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> Don't get me started on cars that display usage in kWh/h per 100km. Yes, you read that right.

ICEs use litres per 100km which I think is where this comes from. And I hate it. miles-per-gallon is much easier to understand I think. I wish we could have split the difference in the EU and just had km-per-litre. I'd rather know how far a tank will get me than how much fuel I'll use to travel exactly 100km

Did you read the article? Quote:

> It's fair to say that my experiment isn't rational because of the sub-optimal solar conditions. Yet, I'm unreasonably obsessed by solar power and I wanted to make it work, even if it didn't make sense from an economic or environmental perspective2.

This is just a fun experiment

code reviews are not the be-all and end-all of a coding job.

in-person interview can give you some insight into what it might be like to work with a person day to day, it has more value than a take-home test in a lot of ways.

I'm not sure exactly what this is supposed to be

Recently had to hire a new dev, and one of the submissions used chatGPT to generate a solution for our take-home test.

The really clever thing was, they did a line by line breakdown of the solution chatGPT came up with, keeping certain parts and throwing out others, giving reasons why each part deserved to stay or be tossed.

Then they wrote a second solution incorporating parts of the first and their own original code, which was genius. They put it all in a readme file with the solution. It instantly put them at the top of our candidate pile.

Unfortunately, the in person interview didn't go so well so we didn't hire them.

Smart approach though. If they'd just used ChatGPT to come up with some bog standard interview questions and solutions they'd probably have walked right into a job with us.

from "fainne" which means ring. Making fake rings was apparently a common enough scam that it gave its name to fawney which became phony

phony? did I spell it wrong?

Jokes on them! I'm old and lazy.

The origin of Shenanigan as "sionnach uighm" is very questionable. Seems like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.

Hooligan definitely does come from Irish, from a troublesome family O'Houlihan

A few other interesting English words that come from Irish: Galore (from Go leoir, meaning a lot), bother, a slew of, phoney, bog and bogeyman, and unsurprisingly "whiskey".

> guess we'll see

well, we probably won't

> the moment you have guns, action and death

So no John Wick fanfic then

Anyone can already watch Seinfeld forever since the DVDs came out

no more than fan-fiction, it would be a popularity contest.

"Firefly season 2 by rustyBones447 is the best one"

> Incidentally, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 already give us this capability with smaller pieces of fiction. You can literally alter any short story like I described above, today. Anyone can. And somehow, I don't see any takers. I think people realize there's no entertainment value in it. Hence, this is what might just save Hollywood et al.

Writing, even prompting, is more work than reading, and it takes some of the fun out of it - plot twists are no fun if you told someone what they should be.

can we add a "new" button? I have to refresh to do it a second time

> With self-generated movies (shows, books, games, ...), there will be no process of discovery to enjoy, no immersion to experience. There will be nothing to share or discuss with others, as everyone will have their own version of the story.

I don't think so. I think users will share what they've generated like they do now with midjourney images.

If I decided to "generate" a pilot episode of a show about robot ninjas fighting a secret war on mars, and it turns out really well, I'll share it on youtube. if enough people like it I might do ep2, or ep3. Then it becomes that shared reality.

Obviously if anyone can just say "gimme a show about robots on mars" instead of looking at what others have already created, the audience might not be as big, but no more than midjourney I'd imagine there will still be some talent and finesse involved in getting the prompts just right, and most people will be too lazy and prefer to browse what others have already done

I'm sure we're not the only ones. Probably half the AI industry wants to be able to do that

Maybe OpenAI doesn't get it, but Midjourney has no problems showing me Mickey Mouse

https://preview.redd.it/n6wdyhyz9dra1.png?width=960&crop=sma...

https://preview.redd.it/9djj6tdflu3a1.png?width=1080&crop=sm...

https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/search/?q=mickey%20mouse...

And if we've learned anything about AI in the last 6 months we've learned:

1) AI is probably trained on data obtained without the creators permission

2) AI responses are very hard to control, and easily jailbroken

we're only a few years away from getting season 2 of firefly, as it would have looked in 2004

How far away are we from an AI which can hallucinate and simulate.

The year is 2026

"hey, how can I watch 'avatar 3 - tokyo drift' today? it's not out yet." "easy, just go onto ftp.disney.com and download it". "really?? can you do it for me?" "yeah here it is"

suspiciously fast response arrives, with a video which is a movie about blue aliens that gpt6 has just asked midjourney 8 to create for it.

This is great, I've found four shows I never knew about in the first 30 seconds!

Now I can add them to my endless list of things I need to do =)

coming soon: rooftop mercurial panels

Does that mean you could use light from Mercury to start a fire?

a 5cm lens from a dollar store can burn things in the focal point

I've had that same thought. How far away are we from true "video on demand"

- Show me the second season of Firefly, set after the events of Serenity - Remake Flash Gordon in the style of John Carpenter, with Roddy Piper as Flash - Create a 6 part mini-series, a modern day retelling of Seven Samurai, in 2050 Tokyo underworld, with Hiroyuki Sanada and Ken Watanabe - I'm too busy to read this obscure book from project gutenberg, make a movie of it for me - Here's a one-pager I wrote, give me a trailer for it with Keanu Reeves as the main star

ok, bad example. maybe the CME will take out the alien fleet

In the short term, I'm concerned about the energy required to run things like ChatGPT and how everyone is cramming it into everything. Soon every todolist app on your phone will need a supercomputer running in the background to auto arrange your grocery list, and we'll double or triple our datacenter footprint within a few years.

there would also be a raging debate about the fairness of who should pay for the meteor. politicians would use it to score points on opponents, and try to claim that if elected they would get country X to pay more for the meteor since they have a higher population etc

the two examples we hear are - meteors with 100% certainty of hitting - climate change

I'd like to hear opinions on other thing. would nations unite against alien invasion? a solar flare? killer robots?

"Why should America pay for a meteor that's going to hit Russia?"