PittleyDunkin

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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Yes, consumers do sometimes harm themselves by using these products. That's the price of freedom. "Freedom" is also a terrible argument for this. What does it even mean? Freedom from what? Freedom to do what? It's s
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They can't stop publishers from targeting steam/proton, though. The publishers will go to where the market is. Sure maybe they can restrict the version published to whatever store windows has but they can't prevent the one di
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> we use cargo cult not to refer to people holding a belief unquestioningly, but to refer to people going through the motions of a ritual without having a strong rational basis for believing it will have the desired effect, and even more
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How have we ended up with the worst of the public and private markets with app stores?
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> The biggest problem comes when this type of language policing is seen as the primary way of changing behaviours. I think the biggest problem comes when this type of language policing is the primary way of changing behaviors. Lack of
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Nobody who uses the term "cargo cult" in a technical settings does it out of spite or even refers to specific nations or peoples. Intent doesn't really matter here; it's just poor communication if you are aware of w
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> But that's the thing, the US isn't banning TikTok, the US is forcing Bytedance to divest its majority control To me this is indistinguishable from a ban, and I suspect the same is true for many of the politicians who actually
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> To be fair, OpenAI's products are not really models, they are... products What's the distinction? What kind of functionality do they offer that other models don't?
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> It’s odd that MS is releasing models they are competitors to OA. > I think the strategy is now offer cheap and performant infra to run the models. Is this not what microsoft is doing? What can microsoft possibly lose by releasing a
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> The trick is to not care enough about your job to get hurt but not care so little that you could short-term be hurt. Unfortunately this situation isn't able to be earnestly evaluated in the US without enormous effort to reform lab
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> Serialization is what it is, not why it is useful. Is there a non-teleological manner in which to evaluate standards? > The most useful aspect of JSON is undoubtedly wide support This is a fantastic example of how widespread techno
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It also helps that the planets are roughly on a plane visible from everywhere on earth.
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And here I was thinking serialization was the most useful aspect of json (and it's not even great at that)
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It's a risk you deal with giving back to open source. The good part for the rest of us is it's a signal that there's likely some appetite for a fork if Datadog screws the pooch.
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> But if you accept a slightly higher abstraction, WebAssembly is portable, typed, and structured. Does WebAssembly support AOT compilation to native binaries? I thought it was just a VM.
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Next we gotta jettison capital letters to really trim the cruft
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> the rest are laughing at them on the way to the bank. My understanding is that HIPAA is intended to stop providers from colluding against the patient, not to stop providers or middlemen from enriching themselves with our data.
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> I really came to respect good salespeople You can respect a person without respecting their profession. I also serve the same dysfunction in much more widely respected ways, but my role is still part of the same cancer.
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
It is injustice. Loans are not just social mechanisms to begin with. There's nothing "just" about the west's domination of the globe; and in fact, justice would look like the west paying out to the rest of the world and
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
You don't need to read the book to see the role the world bank plays in preserving worldwide power structures. The entire world can talk to each other outside the american media sphere, you know!
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Chinese loanmaking to foreign countries has mostly gone bust, with many loans basically in default. As America (or the world bank/imf as a proxy for american capital) can attest, calling in these loans is a great way to make a lot
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by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Are you trying to pass off rfk jr as in good health? Why?
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> this level of detail is pretty standard for advanced cooking Cooking so advanced you need a fat wallet hehe
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I don't follow. If chance or evolution doesn't imply the other, what's left?
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> But I can't fire up a separate thread in JS so everything is done on the UI thread Yea targeting the web is nuts if you have other options!
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I just wanna note it's crazy that things confusing people a decade ago are still confusing people now. How fucking hard can the concept of a ui thread be?
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> Evolution is a system, not a lottery. Sure, if you chuck the concept of a lottery out the window. It's literally a genetic lottery. C'mon we can do better than this bullshit.
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I'm not sure exactly what a "free press" looks like, but I'm damn sure they've been sleeping or dead longer than I've been alive. Of all people, journalists should be able to point out our blatant contradiction
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> It was a horrible, slow ordeal. So is editing text. When you manage stacks of text (e.g. a VCS) text becomes even more of a nightmare.
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> an evolved response to an environmental change. This is still a "by pure chance" event, yea? Otherwise we're just back to intelligent design. Surely the issue is that we have fundamentally few ways of analyzing how proba

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