Barrin92

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by Barrin92 7mo ago
not if your product is selling two dollars for one dollar and as soon as you'll start to charge more I'll switch to one of your twenty competitors profit isn't a function of having a killer product, it's a function of ha
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
I don't think the reason is primarily that games target men but rather that very few women are interested in this stuff: Traditionally feminine activities and aesthetics are a wellspring of untapped potential in video games. In Consum
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
tbf I think the 'normie' world already believed that given that the president currently in charge ... campaigned on avoiding more wars. Not that anything makes a lot of sense these days but I still remember the atmosphere around t
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
I don't buy the analogy. The problem with Kessler syndrome is that low earth orbit is physically crowded, you run into collisions. I don't care about the garbage. I don't care about the AI era. I've been writing code in
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
As the article hints at the idea of an "adult" is closely tied to the structured, 'on rails' lifestyle of the industrial age. In rich societies people live on a linear track: vocation/uni, job, marriage etc. When
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
this is a false equivalence. Amazon and Meta have caused plenty of damage, companies in our capitalist economies are bad etc. But shipping you books or connecting you to other people isn't inherently evil. There's nothing wrong wi
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
this is my personal favorite: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>it could easily start confirming their suspicions to be fair it will easily confirm any suspicion for the reasons you laid out, so even if you have no technical knowledge just a bit of interrogation will break the parlor trick. I hones
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
Cheap hypersonics don't threaten global stability, they threaten global hegemony. Which is really what I suspect irks most people afraid of them. We've seen a shift towards cheap offensive capacity that gives middle powers or even
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>But life as is is already so spontaneous Is it? I think the exact opposite is true. Most people's life is a walking calendar. these days if someone can't "schedule" something they're losing their minds. Life was
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>It’s existential for us to keep up with the demands of AI and Copilot if by chance the CTO reads this, as a user of GitHub I would find it really existential if GitHub continues functioning as a reliable hub for git workflows (hence t
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
except this isn't a game of sports and a private company doesn't gain anything from attempting to "hack back" a foreign adversary. It just costs them resources and makes them an even larger target. And given that those a
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
I do find the slow Sovietization of America funny, both mentally and economically. The year is 2050, autarky on energy has been established, the markets cut off, politics in the hands of erratic and geriatric leaders. Americans proudly driv
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>There are real, impressive examples of the power of agentic flows there aren't, and just like the blockchain "industry" with its "surely this is going to be the killer app" we're going to be in this circus
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
> The EU is not much better either. the share of renewables of the EU at ~55% of net energy generation is almost twice as high as China's or America's, only Latin America fairs better. Germany essentially front ran this industr
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
That's not really the point. The issue is that a soldier almost certainly without a lot of thought ended up leaking information that he wasn't aware of leaking. And furthermore identifiable information of a particular individual,
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>People who are not aware who isn't aware? If we were in the 80s and you lived in a village without an internet connection, sure but today everyone is aware of the means to liberate their computing environment or whatever else is bu
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
the ridiculous anthropomorphism is killing me. Software 'agents' can't ask for 'approval', they're not persons. That's like saying my script didn't ask me for approval to modify the system after I ran
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>ignoring the concerted efforts to influence those actions Ignorance isn't the point. The issue is that it's your responsibility to stop them. the buck always stops at "I". Are they just going to stop themselves? Is y
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>Life is full of variable reward schemes. Probably why we evolved to be so enamoured by them. Important to point out that that every high culture produced restrictions on exactly those behaviors, gambling was a universal vice when that c
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
Genuinely baffled by the logistics of this. The article makes it sound like these are large numbers of people in NK or surrounding countries who rely on Google translate, so not sophisticated spies or whatever. Even if they get their hands
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>Cite your sources, please we need sources for the fact an electric motor, all other things being equal, is better than a combustion engine? If you agree that people in general value the health of their lungs that alone is sufficient rea
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
because we don't value them at all, literally. It's a tragedy of the commons, internet pollution is like air pollution, the polluters don't pay and there's no cost associated with overusing other people's attention.
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>corruption is, rather than a problem, a necessary element of society to keep things going. There's a prof at Johns Hopkins, Yuen Yuen Ang, who wrote a whole book on the topic in China. She dubbed this 'access money'. Corr
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
universities aren't job centers either. They don't supply you with food and shelter, you pay them money and they give you the education you want. Which can mean making a lot of money if you happen to pick something private busin
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
my old CS prof at my uni used to say when this question came up "do you sign up for an astronomy course and expect they teach you how to build a telescope?" It's always puzzled me why people sign up for an academic education
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
>There were more wars before any type of mechanisation of warfare yes but they weren't comparable. With the exception of ancient Chinese wars which are a bit of an odd case given the population sizes and that they kept sending farme
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by Barrin92 7mo ago
you couldn't because someone who sexts people for 2$ an hour is always going to engage in wage slavery, and if that is what offends you, you could just ban it directly. We all know it's not the point though, you're just offen
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by Barrin92 8mo ago
so we'll get the actual Mahdi and a Butlerian Jihad? Bless the Maker

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