SilasX

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by SilasX 1y ago
I already kind of get this with extensions that let you browse from the keyboard (e.g. click a link without using the mouse) like Tridactyl. It lets me know when clickable elements are not detected as clickable, and, sadly, this happens qui
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by SilasX 1y ago
In theory, yes. In practice, the typical specialist designer is going to optimize for things that come at the cost of accessibility. But yes, in general you're absolutely right, that a good designer will take into account all factors,
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by SilasX 1y ago
Possibly, but I generally see it as a problem from pretty much everyone, especially specialists, speaking to people outside their domain, to be horribly miscalibrated about what jargon the layperson understands, or to just not give it any t
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by SilasX 1y ago
Separate comment so you can separately downvote/flag me: Why , OP, why ? How much self-awareness does it really take to realize JBR is a non-standard acronym people won't recognize? It almost feels like a superpower that I take
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by SilasX 1y ago
JBR = JonBenet Ramsey https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Killing_of_JonBen...
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by SilasX 1y ago
I wasn't making up excuses: the danger is real. If you don't have enough leverage to withstand the party walking away, you don't have enough leverage to ask for more. I didn't say "don't negotiate", or &qu
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by SilasX 1y ago
I didn't have to, that's just a prominent, citeable example that immediately came to mind. People get ghosted all the time for being too difficult, it just doesn't make the news. It can always make sense to end negotiations w
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by SilasX 1y ago
That’s just not true. They can withdraw the offer when you try to negotiate it. It’s bad etiquette, but nothing physically stops them from it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jmaureenhenderson/2014/03/13&#x2
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by SilasX 1y ago
From my understanding: to pose the problem for miners, you hash the block you're planning to submit (which includes all the proposed transactions). Miners only get the hash. To claim the reward, you need the preimage (i.e. block to be
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by SilasX 1y ago
Alternatively, for $2 trillion, you could probably solve cold fusion and synthesis of liquid fuels, making the Middle East's oil wealth effectively irrelevant.
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by SilasX 1y ago
I’m assuming that calculation is amortizing the cost of running the water system (including wastewater treatment) adding the cost pumping it to the point that gravity can push it through the pipes. It’s never free.
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by SilasX 1y ago
>Human learning doesn't involve fixing anything,... AI training does involve fixing something into a fixed medium, which makes it disanalogous to human learning. No, it breaks one part of the analogy, which has never been consider
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by SilasX 1y ago
>Either they aren't evil in which case they're being demonized, or they're already evil in which case demonization is redundant. If you were trying to be charitable rather than clever, you would have read "evil corps&
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by SilasX 1y ago
>The term "learning" (I presume from "machine learning") shoulders a lot of weight. If we describe the situation more precisely, it involves commercially exploiting literature and other text media to produce a statist
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by SilasX 1y ago
>Human learning doesn't involve making a copy (or any other use of an exclusive rights) as defined in copyright law (the human brain not being a fixed medium), AI training does, because digital storage is . That's just false -
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by SilasX 1y ago
Learning from copyrighted works to create new ones has never been protected by copyright[1], and has never needed separate licensing rights. Until 2022, no one even suggested it, to a rounding error. If anything, people would have been hor
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by SilasX 1y ago
That feels like sleight-of-hand though. Previously (example numbers): Median compensation is $55k + health insurance. After: Median compensation is $55k + health insurance. "So nothing changed?" "Wrong! Health insurance costs
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by SilasX 1y ago
Yes, electronic transfer. Come on, if you’re going to copy someone else’s snark, pick a good one.
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by SilasX 1y ago
In the YouTube comments for the song "Informer" by Snow ("In for mer, <lots of words>, a licky boom-boom now"), someone refers to it as "the final boss of learning English". https://www.youtube
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by SilasX 1y ago
I agree with the suggestion to try it, because I've had similar experiences myself in a different area: history. Even reading the dry Wikipedia articles made the old topics seem much more interesting than I remembered them being in sch
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by SilasX 1y ago
I'm just ... dumbfounded at why it isn't "anti-personal computing". Like, as a riff on "personal computer/computing". Related: the scene in Bojack Horseman: "And this time, it's personnel!"
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by SilasX 1y ago
That's just the usual hand-wavy, vague "it's different" argument. If you want to justify treating the cases differently based on a fundamental difference, you need to be more specific. For example, they usually define an
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by SilasX 1y ago
The problem is, you can say all of that for human learning-from-copyrighted-works, so that point isn't definitive.
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by SilasX 1y ago
>My opinion: I think using copyrighted data to train models for sure seems classically illegal. Despite that, Humans can read a book, get inspiration, and write a new book and not be litigated against. When I look at the litany of deriva
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by SilasX 1y ago
I assume the analogy meant, "It's great in theory, but in practice no one does it right."
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by SilasX 1y ago
"Stop drinking" doesn't work for most alcoholics, because they go back to drinking. Simple as. "Don't commit violent crimes" doesn't work for most violent criminals, because they go back to committing viol
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by SilasX 1y ago
Disagreeing with me doesn't mean my criticism is attacking a strawman. That's not what the term means. The websites are, in fact, permitting you to view them, while insisting you not learn anything from the content. That's no
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by SilasX 1y ago
Yes, that's an important thing to worry about. I'm just not sure that "learning from a website's content how to create other intellectual works without explicit permission from the owner to do so" counts as lying, m
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by SilasX 1y ago
That's not true. They're obligated to make good faith arguments consistent with the legal profession's ethics code, that don't deliberately waste the court's time with rabbit holes, not just throw forth everything
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by SilasX 2y ago
That's an unfair reading of my comment. For one thing, I was replying to your own attempt to do a programmer style legalism, of "welp, you instantiated a copy, therefore it must be copyright infringement, case closed". I wa

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