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It’s called hackthebox not hackoutofthebox
It’s called hackthebox not hackoutofthebox
It should be a basic requirement of literally any public office. That fact that we have got this far baffles me utterly.
Yeah I’ve been migrating away steadily. And what a shame! Now Google don’t get to use my emails to train their shit AI.
There’s a bit more to it than that
Pattern recognition is one thing that our brains do, it is a very long way away from the only thing our brains do.
I’d say if you have 80% of the requirements you might as well apply. I would frankly ignore years of experience more or less entirely.
It’s not exactly uncommon for a listing to advertise the person they want, but to accept applicants with significantly less on the basis that they can get there. Nearly every job I’ve ever got I was not at the level advertised in something or other.
Couldn’t disagree more. You’d miss out on such bangers as “Congratulations, you are being rescued. Please do not resist.”
No I will not fucking hear you out Jeremy
That’s true, I only relied on my phone until the first time it just didn’t work for no reason haha
Well of course we’re going to throw poo at him
Not that much different to losing your wallet before you could pay with your phone
Oh, sorry the 45 page document is for something else. The only person who understands this dataset is Dave and he was made redundant 5 years ago. Anyway, can you get this done today?
No thanks, I’ll stay home
Once you get the pattern in your head it’s pretty easy to remember where to go. The tricky part is actually holding up your ring finger on its own.
Base 10 on your hands is really base 1. Every finger is either 0 or 1 and we just count them! Base 12 we do have 12 positions each representing a digit, and two potential digits from our hands.
Binary is so much more efficient because you have 10 digits, just like in base 1, but you use them more efficiently.
The next logical step is trinary, if we can incorporate enough fingers it would go higher than binary. Wikipedia suggests three positions of your fingers - up, down, and somewhere in between, or folded - but I’d be surprised if anyone can realistically do that with all their fingers. However, using four fingers on each hand and pointing them at different knuckles/the tip of your thumb gets you 8 digits of base 4 (including not pointing at the thumb at all as 0)… And actually doesn’t tangle your fingers up too bad.
ChatGPT is not designed to fool us into thinking it’s a human. It produces language with a specific tone & direct references to the fact it is a language model. I am confident that an LLM trained specifically to speak naturally could do it. It still wouldn’t be intelligent, in my view.
If only we could combine the two and get to 2^12… Sadly, this would require 12 thumbs.
Ooh, actually you can get to 2^8 without worrying about those pesky tendon issues by putting your fingertips against your thumb instead of trying to extend your fingers… Hmmm… Maybe we can even go to 2^10 this way by incorporating knuckles. Might lose some time today figuring out more hand counting systems. I wonder if anything higher than 2^10 is possible…
The best place to make new friends is at the urinals. It’s considered polite to strike up a conversation and if nothing else pass a friendly comment on your neighbour’s todger.
Hanging, for an opinion? That seems pretty un-libertarian, doesn’t it?