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Sometimes your friends online can be 450% more supportive than your friends offline.
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This is unacceptable! 😢
Criminal.
#TaxiStrike
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Hey #100Devs friends! It's time for Jeopardy! Let's build a fully-interactive Jeopardy board using React and the jservice.io/ API. Fully randomized categories make for a challenging game every time! Join us today (08/06) at 3pm ET on Twitch!
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An amazing truth that keeps revealing itself is that God opens and lets you through doors you never knew existed.
#Blessings🌼
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For decades, gays and lesbians fought to free ourselves from the shackles of gender conformity. We stood up for masculine females and feminine males to live peacefully as who they are, without being weighed down by conventional gender norms that tell people how to look, act, and behave.
Gender ideology puts those shackles right back at society’s feet. We will never forgive this cult for what it has done to our community and decades of hard work to abolish gender stereotypes.
There is no right or wrong way to be a boy or a girl. Let kids be kids!
#GaysAgainstGroomers
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Reddit has no equal. 😅
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cc @ConCaracal @BigDaddyLiberty @k9_reaper – at Edenvale, South Africa
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There is a lot of nonsensical defence of this as being part of our liberatory cultural heritage. Singing this today is pure racial baiting. It is an attempt to make some citizens feel as if they do not belong. Its juvenile reactionary politics at its worse & will destroy SA.
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You're maturing when you want to build a future. When you stop chasing approval and superficial attention. When you want to thrive and help those around you do the same.
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What if I told you that you don't earn money to buy fancy things but that you earn money so you can stop worrying about money?
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Hop in with Leon Noel as we discuss the cost of boot camps, the challenges of time constraints, and job opportunities for underrepresented communities. Featuring @bdougieYO and @leonnoel, don't miss out on today's episode of The Secret Sauce! #educationforall
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USING GOOGLE MAPS IN THE VILLAGE 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
#STANDAGAINSTDEPRESSION
#crazykennarmakingthecountryhappy – at Central, Kenya
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I've mentioned this before, a big reason for the drop in Stack Overflow visits isn't even the fact that LLMs have grown in popularity but it was because there weren't even decent options that were available before!
How many people were using Stack overflow but were afraid to even ask a question because they would be put down?
Do you know why that behavior was meme-ish? Because it happened so frequently.
About a year ago in my Discord someone said something that I have never forgotten. "This place is like Stack overflow but without the judgement! I feel like I can really find answers here."
So when you have an AI that may steer you in the right direction but it doesn't make you feel bad for asking that question, it seems like the safer choice!
Now I will say, and have said repeatedly, part of this shift does scare me because a lot of these tools are so damn confident, even when wrong.
I am interested to see how this continues but also not surprised to see the current level of results.
50% of StackOverflow traffic is gone!
Look at the attached chart. It tells a scary story that will not be limited to StackOverflow.
Right now, detecting AI-generated content is impossible.
Last week, OpenAI shut down the tool they created for this purpose. They launched it in January, and it's dead today, less than seven months later.
Their statement: "The AI classifier is no longer available due to its low rate of accuracy."
I'm not surprised about any of these two events.
I don't remember the last time I visited StackOverflow. Why would I when tools like Copilot and ChatGPT answer my questions faster without making me feel bad for asking?
And I'm even less surprised about OpenAI killing their tool: Many believe detecting AI-generated text is impossible. I'm one of them.
Here's what OpenAI had to say about this:
"We are (...) currently researching more effective provenance techniques for text, and have made a commitment to develop and deploy mechanisms that enable users to understand if audio or visual content is AI-generated."
Notice how they differentiate text from audio and visual content. For the latter, they seem confident they'll find a way to recognize humans from AI. For text, they are not and are word-salad'ing us with a vague "researching more effective provenance techniques."
StackOverflow famously banned any AI-generated answers from the site.
That's the wrong move.
Instead, we need to find a way where human and AI-generated content coexist and benefit from each other. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle, so how can we get the most out of it?
Do you think StackOverflow will survive? What can they do to fend off what seems to be a life-threatening event?
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*IF YOU DIE TODAY, YOUR "NEXT OF KIN" WILL NOT HAVE ANY AUTOMATIC ACCESS TO THE MONEY IN YOUR BANK ACCOUNT!!!
*So Many Families Think That Their Next Of Kin Are The Automatic Heir To Their Bank Accounts. But The TRUTH Is That If Your Next Of Kin Is Not A Signatory To Your Bank Account, And You Don’t Have A Written Will To Determine That Person’s Legitimacy, The Person Will Not Have Automatic Access To That MONEY At All. Your Bank Will Have To Go Through A Process Called A LEGAL PROBATE.*
*This Probate Period Helps Them Determine Who Gets The MONEY In The Account. This Is A Lengthy And Costly Process. Even After The Whole Process Is DONE, Your FAMILY Will Have To FORFEIT Some Very REASONABLE Amount Of The MONEY For LEGAL FEES.*
*But If You Want To Avoid This, Simply Request For Your Bank To Give You Something Called A POD Form. POD Stands For "PAYABLE ON DEATH". The Name Of The Person You Fill In That POD Form Will Determine Who Will Get Your MONEY. All The Person Needs To Bring Is A Death Certificate To Get That MONEY Out.*
*With A POD Form, You Will Save Your FAMILY The Stress Of Going Through All That Lengthy Legal Process And Even Losing Some MONEY To The Legal Costs *
*I Just Thought, I Should Let You Have Record Of This Important Information
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