JTbane

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by JTbane 1y ago
Also, if you're trying to run lean and cheap you can go very far with just a simple VPS like Hetzner.
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by JTbane 1y ago
As a start there should be common-sense gun control, like, if you get any kind of mental illness or violence on your record you lose your guns. Secondly, if a kid does get access to your gun in any circumstances you should also be charged w
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by JTbane 1y ago
Okay I got a little bit rage baited by this but to summarize- we Westerners value openness in government to prevent abuse and corruption, so getting mad about propaganda is common.
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by JTbane 1y ago
Companies are happy to use GPLv3 as long as they can put it behind a proprietary SaaS.
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by JTbane 1y ago
this makes Unix-style directories seem downright logical: - programs go in /bin - configurations go in /etc - libraries go in /lib - your personal user files go in /home/username
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by JTbane 1y ago
Yeah this is why I tell hacker/cracker corporate types to not even joke about time bombs and backdoors in company software.
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by JTbane 1y ago
IMO most plastics should be incinerated. This reduces the amount of waste that needs to be landfilled immensely and generates electricity as a bonus.
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by JTbane 1y ago
Trump admin did the same thing with Signal. I'm pretty sure they did it because US gov't emails and IMs are for sure archived.
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by JTbane 1y ago
It's kind of unavoidable, from what I remember of the Culture series the Minds are a self-improving superintelligence that was created initially by humans, so denying them full rights would be unforgivable.
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by JTbane 1y ago
In China, if you say anything bad about the CCP they will strap you to a chair in a struggle session and force you to admit you were wrong. That alone is terrifying.
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by JTbane 1y ago
This is kind of not true. Companies will gladly use MIT-style license open source software for on-premises proprietary products, and everything but AGPL-style software for cloud products.
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by JTbane 1y ago
"I have no strong feelings one way or the other." thunderous applause
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by JTbane 1y ago
I don't know how you can call yourself a "rationalist" and base your worldview on a fantasy game.
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AI agents fail tasks 70% of the time(arxiv.org)
23 points by JTbane 1y ago|8 comments
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by JTbane 1y ago
"We test baseline agents powered by both closed API-based and open-weights language models (LMs), and find that the most competitive agent can complete 30% of tasks autonomously."
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by JTbane 1y ago
>Really fixing it would put a double digit percentage of people out of work. Eh, I kind of disagree. It would put a lot of insurance people and hospital admins out of a job, but the boots-on-the-ground providers would be fine.
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by JTbane 1y ago
This was an uncomfortable read, I'm quite frankly shocked at the amount of brainpower and other resources that went into attempting to weed out gay men from the Canadian civil service, into the 90s no less! To what end was this done? I
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by JTbane 1y ago
Some really old heads told me that syntax highlighting is a gimmick. I can't imagine looking at code without it.
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by JTbane 1y ago
It seems like the childcare companies recognize that it's either one parent quits their full-time job or pays them.
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by JTbane 1y ago
Nah I'm calling BS, for me self-learning after college is either Just Do It(tm) trial-and-error, blogs, or hitting the nonfiction section of the library.
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by JTbane 1y ago
I ride with my dad in a Cessna a lot and he emphasizes you should always be prepared for GPS and radio failure, and you must be able to safely get on the ground with nothing but a map, compass, and your eyeballs.
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by JTbane 1y ago
In that case I'd be worried about header pins getting bent
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by JTbane 1y ago
hard disagree because summaries spoil any suspense or intrigue a novel would have it's the journey, not the destination
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by JTbane 1y ago
I'll give them a steelman: They thought Trump would reduce their taxes (he hasn't, by and large). They thought Trump would cut government waste (he did the opposite). They thought Trump's tough-guy persona would convince fore
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by JTbane 1y ago
sorry, us-west-1 went down for 6 hours and my milk spoiled
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by JTbane 1y ago
> Models have gotten noticeably smarter and see more use across a variety of fields and contexts. Is that really true? The papers I've read seem to indicate the hallucination rate is getting higher.
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by JTbane 1y ago
IMO the gov't should skip the hefty tax and force them to remove the "flushable" label.
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by JTbane 1y ago
>What does work is an absolute, ironclad rule that I do not trust and am not friends with anyone I meet online until we've met multiple times in person That's a good rule and should be common sense for all internet users.
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by JTbane 1y ago
>they said the reviewer had a perfect right to predict if they’d enjoy it or not Unintentionally a hilarious statement, straight outta sci-fi.
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by JTbane 1y ago
IMO a start would be to require that plastic-producing companies accept all their used products back at end-of-life and incinerate them.

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