BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 1y ago
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> Sure, you could use blob-util, but then you’d be taking on an extra dependency, with unknown performance, maintenance, and supply-chain risks. Use of an AI to write your code is also a form of dependency. When the LLM spits out code a
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
If we give the benefit of the doubt we could suppose he had finished cleaning it and then loaded it. But still a bad decision to leave a loaded gun lying on the bed.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It's not clear to me that indie game dev was ever viable in the sense that there was a reasonable chance of making a living just from that. Some people succeeded, sure, and some still succeed. Probably a greater number reach a differ
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Yeah. I mean the irony is that the one advantage of having a controlled and monitored app store would be that the entity monitoring it enforces certain standards. Games don't need access to your contacts, ever. If Google Play would
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I think the simple answer is: a person who cannot be trusted cannot be trusted with your health.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Yes, that possibility has occurred to me as well, and is potentially a reasonable compromise (depending on those requirements).
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Complying with the law is just another way of protecting your money. I have no doubt if they would break laws if they judged it better for the bottom line --- in fact I have little doubt they're already doing so. On the flip side, if
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Their top priority is making money.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
The key question for me is whether this "advanced flow" will allow the practical use of entirely separate app stores (like F-Droid) or if they're going to throw up tons of barriers for every individual app install.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
What a joke. It's like burglarizing someone's house and then calling the cops when someone else takes your ill-gotten gains.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I've been seeing weird stuff where the video will play but the page is unresponsive: can't click to pause, can't click the time index bar to move to a different point in the video, etc. Then I close the tab, and the audio ke
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> It's called "having a society". That must be nice.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I think we've had almost all the software we need for years now. Most new software is small variations on existing software. In terms of software that would make you go "oh I really need that" because it's a genuinely
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I feel for the person, but there's a part of me that also wonders why they spent 18 months on this without first doing a small bit of preparatory due diligence to see what the endgame was going to be.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
The US data appear to be based on this Federal Reserve info (or a similar document from a previous year): https://www.frbservices.org/binaries/content/assets/crsocms/... . However, that data includes bo
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
The thing is that a large portion of what people are using AI (and tech in general) to do simply doesn't need to be done. We don't need a "smart" dental floss dispenser, or something that automatically buys toilet paper
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Theft of creative work, brain rot, intrusive enshittifiying of all manner of software, spreading misinformation, perpetuating biases, concentrating wealth, sucking up energy. . . I could go on and on and on. The list of negative effects is
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Why is the score range 239-1000?
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I'm always boggled by the logic of thinking that somehow having big companies going around doing harmful actions to people is "good for the economy" or "keeps us competitive". If having strict AI regulations means
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It means that in every minute, one and a sixteenth of a man is born.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It's funny that this is a long journal entry about writing short journal entries. :-) Joking aside, it's a cool idea. Kind of the flash fiction of journaling. When reading the vampire-game sentences I thought they felt a bit st
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Is this just complaining the people upvoted tutorials that use unnecessarily complex techniques and overfit a small dataset? That's hardly news.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
He's far from a visionary. He's just another out-of-touch billionaire drunk on his own self-worship.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
But if they don't get it from the government, they'll get it somewhere else, and then that will create incentives for the organization to align with the politics of whoever gives them the money. There's no escaping the impli
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I think another way to say this is that some people see laws as one layer in a stack of principles of varying degrees of generality, and believe that it makes sense to oppose a policy at more specific layer if it conflicts with a more basic
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
That's the notion of "rights" we have in the US though. It's the same with the Bill of Rights. It's true some states do go further and bestow more affirmative rights. But it's deeply ingrained in US politica
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Write amazing programs with this one weird trick
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
This is a good illustration of why auto-update is a bad philosophy.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It will be hilarious if the thing that finally brings us "the year of Linux on the desktop" is not some killer new advance in Linux UX, but just the implosion of the Windows UX.

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