ALostInquirer
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- Comment on Besides money/capitalism, why are tech companies trying to push AI text generators over search engines? 1 week ago:
I’ve not used retrieval augmented generation as far as I’m aware, so my reference point is what’s been pushed to the masses so far (dunno if any of it incorporates RAG, correct me if I’m mistaken).
Looking it up I can see how it may mitigate some issues, however I still don’t have much confidence that this is a wise application since at base it’s still generative text. What I’ve tried so far has reinforced this view, as it’s not served as a good research aid.
Anything it has generated for me has typically been superficial, i.e. info I can easily find on my own, because it’s on the sites right there in the first page of search results. In other situations the source articles cited seem not to exist, as attempts to verify them turn up nothing.
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- Comment on The publishing world 2 weeks ago:
…The first?
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- Comment on Academic email signatures 5 weeks ago:
Where’s the, “my email address in the from field will do”, fall on this? 😂
- Comment on Given how paintball guns work, could you swap paintballs for a waterballs? 1 month ago:
Thanks for the heads up! I’ve not played paintball so I didn’t know what kinda paint the standard stuff was using, and was mostly thinking about a way to minimize any clean up involved.
Kinda contrary to some of the fun of the game, but everyone likes to play differently.
- Comment on Given how paintball guns work, could you swap paintballs for a waterballs? 1 month ago:
Thanks for the link, and clear paint didn’t occur to me, so that may be a good option too!
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- Comment on And he would've gotten away with it 1 month ago:
What if it was the cops’ boss, moonlighting as a pizza shop boss and ultimately as an inept robber?
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 1 month ago:
isn’t space just like, an inverse ocean?
- Comment on ain't your buddy, pal! 1 month ago:
Speaking of brotymology, what’s a gender neutral version of bro/man?
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- Comment on Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)? 2 months ago:
Mentioning @Diddlydee@feddit.uk here to address you both in your similar corrections rather than duplicate my reply: I stand corrected.
I see that I had misconstrued my personal misgivings with the penalties of failing to pay with a lack of legal ownership.
It still feels off, precarious, to describe it as ownership to me, but I recognize what you’re both saying regarding the legal standing of it all.
- Comment on We are so cooked 2 months ago:
hello frog, that is sad to hear, have you tried calling doompost?
(how is there no !doompost??)
- Comment on Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)? 2 months ago:
Own as in mortgages/loans paid off, I take it? That’s the slight distinction I’m thinking of with expensive items that typically can’t be bought outright. It’s not wholly owned until mortgage/loan is paid off, which you kinda nod towards with your last sentence.
- Comment on Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)? 2 months ago:
In the vein of houses and cars, yeah. I should get in a better habit of elaborating on ambiguous terms in the body, only haven’t as I’ve mixed experience with people skipping over those.
- Comment on Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)? 2 months ago:
How does one account for maintenance costs with this view? Even barring taxes, you may have to pay for upkeep either in materials or contracting out services to assist in maintenance.
- Comment on Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)? 2 months ago:
Thanks for this info! I was unaware of this given how rarely it’s mentioned.
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- Comment on Anyone have advice for a beginner planning on getting AWS CP license? 2 months ago:
You might try cross-posting to !ask_experienced_devs@programming.dev for more advice.
- Comment on Why is it sometimes difficult to start doing what one enjoys? 2 months ago:
You’re after this format:
!avpd@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Why is it sometimes difficult to start doing what one enjoys? 2 months ago:
sometimes, but…why?
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- Comment on Didn't believe what I was seeing 3 months ago:
FV?
- Comment on Thankfully all my shitposts seem to be in order 3 months ago:
Are shitposts still shitposts if they’re in order?
- Comment on Why isn't free stuff (public domain/noncommercial) discussed as much as paid stuff? 3 months ago:
That addresses a slightly different question. Supposing people know of the free stuff, why isn’t it discussed more?
- Comment on Why isn't free stuff (public domain/noncommercial) discussed as much as paid stuff? 3 months ago:
Good points! Although I feel like I may be out of the loop on some of the discussion/mention of archive.org stuff, which likely speaks to me being out of it more broadly regarding discussions of other related materials.
- Comment on Why isn't free stuff (public domain/noncommercial) discussed as much as paid stuff? 3 months ago:
Kind of surprised there aren’t more comments along these lines. This was floating around the back of my head as much as some of the other responses.
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