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The audacity and randomness of it - System of a Down with the lyrics 'I don't think you trust In my self-righteous suicide' in Chop Suey plays fine in the same playlist.

No objections about 'Hurt' by NIN/Johnny Cash also.

Doesn't work in Chrome even after confirming age and accepting that it can contain 'topics related to self-harm'

Great new feature! Such impact! Happy perf!

GitHub Copilot 5 years ago

It's solving 'mechanical' problem. The optimistic twist on this helper is that it just raises the bar - human programmer should better be more useful than 'brainless' code generator - meaning not only being able to write a loop or solve leetcode task, but also understand context and what he's trying to solve for.

As you say typing code is not a bottleneck for problem solving

GitHub Copilot 5 years ago

So if it was trained using "source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub." was it also GPLv2?

So everything generated also GPLv2?

RTS game on gamepad. That would require proper 're-imagining' - I guess that's why there're only artsy menus to show for

"Even though it was discovered by physicists, it's not a physical theory in the same sense as electromagnetism or general relativity. <...> Quantum mechanics is what you would inevitably come up with if you started from probability theory, and then said, let's try to generalize it so that the numbers we used to call "probabilities" can be negative numbers."

https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html

"people with depression and similar mental health problems aren't welcome at Stripe"

That an interesting question. Would you like to work in a tandem with a person with mental health problems? Is it the same as asking "people with chronic fatigue and similar health issues are not welcome at company specialized at manual labor" ?

AlmostTotallyNewthon would be better, correct. Would shift discussion from 'upgrade' to 'migration' without all the usual cries. Other than that it's understandable that some architecture decisions from 1991 haven't aged well.