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by ang_cire 2mo ago
The hunger games is also about an authoritarian society with mass surveillance, though? WWZ is about a literal zombie outbreak, and while I can't comment on whether the book is actually using it as a vehicle to critique or extrapolate
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
That *opinion* article is by a literal anti-climate-science hack. He cites none of his numbers, and it's because they're complete lies. Here's some actual cited evidence: The WHO fact sheet on heat and health [1] says: > T
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
I like how the author defines dystopia as > reckless uprisings, a long dark age, the collapse of institutions, climate disasters, a black mirror of stunted humanity descending into chaos. rather than the much more common understanding or
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
I agree about what happened, but I think the timescale is different. Railroads were the tools of robber-barons even in the 1800s. Electricity was captured by the major electric companies before most millennials were born. Finance was a stod
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Translation is an art form that is rapidly becoming lost, not because AI is doing it, but because there are too many translators who have apparently been trained (or likely, were never trained in it as a formal study at all) that it should
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
The problem isn't that WFO-preferenced people don't exist, it's that it aligns with the narratives of the extroverted management (who approve their own PTO) that it's better, and people who aren't extroverts dread b
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Or, as any respectable farmer does it, it's though heavy subsidies and crop insurance fraud!
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Yes and no. There were really 2 sides to the original 'tech' industry: military and consumer. The military side was always about profit, because it was just an extension of the already extant WW2 military industrial complex (and f
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Exactly. It's insane how we've come to just accept corporate profit as a valid reason for allowing people to die, or for shifting responsibility for the outcome away from the corporation. The Joker's monologue to Harvey Dent
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
The article isn't only about AI, and neither was my comment.
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Is discussing offshoring that takes away American jobs and has driven much poverty in the heartland equally political and unacceptable, or is it just the political discussions you don't like having that shouldn't be allowed? The
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Everyone makes decisions in life and lives with the consequences. Your question, as it's stated now, is simply "should we have free will?" I never made any statement about which actions should be legal . And the facile asser
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
I don't know where you got the idea my comment is about AI from.
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
That's only okay if they're a politician or business exec, right? It's fine to hold those murderers up as role models, apparently.
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Because we see what's coming? Because we watched our careers go from being in service of an industry of tinkerers and designers, to being in service of the worst people attempting to maximize wealth extraction no matter the human cost?
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
These are bad examples. Warranty status is tied to hardware* serials. It's not like there are third-party Framework sellers. Sending a recall notice via email doesn't require name, address, dob, etc. Companies are in a bad habit o
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Perhaps I'm uncommon in that I make diagrams and even sometimes pseudo-code (mostly in the form of mapping out function names, because they serve as a proxy for program flow paths) before I write actual code, but I don't find myse
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
It's funny, because I would consider myself a tinkerer (and I have a large backlog of pre-LLM programs), but the coding itself isn't the main thing that brings me joy, it's the phase 2 and phase 4 combo: figure out how to sol
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
This is a false dichotomy. University impact on careers in the 1980s was materially different than now, and that is still "modern education". Opposing the AI impact on universities is not equivalent to opposing modern water infras
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
> If all laws were prosecuted to the exact letter of the law we would not need juries. The DA will prosecute any case that they feel has enough evidence to secure a conviction, as this case had. It is the juries that determine if prosecu
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
The bail jumping charge was actually dropped in the end, so weed possession was the only charge.
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
We (meaning the US) won't ever fix this ourselves, because we systematically refuse to hold businesses to any kind of standards. Make it illegal to discriminate based on degree status in hiring (it's not like anyone is hiring an
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Yep, there were multiple dog whistles in this article, including framing the very intentional attack on science funding by Trump, as a tool for political leverage against universities, as being just some kind of benign priority shift.
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
That is either a logistics issue, or a mismatch in what is being purchased. It doesn't specify that they're the same GPUs. Given the way the author structures the article, I'm suspicious that this is a meaningful or even trut
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
wont to do* [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wont
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Yes, but that's not something universities can solve. Universities predate capitalism (despite the author's absurd assertion that they were founded to serve the interests of businesses), and will exist after it, if any humans surv
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
I'm fairly certain that you do in fact have a duct that moves aqua (water) into your house, bro. And gravity-feed systems are the best way to move large amounts of water. That's even how nature works, and nature moves much more
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
Which is why the real answer to this is actually an older paradigm: apprenticeship. Companies should be doing their own training for their jobs, and university can be freed up to actually be about intellectual pursuit rather than economi
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by ang_cire 2mo ago
As someone who's managed bug bounty programs, I'm fine with this? I've had at least 2 times where a researcher did something to get themselves removed from a program, and came back with alt accounts. I don't know what is
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by ang_cire 3mo ago
I've gone the opposite route with my recent project, using IRC-style nick + pass, with no email. I prefer this to associating everything with a unique identifier about myself.

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