ajross

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by ajross 8mo ago
> To wit: there are I issues and P positions for each issue, yet there are not I * P ballot choices, so people inevitably get something they don't want. Sigh. I hate the internet. That was exactly my point. Thank you. The democ
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by ajross 8mo ago
That logic seems strained to the point of breaking. Surely you agree that we would all want the DM of an unwell player to seek help, right? And that, if such a DM made such a suggestion, we'd think they were trying to help. Right?
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by ajross 8mo ago
Nothing in the article alleges significant disability though. You're projecting your own ideas onto the situation, precisely because of the misleading title. Please recognize that this is coverage of a lawsuit , sourced almost entire
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by ajross 8mo ago
> the only human involved doesnt know it is "roleplaying" That is 100% unattested. We don't know the context of the interaction. But the fact that the AI was reportedly offering help lines argues strongly in the directio
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by ajross 8mo ago
Which is to say: you don't think roleplay and fantasy fiction have a place in AI? Because that's pretty clearly what this is and the frame in which it was presented. Are you one of the people that would have banned D&D back i
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by ajross 8mo ago
Yeah, the father/son framing feels like deliberate spin in the headline here. This was a mentally ill adult, not an innocent victim ripped from his parents arms. I think there's room for legitimate argument about the externalitie
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by ajross 8mo ago
So, no, you're not. Or you're misunderstanding how this works. "Stop the war in Iran" is a majority position in polls . People don't vote on that, because people don't care about the war in Iran. Instead,
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by ajross 8mo ago
And I repeat , you're doing a meme like performance art: Me: The windows junk is three times cheaper and does the same thing. You: "You should look at the total output of the human / cost + equipment. If the output of the
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by ajross 8mo ago
For clarity, I'm not saying the minority position is "wrong". I'm saying that holding a minority position is not a priori evidence that Deep State Illuminati Elite Power Centers are conspiring against you. They're
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by ajross 8mo ago
Sorry, no. The republican party of the last three-quarter-century has been consistently and reliably pro-American-exceptionalism. That the republican power structures backed a candidate who claimed not to believe these things is interesti
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by ajross 8mo ago
Counterargument: squabbling about "blue team vs red team" is legitimate domestic politics about issues important to voters. You're just upset because what you think the "the whole game" is about is a rare area of g
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by ajross 8mo ago
Were you 3x as productive though? That's the analysis "they" tend to be doing. I don't even use windows (beyond gaming). The Jedi and I are just off on the ends of the bell curve pointing and the stupid numbers on the
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by ajross 8mo ago
That was exactly my first thought. The better framing here isn't "honest site victimized by Google linking to their IP-thieving scammer clone", it's "dude lost in an arms race of eyeball chasing and is salty about
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by ajross 8mo ago
> Depends. Are you doing dev on Microsoft's stack, or are you doing dev on all of the other stacks? You can run docker in WSL better than you can on a Mac. You can run Linux natively on that box, too. "Stacks" is sort of
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by ajross 8mo ago
> absolutely solid product that is actually sufficient for the large majority of full stack devs Worth pointing out that the same thing is true for a $350 windows box. The news here isn't "The M5 Air is a disappointment",
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by ajross 8mo ago
> The MBA is an amazing value, and appears to have only gotten slightly cheaper. Looks to me like the base model went up by $100, no? The whining is just whining. It's a fine laptop, but it's not significantly improved from
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by ajross 8mo ago
> and if i directly do an mmap syscall on linux from a freestanding forth ... mmap() remains a system call to a C kernel designed for use from the C library in C programs, and you're running what amounts to an emulator. The fact tha
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by ajross 8mo ago
No, that's too far down the pedantry rabbit hole. "mmap()" is quite literally a C function in the 4.2BSD libc. It happens to wrap a system call of the same name, but to claim that they are different when they arrived in the
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by ajross 8mo ago
Agree to disagree there. For casual "I need to vectorize this code" tasks, modern compilers are almost magic. I mean, have you looked at the generated code for array-based numerics processing? It's like, you start the pro
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by ajross 8mo ago
>> C is the natural language for exposing Unix system calls > No, C is the language _designed_ to write UNIX. [...] This is one of those hilarious situations where internet discussion goes off the rails. Everything you wrote, to t
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by ajross 8mo ago
> kick out the people they're actually worried about without invoking legal process for each one specifically Why are we assuming either/both good faith and competence here? Is there anything about the policymaking of this a
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by ajross 8mo ago
I think this is sort of missing the point, though. Yes, mmap() is in POSIX[1] in the sense of "where is it specified". But mmap() was implemented in C because C is the natural language for exposing Unix system calls and mmap()
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by ajross 8mo ago
Some of this is... pretty tortured: > Leaving Gmail also gave me the opportunity to start implementing better digital hygiene. Which is to say, everyone else's spam filtering is awful, so you need to restrict access to your email so
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by ajross 8mo ago
We already are. Check eBay at the component level, which is showing it quite clearly. Look for secondary/reclaimed/refurbished components to backfill the gaps too. Also be aware that this stuff whipsaws, if OpenAI actually takes
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by ajross 8mo ago
These are Bonkers times we live in. Be honest, who had "Sam Altman kills Apple Computer" on their 2025/6 Bingo card?
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by ajross 8mo ago
We are and have been for many years now. Check out the "free" phone tier at your mobile vendor of choice. Those are great devices! They may not match your particular tastes, but people with inflexible taste are always the last-r
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by ajross 8mo ago
> Coupled with the current iOS situation it seems like things are… rotting. Everything in decline. Just "commoditizing". Last years microwave ovens were basically the same as 2024's also, and no one cares. You still need
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by ajross 8mo ago
It's absolutely wild that the Big Moral Question of our time is informed as much by mid-20th-century pop science fiction as it is by a existing paradigm from academia or genuine reckoning with the technology itself. If anything that ma
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by ajross 8mo ago
Not "rich", but "employed by a major corporation". Large-payer private insurance in the US is fine and produces outcomes at or above the level you see in the rest of the industrialized world. All the yelling is about A
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by ajross 8mo ago
>> so many of your citizens without even basic affordable healthcare > They aren't. Anyone can go to the ER, and if you're poor it'll be billed through Medicaid. You guys are both wrong, and arguing with broad brushe

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