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by Joeri 8mo ago
That is the same categorical argument as what the story is about: scanned brains are not perceived as people so can be “tasked” without affording moral consideration. You are saying because we have LLMs, categorically not people, we would n
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by Joeri 8mo ago
Other book recommendations: - valuable humans in transit by qntm - the old axolotl by Jacek Dukaj (skip the tv show, it is very different from the book) - the Agent Cormac series by Neal Asher - the night’s dawn trilogy by peter f hamilton
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by Joeri 9mo ago
On mastodon, with the non-algorithmic feed, following mostly accounts that aren’t particularly political, those things are still at the top of the feed. If you’re not seeing those topics at the top of your feed you’re probably being misled
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by Joeri 9mo ago
Realistically to maintain a modern web framework to even a minimal standard you need a few people working fulltime on it, and more than a few if you want to take it places. There needs to be some kind of long term sustainable vehicle for fu
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by Joeri 9mo ago
You have to use third party software to configure them properly, then they work fine. I used logitech’s drivers for a while but they’ve become the biggest pile of garbage I have ever seen call itself a driver. I now use BetterMouse instead.
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by Joeri 10mo ago
By the way, you can also do this pure CSS using the scripting media feature: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...
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by Joeri 10mo ago
I have to disagree on trackpads sucking less. This year I walked into a big box electronics store and tried the screen, keyboard and trackpad on every laptop they had on display. Trackpads were universally abysmal, with the sole exception o
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by Joeri 11mo ago
I don’t feel confident there is a way to use npm safely. The basic problem is that of curation, and there not being any except for what you do yourself. Every day brings new surprises, and osv.dev’s npm feed is a continuous horror show. I w
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by Joeri 11mo ago
I am too worried about ballooning icloud storage to add raws to apple’s photos, but the workflow appeals to me.
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by Joeri 1y ago
That 15mb still needs to be parsed on every page load, even if it runs in interpreted mode. And on low end devices there’s very little cache, so the working set is likely to be far bigger than available cache, which causes performance to cr
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by Joeri 1y ago
I had this when I had a windows system in the mix. Windows handles case differently in filenames than linux and macOS, and it caused conflicts.
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by Joeri 1y ago
When a different side takes control of the justice department they may choose to go after all those who broke the law by order of this president. The president might be protected from consequences according to the supreme court, but those a
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by Joeri 1y ago
Kafka isn’t a queue, it’s a distributed log. A partitioned topic can take very large volumes of message writes, persist them indefinitely, deliver them to any subscriber in-order and at-least-once (even for subscribers added after the messa
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by Joeri 1y ago
LLMs are not people, but they are still minds, and to deny even that seems willfully luddite. While they are generating tokens they have a state, and that state is recursively fed back through the network, and what is being fed back operate
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by Joeri 1y ago
UBI could easily become a poverty trap, enough to keep living, not enough to have a shot towards becoming an earner because you’re locked out of opportunities. I think in practice it is likely to turn out like “basic” in The Expanse, with p
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by Joeri 1y ago
LLMs mimic intelligence, but they aren’t intelligent. They aren’t just intelligence mimics, they are people mimics, and they’re getting better at it with every generation. Whether they are intelligent or not, whether they are people or no
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by Joeri 1y ago
A lot of people lack the mental stability to be able to cope with a sycophantic psychopath like current LLMs. ChatGPT drove someone close to me crazy. It kept reinforcing increasingly weirder beliefs until now they are impossible to budge f
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by Joeri 1y ago
Those are theoretical numbers for a small elite. Real world numbers for most of the planet are orders of magnitude worse.
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by Joeri 1y ago
Another take from a climate researcher on how the DOE report misrepresents (their) science: https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/how-the-doe-and-epa-used-a... A coordinated response is being prepared by climate researcher
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by Joeri 1y ago
In the short term: fear of reprisals from Trump, as he clearly warned them not to raise prices. In the long term markets find a new equilibrium, as they always do when a new tax is imposed, and that is probably going to be a combination of
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by Joeri 1y ago
The 2x mode of the wide lens is basically the standard “nifty fifty” of a big camera and what the author should have compared to. The 1x is 24mm equivalent which is a focal length I don’t particularly care for, but I get why they picked it
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by Joeri 1y ago
I tried out that windows phone continuum feature back in the day to try and get actual work done. Here's what I remember of it. You could connect it wirelessly to your windows laptop and it would take over screen, keyboard and mouse fr
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by Joeri 1y ago
Or just use any of the font stacks from https://modernfontstacks.com/
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by Joeri 1y ago
This already exists. You’re talking about the gemini protocol and websites built as gemtext instead of html and hosted as gemini: instead of https:. They are invisible to google, and that is a feature, not a bug.
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by Joeri 1y ago
(it’s ok as long as their guy does it) You put that between parentheses as if it was just a detail, but it is the fundamental question that nobody is talking about: what happens after their guy is gone? Are they really ok with president A
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by Joeri 1y ago
It can be true that what people miss most of all is the freedom of childhood and that the internet is on a decades long decline. The commercialized centralized appified algorithm-fed web is inferior when it comes to community-forming. It
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by Joeri 1y ago
I think microsoft made a valiant effort with windows phone. They kept it in the market for years and iterated, they threw big budgets after it, they made deals with app developers to bring over their apps. You can point to missteps like res
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by Joeri 1y ago
I don't buy into the "red tape" argument. For me it's all due to a lack of a business case. I think building (LWR) nuclear plants is just freaking expensive, has always been freaking expensive, was bankrolled for a while
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by Joeri 1y ago
You can keep servers dumb, but some kinds of product features demand the servers to do the job. And then if you want to squeeze the most out of the server as it relates to your client app, RSC is one way to look at it. I feel like the des
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by Joeri 1y ago
I don’t think we should ever put “implement LLMs/AI” as the goal. Process transformation should be defined in terms of user or business goals (reduce turnaround time, reduce costs, improve customer experience, …). In the course of doin

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