BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
The government could distribute its ownership stake to individuals.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Heh, came here looking to see if anyone had made this reference yet. Mega disturbing.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
I like these systemd things but I always find it annoying how I have to create multiple separate files (like a file for the service and another for the timer, or similar if I need a socket file). In theory this is more flexible but in prac
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
This is why all the claims by tech companies that "you need to upgrade/enable 2FA/do whatever for security reasons" are utter hogwash. There's no actual concern for security, just for control over users.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
> We all know that large corps are structured in a way that eliminates individual initiative. So what can we do about it? Well one thing is to break up large corporations into small pieces.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
> More people building things is straightforwardly good It most definitely is not.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Insofar as this is true, it only illustrates how illegitimate the system is.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
That is assuming that the system under which they picked him was a reasonable instantiation of democratic principles, which it is not.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Unfortunately most of them are bad. The Tea Party is maybe one, for instance. Note that I'm not describing any type of "structure" here. I just mean a group of people who are willing to vote for the same things.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
If everything is just people, why worry about the constitution at all?
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
> The country runs on the principles of the constitution, not the institutional principles of science. Well no wonder we're so fucked. The constitution is a disaster.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
No, it's a sign of the system working so horrifically badly that people have entirely lost sight of how it might actually be able to work.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Yeah, and Hitler made the trains run on time.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
There is a real doozy of an issue bured in there, which was reported when it originally happened but I felt it never got the public censure it deserved: > But the vote went against the UC Academic Senate’s own Standardized Testing Task F
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
> I think having to report numbers publically on a quarterly basis will bring the whole thing into reality. That is a good reason that all companies (over a certain size, say in terms of gross expenditures) should have to report such n
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Sup dawg I heard you like package managers.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Does anyone actually believe that anything these people say has any relationship to reality? As far as I can tell it's 90% just saying whatever they think will make them the most money, with maybe 10% of self-delusion thrown in becaus
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Also "how is babby formed".
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
That sounds like it would be pretty reasonable if the threshold were higher.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
> As is so often the case with this kind of study, it's an evaluation of the prompt and harness used by the study in addition to being an evaluation of the underlying models. That is also a problem with every actual use of the model
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
The distinction between good games and bad games here seems more like a distinction between games and things that are not games. The "games matter because games don't matter" thing seems more on point. Things like ranking c
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
I have a simple mantra that is somewhat broader than this: Question convenience. Convenience isn't always bad. But every time you make a choice to increase convenience, especially when it's of the form "make it so that X wi
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Using AI to detect AI is just another step in an endless arms race to insanity.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
> We’re being asked to usher in huge productivity gains by introducing AI to our workflows, but we’re not asking how does it help us? More flour more water. More water more flour.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
That's just another form of warping the file to fit the tools. The tools should be built to handle files that are structured in the way that is semantically most natural.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
One thing I've been curious about is how the other sites on StackExchange have fared. A lot of those are pretty interesting. Anecdotally the few that I check occasionally also seem to have declined a lot.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
The annoyances of using "soft wraps" with various kinds of tools is one of the maddening irritations of our software landscape. Inserting non-semantic newlines in content just to make things fit the screen is insane.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Yeah, to the extent that Reddit is filling the role of StackOverflow it's clearly worse.
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
I thought StackOverflow was pretty great. This is an unpopular opinion but I think a lot of the questions that were closed really deserved to be closed. Otherwise it would have been a firehose of the same basic questions over and over aga
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by BrenBarn 5mo ago
Those are coalitions of politicians, which to an increasing extent are part of the "powerful" group that needs to be overridden. By coalitions I mean coalitions of the actual citizenry.

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