner.johannes
vember 20, 2025 @10:19AM
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Attached to: Microsoft Exec Asks: Why Aren't More People Impressed With AI?
That was my experience before ChatGPT 5. With ChatGPT 5, here comes the qualifier: if you use it within its training data range, it's quite good. Within its training data means, doing what other people have done before and is likely to be found on stackoverflow. For example, setting up training a neural network with torch. If you go outside their comfort zone, I agree with you.
Danger lives when these tools are used in an area where the user even lacks the expertise to factcheck the answer. The responses sound very confident.
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bybuchner.johannes
vember 20, 2025 @05:49AM
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Attached to: Linus Torvalds Says Vibe Coding is Fine For Getting Started, 'Horrible Idea' For Maintenance
What's your approach to writing unit or system tests? Are you advising the LLM to write a test first, then check it for specification issues (whether what you meant is the behaviour that is expected in the test), then ask for an implementation?
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bybuchner.johannes
vember 06, 2025 @02:53AM
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Attached to: Universe Expansion May Be Slowing, Not Accelerating, Study Suggests
Dark Energy is the name for the phenomenon an accelerated expansion of the Universe. This was measured by observing distance and velocity of distant supernova, and later also with other techniques (galaxy clusters for exampl). Dark Energy is the additional energy available for driving this, which is not accounted for in light-emitting baryons.
What causes the Dark Energy is another question, and that, indeed, has not been solved ("proven") to date.
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bybuchner.johannes
mber 02, 2025 @11:30AM
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Attached to: Daylight Saving Time: Still Happening. Still Unpopular
Azerbaijan, Iran, Jordan, Namibia, Russia, Samoa, Syria, Turkey, Uruguay and most of Mexico abolished DST in the last 10 years.
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bybuchner.johannes
ber 12, 2025 @07:38AM
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Attached to: German State of Schlesiwg-Holstein Migrates To FOSS Groupware. Next Up: Linux OS
That's how LiMux did it, and develop custom but open source software in-house to support local workflows.
But you will always have some fraction persistently complaining that it is not the Windows they are used to (being closely familiar from school, home, other jobs). And any issues arising can be blamed on not using Windows.
Then Microsoft comes along and gives you a very, very nice offer with the aim to shut down the initiative.
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bybuchner.johannes
ber 10, 2025 @06:52AM
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Attached to: Anthropic Says It's Trivially Easy To Poison LLMs Into Spitting Out Gibberish
As cryptography demonstrates, checking is cheaper than working.
Also, only a Sith deals in absolutes.
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bybuchner.johannes
ember 29, 2025 @10:17AM
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Attached to: Ladybird Browser Gains Cloudflare Support to Challenge the Status Quo
Many people can build an app around an open source web engine that supports plugins and scripting. The rendering engine is the hard part and the bottleneck.
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bybuchner.johannes
ember 29, 2025 @08:52AM
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Attached to: Will AI Mean Bring an End to Top Programming Language Rankings?
I wonder whether it might one day be possible to write one code base and have AI translate it to multiple programming languages.
Currently, each language has to reinvent the wheel and therefore you have incomplete feature sets.
Thinking of:
* encryption, hashing, cache
* scientific libraries, array handling, fast fourier transforms, image manipulation, MCMC
* video, audio, image codecs
* string handling, unicode, date & time
* HTTPS & database connectors
* ...
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bybuchner.johannes
ember 29, 2025 @08:47AM
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Attached to: Will AI Mean Bring an End to Top Programming Language Rankings?
I think you are going the wrong direction - misspecification is the feature of LLMs people love the most ("vibe coding"): The LLM fills in the blanks by interpolating how others have solved this and the sharp bits that stackoverflow answers have pointed out.
[I am not condoning this, just conveying an observation.]
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bybuchner.johannes
ptember 25, 2025 @03:47AM
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Attached to: Europe's Cookie Law Messed Up the Internet. Brussels Wants To Fix It.
exactly. TFS says "People are used to giving consent for everything", but for everyone I know it is "People are used to reject consent for everything" - which is the default in the law, it is companies that want to move away from the default, not users. You can build stateful websites without cookies, you know ...
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bybuchner.johannes
ember 12, 2025 @03:55PM
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Attached to: Everyone Is Making Smart Glasses Now
What's the killer app?
I think one that was floated is seeing in an easily comparable way the health information while browsing a supermarket isle? I'd be cool to give live context for from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the Wikipedia "Criticism" sections. Not sure I'd pay for it though.
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bybuchner.johannes
tember 09, 2025 @03:53PM
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Attached to: Disposable Face Masks Used During Covid Have Left Chemical Timebomb
Agreed, 404 Journalism Not Found - put it into context. Also, a properly managed land fill does not leak into the environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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bybuchner.johannes
ptember 04, 2025 @10:22PM
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Attached to: Ultra-Processed Foods - It's Time For an Improved Definition
There are two pieces of nutrition health advice that have stood the test of time:
1. don't eat too much.
2. have a varied diet.
One incarnation of the first one is to eat until 80% full. Or to chew slowly, so your stomach (which is slow to realise) can properly indicate fullness.
One incarnation of the second is the food pyramid, another easy to remember one is 5 fruits and vegetables of different color per day.
If you come across advice of the form "you need this one thing in your diet", it's rubbish (see point 2). Similarly, "the most healthy" - does not make sense. There are many ways to create a varied diet.
Also, food has cultural and social aspects.
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