Gormo

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by Gormo 1mo ago
The functionalist response to this would be that while the experience of consciousness in ourselves is a first-person phenomenon, how we recognize other beings as distinctly conscious in their own right is still a third-person phenomenon,
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by Gormo 1mo ago
> Clearly you don't. Obviously, since I'm the one discussing it here. The broader question is whether the people who are conflating them together are doing so out of honest confusion or out of ulterior motives. > For othe
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by Gormo 1mo ago
I don't suspect there is a uniform spectrum between those two. I think this is something that's going to be clinal, which we see in a lot of other comparable social contexts. The number of people actually willing to cross a mo
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by Gormo 1mo ago
> The government has created a situation with the student loans thing where basically anyone can borrow 500k to get an obviously useless degree. The point applies even to the useful degrees, and more broadly to the universities irrespe
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by Gormo 1mo ago
So it seems like confirmation that this really is a case of disingenuous conflation of power-generation concerns with data centers per se. I don't think it's reasonable to regard concerns about emissions from banks of continuous
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by Gormo 1mo ago
> Is the single motivated malicious user able to do as much damage as all of the blocked attempts put together? Yes, absolutely. Probably moreso. The whole point of these proposals is to try to solve for the "motivated malicious u
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by Gormo 1mo ago
> I think it's useful even if it can be spoofed. Many people don't even bother to edit visible watermarks out of AI photos/videos. I'm fairly certain this will defeat 99.9% of malicious users, many of whom won't
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by Gormo 1mo ago
I'm seeing a lot of these sorts of articles talking about things like air pollution, but something seems a bit off, given that, to my knowledge, computers do not produce any emissions at all. The article lumps data centers in with land
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by Gormo 1mo ago
We're already at the point where a few months worth of an SMB's token usage from the SaaS LLM providers costs is equivalent to the cost of installing on-prem infrastructure capable of running cutting-edge open-weight models at sca
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by Gormo 1mo ago
Internet access isn't particularly expensive in the US. Healthcare, education, and housing are expensive in the US for the same primary reason: political interventions that simultaneously subsidize demand and restrict supply.
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by Gormo 1mo ago
Sorry, but that's not correct.
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by Gormo 1mo ago
What tools/skills are you using to do this with Qwen 3.8?
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by Gormo 1mo ago
There's no standard concept of a "business license" in the US either. Generally, the corporate registration / LLC filing is all you need to start doing business as a limited liability company, and you don't need to
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by Gormo 1mo ago
> You can't dismiss typography as irrelevant and trivial aesthetic. Sure I can. That's not to say that it's completely useless and not worthy of any attention at all, just that it is far removed from the primary considera
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by Gormo 1mo ago
Also mentioned the KayPro II but omitted the Osborne 1.
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by Gormo 1mo ago
IIRC, only the classic 40-pin DIP Z80 was discontinued. The eZ80, which is fully compatible, is still in production.
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by Gormo 1mo ago
I don't know -- I'm seeing a lot of corner-cutting in the board designs!
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by Gormo 1mo ago
But why would we expect LLMs to continue that pattern over time?
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by Gormo 1mo ago
It's not immediately clear to me why having an LLM output code in JS or Python should inherently consume more tokens than C or assembly. I'd expect token usage to correlate with the complexity of the algorithm being implemented,
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by Gormo 1mo ago
The NPM ecosystem is huge, but it's also full of poorly-coded crap, rife with vulerabilites, subject to supply-chain risks, etc. And much of its convenience comes from the fact that it has a huge set of off-the-shelf libraries for doin
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by Gormo 1mo ago
Perhaps the average TUI fan is someone who correctly recognizes the negligible relevance of typography in optimizing their computing workflows, and prefers monospace fonts for purely functional reasons, which naturally take precedence o
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by Gormo 1mo ago
> Back in the late 1980s, there was no question—the Mac changed everything, and everyone agreed that graphical was the superior interface. No, they didn't. The Mac's GUI benefitted in certain specific applications, like DTP, e
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by Gormo 1mo ago
That seems at odds with many of the people in this discussion communicating that they find TUIs more accessible.
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by Gormo 1mo ago
I was having this exact thought after I overheard a conversation on a train, where two developers were discussing the quality of TypeScript being generated by Claude Code, and how they were getting closer and closer to having all of the arc
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by Gormo 1mo ago
> It takes months or years for courts to intervene and even then they often set aside rulings because they expect appeals. Interesting. Again, how do you reconcile that theory with the with the large number of court cases involving Tr
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by Gormo 1mo ago
> I'm sorry, but the Fourth Amendment does not protect against the intentional destruction of evidence. It seems to be more true than it did a couple of decades ago, what with more recent rulings like US v. Cotterman and US. v. Ko
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by Gormo 1mo ago
> I'm sorry, but the Fourth Amendment does not protect against the intentional destruction of evidence. Certainly not. But, of course, something can only be evidence in relation to a specific crime that is being investigated. If
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by Gormo 1mo ago
Interesting. What, then, do you make of the extensive rulings that the current court has issued to block or overturn Trump's actions? How do you reconcile your 'nakedly partisan' theory with the court rulings that, for examp
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by Gormo 1mo ago
What constitutes a "routine border search" that would be permitted for the purposes of customs enforcement, however, is something that is hotly debated, and that the courts have clarified in recent decisions such as US v. Cotterma
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by Gormo 1mo ago
US v. Arnold was a Ninth Circuit ruling, and was later superseded in its own circuit by US. v Cotterman ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Cotterman ), which ruled that a "forensic" search does n

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