Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That suggests it's perhaps about what's good for investors, not what's good for companies themselves.
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No paintings were harmed in the throwing of soup, and now we all know it happened and why. Would that I were that kind of dumb.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
These are different problems. The written (or more accurately, typed)* word is an inherently symbolic representation. Recorded audio (PCM WAV or similar) is not. The format itself doesn't encode meaning about the structure. The written
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
I think that's partly a survivor (the disease surviving, not the patient) bias effect. Things that could be solved by random discoveries are no longer considered the highest-grade nasties. There were a lot more intractably fatal condit
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Are earworms infringement? No, they stay inside your head, so they exist entirely outside the scope of copyright law. If you ask me the lyrics, fair use acknowledges that there's a copyright in effect, and carves out an exemption. It&#
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
I'll use it to find information , semi-reliably. Hallucinations are still a huge issue. But I can't help thinking that Stackoverflow and Google have self-enshittified to a point where it makes LLMs look better relative to the pinn
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That's a little like saying downloading mp3s isn't music piracy, because it's not encoding the actual music, just some lossy compressed wavelets that sound like it.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Until or unless the law decides otherwise. The 2020s ethic of "copying any work is fair game as long as you call the copying process AI" is the polar and equally absurd opposite to the 1990s ethic of "measurement and usage of
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Likelihood of this happening in the internet era, for something with an order of magnitude more rapid progression than HIV/AIDS?
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True. But for the highest-grade nasties, where median life expectancy is unfortunately short and progression near-universal, you don't need much signal to get above the noise. Anyone surviving more than a handful of years with somethin
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The best care is not necessarily the best bleeding-edge treatment. Most medical jobs are only possible at all (without burning out and destroying the person doing them) through them mostly acting in accordance with best practice and trainin
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
There's unwanted "I wasn't interested in that person, next", and there's unwanted "this is a potentially dangerous and scary situation". On the surface, it's unhelpful to lump the two in together. But
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Yes, if you can substantially increase supply in the top decile or quartile, in terms of desirability. That's difficult, for all sorts of reasons. NIMBYs protecting their investment is one aspect, but the maths of density, transport in
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That's true if the only alternative to hooking up with randoms in a bar is staying home. Same as, until the Jet Age, the only alternative to risky world travel by land and sea was to stay home.. and then we invented jet airliners, whic
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That's for a few reasons. 999 good or OK outcomes and 1 bad one can still be overall pretty damn bad, when scaled up to the level of a society. It becomes a Something Must Be Done scenario pretty quick. And I suspect in this specific c
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
I said by today's standards.. women going home with some random guy without anyone even having a phone number for them. No mobiles, no net, no nothing. And in most cases that worked out fine, but today people would think it insane to e
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Sex happens in private (mostly, and I'm not judging those who prefer otherwise) and people lie about it. A lot. But a more publicly observable and, obviously, very adjacent indicator is kissing. Time was, you'd see a lot of people
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Almost like ecstasy and cocaine/alcohol mix have different effects on the human brain and body...
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Online dating. I guarantee that only about one in five male clubbers were truly "only there for the music". Maybe fewer than that. Women went along with it because, well, what was the alternative, and the contemporary culture enco
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Yeah, and property is a positional good. Its price is a function purely of willingness to pay. So if you double household income, and perhaps quadruple theoretical discretionary income (after food, energy, gas and so on), give it 40 years a
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
And alcohol.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
I'm not sure the others aspired to, to quite the same extent. Partly a function of timing of course. Stable, universal broadband connections arrived a couple of years before Facebook, and the iPhone a couple of years after. Even as lat
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Or else you're a <reaches for expletive> <checks handle> Sigh, never mind.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Well, it's what everyone wanted apart from all the people warning them about it. (I'm not taking credit. I was militantly pro free speech at the time, the anti-free-speech position was mostly held by Christian Conservatives and ot
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Yes. The problem is scale and pervasiveness. Ethics didn't matter on an Apple ][. Well, not much. You could screw around, break stuff, "should" didn't come into it, you couldn't really touch the parts of the world t
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Yep, and not forgetting that serial ports on a computer were (at the time) expensive, and the sounds most synths were capable of were.. kind of simple. So there was the motivation for stacking multiple synths up to produce bigger/riche
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Yes, if implemented as shown. You could use intrinsics for the bit casting & so on and it would be well-defined to the extent that those intrinsics are. (I understand some people consider SIMD intrinsics in general to be UB at language
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Perhaps. Dollar-cheap infinite energy (massive IF) also means interplanetary civilisation (also massive IF) starts to look viable. I'm personally not convinced we'll get there. "S"-curves also look exponential in the fir
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This extrapolation is based on "money is a claim on energy", which assumes some kind of linear, or linear-like relationship between energy and wellbeing. Just because a relationship is linear-ish up to a point doesn't mean it
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Shame it doesn't seem to have been updated with Arrow Lake, Zen 5 and so on yet.

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