Gormo

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by Gormo 2y ago
Not forgotten at all -- in fact, if your system has has a /tmp directory, it is almost certainly a RAMdisk.
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by Gormo 2y ago
Why's that counterintuitive? It makes intuitive sense to me that an approach optimized for throughput would make trade-offs that are less optimized for quality.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> I wonder why ffmpeg doesn't just auto detect this? Hardware encoding is often less configurable and involves greater trade-offs than using sophisticated software codecs, and don't produce exactly equivalent results even with
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by Gormo 2y ago
I'm seeing a lot of prevarication between the two, and a lot of taking for granted of even the existence of copyright, despite the it being a modern creation entirely of positive law.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> I find modern culture to be crap. So did Socrates. Ironically, being jaded about contemporary culture is older than the hills. My own personal feelings aren't that far off from yours -- a lot of aspects of life seem to have been
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by Gormo 2y ago
So you are saying that people should remain irrevocably loyal to institutions that have lost their trust, do not further their interests, and are not meaningfully accountable to them, out of some notion that the most important thing to them
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by Gormo 2y ago
"Pretty quickly" may be an exaggeration there, given that 1740 was a good five generations after the founding of the Plymouth colony, and they were still famously conducting witch trials only fifty years earlier. But it surely did
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by Gormo 2y ago
> The place where the founding fathers of the US got the idea of separation of powers? That would be a synergy of ideas primarily found in Polybius, Montesquieu, and the extant British constitution. Not to discount the value of teaching
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by Gormo 2y ago
> It's a completely random chance No, I don't think these outcomes are being determined by RNGs, but rather by much more deterministic inputs related to the intentions and resources of the parents.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> I hate this. Where else do we get knowledge from if not experts and academics in their fields? Knowledge is generated via examination of reality itself. "Experts" are merely people who have conducted the most thorough examin
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by Gormo 2y ago
> We all get better at a talent by practicing it. Exactly. Which is why kids need to practice their social skills in environments that actually reflect how real-world societies functions, rather than being sequestered in an institution
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by Gormo 2y ago
Learning how to co-exist with different sorts of people is definitely a valuable experience. Trying to do that in an completely artificial institution that arbitrarily divides people into age cohorts in a way that resembles no organic socia
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by Gormo 2y ago
You're using the wrong meaning of "civil law" here. The Napoleonic Code absolutely did include criminal law.
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by Gormo 2y ago
The Napoleonic code is a civil code in contrast to a common-law system, not civil law in contrast to criminal law. These are two different meanings of the term "civil", and the Napoleonic code absolutely does deal with criminal o
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by Gormo 2y ago
> I want a world where humans want to create, where the creative process itself is rewarding, and where our common culture is filled with most of the best works. Well, that's definitely a moral proposition. And it's also a goo
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by Gormo 2y ago
What skepticism did I express? There are two possible explanations for the value of a metric changing: either the thing being measured has changed, or the methodology of conducting the measurement has changed. I honestly do not know which
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by Gormo 2y ago
> You're asking it as a moral question, I'm asking questions about what I could only interpret as a moral proposition. > I honestly care about the end result. You're applying normative criteria to evaluate something ,
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by Gormo 2y ago
Are children actually experiencing mental health disorders at a higher rate, or are we just classifying pre-existing variations in personality as behavior as mental health disorders at a higher rate?
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by Gormo 2y ago
Well, it's a fundamental contradiction, for starters. Public domain is public domain, as in out of copyright. You can't have something in the public domain, but still have its use be restricted.
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by Gormo 2y ago
Why is it a tragedy that people are using "our great works of culture" to engage in other activities within our culture?
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by Gormo 2y ago
No, that's another abstraction. "Feudalism" is a descriptive term for a particular pattern of reciprocal obligations that was common in Western societies (though not dominant in the particular society that our own evolved fr
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by Gormo 2y ago
> I fear you're failing to understand the distinction between having a perspective that something is wrong with the current system The problem with that perspective is that the concept of copyright originates from and only exists wi
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by Gormo 2y ago
LLMs are tools used by people, like typewriters, paintbrushes, and other types of algorithm. If a work is in the public domain, that means that people are free to copy it, redistribute it, modify it, and create derivative works from it, usi
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by Gormo 2y ago
Copyright is a legal construct in its entirety. The perspective that there is a difference between which use cases are "allowed" for public-domain works absolutely is invalid. If you are proposing some creating some new framewo
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by Gormo 2y ago
You're looking at aggregate patterns of human behavior, which originate in the pre-existing inclinations and motivations of those humans, and then trying to attribute them to some externalized, reified abstraction. "Capitalism&quo
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by Gormo 2y ago
In relation to something that is entirely a legal construct (i.e. copyright) in the first place? Yes.
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by Gormo 2y ago
In fact, democracy in itself might enable that, which is why it's important to have strong boundaries around all political decision-making, whether democratic or otherwise.
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by Gormo 2y ago
I don't thing a spatial representation is any more necessary here than it is for referring to 25 cents as a quarter of a dollar.
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by Gormo 2y ago
So they don't mind work entering the public domain, but they do mind people making use of that work in an organized way after it has? Seems a bit strange.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> it's easier for the author to imagine the end of human civilization than it is to imagine a world without capitalism Well, yeah, it absolutely is easier to imagine civilization collapsing than to imagine it a world in which human

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