Barrin92

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by Barrin92 4mo ago
> Boring competence wins hands down. Users and customers are scouting for competence. Most of the time, their antennae are not in fact up for individual artistic expression. but even that doesn't really hold any more. The great slop
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>I'd wager the majority are hurt by creativity; real creativity is risky! yes, and who wants creativity and risk when everything can look like the interior of a McDonalds. I'd much rather look at someone's terrible and scu
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
JT Nimoy, responsible for the Tron scenes, had a nice write-up about their work on it as well: https://web.archive.org/web/20120502000130/https://jtnimoy.n...
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
yes I would not turn my whole company into a widget producing company, just like I wouldn't turn my 17th century Dutch company into a Tulip factory just because they're flying off the shelves. Mind you we're talking about Met
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>why should a company listen to a gallup poll of ~1,500 people over their own internal metrics? for the same reason Vladimir Putin should listen to Russian milbloggers rather than his own subordinates, the metrics are being cooked up by
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by Barrin92 4mo ago
I've seen this strange theory pop up a few times but it makes absolutely zero sense. For one even in the short term this is benefiting China as its the largest renewables producer in the world and much less exposed to ME fuels than Jap
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regulation that makes sure every paltform, foreign or domestic is open and competitive is vastly preferable to national oligarchies. Of course not to people to which this is some strange dick measuring contest but to people who want to maxi
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by Barrin92 5mo ago
>it isn't something that's uncommon as countries and nations and companies and all sorts of entities break or renegotiate agreements or contracts all the time. what the Swiss are trying to do here is very uncommon, in fact it&#
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by Barrin92 5mo ago
>These kinds of morally-superior, we'll show them, type of attitudes This is a strange framing that itself usually comes from a standpoint of moral superiority. When you sign agreements with a governing body, like the EU on freedom
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>What are the clear criteria that make something social media I have no idea why people are making some mysterious deep question out of this, wikipedia quite literally offers a definition[1]. Web 2.0 based platforms, user generated conte
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by Barrin92 5mo ago
haven't countless of red American states passed age verification laws in relation to adult entertainment recently? Or is that different because there's only AI but no porn oligarchs in Washington?
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>We're all at different stages of acceptance I do hope you see the irony of accusing people of armchair psychology and then hitting us with the five stages of grief. I trust rsync (which handles critical data on my system) because
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>Why don't you check out my work and decide for yourself? because no person can read every line of code written in software they use, or track every commit made to a project. Integrity and authorship matters. If a person lies or obf
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by Barrin92 5mo ago
yes because there's people who can't write but want to pretend that they can, just like the people who don't disclose they're using these tools. If you're the Gwyneth Paltrow of programming you're not making a
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by Barrin92 5mo ago
Hungary spent 5%(!) of its GDP on direct child benefits and instituted a lifelong tax exemption for women with 3 or more children and the birth rate rose by... ~0.15 for a few years and then dropped again. For comparison I assume you&#x27
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by Barrin92 5mo ago
>Normal people will still be able to get involved if they want to, there isn't much evidence that this is happening. When you eyeball the average age of maintainers on mailing lists these days for prominent open source projects like
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>The goal of every country should be to foster a sovereign software flywheel The very simple economic problem with this is that autarky does not increase aggregate output . Saying "I will do this myself", always requires the q
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by Barrin92 5mo ago
>is there a good way to signal both as a consumer? A good way? No. There's a way, which is to get a person with enough clout to yell at them on social media in the hope that it generates attention and scares them. There used to be
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by Barrin92 5mo ago
> Where is the historical analysis? Is it more apocalyptic now than during the cold war when kids hid under their desks? the Cold War apocalypse was solely military in nature which had few implications economically, whether you get nuked
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>how have you concluded that it’s certainly not an emergent property of something like a highly trained LLM? the same way I (and likely you) have concluded it for anything else. We don't assume objects that share no similarity with
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by Barrin92 5mo ago
>Do you have an actual point? Yes, the same one that's made in the article. Anxiety and happiness are emotional, sensory, somatic states as a consequence of evolved and embodied traits and biochemistry in animals. Saying Claude is a
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>and one side has anything less than overwhelming support except that's not the case here. Chiang is explaining and reiterating what is the position that has overwhelming support on the question, and the people he is arguing the opp
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>Why there are so many people that still believe that AI coding is a fad? Because there's not a single piece of evidence that this has improved the quality of the delivered software, or for that matter even the speed of features any
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>share-nothing actors although this is a deliberate choice rather than some accidental defect. Clojure went with STM as its concurrency model, if you're not buying into that and you want an Actor-centric language it's not the
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> "Respondents report spending an average of 5.1 hours a day on screens during the week (excluding working and studying hours and excluding weekends), with screen time rising to 6.4 hours in the Philippines and Thailand. Two out of
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and who can blame them, if we've learned anything from the last few years it's that the American people are utterly servile and passive when faced with these people, in fact they largely seem to crave their wannabe dictators. In 2
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>The whole idea of technology is to do more with less No, that's not the whole idea of technology. Technology exists to, and this is a non-exhaustive list: fostering creativity, play, enabling autonomy and self sufficiency, connecti
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>and that you can no longer post anonymously on social media. You cannot be certain that your criticism of the government will not be followed up by the authorities. sorry but I don't get this point. If you're on Instagram or F
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>One can simply be bored without it being a pathology. yes but the point is that the people who doom-scroll cannot be bored, boredom is exactly what they want to avoid. People who constantly have their phone in their hands often want t
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>and we found that there are entire audio tracks missing in multiple episodes Personally for me the worst case of this is Scrubs. The soundtrack of the show is so incredibly crucial to its atmosphere. There's a scene with the Coral&

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