KingMob

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by KingMob 1y ago
> The world went downhill the moment people started obsessing over others instead of focusing on themselves. And anyone who truly cares about society’s well-being should stop meddling. The problem is, meddling to interfere with others, a
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Pffft. Nobody wanted to see that, but he did it anyway.
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by KingMob 1y ago
> He has to make money at some point. Yes, but two paths to doing that are to a) build a profitable company, and b) accumulate personal wealth and walk away from a non-profitable company. I'm not saying OpenAI is unprofitable, but n
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by KingMob 1y ago
No. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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> DNS is certainly a decentralized protocol What you originally said could be interpreted as either DNS-the-system or DNS-the-protocol. I assumed the former, since that seemed more likely. Sure, the protocol could be used without the res
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> This hazard exists whether it's a few centers or many. I think the primary hazard to focus on is one vs many. The major danger of moderation is when you can't opt out. I would argue they're not quite the same here, becau
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by KingMob 1y ago
> I really do not know what I don't know here. Given they said "this is another case of liberal whites pretending to represent black people in some way in order to manipulate other white people", they don't know anyth
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by KingMob 1y ago
I think they're saying that delegating moderation to a third-party still constitutes decentralization, since it doesn't involve Bluesky proper.
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by KingMob 1y ago
Sort of. In practice, there's a hierarchy of name servers, with authoritative root servers at the top of the tree, organized by ICANN. You can run your own name server, but there's no good way for large numbers of people to volunt
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by KingMob 1y ago
I still get NSFW catgirls in my "Cats" feed. It's better, but not perfect.
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by KingMob 1y ago
I agree with your critiques, but I still don't think it negates the overall picture I see. When I was a scientist, we were trained to look at the overall body of evidence when trying to assess a claim. Any individual study has flaws, b
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by KingMob 1y ago
Fair, but I also mentioned Google Trends. Or, I picked a random, reasonably popular library to check on Clojars: http-kit. The most recent stable release, 2.8.0, which came out last year, has only been downloaded ~600k times. 2.7.0 from 202
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by KingMob 1y ago
Everything you quoted is based on percentages of the responders, not absolute numbers. Changing in-group proportions don't say anything about overall usage. E.g., if responder work usage goes up 10%, but 40% fewer people use Clojure, t
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by KingMob 1y ago
The difference is the Substack owners have actively recommended Nazi substacks, and ignored calls to deplatform Nazi content. They're not a common carrier like the phone company, and could kick off the nazis at any moment if they wante
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by KingMob 1y ago
It is, but the community has been shrinking in recent years. FWIW, Google Trends shows the hype peaking in 2016, but I doubt that reflects usage as much as buzz. Instead, if you look at the annual State of Clojure survey results, which soli
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by KingMob 1y ago
It's a new anti-bot mechanism that uses in-browser proof-of-work.
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Bit of a side note, but nobody should use Substack for anything. For those out of the loop, Substack has been overlooking Nazis on their platform for a few years, and recently pushed a notification to all subscribers to check out a blog wit
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by KingMob 1y ago
It's important to distinguish between the blocklists and the general blocking functionality of Bluesky. The blocklists, as an experiment, are too easily gamed or abused. (I never use them.) List maintainers have added people they have
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by KingMob 1y ago
Not sure why you think academic open source is the closest alternative. The article doesn't mention academia, but does explicitly name govt-run public goods like roads, fire departments, etc. I think looking at those is much more instr
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by KingMob 1y ago
As a former neuroscientist, it's both amusing and sad to see AI people run into the same issues neuroscientists have grappled with for decades, as LLMs start to approach biological systems in complexity. (And mind you, LLMs are still s
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The 10-gun salute when strangers come over to your house.
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Possibly because smart people with expertise, usually hard-won through years of focus and study, make the common fallacy that they are experts in unrelated areas, even if they haven't put in the effort to become experts. Too many secre
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by KingMob 1y ago
Nobody should agree with that. The problem comes when they only focus on Hamas, and ignore Israel's kidnapping and detention of 10k Palestinians without being charged. AKA, "hostages".
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by KingMob 1y ago
If you think AI is useful for that, then why not stick it everywhere, including the terminal? My only objection to AI in the terminal is it's one more subscription to track. But otherwise, I have no issue with AI chats in everything. I
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by KingMob 1y ago
Kudos for taking this seriously. I have no idea what prompt you fed it, but at least personally, I rarely get such poor results for ffmpeg. But assuming I got this back, instead of running it blind, I wold check the options it suggested, fi
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by KingMob 1y ago
Not always. See my sibling comment for details, and an example of when a smarter search strategy would be better.
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Agreed on `info`. Such a missed opportunity. `apropos` is for listing possibly relevant manpages, but I'm thinking about searching within a manpage. Particularly a long one like bash's.
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Well, regexes, even with optimizations, are inherently linear searches, unlike a precomputed index (e.g., tries). --- But the real problem with regexes is they force you mentally evaluate and skip over irrelevant hits, because it's not
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Quick! What's the CLI command to use ffmpeg to cut out the first 20s of a video, drop non-English subtitles, and convert to the AV1 codec while keeping the VBR under 1 MBs?! While you laboriously hunt for all the correct options, I&#x2
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I'm much older than that, and manpages have been a poor format for long time. I read manpages all the time, but I never like it. They lack ToC, fast search, fuzzy searches, stem searches... really anything we've known to do with s

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