Aransentin
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Aransentin
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1yr ago
My new-years resolution is to lose weight. I've been a bit overweight all my adult life, except when I participated in slimemoldtimemold's "only eat potatoes" community trial which worked really well. This year I'm doing it again, but just by myself. (One also saves a ton of money doing it, which helps!) The plan is to not eat anything except potatoes and vitamin supplements until Easter – except for important celebrations, like birthdays and such.
Aransentin
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1yr ago
I suspect a lot of it is just content theft with the minimal effort required to make it unique. The reactor finds some content, and since he is a more savvy marketer/promoter/algorithm-manipulator/staring-with-open-mouth-thumbnail-maker than the original he can simply slap his reaction in a corner and hijack the views.
Aransentin
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2yr ago
Thanks! If you're wondering why on earth we named it SWAGGINZZZ, it's due to us messing up the execution a bunch of times, and since we created a new account/player every time we pretty quickly exhausted all the good names we could think of. The final run was named that because we were just testing things and didn't expect that one to actually succeed..!
Aransentin
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2yr ago
Yeah, but presumably scammers don't care about that wherever they are.
Aransentin
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2yr ago
We know what we are offering for this role is more than what you make
I dunno, I figure that the base assumption would be that wages are set by supply and demand, and as such in the long run it'll all be counteracted by an equal general rise in wages; or in practical terms all employees competing with other people who are in the same boat so it doesn't matter.
Aransentin
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2yr ago
According to the Unicode CLDR (assuming the space character in the "localeKeyTypePattern" before the colon is the same as the space before the question mark, I'm too lazy to search around for the real spec location), Occitan and Breton does so too, somewhat unsurprisingly. The only other one that does is Adlam – a script used to write Fulani, a Senegambian language. Now that'd be a hard trivia question!
Aransentin
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2yr ago
People have already noticed this IRL and people already accept it just fine, no radical anti-racist ideology needed. It's just the reality of the situation, sans any sort of ideology, that this sort of bias is fully and openly accepted.
Yes, but I could probably have been more clear: I am not claiming that society will demand AI models that necessarily treat men more fairly than we do today! A model with no anti-bias applied will consider men by by default to be extremely likely offenders, especially for violent crime. It is likely that any model can get a good training score by just looking at the gender and ethnicity, and if it's e.g. an Asian woman just let her off the hook immediately.
This effect will be sufficiently extreme to get noticed, and counteracted, by adding bias in favour of men or against those women – likely not enough to make the model as a whole to favour men more than women, but it will still be adjusted away from reality in a way that favours men! An AI that randomly decides to imprison men 50% of the time and women 10% of the time can still be biased against women if women commit 0.1% of the actual crime.
In sulla's initial reply he stated that the model will be biased in favour of blacks, and biased in favour of women, which are both true but only true if you use two different definitions: "manually adjusted to favour a group" or "returning different results for different groups, all else being equal". I assume people think my reply denied that women will be a favoured group under the second definition; I do not.
I don't think sulla is describing a crime model that's de-biased "naively," but rather one that's de-biased in the most likely way that it is to be de-biased, which is by explicitly putting the thumb on the scale
That's precisely what I meant with "naïvely", as opposed to other complicated schemes (such as the case with generative AI where you could potentially do tricks like adding "no discrimination" to the prompt or the like). Apologies if that was unclear.
I wrote a quick and shitty script to bruteforce English Sator squares from a big wordlist. The only one that makes any sort of limited sense is this:
t i m i d
i r a n i
m a d a m
i n a r i
d i m i t
I.e. "[the] timid Iranian madam that Inari dimit(=had dismissed)".
Edit: Of course somebody else had done the exact same thing and found the exact same square before. Oh well.
https://www.vatican.va has some deliciously shitty web design if you poke around a bit. The home page is pretty bad but not too crappy, but if you click around a bit you'll end up on pages such as this one, describing the pontificate of John Paul II. The way that they use alert boxes for information when you hover over the years are so utterly baffling that I'd immediately assume it was some sort of joke or shitpost if I saw it on any other website.
Aransentin
p ≥ 0.05 zombie
2yr ago
I find using GPT-3 as an "unblocker" works quite well. Insert the last few paragraphs you've written, and let it complete the text. The result isn't always very good, but you frequently get decent ideas on how to structure the next section.
Aransentin
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1yr ago
Just the general twitter algorithm being crappy I'd guess. I recently made the mistake of liking/interacting with a math puzzle tweet, and now I get tons of these retarded "99% can't solve this: 100/5(4-2)" engagement bait questions.
Aransentin
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1yr ago
Quite right, apologies for forgetting that. I haven't yet decided on whether to post about it whenever I've finished, but if so I'd probably mention the Baal thing without actually performing it. Another good reason is that it would also be the least kosher meal that'd nevertheless be permitted to eat if it would save one's life, and involving idolatry would mess that up.
Aransentin
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1yr ago
Would you mind sharing what your idea is? I enjoy reading and thinking about software architectures.
Aransentin
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2yr ago
Backslash, i.e: \*
Aransentin
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2yr ago
One of the earliest programs I wrote was a random name generator for the ABC 800, a Swedish Z80 computer from the 80s; grossly obsolete by the time I got it but could run BASIC* well enough.
My current handle was generated from that, initially for some elf character I made for a MUD that i kept reusing everywhere.
* From what I can remember it was some cursed de-Americanized version of BASIC that e.g. modified the keywords and replaced the standard "$" string symbol with the international currency symbol "¤" to counter American cultural encroachment. As a fun aside, when the Swedish keyboard was standardized it got prominently featured as shift-4 due to this, though very few people since have ever used it.
I'm still wondering if there are exploits that use a (modern) browser alone, without relying on opening other software.
Yeah. Any time there's a zero-day exploit for a browser you can be sure that attacks will start using it fairly quickly. For example, cursorily searching online I found an example of two from last year targeting Chrome in the wild.
Edit: Here's another relevant article, from this year: "Google Patches Third Actively Exploited Chrome Zero-Day of 2022"
do browser plugins even exist anymore? I can't remember the last time I saw a page with a plug-in.
I'd say Flash and Java are completely dead for any moderately recent website, yeah. Still, computers might have the plugins installed; perhaps for some internal corporate website that will never been updated. Other than that, I'd guess the Adobe PDF plugin should be fairly common too.
Aransentin
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2yr ago
The style that rdrama posts and then upvotes internally so it's visible may be distinct, but there's an obvious selection bias here in that the poster may very well just have been a low-quality rdrama user.
For all we know there could be a bunch of crap posts made by rdrama, like potentially this one, that just never rise to visibility there - resulting in a massively inflated view on what stuff actually gets produced.
Aransentin
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1yr ago
completely incomprehensible
I assume it's some sort of Straussian/obscurantist thing; intentionally hiding your points to prevent normies from being able to read it.
Much less charitably it's because his points are weak & often vibes-based, and any reasoning he makes would evaporate if stated explicitly and with any sort of rigour beyond Darkly Hinting to what you mean and letting the reader fill in the blanks. The few times he has written about things I am familiar with, the content really has been rather poor – take this article, for example, where he argues that a software that is only able to perform HTTP GET requests is safe, as such requests don't affect the server content. Anyone that has worked in web security know this is blatantly wrong, as there is probably hundreds of easily performed exploits and escapes for that weak of a sandbox.
Aransentin
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1yr ago
I have never really used a mac, but the reason it and my OS of choice (Linux) is better for me than Microsoft is probably value-alignment.
If you go and buy a chocolate bar, you can expect it to taste good. This is because the company that makes the chocolate is interested in making money, and must satisfy the preferences of their customers for them to keep buying it. Thus the design of the chocolate is two steps removed from being aligned with you: to the degree that your tastes align with the tastes of the average customer, and the degree that the amount the average customer spends aligns with the taste of the chocolate. These steps are likely pretty small – your tastes probably don't differ massively from the general public, and buying candy is a pretty straightforward transaction with lots of competition.
For software (and especially massive ones like operating systems), the situation is entirely different. The consumers are diverse, with some being interested in video games, some in office work, some in servers, and so on. You are probably not very close to the center here; Microsoft makes most of its money from hosting and cloud services, not OS sales. The second step is really bad as well; operating system sales suffer from practices like vendor lock-in, OEM-preinstallations, sunk costs, piracy, and painful friction from switching systems. This results in a system that doesn't do what you want, because "what you want" is pretty different from the incentives that Microsoft has.
Apple makes most of its money from selling actual products where the quality is strongly connected to the amount they sell. Moreover, they are targeted at consumers and professionals like you!
Linux is even more extreme. The modal user is a meganerd like myself, and the second step doesn't even exist – a whole lot of the development is done by people solving their own problems, which is by definition perfectly aligned with their needs. This results in a ecosystem that can compete in quality for their users even if there is significantly less resources involved than the other two.
(You can incidentally do the same analysis for any other domain. If your tastes don't strongly align with the general public and the general public buys whatever the company puts out, then it's a pretty safe bet that the product will be terrible.)
Aransentin
p ≥ 0.05 zombie
1yr ago
Presumably media has policies in place for their low-level employees to only print the exact verifiable events (erring on cautiousness) when there's an important breaking story, and then updating later when all the decision makers have rushed in place. Companies are always gonna be a little slower than individual people that can basically watch events live when it comes to that.
Aransentin
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1yr ago
This is called acquiescence bias.
From a cursory googling I found this study comparing a few variables with how much acquiescence bias people from 20 European countries have. Age didn't affect the result much, but "respondents with a low degree of conservatism and with a lower level of educational attainment exhibited a higher tendency toward acquiescent responding"*.
* Though I am a little confused here - the table above that quote in the study has "education" negatively correlated with acquiescent responding, but "conservatism" positive. Was there an error here or am I not reading something correctly...?
Aransentin
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1yr ago
Aransentin
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1yr ago
The biggest disappointment with the ending was
Aransentin
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2yr ago
Facetiously: Last Friday night. I am not a smart man when plastered.
Being a bit more serious, pretty much exactly 19 years old. I have a pretty extensive online footprint on various forums (civfanatics, criticalsecurity, various IRC servers... good times), so I can pretty accurately pinpoint when I stopped being super cringey and more or less myself.
(Tangentially around there I can also pinpoint when I discovered and consumed the Sequences, which purged me of a whole bunch of blatantly flawed thinking that I'd never have today)
That's the cheese/meat combo; the rule is significantly broader than the plain reading. To be fair I could in theory do the cumbersome version, but then I'd have to get goat meat and milk that I know for sure belongs to the mother, and that'd probably be too difficult.
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