captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: The Fall of Stack Overflow
They are a user, they choose to moderate or not, forcing people in this way to contribute only in a very specific way means, less users ...
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captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: Unprecedented ocean temps “surpassing model predictions,” warn experts
I'm a good bit older than you, for me the eye opener is by travelling the world and seeing how much has been trashed. When I was a kid it felt like there was a vast amount of nature out there (even then a lot of damage had been done, but many of the wildlife docs etc were just old enough that when filmed there was more nature).
Growing up in a modern western city I was far removed from it, but then travelling and seeing how much has been carved up and domesticated (as well as the cultural homogenisation), it really feels we are doing future generations a massive wrong.
captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: Apple’s new headset meets reality
Actually it was also that it was standalone and no wires.
captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How are you a good dad to your kids?
Probably better to ask what good things our dad's did, I can tell you my kids love it when I make them help put the laundry away, I suspect their opinions might differ :)
captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: Warwick: Cyborg or Media Doll?
In the late 90's /2000 Kevin Warwick was saying AI is is going to be increasingly problematic, and was considered something of a buffoon by academia (or some of), now they are all on the bandwagon.
Cybernetics at Reading did a lot of Neural Network stuff, less Symbolic due to the Cybernetics philosophy.
captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: LangChain Announces 10M Seed Round
Could it swap, so we can have lisp back?
captaincaveman | 3 years ago | on: Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts
I think that is probably the right way to go. We have a put a few things on AWS which really don't fit there too well, all on the benefits of shutting down our on-prem estate, 5 years later we still have an on-prem estate.
captaincaveman | 3 years ago | on: Ok, it’s time to freak out about AI
Its this sort of drivel that I hope ChatGPT will destroy, people bullshitting on topics they don't have insightful understanding of is exactly what a bot is good for. So yes freak out the bots can do that now, you can stop writing.
captaincaveman | 3 years ago | on: Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?
Assuming this is true, wasn't it the bailing out of the banks a major factor in the need for austerity?
captaincaveman | 3 years ago | on: Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?
If we kick the Conservatives, hmmm I wonder who will be next up to bat, ohh for about a decade until we are sick of their incompetence.. goto 10.
They just literally wait their turn, terrible incompetence and no accountability.
captaincaveman | 3 years ago | on: Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?
Largely agree with what you're saying, not so much on retirees, yes they should be means tested, but I have seen old people getting robbed of their homes to pay for some shitty nursing home.
captaincaveman | 3 years ago | on: 2023 State of Software Engineers [pdf]
There is, we have a low bar of what a senior engineer imho.
captaincaveman | 3 years ago | on: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet
Be careful not to read the news, your larder and fridge will suddenly be bare ...
captaincaveman | 3 years ago | on: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet
Yes can't easily use the colour to judge how tasty tomatoes are, some of the best ones I've ever had were a big green looking, but were grown in the Portuguese sun naturally.
captaincaveman | 3 years ago | on: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet
Grown in massive greenhouses require electric etc thus the cost has gone up because the cost of fuel has gone up, including transporting these things across the continent.
captaincaveman | 3 years ago | on: UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet
There is a shortage in some out of season fruit/veg, I really have not been impacted at all. Importing less food staples, and eating/growing food within our climate range is no bad thing.
captaincaveman | 3 years ago | on: How to protect your career from a ChatGPT Future
Many things have made engineers more productive in my working lifetime, yet there still more of these pesky software engineers than ever!
captaincaveman | 3 years ago | on: Another Round of Layoffs at Meta
Cutting staff is not going to reduce their revenue for some time, and in the interim their profits increase and thus defends the stock price at a time the tech sector is getting reassessed (valuations are too high, and need adjusting).
The point is, it has nothing to do with having money in the bank to pay them.
captaincaveman | 3 years ago | on: Bard and new AI features in Search
> All the money goes to Google!
That's an aspect I hadn't considered, nor heard anyone else suggest!
captaincaveman | 3 years ago | on: Bard and new AI features in Search
Well that person has reputation/credibility and some reasoning they apply, before passing on the information. Just because you read that the world is flat are you gonna start telling people that? Now let's be clear, some people do mindlessly regurgitate nonsense, but their creditability is typically very low, so you ignore them. There is a grey area where some things aren't clear, but on the basics people of average intelligence are fairly robust, I'm not convinced chatGPT is.