@davepl1968 @CleansedTweets He probably didn't but MS is not the most efficient of the bunch anymore
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Werner Van Belle
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@CleansedTweets I think it's both vain and hilarious that you think you've created enough interesting digital content that it takes 30 minutes to download.
Wrote many good illustrated encyclopedias lately?
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Nothing screams ‘trust us’ like a Windows update that takes 30+ minutes. I’m convinced Microsoft is using that time to quietly farm my documents, photos, & browser history.
Anyone else paranoid or is it just me?
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Is there any way to get Claude to stop the flattery?
I've repeatedly made it clear, in several different ways, and it always steers back to sycophancy.
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@UnderTheMayo @velodus Ha, I thought I was the only one who found that more disturbing than the story
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@velodus There's a moment in the getting lost sequence where there's a cut, which kills the whole "this is the video we found". Everything else feels like seedless turning on and off of the camera.
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Blair Witch was the most "you had to be there" movie of my life because a huge part of what made it good was that found footage movies were still rare back then and it was marketed so effectively that a ton of people genuinely thought it was real.
Wario64@Wario64
‘Blair Witch’ Movie Reboot Adds Original’s Stars, Directors to Filmmaking Team hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…
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@lukOlejnik I think Siemens IPC suffer from this as their floating point computation is always 'off' for whatever unexpected reason
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A 2005 state-designed worm designed to corrupt physics simulations sat undetected on VirusTotal for nearly a decade. Fast16, intercepted executable files at the kernel level and silently rewrote floating-point calculations to make them produce slightly wrong answers. Targets: high-precision engineering suites used for structural analysis, crash simulations, and physical process modeling, including LS-DYNA, a tool cited in reports on Iran's nuclear weapons research. The sabotage vector relied on deployment of the driver across a network via worm, corrupting calculations on every machine, and eliminating the possibility of cross-checking results against a clean system. Stuxnet got the documentary. Fast16 got twenty years of nothing. sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-my…
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@martinmbauer Whether we looking at the laser makes the laser shine ?
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@skdh Kartoffelen mit puree und pommes. Deckt für mich die essentials ab
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I feel much better since going gluten-free, hopefully soon I'll be fully back to being annoying. But I struggle to get my daily calories together, there's only so much butter I can put on rice before it gets disgusting. Please let me know if you have suggestions... 🙏
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@LundukeJournal So you knew that when you told us all that ' ChatGPT got a seizure from your name'. _You_ were the one that wanted that ? I don't feel you were very honest about that first post
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Here’s the short-short version of why ChatGPT is unable to say my name (“Bryan Lunduke”) and errors out when it tries:
Some time back, people began to notice that ChatGPT was hallucinating fact about me.
Wild, ridiculous things. Like “Lunduke organizes Trans pride rallies”, “Lunduke has a husband”, and “Lunduke has two club feet”.
Stuff that wasn’t even really based on sources or real training material. Just ChatGPT having an acid trip.
These statements were easily considered “libelous”. And, based on the law at the moment, OpenAI would be liable for any potential damages should I take them to court.
So I reached out to OpenAI (including CEO @sama) and, after having multiple discussions, I gave them a simple ultimatum:
“Either fix ChatGPT so that it no longer consistently makes up false, defamatory statements about me… or make it so that ChatGPT can no longer talk about me.”
After a month of working on it… OpenAI decided that they could not figure out how to get ChatGPT to stop consistently hallucinating about me.
Think about that for a second.
The engineers at OpenAI could not figure out how to make their AI system… tell the truth.
So my name, “Bryan Lunduke”, joins a small handful of other names which ChatGPT chokes on.
Interestingly… the “Don’t talk about this person” filter that OpenAI developed is incredibly buggy. Resulting in people finding creative ways to “trick” ChatGPT into talking about me.
OpenAI couldn’t develop a system that told the truth… so they put on a broken, buggy filter.
I find it all highly ridiculous.
The Lunduke Journal@LundukeJournal
Not gonna lie, being in the “Names that give ChatGPT a stroke” club makes me smile.
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@kskrygan Would absolutely love it. This dependency on 'cloud compute' to work is getting ridicoulous
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Would you be interested if JetBrains releases a totally local AI agent, working 100% on your laptop, using our code insight engine and deeply integrated into the IDE?
Yes, it will be probably 1 month behind the very recent frontier models, but no token blood bath anymore
WDYT?
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Werner Van Belle retweetledi
Too good not to share! I did not know this.
If you want to "void" a row in a paper tape, you punch out every dot, and that happens to be the DEL character in ASCII.
Zuhaitz@zuhaitz_dev
I just learnt that the delete character is represented as 127 in ASCII because in paper tape to remove errors they just punch all 7 holes.
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@mkristensen Functional multi threading, test upgrades that don't require editing the project files by hand
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How can we make the unit testing experience in Visual Studio significantly better?
C++ and .NET devs: What’s your biggest frustration with Test Explorer, test discovery speed, debugging, Live Unit Testing, Google Test integration, or anything else?
Drop your ideas/suggestions below 👇
#VisualStudio #dotnet #cpp
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@SnassyIcp @ID_AA_Carmack Not sure about that in lift scheduling. What would the delaying factor be here?
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@ID_AA_Carmack @wvb98 Even if the information can’t be had instantly?
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I was on a cruise ship last week (Star of the Seas), and they had pods of 10 elevators in a circle, where you picked your destination floor on a pad, and it directed you to the correct elevator, which was often behind you.
It seemed to work efficiently, but multiple times I saw people tap their floor and just look away, conditioned for normal elevator operation, and miss the arrival of the elevator they were supposed to get on.
Addressing my normal pet peeve of interaction feedback latency would have helped — with all the fades and slides, it takes over a second for the first hint of the elevator to show up, and two seconds for it to fully stabilize. That may not seem like much in some circumstances, but it is plenty of time for people to look away. The elevator letter should appear instantaneously, maybe with some festive animation around it to hold attention that was on the button press.
Even better would be to add a localized audio cue from the elevator the instant you pressed the button, which would let you immediately know where it is without having to scan for the lighted letter.
(the Starlink internet on the ship was excellent, allowing me to get some work in at sea)
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@madrid_deity @skdh Look daughter/son/grandma/grandpa, press red, otherwise you die. Should solve that problem, or am I wrong ? The suicidal ones actually finally have a way out, without any shame
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my takeaway from the red/blue button discussion is that if anyone asks, you say you pressed blue
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In the early days, Microsoft would hire someone who had zero software background but was obviously brilliant, because they believed that if you’re smart enough, you can learn to program faster than you can make an average programmer brilliant.
Jaynit@jaynitx
Mark Zuckerberg: "I'd rather hire someone with raw intelligence and no experience than a 10-year veteran" "The two most important things I look for, number one is just raw intelligence." Zuckerberg explains why: "You can hire someone who is a software engineer and has been doing it for 10 years. If they've been doing it for 10 years, that's probably what they're doing for their life. And that's cool. There are things that person can do. They're definitely useful in an organization." But here's the tradeoff: "If you find someone whose raw intelligence exceeds theirs but has way less experience, they can probably adapt and learn way quicker. Within a very short amount of time, they'll be able to do a lot of things that the experienced person may never be able to do." The second thing he looks for: "Alignment with what we're trying to do. People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable. But if they don't really believe in it, they're not going to work hard. Even if they're a smart guy who doesn't have the relevant experience, if they don't care enough, they're not going to develop the relevant experience in order to succeed." On who he's actually hired: "The best people I've hired so far have been people who didn't really have that much engineering experience. I hired a couple of electrical engineers out of Stanford as new programming staff. They had very little programming experience going in. But just really smart. Really willing to go at it." He gives an example: "The guy who built Photos was one of those guys. If you're willing to just go and do whatever it takes to get it out, you're probably more valuable than someone who's just a career software engineer."
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@elonmusk But you must have known it and be okay with it ? Or wasn't event that known to you at the time ?
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Scam Altman didn’t tell the OpenAI board that he OWNED the OpenAI Startup Fund.
Altman lied in congressional testimony that he didn’t have financial gain from OpenAI.
DogeDesigner@cb_doge
Ex-board member of OpenAI calls Sam Altman a liar. He lied to the board for years, hid ChatGPT launch, lied about owning Startup Fund, falsified safety info, and lied to oust her after her paper. Board lost all trust → fired him. Sam Altman is a liar.
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