Barrin92

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by Barrin92 3mo ago
yes but that's exactly my point, if all you get is a code in a box and you rely on online services to download the game that's the dependence you need to get away from. That example is my case for full, offline, physical copies of
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
Discs matter because centralized digital distribution is what is eroding your rights . The medium's the message. It's the malleability and ephemerality of digital content that has enabled not just restricting people's rights
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
as the author points out, even thought in your own mind is a source of distraction and you can't run away from that. Fundamentally you can be at ease with city noise just like you can be with mental distraction. One of the big misconce
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
it does matter, things like the Data Protection API do meaningfully reduce what you can extract from a windows system. Of course Windows regardless has taken the brunt of the attacks because it ran virtually every desktop machine in the wor
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
>The human brain is just a tool, like any other organ. sorry the brain is a tool to who exactly in this ostensibly reductive worldview?
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
>More so than, say, Windows? Really? significantly so. Windows has a coherent story when it comes to permissions and access. Differentiated out access controls, least privilege, UAC, mandatory integrity control and all configured out of
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
Personally I don't. Wasting enormous amounts of resources on a technology that doesn't make money, can easily be copied, and eats up everyone's energy while at the same time can be downloaded over the internet is kind of stup
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
"The better work is usually calmer than people expect. It still moves[...] It does not worship motion for its own sake." There's two architects, Reiser and Umemoto who wrote a book called The Atlas of Novel Tectonics abou
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
International companies and institutions parking their money in Switzerland genuinely have as much to do with Europe as Russian Oligarchs in London have with the United Kingdom. The country's always been a financial haven for oligarchs
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
I do think this has always been the case, Jerry Pournelle funnily enough made a very similar observation back in 1986 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_(Internet_term)#Histor... .) People who post on the internet
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
I wonder how much news related issues have to do with the way news is presented rather than the frequency at which you read the news. Daily news reading doesn't strike me as concerning given that getting a newspaper delivered in the ma
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
Nolan, by his own account, has made clear that he doesn't consider himself captured by his audiences and makes what he likes so I'd say it's allowed to talk about inclusion or exclusion of material on their own merit, not wha
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
>it's weird how so many people pretend that they are citizens of the world 97% of the world aren't US citizens and if you've taken a look at pew research surveys (or travelled to the so-called global south) you're goi
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
the barrier to spinning up an alternative European Android operating system given that it's open source is not that high, see China, and my money would be on that happening within the next few years.
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
the real world doesn't consist of people sitting at home measuring square metal blocks. Judgement of just about anything sufficiently complex requires discernment, a critical eye, intuition and even taste. A codebase and its long term
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
>We don't need to understand them to be able to verify they work correctly I don't think that's the case and it's becoming more obvious every day. From people who cannot distinguish truth or fiction on online platform
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
If the point here is serious bible study the choice of translations are abysmal, most of these, especially the Latter Day Saints translation, are purely confessional not even translated from Greek or Hebrew manuscript. And the ostensible go
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
does anyone need to get the 'rest of the world' to pay attention? That's already a crowded market of questionable characters. There's something ironic and self-defeating in trying to write to the whole world while also h
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
and they still can do this. Again nobody, by definition, can stop you from consuming documentation using machine translation, what you cannot do per these guidelines is contribute translations or documentation using an LLM or pretend yo
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
this doesn't prevent you from reading documentation in whatever language you like. If you're saying this is the end of someone communicating with you through an LLM despite not speaking the language, that should never happen and I
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
>It is in essence an attack on the human spirit. Although this is by no means a consensus view on the human spirit. Culture and civilization are in many ways simply what you describe, means of domesticating the human animal. It's qu
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
IQ levels have decreased in the 21st century, it's known as the reverse Flynn effect, Norway did a large scale study on almost a million people because they have a lot of military data and accounting for genetics IQ peaked for people r
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
I think if anyone at Apple signs a plea that has the word 'open' in it they spontaneously combust into flames
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
their reputation, future and business and the fact that people can go somewhere else, just like anywhere else in the open source world. What stops RedHat from putting genius level scams into their operating systems? The fact they're do
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
>from what is actually important in writing, which is forming your thoughts for one it's not clear to that this is what is actually important in writing or unrelated. That's just a bias in a culture that systematically neglects
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
>your brain is doing more does not mean it's doing the right thing! the thing it's doing when writing with your hand is fine motor control, one of the most important and distinguishing abilities that humans have. I tutor in a m
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
the same way United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart defined porn in Jacobellis v. Ohio, you know it when you see it
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
you shouldn't if that concerns you. Any organization or project that's value driven is going to turn people away who feel they run afoul of those values, that's the point. It's a non-profit, they don't gain anything
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
I genuinely do wonder why that has been the trajectory. When you look at the almost futuristic vision of interacting with living, programmable software objects and environments that evolve over time and you get a glimpse of it in Emacs, Pha
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by Barrin92 3mo ago
>Training a SOTA model takes a huge amount of resources and expertise so the people doing the training are adding a lot of value along the way. producing the entire body of human knowledge that Silicon Valley companies absorbed like the

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