TimTheTinker

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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
> deliberately promotes misinformation I think it deliberately avoids censorship of any kind, which makes it both more open to truth (if anyone posts it there) and more susceptible to manipulation.
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
The rumor is going around on X that foreign enemies of the US (especially China) are trying to influence Americans through social networks against building data centers.
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
> as of January 2023, Kali.net offers the download and a registration code generator on the website, so registration is currently free.
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
Collectivization is impossible without expropriating people by force. How would you propose accomplishing that without the government's involvement? Central planning also requires a government to allocate resources and fix prices. If y
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
I'm astounded that people actually think this is mental gymnastics... would you like the KGB banging on your neighbor's door at 3am and sending them to the gulag for saying something critical of the government?
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
> every death in communism is communism's fault No. Everyone is going to die sooner or later. I'm talking about wrongful deaths. It is wrong for a government to kill people for any reason other than conviction of murder. The
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
Joyent was likely a part of what convinced Brian Cantrill that a new cloud machine was needed. They had their own stack running on commodity OEM hardware in their own cloud - likely a painful experience, since Brian talks a lot about how mu
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
> it's invariably considering everybody who died due to lack of assigned resources under communism You mean, those who were forcibly starved by their government, those who were forcibly murdered and displaced by their government, an
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
I can't think of an outcome that would be more odious to Steve Tuck and Brian Cantrill. Brian in particular still talks about the soul-crushing experience of Oracle's hostile takeover of Sun Microsystems.
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I Was in the DSA. Here's What They Believe(thefp.com)
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
> it's just not solvable Watch out, good hackers find those words incredibly motivating.
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
CNCDan is working on one right now, here's episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU_02HABZ4s
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
I think the term "dogwhistle" should be retired. It's only ever used to dismiss someone's argument instead of engaging with them. Bad arguments should be quickly responded to and shown false. Calling them "dogwhistl
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
This expresses an exact idea I've had for some time. Roughly, what's holding us back from more advanced AI (including AGI) is the complete lack of ontologies in modern AI systems (all the logical capabilities of old AI, like exper
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
To build a robust piece of deep-functionality software (like an MS Word clone) with an LLM, you have to start from the underlying architectural decisions, particularly how data is structured and how it flows through the system. If you
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
"diversity" is a weasel word (often commits the motte-and-bailey fallacy) because it can easily mean different things at different times, making it prone to use as a political catch-all slogan. "Diversity is our strength&quot
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
This is why the perpetual obsession with creating new genres in university art departments is so dumb. One told a prospective student (my wife's friend) "we don't do beautiful here" as if that signals erudition. Real bea
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
Yeah, I wasn't clear how his (lack of) religion/faith related to the theme. I like personal details shared thoughtfully in conference talks, but he structured the talk as if those details mattered to the overall message.
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by TimTheTinker 3mo ago
Our family is used to not having it on flights. Just bring a book or download a movie ahead of time to the iPad
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by TimTheTinker 3mo ago
The O(n log n) algorithm is galactic (only becomes more efficient when multiplying massive numbers) So for numbers we normally work with, no. Maybe with cryptographic operations though.
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by TimTheTinker 3mo ago
Brand-new Cessna planes were selling for roughly 2x the US median annual income in the 1960s. Today that number is at around 5.5x. I've always wanted to fly my wife & kids in a plane, but I just can't afford a high-maintenance
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by TimTheTinker 3mo ago
Right now the comments that upset me the most are LLM TMI-style comments that break encapsulation by talking about the behavior of specific current callers of a function right above the function definition . I recently reacted angrily in a
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by TimTheTinker 3mo ago
You LLM-generated this comment too. What about you (the human, if there is one behind this account) -- what do you think? If you don't speak English, write it in Hindi and use google translate. That will be much preferable to somethi
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by TimTheTinker 3mo ago
That's like saying a robot will be a better friend if I use a more skin-like material for its face. The LLM-voice revulsion isn't just about particular idiosyncrasies. Another commenter put it well - the "uncanny valley of te
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by TimTheTinker 3mo ago
Ugh, another LLM-voice article. I'm getting to the point that I almost have a physical feeling of revulsion/nausea when I read something outside an open Claude Code session that is written in an AI voice. I'm so sick of that
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by TimTheTinker 3mo ago
The TZDB could handle it though
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by TimTheTinker 3mo ago
Some kinds of brains must just not be good at this kind of game. I used to win spelling bees in school, but I played the entire archive on this game and my highest score was 6/18. Maybe it has to do with the balance between audio and v
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by TimTheTinker 3mo ago
It appears macOS native containers runs a separate Linux VM per container. OrbStack's claim to fame is that all containers run in a single Linux VM, with lots of optimizations on both sides of the VM boundary (including use of a sp
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by TimTheTinker 3mo ago
> He is a PHP developer from the early '00s who got lucky with Facebook Nice summary of a good hacker's viewpoint. All his money, power, and other non-technical signals don't really give him the technical authority to weig
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by TimTheTinker 3mo ago
It's concerning to me how the author generated AI images and gave them captions as if they are real depictions. If I'm going to read an article about something real in society, I'm only interested in images that are true de

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