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by Barrin92 1y ago
It's not defeatism at all. I think it's just important to acknowledge that a browser, or software at the scale of Microsoft is real work, these are objectively gigantic engineering efforts and not all of the people at those firms
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by Barrin92 1y ago
"everyone else" in this case is pretty much only the debian ecosystem because they insist on enforcing a serial lock policy from the 1980s. It's fine if Debian wants to move at the speed of a Soviet committee but I don't
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by Barrin92 1y ago
Modern web browsers are in the range of 30 million LOC, probably 50% of that is just pure implementation of web platform standards and engine work. Do you just need to advertise stuff among content creators these days with common sense goin
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by Barrin92 1y ago
> If quantum computers start breaking things, people will transition to more secure systems. that's not really the issue, the real interesting part is existing encrypted information that three letter agencies likely have dutifully s
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Is there any case for anyone to make inside or outside Meta that AI is needed to build the future of human connection? No, Facebook's strategy has always been the inverse of this. When they support technologies like this they'
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by Barrin92 1y ago
Yes. The problem isn't the letter of the law, it's that governing bodies like the EU need something like an enforcement czar who tells companies in no uncertain terms that if they're going to try to be clever they're goi
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Because I doubt finding a well paying job that you love is something that is achievable in our society, Which is why I stressed twice, including in the part you chose to quote, that I am talking about people who can achieve that. If you
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>A bit harsh off a single post. I don't think it is. Labeling passion and love for your work "tech fetishism", is spiritually bankrupt. Mind you we're in general here not talking about people working in a mine to surv
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by Barrin92 1y ago
Yes, I am concerned about the Computer Science profession >"“Brain Rot” for LLMs isn’t just a catchy metaphor—it reframes data curation as cognitive hygiene for AI" A metaphor is exactly what it is because not only do LLMs not
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by Barrin92 1y ago
one thing that I've never regretted, and is paying dividends, is that I've been buying and collecting physical music since I was a teen and grown my own library. Thankfully I have a lot of music buffs in my family who encouraged i
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Is it really so crazy for one venture capitalist to believe that the Antichrist is real? I think it's pretty crazy to take a man at face value who claims to believe in the real presence of the anti-Christ and literalist reading of
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by Barrin92 1y ago
Horrible news, he wasn't even 30 years old. There's something oddly devastating about seeing people pass away in these online communities. I've never been one to really be affected by celebrities passing away, but I remember
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>Keep in mind Xubuntu is mostly a community effort, not a large corporation with seniors who know how to handle this "best". which is why the whole distro zoo and "stick it to the man" theatre has always been a nightm
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by Barrin92 1y ago
Not really a fan of this econ 101 language given that it if anything drastically understates the importance of attention. I prefer Ian McGilchrist's framing of attention as a moral act: "Attention is a moral act: it creates, brin
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by Barrin92 1y ago
I think that's most people. I never even knew that I had tinnitus (still don't know if I do frankly) because if you've put me in a dead silent room I've always heard some very low kind of 'static' for a lack of
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by Barrin92 1y ago
I assume that perspective applies only to West Germans (which btw I happen to be and it's nonsense here too), but Pakistan[1] didn't replace one third of their energy supply in the last few years because they're such yuppies,
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this is in the same category as "the law in its majestic equality forbids both beggars and rich men to sleep under bridges". DHH advocates "no politics at work" because as a powerful guy that's organized politics po
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by Barrin92 1y ago
It's curious that Kurzweil's predictions about transcending biology align so closely with his expected lifespan. Reminds me of someone saying, if you ask a researcher for a timeline of a breakthrough they'll give you the expe
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>It’s undeserved and arguably more easily preventable is it though? Crime has been with us since the dawn of civilization. It's easier to tell a story in which crime is personalized and framed as preventable but in reality there&#x2
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>but is becoming more like it it isn't though, that's the point. It's already more disorderly, arbitrary and unpredictable, the point is you have no expectation when you go to the US these days. You're not getting Pru
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>If you don't like autocracy, China is way worse than the US. as a European who frequently travels to both, in recent history it was at an American airport, not China that I was being asked for my social media profiles and had a 30
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Manufacturing is an inferior way to make money sure in the sense in which operating an airline or high speed rail network makes you less money than running an ad or porn website but the world doesn't run on money, it runs on infras
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by Barrin92 1y ago
I don't think it's necessary to take the OP literally, but directionally it's correct. Looking at American society, the Trumps, Kardashians, Clintons, Roosevelts, Kennedys ... for a country that's so proudly republican,
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>and why were they retained for longer than was necessary? it's stated in the article. In most cases they weren't, the data breach only affected people who disputed the result of their age verification. Of course in principle D
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>Yes, you read that right. German law is especially protective of politicians, As Lee Kuan Yew pointed out, the idea that you should be able to slander anyone in power is a nice underdog philosophy (particularly popular in the US, where
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>We must negate the machines-that-think I wish we had machines that actually thought because they'd at least put an end to whatever this is. In the words of Schopenhauer, this is the worst of all possible worlds not because it could
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>The value proposition is not having vendor lockin there by definition is no vendor lock-in by forking an open-source engine. The worst case is the original maintainers going evil tomorrow and you being on your own, which is no worse tha
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>but fan subs are notorious for mistranslations and awkward hyperliteralism. funny to see the comment. I was rewatching JoJo, this time in dub, and just came across a line like this. (the context is a fight between two 19th century Briti
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>It's better to redirect that funding towards building the next generation of scientists and engineers rather than purple haired lib arts baristas. This is never what humanities at the university of Chicago represented, as the artic
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>Why? Memory bugs are hard to debug, potentially catastrophic (particularly concerning security) and in large systems software tend to constitute the majority of issues.[1] It is true that Rust is not absolutely memory safe and Zig provi

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