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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
> Their defence seems to be "well we asked an LLM to reproduce your work, so 'WE' never copied your code". A German court recently ruled that the runners of the agent are responsible for the agent's output. Not i
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
I got LinkedIn notifications for both Anthropic and OpenAI with my exact job description, but at 3-4x the pay. I said hell no. They would want me to actually work. The job I have now is easy. Plus, they're slated for mass layoffs when
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
> I meant "I do not understand why Sov. Cit. would believe that the law would agree to these ideas". It's an insane degree of self-delusion. No sane and rational person would believe that society had a loophole that allows
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
> To be fair to Apple, their best selling laptop runs on the same chip as their best selling phone Technically, their best selling laptop has been the MacBook Air for some number of years. Maybe that changes with the Neo, which genuinely
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
> I don't think your average consumer has any idea how memory works, which apps are using it, or what a "reasonable" consumption is for a given task. I had a brand new experience today. I emailed someone explaining to &quo
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
I just downgraded the skillset needed and moved back down to dedicated IT. It's so much easier and I have zero job-related stress 95% of the time. I already worked a flashy job with big name recognition. I don't need to prove anyt
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
> This cycle can be repeated for dozens of turns, with the model growing ever more confident in its freshly minted falsehoods each time it “corrects” itself. > > This is not randomness. It is a reward-model exploit in its purest fo
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
> Here's a look at his 'Manchesterism' vision and economic model for Britain, which he describes as "business-friendly socialism" I admit to knowing very little (close to nothing) about UK politics. But I'm
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
> Do you believe they would overlook such obvious explanation? Do you think they have a motive to generate a specific response? It's an appropriate question to ask about any source.
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
> A writer who is able to break free from the belief that his being is at his core, a writer, can break writer's block. He may also discover how to be a better waiter during his night shift. Fantastic!
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
Ha! What the eff. I don't know how that happened. Too late to edit. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Mysteries/Bill-Wa...
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
This is one of the reasons I have Stupendous Man on my forearm. It's the version of him running into his classroom on the back of one of the books (arms flexing triumphantly), only I had that artist style the costume based on how he ap
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
> You might have missed the sarcasm I didn't. It's pretty frustrating how many people on the internet can't infer intent. I upvoted your clearly absurdist statement because I got it. Sadly, that's the modern internet.
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
> I had always thought I didn't like history. It was just so incredibly boring. I had an early-midlife crisis where I considered moving to another profession. After a great deal of thought, I determined that the profession that I wo
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
> meter-thick stone walls Wifi must be a nightmare. Very interesting to think about. Every building I've lived in is plaster and wood beams and I get annoyed when audio starts dropping / distorting on BT earbuds at a distance.
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
I see someone who might really enjoy the Fall of Civilizations podcast. Check it out. I love it.
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
The commenter doesn't recognize that nordic countries have exceptionally high quality of life despite less sunlight (a common cause of depression) than whatever country in which they likely reside. They aren't curious about the wo
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
It's more nuanced than that. First was the USA, the first nuclear state (and the west / allies). Then the Soviets. The Third World was the anticipated rise of the nations that would join us on the world stage, a hopeful and optimi
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
A caption for one of the photos: > A room with monochrome stucco decorations Cantieri Narranti Unlikely. We know that the white marble statues that we have were once painted. Time turned them into what we see today. This room was surely
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
Great. Let’s further expand the Murdoch empire. Consolidate, consume, merge, absorb. This never ends poorly for the customer. /s
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
I remember one of my first interactions with someone when I got to one of the big companies. I thought, “He’s a nerd!” It was both joy and surprise. We had the same speech impediment. We were both nerds. The job was hell, but everyone cared
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
Yep. My partner came with me to visit family in the midwest. It's flat and everything is spaced out and there are no sidewalks because no one walks because you have to drive to get anywhere. The best park is a little wooded area that y
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
> Being financially independent is the moral compass of the financially independent. I mean, I think you meant it somewhat derisively (if not, apologies), but it's absolutely true. I work for two reasons: it gives me a higher qualit
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
Top three things I install first are Sublime Text, Homebrew, and modern Bash (I'm not switching to Zshell). Great tools make computing enjoyable.
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Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act(arstechnica.com)
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
I bought a bunch of NUCs 18 months ago for some projects. They're no longer in use. A friend asked if I was selling any. I realized I might be able to sell them at cost or a profit. Crazy times.
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
> That was closer to the "style at the time". So I tied an onion to my belt.
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
Whoosh! Right over my head. I feel a little silly, but also, got me!
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I recognize this blog from the layout / design. It was impressive the previous time I say it. This is pretty far beyond my level of comprehension, but I get the gist of it and it's pretty interesting. I don't understand why t
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
My mother had an iMac that we bought for her (to replace the old one that wasn't receiving security updates) that remained in a box for two years because she was afraid of the upgrade complexity. There was none. Her whole computing lif

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