Den_VR

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by Den_VR 1y ago
I sure do miss the days before browser makers conspired to make it near impossible to check the certs when there’s a certificate related error. “Most people are never going to check properly” is a poor excuse.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
I’d offer than much of the “AI” FUD in journalism is like this. Articles about dangerous cooking combinations, complaints about copyright infringement, articles about extreme bias.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
And you could swap battery packs whenever you wanted.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
If you’ve read other threads you’ll see humans quite optimistic about how “ai” art tools have let them express themselves. And this is only the beginning of the commercialization of new tools, so I offer my wholehearted dissent that “AI-gen
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by Den_VR 1y ago
This reminds me of my preferred analogy: are digital artists real artists if they can’t mix pigment and skillfully apply them to canvas? Not sure why digital artists get mad when I ask. They’re no Michelangelo.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
More like on top of whatever “free money” they could have as “gifts,” they can now move an extra $2k/month as daddy’s tip.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
The disruption worked in most cities I use uber in. It’s far more trustworthy to use uber.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Bentonville is quite nice, and the opportunities on that team are incredible. Tech problems you’d never think Walmart would be solving. Great facilities. And not a small number of veterans that used to do exquisite things for their country.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
I remember years of a no-backfill policy at Devon on a promises of automation. Since 2017 at least. The “desirable job market” for young people has been challenging well before LLM became popular. Want a dead end entry level job in food ser
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Cisco does more than just sell equipment. Seeing this from their “threat intelligence research organization” shouldn’t be any more surprising than seeing the same from Google via Mandiant.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
There’s the technical challenge, and then there’s the process challenge.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
The move has happened because SEO rotted out The Internet to the point there’s been a “theory” that the Internet died a decade ago. If the current Internet is unsustainable under new technology trends then the new parts need to and will evo
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by Den_VR 1y ago
So, bottom line, do you think it’s probable that either OpenAI or Anthropic are “losing money on inference?”
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by Den_VR 1y ago
What do you think about “goal-directed ecosystems” mapping to Mulder’s Collaborative Agent Maturity Model (CAMM)?
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by Den_VR 1y ago
The “paradox of intolerance” is bullshit that makes a nice cartoon. It embraces a false dichotomy
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by Den_VR 1y ago
I’ve seen of accusations of fascism levied on all sorts that do not believe in: authoritarian political ideology that seeks a centralized, dictatorial government, suppresses dissent and opposition, ultranationalism promoting the supremacy o
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Sounds like people playing it fast and loose with the term fascist. Or maybe overloading the term. And that’s a big problem, not only does it create an in-group / out-group divergence in language but it is the foundation of an ideologi
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by Den_VR 1y ago
It’s always weird to me how when I try to talk about what fascism means to antifascists they go silent and assume I’m somehow pro-fascist. I’m pro-“Liberty and Justice for all.” I am also an engineer: One that sees poorly defined requiremen
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by Den_VR 1y ago
The first two are effectively rituals. If we stopped the such rituals, should antifascism be considered successful? The military is deployed inside the country, if only law enforcement officers were conducting the same work would antifascis
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by Den_VR 1y ago
This might seem like a ridiculous question but, exactly what do you consider fascism?
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by Den_VR 1y ago
I’m not sure why it’s so mind-boggling that people in the year 1225 (Thomas Aquinas) or 1756 (Mozart) were just as creative and intelligent as they themselves are, as modern people. They simply had different opportunities then comparable to
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by Den_VR 1y ago
If states and cities only reduced the availability of these housing options by 10% since 1950, that would be newsworthy too
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Different tools in different years as expectations have changed. The TI-89 is incredibly powerful, but has to give way to MATLAB and Wolfram Alpha. It used to be productive to “google” your problems. Going further, there’s now LLMs writing
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by Den_VR 1y ago
You can limit access, sure: with ACLs, putting content behind login, certificate based mechanisms, and at the end of the day -a power cord-. But really, controlling which automated retrieval tools are allowed has always been more of a code
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by Den_VR 1y ago
When you get into the “ at any price ” range, then you should be up for engineering the room to support fully automated cleaning, and so I’d contend this is possible today. For certain situations. For example, automatic cleaning of a capsul
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Count ourselves lucky they haven’t lucky figured out how to make literal ghouls out of silica and the recently dead, because these people would. Just what happened that caused employers to hold so much power in the employee-employer relatio
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Picking crops or cleaning hotels rooms cannot be automated… for less than it costs to hire seasonal/migrant workers, today. Both farms and hotels have an increasing number of jobs being automated where it makes economic sense, or for p
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by Den_VR 1y ago
This is a big part of it. Or more generally, zoning and the cost of housing (now investments) is behind many socioeconomic issues in 2025.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
Yeah, but people seem to call them gangbangers, drunks, meth addicts, and homeless camps. True or not, some cultures self-terroize.
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by Den_VR 1y ago
For sure. As others mentioned some locals have gone so far as to make drinking in public illegal. Now in your example, suppose you’re a lonely stranger. Do you just nudge in on a circle with your beer and “Hi I’m Shawa” ? Your answer may be

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