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by andrepd 1y ago
- Buy on the darkweb. Marketplaces exist with established vendors, open forums, feedback, customer support, escrow... I could write a long text about how this is an infinitely better way to do things for all concerned than to "force&qu
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by andrepd 1y ago
? Yes? That's exactly what's happening, google's and meta's algos dictate which sites get traffic which is why every website is slowly but surely turning into clickbait/reels.
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by andrepd 1y ago
I maintain my point: it's prose, not even too complicated at that. The fact that many people have a hard time understanding it, is understandable, but not a good state of affairs.
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by andrepd 1y ago
I'd say it's more a failure of the educational system if 99% of people cannot interpret a sentence like that.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Another win for big tech: Google has been enshittified to such a point that you can now spin up a machine that consumes 1000x the power to give you a result that has a coin toss odds of being totally made up.
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by andrepd 1y ago
> 1) What good is your open problem set if really its a trivial "google search" away from being solved. Why are they not catching any blame here? Please explain how this is in any way related to the matter at hand. What is the
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by andrepd 1y ago
Well I don't know what to say, except that this is obviously, trivially, not true. The LLM will plain make up links that don't exist, or at least "summarise" an existing link by just making stuff up that is tangentially
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by andrepd 1y ago
Ahh, I misunderstood. Thanks for clarifying!
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by andrepd 1y ago
You're right, it does. It's more like 10 seconds.
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by andrepd 1y ago
> the combustion engine revolution, which brought us urbanization, made democracy widespread (virtually eliminating monarchy), created the urban proletariat, ended slavery, made humans literally fly, lit the cities at night, obliterated
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by andrepd 1y ago
I miss the times when consoles [1] had unique and quirky architectures. Now everything is a PC x) [1] And home computers, but that ended a couple decades earlier than consoles.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Wow, outstanding! I have reading material for months.
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by andrepd 1y ago
A monopolistic entity enforces opaque and arbitrary rules with little to no ability to appeal. In less strange times this would merit the hammer coming down, but in 2025...
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by andrepd 1y ago
Bravo, Vince.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Just one more example of how investment in fundamental science, without explicit reference to marketability or industry applications, often produce revolutionary technology which does have economic applications.
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by andrepd 1y ago
I'm sorry to be so blunt but this is a massive cope and deeply annoying to see this every . fucking. time. the limitations of LLMs are brought up. There is every single time someone saying yeah you didn't use web search /
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by andrepd 1y ago
It might be "useful" as in "it has a non-zero number of use cases", and still being massively overhyped (orders of magnitude in my opinion). I guess there are use cases for it, even if we discount undisputed net negative
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by andrepd 1y ago
So it's not absolute?
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by andrepd 1y ago
Why people would purchase a telescreen to place on their homes in the first place is also incomprehensible to me.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Is this seriously your conclusion? Might be a good time to get rid of the fucking spy camera owned by a multitrillion dollar corporation partnering with the state surveillance apparatus, is my opinion. Have people never read/watched a
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by andrepd 1y ago
Many people (including in this website) are hard at work creating the torment nexus.
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by andrepd 1y ago
I agree with everything the author said here, but unfortunately no mention at all of semantic highlighting ! This is the killer feature for me and I literally cannot do without it.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Which is why—to invoke a cliché—the problem is the system, not individual people doing what benefits them inside the system.
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by andrepd 1y ago
A very interesting post about this issue. https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/10/07/the...
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by andrepd 1y ago
You're clearly running low-intensity tasks (pro photo editing, music production, software dev, generally all at the same time) instead of highly-demanding ones (1 jira tab)
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by andrepd 1y ago
Not quite. A huge chunk of those 148 billion are pensions and welfare benefits, which UBI replaces.
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by andrepd 1y ago
More data points for my "everyone is 12 now" theory of the world.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Android design is similarly terrible. I'm not sure what's the explanation for UI design being so fucked up across the board for about 10 years now.
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by andrepd 1y ago
How is making a factual assertion (there is no conseusus in the discipline of economics) somehow "disparaging economics"???? There is no consensus, unlike harder sciences such as physics or biology, and like social sciences such
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by andrepd 1y ago
> AI hallucinates students' grades > Make a write-up about it > Using AI > Which then hallucinates more stuff Funny stuff.

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