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by JohnFen 2mo ago
I never said beef was my preferred product, nor that I'm only buying pork because I can't justify buying beef. I like beef and pork equally, and have always bought both. What I said was that the price of beef reached a point where
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
This is an excellent point. OSS licenses only work because of copyright. The intention was to kind of "judo" copyright law to benefit sharing. If the work is uncopyrightable, no license of any sort applies to it. Before I started
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
> I come from the camp who believed that open source is super beneficial and a positive movement As do I. I've been very active in OSS for many years, because of the clear (to me) positive benefits it has for everyone. That's w
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
As soon as I learned that genAI companies were inhaling everything publicly available, this was my response. I removed all my code (and websites, blog, etc.) from the public internet and no longer use permissive licenses. Doing it was a bit
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
There isn't really one single measure of inflation, despite what is often implied. There are many. The reason for that is that every measurement methodology distorts some aspect of the economy, so you (should) choose the measure that d
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
> that sausages in the US are typically beef They are? That's not my personal experience, but maybe there's something unusual in the part of the US I live in. I mean, beef sausages exist and you can get them, but you generally
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
> I imagine what will happen is that portions will shrink I wouldn't mind this up to a point. One of the things that I find really irritating about most US restaurants (I'm an American, if it matters) is that the portion sizes
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
> We only eat out for dinner at great restaurants because I can cook better food at home in a lot of cases. I also rarely eat in a restaurant, but when I do I make it a great one (to me -- I'm not talking only or even mostly about h
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Wow. Here I thought HN was far too genAI-heavy in story selection, but it has nothing on that Digg page.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> “It” is what you’d call a toaster, and no toaster ever apologised to me twice in the one minute. “He” and “she” are anthropomorphising Avoiding the use of the correct pronoun "it" is itself anthropomorphizing. genAI is a thin
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
At least in my part of the US, the datacenters built (and planned) are not running their own gas generators, but are just as hated here as they are most other places due to the other adverse impacts they have.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Historically, I've always bought both. It's nice to have variety. The difference now is that I'm not buying both.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I very much disagree that it's a worse product.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> Many people see this as a problem, but I see it as a normal function of market economies. Both things can be true.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Beef prices have become simply insane. The value I get from beef can no longer justify the expense, so I've simply stopped buying it at all. I've largely replaced it with pork. Pork used to be the most popular meat in the US. I wo
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> People didn't believe they'd do it, but they actually have reduced the ads Reduced, not eliminated. Also, no mention of improvements for many of the more egregious problems, such as the requirement to have a microsoft account
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Since you object to "fascist", what would you call them? They're not libertarian as near as I can see, since they clearly want to be the rulers of everyone else. Authoritarian?
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
So says the head of the only company unambiguously making bank on the bubble, and the company with perhaps the largest incentive to do what they can to make sure the bubble keeps growing for as long as possible before popping.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
This is one of the reasons why it's a big mistake to channel too much of your social interactions through a service that you don't own. You have to abide by whatever restrictions that service imposes, along with being OK with havi
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> So the fix looks obvious on a whiteboard: shrink the pension, get more babies I don't think there's something that needs fixing here.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Still no. There's a limit to what I'm willing to give up just for money, and giving up that much of my life is well past it. I've been in dire straits and desperately needed money a number of times, so I know what that's
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
You couldn't pay me enough to sacrifice so much of my life for someone else's business.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> Toast is toying with adding transcription software to the hand-held gadgets that waiters use to record orders and take payments, so that they can keep buttering up customers with fewer distractions. She thinks cameras around the dining
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Pot, meet kettle.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> I'm ashamed of lying about what I've done You should be, and being a liar makes you a worse developer, not better, regardless of the technical output.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
The legally responsible party should be whoever deployed the agents. If I build an autonomous tank and it goes on a rampage destroying property all over town, you can bet your bottom dollar that I'll be the one going to prison for it.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> tech companies begging for tech regulation Companies are perfectly capable of being well-behaved without regulation. They simply choose not to. When I see these companies crying for regulation (even though I agree we need it desperatel
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
The "human in the middle" is supposed to be the cops. However, what we've seen is what history tells us we can expect: the "human in the middle" will tend to just accept whatever the automation says and not give it
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
And because of its surveillance and desire to turn the entire nation into a panopticon. Axon/Motorola is no better.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> You remove the friction of talking to a human who might not understand you. And replace it with a machine who is even less likely to understand you. Please give me the human. Particularly if reducing friction is actually the goal.

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