alickz

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by alickz 2y ago
I don't believe we've scratched the surface of positive applications of even the current tech, let alone any future tech I also believe Brandolini's Law will be a major problem, though not necessarily an impossible one > T
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by alickz 2y ago
I believe AI is a force multiplier - for creative work, for problem solving, and for stupidity A hammer is a tool to most, but a weapon to some
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by alickz 2y ago
I saw a post on Reddit how someone in Kenya took a still image of 2 men kissing from an elevator camera video file and posted on social media for it to go viral Seems dangerous "I have nothing to hide" makes sense to me - except s
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by alickz 2y ago
at least they're not a https://old.reddit.com/r/tragedeigh/
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by alickz 2y ago
some (most?) streaming services don't even allow you to manually set the quality anymore gotta hope they decide your connection is capable of 4k (and they decide they want to spare you the bandwidth)
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by alickz 2y ago
who gets to copyright claim the various array sorting algorithms then?
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by alickz 2y ago
Exactly. What is development if not communication? Between the clients, the coworkers, the users, and the computer I'd take a mediocre dev with no ego and ok social skills on my project any day over an egotistical genius who can't
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by alickz 2y ago
the nazi regime made great use of punch cards and data crunching for their logistics i would hate to have seen them with a superintelligent AI at their disposal
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by alickz 2y ago
Paraphrased here in 2 minutes by Milton Friedman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtpac5ws
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by alickz 2y ago
> If you aren't ripping them off you're leaving money on the table You're leaving money in their pocket that you might get later How do you quantify loyalty? Because it seems to me that it's very easy for individuals
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by alickz 2y ago
"no one ever got fired buying IBM"
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by alickz 2y ago
is there any legal obligation in the US that would require YouTube to be able to view all videos uploaded, regardless of privacy?
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by alickz 2y ago
> way to get your life crazy difficult over reddit points "Google says it was "non-intentional" because they only showed it to a friend", I don't think they purposely leaked it for internet clout
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by alickz 2y ago
> The less ideological ones often squat old industrial properties Where do the more ideological ones go? and what ideologies are we talking about here
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by alickz 2y ago
The Principle of Charity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
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by alickz 2y ago
Also the writers famously created a mathematical theorem just for an episode of Futurama https://theinfosphere.org/Futurama_theorem
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by alickz 2y ago
that was my assumption when i read they weren't profitable and also that streaming and storing video at that scale is almost a natural monopoly, with how much it must cost and how hard it would be to compete without existing resources
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by alickz 2y ago
i think at that point it's kind of just semantics i don't think devs care if they use containers or VMs, as long as it's easy and they don't have to worry about which version of Python the host is running
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by alickz 2y ago
> The rejection of realpolitik is at the core of modern liberalism why do you believe so? i see no reason why rationalism and political pragmatism are mutually exclusive with liberalism. in fact to me it seems they complement each other
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by alickz 2y ago
"ambient, techno and IDM" is a broad bucket but my favourite noname I found post 2010s is a greek sampler going by Moderator Closer to trip-hop maybe but has elements of ambient and some dance https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by alickz 2y ago
I'm surprised they don't use some form of hardware based RNG. I assume there's many good reasons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generat...
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by alickz 3y ago
cool
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by alickz 3y ago
if only they put macOS on the iPhone, this would all be avoided
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by alickz 3y ago
> This could be fantasy talking. How does the walled garden around Steam affect their 30% cut? Oh, there is no wall, and it's... 30%. Steam isn't both the OS manufacturer and the sole vendor of games on PC, unlike Apple and iOS
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by alickz 3y ago
I was considering less how their revenue is now and more how it will be when the EU regulations hit and they lose the guaranteed 30/15% cut on all iOS apps I know the US govt is hitting them with a similar anti-trust lawsuit, so it mig
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by alickz 3y ago
it seems Apple's hardware revenue have started to plateau, and their services revenue is in jeopardy with the new EU changes to the App Store it wouldn't surprise me if Apple started ramping up their data revenue in the near futur
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by alickz 3y ago
tell people to fork your project and fuck off
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by alickz 3y ago
What would the crime be? Misuse of computers? Espionage? Curious as to the legal angle of it
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by alickz 3y ago
in my experience it often boils down to: "won't somebody think of my elderly relatives" as if iOS prevents them from being scammed or giving away sensitive info in a meaningful way that macOS does not
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by alickz 3y ago
See here for details: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/keychain_...

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