Devasta

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by Devasta 2y ago
Anything that makes things more pleasant for LLMs is to be opposed. Their devs don't care about your opinion, they'll vacuum up whatever they want and use it for any purpose and you degrade yourself if you think the makers of thes
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by Devasta 2y ago
> Companies like College Humor and Cracked benefitted from viral marketing of social networks. Oh come off it, writers very explicitly blame Facebook lying about the viral impact of their social network on the collapse of CH and others.
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by Devasta 2y ago
I don't know, when bitcoin crashed there were a flood of clapped out wrecked GPUs on the market but nothing that I'd risk buying. Same'll happen here.
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by Devasta 2y ago
People do understand it, no one is creating art by thumping "tracer overwatch big boobs trending on artstation" on a keyboard and then heading to lunch. This idea that people who disagree couldn't possibly understand is misgu
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by Devasta 2y ago
Well, if we consider the various social media sites: Meta - Helped facilitate multiple ethnic cleansings. Twitter - Now a site run by white supremacists for white supremacists. Youtube - Provides platforms to Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro and a w
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by Devasta 2y ago
This could result in the total destruction of social media sites. Facebook, TikTok, Youtube, Twitter, hell even Linkedin cannot possibly survive if they have to take responsibility for what users post. Excellent news, frankly.
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by Devasta 2y ago
> Before JSON-LD there was a nest of other, more XMLy, standards emitted by the various web steering groups. These actually have very, very deep support in many places (for example in library and archival systems) but on the open web the
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by Devasta 2y ago
It's so on brand for YCombinator to look at all the problems facing the world and finding that the issue that needs fixing is that destroying hospitals in the middle east could be cheaper. I hope everyone involved is rewarded as handso
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by Devasta 2y ago
Awful news. RIP.
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by Devasta 2y ago
> China’s solar industry is also grappling with oversupply. This year the prices of most components of solar modules have fallen below their average production cost. Many companies in the industry are scaling back manufacturing. Others h
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by Devasta 2y ago
For the life of me I cannot remember where I saw it, but there is a comic that once explored the theme, a man wakes up from cryo 1000 years in the future to find that anyone who wanted to endeavor in any field figured they'd jump on th
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by Devasta 2y ago
I'm convinced that in 200 years time historians will know more about the daily life of an average person in the roman empire than they will someone around today. "The Internet never forgets" might have been true at one stage
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by Devasta 2y ago
Javascript runs on every device, gets around corporate firewalls, has the backing of every major tech company and most crucially has way lower expectations of quality: If a desktop app crashes your users will curse your name, a Javascript a
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by Devasta 2y ago
Enjoy it while it lasts, it'll never be this cold again.
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by Devasta 2y ago
We can only hope so.
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by Devasta 2y ago
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by Devasta 2y ago
Based. No competent worker opposes unionization, its arrival in software development is long overdue.
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by Devasta 2y ago
So if I, as an Irish citizen, decided to start a business that traded with Cuba, US companies would have no legal issues doing business with me?
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by Devasta 2y ago
Secondary sanctions. If your company trades with Cuba, then companies that want to trade with the US also violate the sanctions by trading with you. So even something as basic as opening a bank account in such circumstances isn't possi
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by Devasta 2y ago
It's facilitated multiple ethnic cleansings and it's main user base is now mentally ill anger addicts, primarily because of their algorithms; it'd be weird if you didn't think so.
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by Devasta 2y ago
Depends on what they are doing. Consuming a large amount of energy for cloud platforms isn't the worst, as that'd be done by the customers directly if the cloud didbt exist after all. Using it on generative AI on the other hand is
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by Devasta 2y ago
But if they are receiving free houses from their grandpa, they didn't build the wealth themselves.
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by Devasta 2y ago
Bezos cries, as I wave a tenner in his face. "You don't have any real wealth, you only have stocks!"
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by Devasta 2y ago
An open source StarCraft could have lead to a renaissance of the genre, but he found it more important to get like 250 quid of unsold Overwatch trash from the blizz store. I did check was there any follow-up on the story and found out the g
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by Devasta 2y ago
In Hicksons own words: "The reality is that for all of the work that we've put into HTML, and CSS, and the DOM, it has fundamentally utterly failed to deliver on its promise. It's even worse than that, actually, because all o
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by Devasta 2y ago
Because if you were a billionaire who had the ability to make people live forever, why would you let the working class have it and not just keep it for you and your immediate family?
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by Devasta 2y ago
Might just be me, but I don't think the world would be a better place with a separate caste of immortals controlling the world governments and resources. Crazy, I know.
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by Devasta 2y ago
Stuff like this is why some software engineers should have the same legal requirements that real engineers do, with personal liability for negligence and the risk of fines or jail.
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by Devasta 2y ago
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they go down? That's not my department." says Werner Von Braun...
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by Devasta 2y ago
https://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/ The W3C specced out such a tag nearly 20 years ago, but because the browser devs are terrified of all things XML it was never implemented.

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