Gormo

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by Gormo 11mo ago
That's because the thesis it's expounding on isn't "old people don't like change", but rather "experienced people often see their juniors unknowingly making avoidable mistakes".
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by Gormo 11mo ago
> they were not right If you don't think they were at least sometimes right, to what do you instead attribute the various cases of socio-economic collapse documented throughout history?
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by Gormo 11mo ago
A "company" is just an organizational model employed by people to pursue the intentions that those people have. It goes without saying that large endeavors involving many people will have a mixture of good and bad intentions. Opp
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by Gormo 11mo ago
> So it became more straightforward to release games on Linux? Sounds like a positive. No, not really. Many of the common game engines already support Linux out of the box. Unity, for example, already makes building for Linux basically
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by Gormo 11mo ago
They can , but whether they have is something to be determined by observation, not simply assertion. It's unfortunately commonplace for people using words inconsistently with established usage, or coming up with novel usages that cr
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by Gormo 11mo ago
Well, considering that it doesn't seem to be an accurate statement, it shouldn't be so amazing that people don't "get" it. By far, the largest shareholders in most publicly-traded firms are "institutional inves
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by Gormo 11mo ago
> Everything valve doing for linux is making such a huge impact. Some of it is counter-productive though. Proton made WINE commercially viable, and in doing so, disincentivized native Linux builds of games to the point that some studios
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by Gormo 11mo ago
That wasn't its selling point for me. I installed KOReader on mine and have been quite happy with the result, but expect to move to a PineNote in the near future, as I'm tired of jumping through someone else's hoops to contr
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by Gormo 11mo ago
"Agents" is a term that usually refers to people working in a customer support role at a company. Anyone using "agent" without qualification to describe autonomous AI is engaging in a perversion of the English language
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by Gormo 11mo ago
> 1. Every "adaptive ecosystem" has limits. This is a very vague claim. Everything in nature has some sort of "limits" > 2. Without proper government regulation, which includes some "government planning"
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by Gormo 11mo ago
This is the source code to the original, non-commercial version of Zork that originated at MIT. Microsoft has now released the source code for the Infocom's commercial release for microcomputers.
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by Gormo 11mo ago
Perhaps few classic games were released under FOSS licenses, but there are tons of more recent ones on IFDB.
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by Gormo 11mo ago
And Sierra. It would be amazing if MS released the source code to some of Sierra classic Hi-Res/AGI/SCI games, or the engines themselves. IIRC, Al Lowe had retained copies of source code from the early Sierra days, and was planni
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by Gormo 11mo ago
But the clocks in this demo aren't images.
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by Gormo 1y ago
Too bad there aren't too many people in their 90s around to discuss how things operated prior to WWII. Schengen was a solution to a problem that had only been created a few decades earlier.
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by Gormo 1y ago
> The main problem with large-scale uncontrolled immigration is that government can't reliably plan ahead for infrastructure improvements and upgrades Thankfully, the idea that "infrastructure improvements and upgrades" we
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by Gormo 1y ago
But none of what you're describing actually happened. The big chains didn't kill local bookstores at all -- mom-and-pop bookstores are still ubiquitous -- and many of them are actually doing better than they used to due to the ab
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by Gormo 1y ago
Jail is a great deterrent against criminal conduct. But natural persons are already risking jail when they engage in criminal conduct regardless of whether they're doing so within the scope of an organization or doing so on their own
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by Gormo 1y ago
You can try, but you might be unknowingly holding their carefully designated scapegoat responsible instead.
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by Gormo 1y ago
> If the company is a sole proprietorship, you can sue the person who controls it up to bankruptcy, which will affect their personal life significantly. I'm sure it will. But how do you collect $30M in damages from a single individ
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by Gormo 1y ago
> You can't put a corporation in prison. But a person you can. This is one of the big problems. It really isn't -- we're talking about a category of activities that involves only financial liability or civil torts in the f
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by Gormo 1y ago
> The target variable is user hosted content on subdomains of a domain not listed in Mozilla's public suffix list. No, that's the indicator . The target variable is "malicious website".
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by Gormo 1y ago
> local llms are slow. Local LLMs' speed can't be generalized, as the speed of each instance is entirely determined by its particular runtime environment. > just pay for the service so they don't use your uploads. There
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by Gormo 1y ago
You're absolutely right. I find the kind of reasoning employed in the article to be fallacious at best and malicious at worst, as it's trying to attribute conclusions about one thing to something else entirely, on wholly continge
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by Gormo 1y ago
Yeah, I don't understand what the hosting environment of the LLM has to do with this. Seems like FUD from people with an interest in SaaS LLMs. If you're leveraging an LLM that can receive arbitrary inputs from vetted sources, an
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by Gormo 1y ago
"Modern" in my mind has come to mean: * Designed at the highest possible level, on top of multiple layers of frameworks, libraries, and dependencies that the developers do not fully understand. * Full of anti-patterns that implica
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by Gormo 1y ago
> Git absolutely is a productivity drain and should be replaced, particularly as agentic coding takes over, Is this an oblique way of saying that Git should not be replaced?
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by Gormo 1y ago
> First & foremost I really need to emphasise that, despite the misleading article title, this was not a false positive. Google flagged this domain for legitimate reasons. Where are you getting that from? I don't see any eviden
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by Gormo 1y ago
> I can understand why JMAP instead of IMAP given the latter's antiquated design. I think we're about ten years past the point where "newer = better" was a reasonable starting presumption.
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by Gormo 1y ago
It might be useful to people using non-major email providers.

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