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by 1attice 4y ago
I think probably memgraph.com is what's going on with neo4j
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by 1attice 4y ago
I began implementing a PAM module for MIDI, but that was years ago and the repo got garbage collected. The idea was that your password (or second factor) would be a tune, played in just the right way, with the right emphasis and velocity an
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by 1attice 4y ago
> my basic question is, how can we be sure that chatGPT (or even the whole of GPT-3) is really not just some callcenter in the Philippines? Because everyone in that call center just got fired and replaced with, as the old t-shirt said, &
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by 1attice 4y ago
It's a shame, too, because I'm a professional React dev, and I was really excited to try this! But there's some sort of thermocline-of-trust issue with a self-identified manufacturer of software engineering tools can't c
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by 1attice 4y ago
If you go to https://www.codux.com/download in FF there is no link. If you go to https://www.codux.com/download on Chrome on NixOS, you are offered a .deb when you click a button named 'Linux'. Ub
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by 1attice 4y ago
I recently concluded a successful job hunt with a protonmail address. I used `@pm.me` alias, which I guess didn't ring any alarm bells.
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by 1attice 4y ago
'people wondered the same after the fire was discovered' is also what people said after nuclear fission was discovered. And it was as misleading a comparison then as it is today. It's worse than that, though. We didn't h
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by 1attice 4y ago
And I think you're being dangerously complacent. I in no way claim that we all need the same grasp on truth. I do however claim that there are ideas which can be described as 'absurd.' A large number of these ideas later tu
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by 1attice 4y ago
I've never heard of this documentary, but if it makes false claims, then, yes, it should be labelled fiction, and possibly downranked. This seems so morally obvious to me, and the converse so plainly wicked, that I'm going to assu
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by 1attice 4y ago
Yes, the flat-earthers are indeed shown as relatable, flawed, silly human beings, but the show is still driven by scientists. Imagine how _Behind the Curve_ would have played if it had instead shown those astronomers as being part of a secr
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by 1attice 4y ago
It's harmful because it means that it presents things which are known with near-certainty to be falsehoods as truths or potential truths. This is being done by Netflix for profit, which ought to be bad enough to end the conversation ri
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by 1attice 4y ago
Astronomers can and do rage against flat-earthers; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8132700/ What is dangerous is not that a harmless old man is tenuously attached to reality, but rather that a corporation with global
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by 1attice 4y ago
Which thesis, specifically?
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by 1attice 4y ago
Because facts do not speak for themselves. Because what happens instead is that you repeat your interlocutor's claims, you validate the existence of a discourse at all -- and discourses necessarily have two sides. Consider the followin
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by 1attice 4y ago
A nonsense-word I made up to sound vaguely like 'lissome'. The card-tip is that it's next to the word 'nonsensorium'.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Judging from the real-time changes in ChatGPT's behavior, I'd wager that someone reading this comment section has the incredibly unique 2022 experience of cauterizing the abilities of a near-AGI in realtime, under the watchful eye
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by 1attice 4y ago
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by 1attice 4y ago
I don't know if one comment counts as 'turning', but, a-propos of nothing, any authoritarian moment involves the reevaluation of previous dissident heroes
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by 1attice 4y ago
This is like watching the world's smartest people discover the philosophical impact of Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem in real time. 'I cannot be played on record-player A'
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by 1attice 4y ago
I have an original theory, and it goes like this. Generalizing, tech progress swings repeatedly and unpredictably between three optimands or poles: Developer-first, User-first, and Machine-first. Developer-first tech is like Flash -- it&#x2
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by 1attice 4y ago
That's actually horrible. The immediate impact is that someone who is the victim of fraud is then stigmatized and systematically denied access to financial service. The knock-on impact is even worse, though, as it means there is a st
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by 1attice 4y ago
There are three comments to this post, and they are all along the lines of, "well of course they lied that's their job, you should know better." Firstly, this isn't about me -- I was smart; I took a different option. But
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by 1attice 4y ago
I really find these mea-culpas hard to take when I know even just a smidge more than they expect. In this case, I did a Doordash technical screen three months ago during a job hunt. Recruiter painted a rosy picture of growth and outlook, sl
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by 1attice 4y ago
Generalizing, rules about P only exist when there is consensus about what is or is not P . So if you're unfortunate enough to be living through an era where literally everything is politicized, you can expect the definition of politi
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by 1attice 4y ago
> free speech > please do not free speech Pick one. After you've picked one, pick one of: > no politics pls > let's talk about the politics of free speech Also, I will give a shiny nickle to whoever can tell me a good
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by 1attice 4y ago
describing your opponent as "infected" is, in the most literal sense, dehumanizing. In this instance, for example, you used it as an excuse to stop thinking and talking. That's all that's needed. It scales. Fascism is a
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by 1attice 4y ago
Well, what about something like 'The Libs of Tiktok', a Twitter account that routinely posts the home addresses of trans people? They get away with this by posting the address on its own, but against a trans-symbol background. Tec
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by 1attice 4y ago
I'm always distressed when Americans act like this isn't a problem that Germany's strong anti-hate laws had to solve years ago, successfully. Which isn't to say that hate speech is solved problem in Germany -- but this o
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by 1attice 4y ago
Dude, the capitalist spent 44 BILLION dollars to fight the "woke mind virus". He proceeded by inducing Twitter to shed most of its LGBT, Black and female workforce -- those before/after team pics are gutting, and easily goo
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by 1attice 4y ago
off the top of my head: Crimethinc, a relatively boring and old leftist site, was banned recently and not reinstated AFAIK. There was that Friedman guy yesterday. Refusing to stick out your hand does not make the rain go away.

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