count_dongulus

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[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 145 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (13 children)

I really hate these awful "puzzles". They only work by the asker intentionally withholding what, if any, constraints exist in the problem space leaving it totally vague, but of course there ARE secret constraints revealed if you violate them with your answer.

Me: "I do it without flipping any switches. I just ask the lightswitches which one controls the light, and they tell me."

Interviewer: "That's not allowed."

Me: "Well what exactly is allowed? Can I pull the cables out of the wall and see which connects to the bulb? Oh, I bet that's not allowed. How about I open my smart home app and just check which of the smart switches is labeled for it? Oh, I bet it's not a smart switch so I can't do that either? Oh, then the bulb has a chime that boops when it comes on, so I just listen for the boop. Oh that's not allowed either? Wait wait wait, the walls are glass, so I just watch to see when the bulb comes on when I flick the switches."

Even the canonical answer makes a dumb assumption. Ordinary LED bulbs don't get hot.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Ya but is it fun? Star Citizen is playable but like...last time I tried it, there wasn't quite a gameplay loop yet.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

The orgs publishing this junk are pushing the writers to use AI. So the writers and editors can't shit talk AI because their boss will get upset.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My wife is pregnant with a baby boy. Doctors today just told us if he survives to birth, he will be profoundly mentally disabled. I don't know how to financially prepare for this. Is there anything that can prevent our child from having a difficult life?

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I bet we would start to see chinese adapters showing up on the market with DisplayPort to HDMI2.1 though.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 62 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

It's $1.2M to gain majority share on the HDMI board, but it sure would be nice if someone gave $1.2M to one of the engineers with access to that cryptographic DRM keys for the binary to "apparently get hacked" and have the keys magically appear online.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

"I don't use social media, and I don't have an email."

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That guy has the dead eyes and fake smile of MrBeast

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If all you do is read the little statements booklet they send out, and then do the mail vote based on that, then AI is not in the loop unless the candidate is dumb enough to paste chatbot output into their statement.

Seriously people, get your friends and family off of the ragebait rectangle. Most "news" media today is just opinion wrapped with ads about content they bought from Reuters and AP.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Peremptory challenge, no reason needed. It's one of the six I get for the case. Next.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Language choice for a solution does not have anything to do with LLM capabilities. For someone's hobby project, maybe. Engineering departments do not work this way. Just because LLMs can write Java better than some other languages doesn't mean the next big game engine will be in Java.

 

Jesus was 100% Jewish circa year zero. Observed Torah, went to and taught at synagogues, celebrated Hannukkah, ate a kosher diet, etc. But Christians don't follow Jesus's own religious practices.

 

I had a thought the other day in relation to how impossible it is for a large country to make everyone happy with broad policies. There are big differences in opinions, values, economics, and cultures across a population. What one city, county, province, etc prefers for policy seems to be universally be overridden by "higher level" governance levels going to the top if they so choose. Are there any countries where lower level, more specific jurisdictions get to set policy overrides instead of vice versa? Like, a place where nationwide laws are defaults, but smaller hierarchies can pass laws to supercede the higher defaults?

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