Yeah, I wish they’d made the second graph show percentage point difference instead of percentage growth.

One quirk of github copilot is that because it lets you choose which model to send a question to, you can gaslight Opus into apologising for something that gpt-4o told you.

I recently had an interaction where it made a really weird comment about a function that didn’t make sense, and when I asked it to explain what it meant, it said “let me have another look at the code to see what I meant”, and made up something even more nonsensical.

It’s clear why it happened as well; when I asked it to explain itself, it had no access to its state of mind when it made the original statement; it has no memory of its own beyond the text the middleware feeds it each time. It was essentially being asked to explain what someone who wrote what it wrote, might have been thinking.

Hopping on this to share that Milo Learns made by some of my Cambodian friends also just added Japanese for conversation practice. It has an online community as well if you don’t like talking to an AI. But sadly it is freemium, so OP wins on that front. https://milo.niy.ai/

weirdest use of that meme format to date

also the irony of 145 IQ man tripping over his own grammar

Technically should be 3.14.2, or even 3.14.16. On account of how quoting something to a limited number of significant figures works.

Sorry, I’m still stuck on what the limiting aspect of it is. “Operating on hundreds of pages that each have limited reach” costs next to nothing if it’s all automated with bots.

Either I’ve not understood your point, or you’re suggesting that spammers would limit themselves to one instance?

Spam is about volume, and a 0.1% takeup rate would be a dream for a spammer.

How does location specificity limit spam? Surely the nature of spam is it costs nothing to produce and is done en masse.

And I mean any kind of bad actor really. Spammer, scammer, or even just a griefer deciding the gum up the system for lulz.

To be clear these are genuine questions, I’m not here to shit on the project or anything. I’d love more than anything for there to be good answers to them.

I’m not here to cheerlead for eBay, but I don’t think that’s entirely true.

What mechanisms are there to limit bad actors?

I feel like I’m in some bizarro-world situation when people keep saying about how the new model blows everything else out the water. I’ve been hearing it on a near monthly basis for the last 3 years and they’re still shit.

I was on a project a while back that used Ruby, and what I concluded was that cute things like that look good at first glance if you’re skim-reading some already-correct code, but are pretty much a net wash in terms of writing or debugging code.

It’s not unusual for people to think that code would be better if it scanned like regular English, but the problem is that English is woefully imprecise and doesn’t always correlate to what kind of operations get run by the code, and so you still end up having to learn all that syntax and mentally process it like any other programming language anyway, but now you’ve also got a bunch of false friends tricking you into thinking they do one thing but actually they do another.

(also, the bulk of the text in that python example is the import statement, which is like… ok so what, it’s not like Ruby doesn’t have its own dependency hell problems)

What is that Acorn? I don’t remember the BBC having an “Acorn Bus Extension”, and it looks too narrow to be a Master…

(nm, I found it online: Acorn Atom. I’ve never seen one in real life.)

This is the sort of thing people post on the internet before they go out killing.

most devs… Kinda suck at their job

Also they like to make memes about how it’s the rest of the world that’s doing best practices, software testing, teaching, and interviewing all wrong

Yeah, some of the bandwagonny replies I’m seeing in this thread do not make their posters sound like someone you’d want to spend your working life sat next to.

You don’t have to show interest in the company to help the CEO get richer, but you should probably show an interest in the company because it’s where you’re going to be spending 1/3rd of your entire waking hours from now on, and you’re going to have a fucking miserable time of it if you’ve already decided to mentally check out before you’ve even got to the interview. Have some self-respect.

I remember they once tried some similar shit with the Kerberos protocol, sneaking a patented feature in there so they could then seize the whole thing in the name of Active Directory, but I think they were forced to back down(?)

I’m actually having difficulty finding details on it now because they’ve done a solid job drowning the story out from the search results…

Sure, I’m just bemoaning the fact that you’ve taken cloud hosting to be the default. It’s as much a complaint about the world in general as anything specific to you. Good luck with it all.