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by 0xEF 2y ago
Because laws exist to protect the wealthy, sadly.
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by 0xEF 2y ago
The trouble is some of us have bad eyes, so reading on eInk screens where the text is scalable is always preferred...and we will pay for that. I wish more small bloggers and authors would take these kinds of accessibility options into consi
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by 0xEF 2y ago
I hate that it kicks off with "DISCLAIMER: This is not my work. I would never and don't condone illegal hacking of scammers" You know what? I do. We all should. These scammers are awful people and deserve to be attacked. I am
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by 0xEF 2y ago
You are correct. My comment could also be read as "we are sick of companies putting profits over people with this disasterously cancerous 'growth at all costs' mindset." The AI boom is just the latest boil on our collect
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by 0xEF 2y ago
This sounds great. If you habe a development blog or github, etc, I'd love to follow along. Also, random idea for the company name; EnnuAI. A play on "ennui" promoting something like "hey, we do the tedious and boring st
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by 0xEF 2y ago
I disagree, partially. Yes, we are tired of the hype, but we are also tired of the focus on generative AI. I don't want AI to write stories, make pictures or be my girlfriend. Those are things best left to humans. I want AI to optimize
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by 0xEF 2y ago
Sigh. I'll see myself out.
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by 0xEF 2y ago
From my perspective as a small blogger, the general sentiment is yes, web scraping was a thing before the AI boom, but now it is an even bigger and far more careless thing. Just me two cents, though, mostly formed from chatting with other s
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by 0xEF 2y ago
Can you expound for the curious, like myself? I also see these two fields as diametrically opposed, but I'm open to having my mind changed, despite having a low-grade-but-persistent loathing for marketing in general.
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by 0xEF 2y ago
Low-effort replies like this need to die. Did you read through the comments on either link you lazily dug up? OP is looking for a structured learning, not a jumble of 30 academic papers with questions surrounding the legitimacy. OP also alr
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by 0xEF 2y ago
I hate this answer but have to agree with it. That we are in a position where small content creators are at the mercy of giants who regularly ignore the rules tells me the Internet is a lost cause. I am not even sure how we start to take ba
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by 0xEF 2y ago
That's not in keeping with my experience, even ignoring the fact that I am in North America. I've made hundreds of contacts in the EU during contests and only English was used. Do they perhaps use their native languages on local r
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by 0xEF 2y ago
Ham radio is not that hobby. For example, broadcasting is not allowed, one person-to-person comms. Subverting censorship? Not really. There's no cussing on the air, English only, make your contact to deliver info and move on. Maybe you
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by 0xEF 2y ago
Are you suggesting to just make the calendar in UTC with zero timezones? I agree that they are something we created, but we created them for better local organization. I work with customers globally and everyone uses them. This is a pretty
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by 0xEF 2y ago
Anthem is my favorite Stephenson book, by far. My copy is the only book I own with a broken binding because I've read it too many times. I don't think that one gets enough attention, especially from a world building and technical
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by 0xEF 2y ago
Doesn't this just shift having to protect the gathering unit to having to protect the resource itself? How does this result in a different player experience? Honest question, have not played the game and I am curious, since I am a bit
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by 0xEF 2y ago
There's a whole generation that proves that the brain tends toward resisting change. We call them Boomers in the US, although that word is used to describe more or a mindset than an age group these days, but one of the key components o
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by 0xEF 2y ago
Stink bug scent does not smell similar to cilantro to me, and I happen to be a person for which cilantro tastes like a bar of soap. Stink bug smell is typically closer to a pungent marijuana for me, but different enough to tell the differen
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by 0xEF 2y ago
I don't think you actually read them.
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by 0xEF 2y ago
Can you elaborate? I am curious. In my line of work, the 80/20 rule is often throw about, that being "to do 80% of the work, you only need 20% of the knowledge." I thought the other reply was talking about the same diminutive
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by 0xEF 2y ago
Can we admit that this was the state of the Internet content before LLMs and their introduction just accelerated and existing problem? I feel like the conversation around the information pollution is turning into "AI did it" and
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by 0xEF 2y ago
I would not call any of that a debunking, even quasi. Just a different dance around the same hard-to-swallow pill. Company X makes a great product that everyone only needs one of and lasts a long time. Over time, the market starts to dwindl
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by 0xEF 2y ago
That and being a bit more conscious of our consumer choices. If you jave that much left over, try keeping a food journal for the sake of getting a better idea of how much we actually consume in a month, then adjust your purchasing weights a
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by 0xEF 2y ago
Humans have been doing that for years. The AI problem is so prevalent because it seems to put a magnifying lense up to the worst portions of ourselves, namely how we process information and deceive each other. As it turns out, liars and c
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by 0xEF 2y ago
I've always felt that system lock was about preventing theft of the device data, not prevention of flipping the device itself. Like tons of other people, I have sensitive apps and data on my phone (banking, cloud services, etc), but un
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by 0xEF 2y ago
This will happen. These features are always ushered in as ways to make someone's life easier, and often that is exactly what it does, for a time, before some product manager figures out how they can maximize profit with it. Growth at
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by 0xEF 2y ago
For those interested, there is a matching Dymaxion House on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house
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by 0xEF 2y ago
I think the other reply is referring to folks who collect and sell old magazines. I can only speak from second-hand experience, though, as I knew a person who used to do this. When eBay was just getting started, she was collecting old magaz
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by 0xEF 2y ago
Correction: closer in structure, not "unstructured." Auto-correct is still nobody's friend after all these years.
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by 0xEF 2y ago
I'd argue it's far closer unstructured to IRC than AIM. I don't recall being invited to different AIM servers, etc. To me, Discord is like packaging IRC functionality in an ICQ box, which, for some reason, everyone seems to h

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