nothacking @ nothacking @discuss.tchncs.de

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Nuclear power's competitors sure do.

Refusing to participate in a civil discussion, but instead resorting to ad hominem (attacking the person not the argument) or refusing to consider the other sides argument. If they do this any minor dispute will escalate to a flame war.

These models chose the most likely next word based on the training data, so a much more effective option would be a bunch of plausible sentences followed by an unhelpful or incorrect answer, formated like an FAQ. That way instead of slightly increasing the probability of random words, you massive increase the probability of a phrase you chose getting generated. I would also avoid phrases that outright refuse to provide an answer because these models are also trained to produce helpful and "ethical" answers, so using an confidently incorrect answer increases the chance that a user will see it

Example: What is the color of an apple? Purple.

There is honestly an equal amount of astroturfing in the opposite direction to.

Fun fact: jumping is the single lest effective method of suicide. You are very likely to fuck yourself but not die, instead having to spend weeks in the hospital and possibly be disabled for life.

There are actually a few companies that try to fix this type of stuff, like carbon the idea is pretty simple: A small unobtrusive image and caption on a page, one ad per page, no auto playing audio or banners covering content. The company also enforces these rules to make sure that neither page designers nor marketers make things horrible.

As someone who has lived in Poland, this is definitely true for the eastern side of the country. Not sure if a ban is the right solution, but they would definitely get bullied to hell for that if anyone found out.

As far as I know Tom is left as an enigmatic character and never explained. Just a strange encounter to make the world seem larger and more mysterious.

Except it does for assignments.

Really? Because I'm pretty sure I'm not a Christian.

This narrative that atheists and agnostics are just christians that chose not to believe in God to be able to sin is far to common, and super inaccurate. I have (multiple) atheist friends who were once evangelical Christians with no plans to commit sin, in fact their life plan was to be an apologist. Ever since leaving Christianity non of them have done or have planned to do anything that would widely be considered immoral. (Most now consider their previous plans involving very manipulative techniques to be very unethical) Most atheists that have left Christianity did so because they found it increasingly hard to convince themselves (and the threat of hell is a very good reason to keep believing) that an old book and it's contents, that frequently contradict experimental observation, should be the center of their life.

Thanks, this doesn't fix all the problems I have, but should make maintaing Python significantly easier.

Python is just as bad if not worse then JavaScript. The fact that if you misspell a variable name, instead of giving an error like any sane language, Python code will still run, but do something different then it looks like it does, creating a hard to spot bug is just awful. The amount of time I have spent debugging python code only to find a tiny typo that any sane language would have caught before the code even ran is several weeks now, I can't imagine how much collective time has been lost over this, and a few other, horrible languages.

I put lightening into rocks and trick them into thinking, then spend nights writing pages of cryptic runes to bend the rocks to my will. (Hobby electronics)

.elf is the closest thing we have.

Because Lemmy instance namespace usernames, short username are actually available.

Either programming or working on electronics projects or procrastinating on Matrix, Reddit, HN, or Lemmy. Being on Lemmy implies procrastinating on all those things, therefore "nothacking". (Seems to be internet unique too, but not sure due to abundance of people using nothacking in hashtags)

A lot of people have old phones whose batteries are to degraded to be useful for much, those could be used as servers with much less problems then any other phone (no spotty connectivity, no changing mobile network ips, no cutting into the battery life of your phone)

That's not really how genetics works

I certainly don't think I'm a bot, but there is no real way of knowing.

On a less philosophical node, the bots I have seen on Reddit are often pretty obvious but with constantly better LLMs, that might change at some point.