Xirdus

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by Xirdus 4mo ago
Hard disagree on the scam phone calls. It would be trivial to eradicate them almost completely if the phone operators did the bare minimum to fight against it. At any point in time, any given US phone number is handled by exactly one phon
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
So, what are the chances they'd completely redo multiple core systems in the 18 months they asked for?
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
Maybe you're not safer, but you can get rich quick. Recently someone got $100k compensation for fake DUI charges and resulting wrongful imprisonment.
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
I can think of one such company. Full disclosure: I work for them. It's a successful startup where the entire retention strategy is for our product to be so freaking amazing you'll never want to use anything else. It's been w
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
You don't need to have life figured out before you have kids in the same sense you don't have to fix your car when the check engine light is on, or you don't have to replace a rusted water boiler. You won't immediately d
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
> Originally "bot traffic" was based on behaviour, e.g., exceeding acceptable rates of usage, making too many requests in a given time period, exceeding rate limits > Now it's available to exclude traffic based on crite
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
So that's less of username/password wall and more of manually vetting every reader wall?
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
> As long as you're not directly copying things like characters, dialogue, etc., it's not a derivative work. Define a character. Is another lion prince named Simba the same character? Is a lion prince named something else the
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
> Strange Brew and The Lion King are not derivative works of Hamlet simply because they include literary themes and plot points that originated in Hamlet. But try to write your own story of a lion cub chased away by his uncle and living
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
> a deterministic process that is simply parsing input from a single source and outputting it in a new form is not the same thing as a stochastic process that interpolates patterns from multiple sources and then uses those patterns to ge
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
For the founders, IPO/merger is pure profit. They don't care what happens afterwards.
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
This only works if your business is large enough that you and all your competitors aren't expected to have humans doing everything already, but small enough that going AI won't boost your valuation by much. My intuition is that th
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
> Both would resolve to the same question, no? Yes but my answer would be different. It can be either about what coding agents do (and you'll see that it breaks the social contract), or it can be about what the FOSS social contract
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
Are you asking how AI coding agents, the companies selling them and the individuals using them break the FOSS social contract (copyleft, attribution, upstreaming), or are you disputing that they do?
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
People who take steps in response to social contract being broken are the ones responsible for the steps they've taken, not the ones who break the social contract.
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
Not GP, but there are massive economic incentives both to make car driving as unregulated and to make forklift driving as regulated as possible, even though from pure injury risk standpoint it should be the other way around.
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
I suspect it went something like this. "Please turn on the airplane mode now." Phone put into airplane mode. Phone disables BT. Watch loses connection. Because of questionable engineering choices, it automatically enters pairing m
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
People who break the social contract are the ones responsible for breaking the social contract, not the ones who take steps in response to social contract being broken.
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
> Hard to imagine at least one person didn’t see the device name and immediately brush it off as entirely unimportant. There are hundreds of BT devices everywhere that people waiting for a flight hang out. Without automatic scanning for
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by Xirdus 4mo ago
Spambots learned to autoregister 30 years ago. Do LLMs not do that? Crazy.
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by Xirdus 5mo ago
> Gothic 3 is still pretty alive in terms of modding A fraction of G2's modding scene. And the reason is even after all the bugfixes and community patches, people still overwhelmingly prefer G2 over G3. > You equal success meanin
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by Xirdus 5mo ago
But not actively. At best, they passively worked toward it. They never consciously took any steps to ensure they have FI or can ever RE. It just happened to them while they were working on other goals.
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by Xirdus 5mo ago
Gothic has always been a niche franchise, and G3 was poorly received not because of bugs, but because of bad worldbuilding (orcs speaking human language, magic runes disappearing, a powerful kingdom getting wholly conquered in basically no
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by Xirdus 5mo ago
As counterintuitive as it sounds, it turns out video game consumers don't care much about the actual computation either. Most games are riddled with bugs, and it has next to no impact on sales. Rather, having weird, even embarrassing b
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by Xirdus 5mo ago
I'd say it's missing the FI part and the RE part of the FIRE strategy. Even if they did retire early with financial independence, it's never been their goal and they never actively worked toward it. The reason regular saving
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by Xirdus 5mo ago
You are not giving your 14 year old self the credit they deserve. Creating simple HTML webpages is beyond capabilities of most adults even when following tutorials. I personally witnessed many 14 year olds who failed at literally that. In s
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by Xirdus 5mo ago
It is very much what I mean here. See my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314727
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by Xirdus 5mo ago
Even doomscrolling gives you dozens of skills that never get talked about because they're just so obvious to anyone with those skills - but someone who's not even doomscrolling would literally not have, and it would bite them big
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by Xirdus 5mo ago
I heard that the biggest struggle current CS professors have with college freshmen is teaching them about files and directories. It takes a full year before it clicks for most people.
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by Xirdus 5mo ago
I had extremely bad experience trying to setup act on my Macbook. If this is something that actually works (and doesn't steal my credentials), I'm willing to try it despite AI non-features.

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