QuadmasterXLII

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by QuadmasterXLII 4mo ago
A PAC talking to Spotify is obviously protected speech. At least try to look like you have principles.
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by QuadmasterXLII 4mo ago
So far its just metastasized not smoothed out. GPUs then RAM then electricity then disk… long way to go till land then sunlight, hope we don’t get there!
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by QuadmasterXLII 4mo ago
I remember this being true for me, a long, long time ago. There was something like a four year gap between me being able to munge linked lists in TiBasic and me being able to reliably install java and compile System.out.println(“hello world
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by QuadmasterXLII 4mo ago
what is anti ai psychosis? never heard of this.
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by QuadmasterXLII 4mo ago
Hanlons razor has fucked us, voters tolerate unlimited malice as long as the politicians can demonstrate they are genuinely incompetent
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by QuadmasterXLII 4mo ago
If I am perfectly moral except that when Kevin from <vpn blocked location> pays me 2 bucks to run naked through San Francisco smashing car windows, I happily do it, am I amok?
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by QuadmasterXLII 4mo ago
i was under the impression that the 2024 apple intelligence rollout was something of a victory: Apple realized that the majority of people don't actually want this stuff forced on them at the os level, and the ai maximalists all used a
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by QuadmasterXLII 4mo ago
In many school districts, unless you can afford private school or homeschooling its hard to tell a kid they can't have an iPhone, but impossible to tell them they can't have an iPad- at age six!
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by QuadmasterXLII 4mo ago
Parents need to either control the internet, or control their children’s devices and screentime. The latter sounds like the obvious option, except that Google wants every second grader to have a school-mismanaged chromebook and Google want
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by QuadmasterXLII 4mo ago
If my phone buzzes and I look at it and the reason was dumb, I delete the offending app and leave a 1 star review. I don’t know which of these steps are loadbearing, but my phone has gotten much quieter.
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by QuadmasterXLII 5mo ago
You don’t get to choose whether they allow you to join them.
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by QuadmasterXLII 5mo ago
I’m not sure there’s a philosophical understanding yet, but the learned flinch response from how badly the last X interventions went is real
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by QuadmasterXLII 5mo ago
WW1 shellshock was a diagnosis consisting of an undifferentiated mix of concussion and ptsd, the diseases may have been completely untangled by now but it’s not impossible that there is still some blurring
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by QuadmasterXLII 5mo ago
If this was a study on ptsd in assault survivors you could make the exact same comment asking why they didn’t try it in veterans (and I have no reason to doubt someone would)
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by QuadmasterXLII 5mo ago
A complementary policy is to not give six year olds publicly funded mandatory chromebooks their parents don’t control. This can reduce the pressure coming from these parents to warp and twist the web till it is safe for a six year old to ha
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by QuadmasterXLII 5mo ago
If you use a stateless client (like just rawdogging cli llama.cpp) there’s nothing to discover. Setting a program with an option to have logs to not do that could conceivably get you in trouble but using a widely used program that never had
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by QuadmasterXLII 5mo ago
The universities can survive a wave of student ai laziness- blue books and pass fail homework. cfg. I can’t see how they survive a wave of professor ai laziness. Paying $200,000 for $40 of tokens is such a brutal way to be scammed and the r
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by QuadmasterXLII 5mo ago
intentionally cannibalizing their own sales is iirc the official apple policy: iphone destroyed ipod and was one of the best business mives of all time
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by QuadmasterXLII 5mo ago
lmao can’t render on safari, get “this page was reloaded because a problem repeatedly occurred.” Maybe someone could invent a format for presenting text and images over the internet that didn’t each require each text presenter to write cust
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by QuadmasterXLII 5mo ago
i have bad news
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by QuadmasterXLII 5mo ago
julia StaticCompiler.jl is the closest to doing this but its buggy, the error messages are terrible, theres no documentation and its ambiguous whether its still in development. but ive looked, nothing better exists.
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by QuadmasterXLII 5mo ago
Immigrants to europe are not statistically similar to immigrants to the US. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/political-backflow-from-eur...
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by QuadmasterXLII 6mo ago
The argument you are presenting is recycled from debates about newly banning things that have been legal for forever, but doesn’t make any sense at all as a response to people bemoaning disasters caused by an activity being newly legalized.
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by QuadmasterXLII 6mo ago
I deeply deeply want to love OCaml but its inherent lack of dynamic dispatch for int / float / complex is brutal
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by QuadmasterXLII 6mo ago
Although the ones that never touch claude code are a free $20 a month, the ones that do are potentially a seventy to eighty dollar twenty dollars a month . it’s not instantly obvious which customers you prefer (revenue vs cash negative grow
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by QuadmasterXLII 6mo ago
here I vibecoded an app to fix your twitter experience sudo cat 0.0.0.0 x.com >> /etc/hosts
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by QuadmasterXLII 6mo ago
its not caused by a habit of writing authentically formatted Homestuck rp smut but surely its correlated
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by QuadmasterXLII 6mo ago
They expect the coming crop of data centers will be used to hurt them, and don’t want them built anywhere?
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by QuadmasterXLII 6mo ago
I could believe that perma-cameraing every inch of public space is more akin to chemo than to vitamin gummies, that SF had the city equivalent of bone cancer, and that this doesn’t mean healthy midwestern towns need Flock in any way.
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by QuadmasterXLII 6mo ago
If every project you have tackled has come out successful, then you are managing to never tackle a problem that is secretly literally impossible, which is a property of whatever prefilter you are applying to potential problems. Given that y

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