Barrin92

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by Barrin92 5mo ago
>You're being extremely negative about this whole endeavour without looking at the evidence that this effort is going far more smoothly than expected no I'm being negative because as I just said, if you want to do a purely synt
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>This is the same in COBOL-to-Java ports it isn't, because those guys didn't think a naive 1-1 machine translation would give them the benefits of Java, which somehow the people involved in this rust rewriting seem to think the
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>the US is able to refocus to the Pacific which is a more strategically relevant area this was the ostensible narrative for almost a decade but in reality the US has since then, threatened Europe with the annexation of Greenland, invaded
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if half of your files in a million line codebase are unsafe that doesn't tell you much any more. Presumably the point of a Rust rewrite is that you actually make use of Rust's safety features in a coherent way. But given the whole
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that would be an odd criticism because we never generated any meaningful amount of electricity from oil (and started importing Russian fossil resources 30 years before we turned nuclear power plants off). The chief source for energy in Germ
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halation (bleeding of the text into the background) happens for all people with astigmatism with white text on dark background but severity will obviously differ depending on your personal environment. But given that about 50% of people hav
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I'm not just talking about individual responsibility, but collective responsibility emerges from individual responsibility. You start with yourself, then your family, then your community, then your state, then your country, bottom up
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>Systems are designed for humans They also happen to be designed by humans, and if you're just begging to have the system fix people's beliefs about corporate greed for you but don't think people themselves are at fault
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by Barrin92 6mo ago
>Is this the right outcome? Yes, if you can't vouch for the quality of the code that is the correct outcome. The long term health and maintainability of an open source project takes precedence over adding another feature. This was t
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I think that's especially important to point out because it reminded me of a blog post by Obsidian that also was discussed here[1], where they talked about reducing supply chain risk by not relying on dependencies, but people quickly p
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Sure, for the long and more articulate version I'd point to this excellent essay by John Kessel ( https://johnjosephkessel.wixsite.com/kessel-website/creating... ) but in short, Ender is the archetypal victim hero.
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it's feasible to write good software but anything on the scale of millions of lines of code will have memory and pointer issues. I've worked in large C++ code bases with people much more experienced and skilled than I was and ever
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>has been a failure lately on "humane" in the broad sense. I never saw this as surprising because cyber-libertarianism reads like Gnosticism to me. Even in the sentence you quoted there's already the subtext of being left
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the entire point of encryption is that you don't trust the channel you communicate through, that's what it was invented for, communication across adversarial channels. Distrust is the only condition under which you need encryption
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It's not even remotely clear to me what this has to do with the topic at hand because insofar as gender plays into bullying girls tend to be more impacted than boys, and secondly corporal punishment and 'disciplining' women b
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I don't think that's a good way to think about the modern economy. Large companies aren't American, German or Polish just because they're founded in one place. The surplus value that a country like Poland adds or that al
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Demand, mass society and mass consumption/production aren't just a second order effect. Payment and incentives you have in pre-capitalist society. What defines the modern world is capital accumulation, hence the name. And capital
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>You can advocate for sustainability, right-to-repair, privacy etc. while being strongly capitalist just fine. you really can't. I mean I get the point that maybe anarchism or feminism are more contingent when it comes to their idea
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by Barrin92 6mo ago
>but I’m just interested in identifying the cancer aspects more specifically. the most obvious and maybe most concerning one is military related insider trading. Just two weeks ago a guy was sentenced for using classified information to
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>The problem is producing the copyrighted work, not processing it beforehand. the distinction isn't particularly clear cut with an open source model. If it is able to reproduce copyright protected work with high fidelity such that t
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what do you mean "likely neither did he", I literally linked you the piece in which he said it. And of course he of all people would make that (correct) point, because he was always the strongest advocate of the virtue of formal c
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The fact that moving is looked at this way, rather than as a chance for transformation is one of the biggest reasons for the current day malaise. Intra-country movement is in most of the developed world at an all time low, yet it's one
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>The fallacy here is the assumption that humans know why we do what we do. Much like modern LLMs we have an explanation Human brains and cognition do not work like LLMs, but that aside that's irrelevant. Existing machines can explai
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> Is everyone just creating giant piles of throwaway slop? yes, like the crypto or productivity 'industry', where every project exists to manage your other crypto and productivity projects, the dynamic of 'AI programming&#
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>How are the game companies supposed to determine that it adds negative value? Look at their own/industry data of comparable games that have been published with or without protection. I worked in the game industry, for AAA studios i
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>Isn't historically piracy positive for sales [1]? if it was for the companies who use Denuvo and it added negative value then Denuvo wouldn't exist as a business and game publishers would happily post their games to pirate sit
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unless you're going back to the cultural revolution, modern China is extremely pragmatic. It's a nominally socialist country that runs deregulated special economic zones with tens of millions of people and more economic competitio
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exactly, there's an entire commercial ecosystem for this too, so called 'shameware' (or in their own parlance 'accountability software') apps that exists to put you under religious surveillance ( https://a
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>we always used the turing test as a yardstick for consciousness, it seemed unachievable for a long time. Now thats its been achieved, what is the rationale for moving the goalposts?". that's never been the purpose of the Turin
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It is dumb and tasteless and nobody's being maimed for pointing that out, it's DFW's Infinite Jest made real. The psychedelics and shrooms analogy is very appropriate, because it gave us a generation of escapist idiots who fr

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