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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
they can't agree whether to stay in DST or in Standard Time.
Somebody likes it when the sun goes down at 4PM
Toby Faire, there are allegedly places (known as "the South") where the Sun stays up hours later in the winter.
Please don't taunt the Canadians. It depletes their meager Vitamin D supplies.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Of course, $9.4M is barely pocket change from the advertising budget for Google.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
they can't agree whether to stay in DST or in Standard Time.
Somebody likes it when the sun goes down at 4PM
Stop making shit up. You’re worse than that guy that keeps trying to convince me Canada is real. Nobody would be dumb enough to vote a stripper into power.
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@DogsB The sun going down as late as 4pm? At this time of year? Ridiculous!
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
At this time of year?
At this time of the year, it rains only once. At least, in Scotland.
Rain starts in October, and lasts till March.
No sunshine in between.
Hence the sun won't go down at 4 PM.
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Am I the only who's thinking "Nyquil chicken"?
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
roosters
.... What is he intending to do with all those cocks? It's not like they're breeding racecocks, right?
Oh wait....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
It's not like they're breeding racecocks, right?
No, not racecocks. According to the article, he's breeding battlecocks.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Somebody likes it when the sun goes down at 4PM
@dcon said in In other news today...:
That's better than driving to work in the dark.
I haven't seen the sun for about a month now. And even without the cloud cover, I wouldn't see the sun during my commute either way for the next 3-4 months. In the winter, my only glimpses of it are through the office windows. So the question is frankly rather academic from my point of view.
Doubly so because you live in EET, not CET.
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Today in Samsung needs to knock it off:
between 60 to 140 pages worth for one second of an in-game scenee
What?!??!!!??!??
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
What?!??!!!??!??
They should fire whoever wrote that and hire ChatGPT instead. It'll still be nonsense, but less obvious nonsense.
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Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT. From a report:
"The site's mods said that the ban was temporary and that a final ruling would be made some time in the future after consultation with its community. But, as the mods explained, ChatGPT simply makes it too easy for users to generate responses and flood the site with answers that seem correct at first glance but are often wrong on close examination."Banned from SO for being wrong while farming internetpointzzzz? This is perhaps the greatest step that AI has taken towards becoming indistinguishable from humans.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT. From a report:
"The site's mods said that the ban was temporary and that a final ruling would be made some time in the future after consultation with its community. But, as the mods explained, ChatGPT simply makes it too easy for users to generate responses and flood the site with answers that seem correct at first glance but are often wrong on close examination."Banned from SO for being wrong while farming internetpointzzzz? This is perhaps the greatest step that AI has taken towards becoming indistinguishable from humans.
@error_bot xkcd constructive
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Dropping it here just for the headline:
Also a contender for the list of things that should not go together, but in the current world anything goes and nothing is surprising anymore~
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
Christian right-leaning furry convention
This is Peak 2022 and my greatest fear is that 2023 will be even worse.
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@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
Christian right-leaning furry convention
This is Peak 2022 and my greatest fear is that 2023 will be even worse.
2020v4 should be roughly halfway through.
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Must have failed to secure an Excel file
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Must have failed to secure an Excel file
The icing on the cake is that the Android developers forgot to implement any key rotation mechanism for the keys, so Samsung has to keep signing the existing applications with that key and ugly hacks have to be applied in the stores to prevent malware pretending to be ‘update’ for them.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
the Android developers forgot to implement any key rotation mechanism for the keys
Wait, you wanted "revokability"? How is that even defi?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Must have failed to secure an Excel file
No excuse for that, I mean, the option is right there in the File menu
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
the Android developers forgot to implement any key rotation mechanism for the keys
Wait, you wanted "revokability"? How is that even defi?
Just like any other certificate—with a certificate revocation list. But it would also require the other parts of trust chain like some authority that could certify application x.y.z that used to be signed by key abcdef01 is now legitimately signed by key 6543210f, while key abcdef01 is now revoked. But there is no such thing—a package is identified by it's name and the key that is signed with.
… which means reasonable approach is to create a different key for each application you publish—they don't need to be signed with anything, so they only cost a couple hundred bytes of storage. But they won't tell you that in the documentation. I learned that the hard way.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
FOWLP technology
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Just what in hell are cows getting up too?
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@DogsB Well, that guy entered the territory of the cows illegally (from the point of view of the cows). They just stand their grounds and prosecute that immediately.
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@DogsB Fighting them is mooot.
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@Zecc Don't milk that story too much
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@TimeBandit This APT has Super Cow Powers.
$ apt-get moo (__) (oo) /------\/ / | || * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ ...."Have you mooed today?"...
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@topspin it's kinda annoying that that refers to cowsay vs optimizations using copy-on-write.
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@topspin Cute, but you can do better
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@topspin Cute, but you can do better
#![feature(cow_is_borrowed)] use std::borrow::Cow; let cow: Cow<'_, str> = Cow::Owned("moo".to_string()); assert!(cow.is_owned()); let bull = Cow::Borrowed("...moo?"); assert!(!bull.is_owned());
Cows want to be free!
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@topspin There! It's a great language, don't you think?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@topspin There! It's a great language, don't you think?
Unquestionably.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
This APT has Super Cow Powers.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Now do DST
EU already agreed on abolishing DST. By the end of 2021! Well, guess what, it's 2022 and we still have DST. The whole agreement collapsed when they couldn't agree whether the Central European Time should get stuck at UTC+1 or UTC+2.
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Similarly, the US has a bill to abolish the DST here. But it's stuck because they can't agree whether to stay in DST or in Standard Time.
I'd like it too stay in DST.
Can't we officially say that a one hour be midnight so that DST is standard? What is the process to change the standard of time in the entire world?
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Now do DST
EU already agreed on abolishing DST. By the end of 2021! Well, guess what, it's 2022 and we still have DST. The whole agreement collapsed when they couldn't agree whether the Central European Time should get stuck at UTC+1 or UTC+2.
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Similarly, the US has a bill to abolish the DST here. But it's stuck because they can't agree whether to stay in DST or in Standard Time.
I'd like it too stay in DST.
Can't we officially say that a one hour be midnight so that DST is standard?
Sure. The problem is that half the people want that and the other half insist that midnight should remain midnight.
Though there are countries, like Spain, that go between DST and more DST (that is, midnight is around 1 o'clock in winter and around 2 in summer), and of course Russia stuck itself on DST a couple of years back.
What is the process to change the standard of time in the entire world?
… why not go all the way and just switch to using UTC?
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@Bulb I approve.
Filed under: currently on UTC+0
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South Korea currently uses three age-counting systems, but most citizens abide by the "Korean age," where a person is 1 year old as soon as they are born, and gain one year on every New Year's Day. And a baby born on Dec. 31 would be considered 2 years old the next day.
On Thursday, the country's parliament, called the National Assembly, passed a set of bills requiring the use of the international age-counting system, where age is based on birth date.
More than 80% of South Koreans supported unifying the age-counting system, according to a September poll by the Ministry of Government Legislation.
And 86% said they would go by their birth date age in their daily lives, according to the poll.
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@Zecc good to know there's places which still use weirder measuring systems than good ol' USA.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Zecc good to know there's places which still use weirder measuring systems than good ol' USA.
Ahaha yeah no, that's the aging system we use for racehorses.
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https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-learns-write-computer-code-stunning-advance
Fuck, this is so stupid.
So applied infinite monkeys counts as programming now?Who is going to write the specification? Who’s going to write the test cases that filter the good candidates out of the million trash programs? And how many of them will work just for the test cases but don’t implement the spec, anyway?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-learns-write-computer-code-stunning-advance
Fuck, this is so stupid.
So applied infinite monkeys counts as programming now?Who is going to write the specification? Who’s going to write the test cases that filter the good candidates out of the million trash programs? And how many of them will work just for the test cases but don’t implement the spec, anyway?
return 4;
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
And how many of them will work just for the test cases but don’t implement the spec, anyway?
Judging by what I've seen so far: all of them.
ETA:
After training, AlphaCode solved about 34% of assigned problems, DeepMind reports this week in Science. (On similar benchmarks, Codex achieved single-digit-percentage success.)
OTOH, it seems to have surpassed humans already.
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@GOG said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
And how many of them will work just for the test cases but don’t implement the spec, anyway?
Judging by what I've seen so far: all of them.
ETA:
After training, AlphaCode solved about 34% of assigned problems, DeepMind reports this week in Science. (On similar benchmarks, Codex achieved single-digit-percentage success.)
OTOH, it seems to have surpassed humans already.
"34 percent? Well that just means I can run two more of them and get over a hundred percent!"
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@Applied-Mediocrity I think I'll stick with cocaine.