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by antonvs 4mo ago
Disabling WASM is the new disable JavaScript
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by antonvs 4mo ago
If you can run everything you need on two or three servers, what you describe can work. But it’s still hobby status, basically. The equation changes when the scale gets significantly bigger. Managing a non-trivial hardware fleet requires pe
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Martin Luther King wrote about that attitude: > First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumblin
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Oh no, hyperbole! How ever will you recover?! This has the same energy as “I lost a lot of sympathy for these political protests when they mildly inconvenienced me on my commute.” If you don’t agree with something, just say so. You don’t ne
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by antonvs 4mo ago
I never thought I’d need to go back to custom ROMs, but here we are.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
You're working with mystical definitions of words like "intelligence" and "reasoning", where there's some ineffable quality that you can't define that makes those properties difficult to achieve. I'm
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Yes, this is the sensible answer.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
What you’re doing is the classic No True Scotsman fallacy. “Isn’t real” is a tell for that. It’s the same as saying it’s not a “true” intelligence. Define what you mean by “true”, then. But for me, what I’m interested in is functional capab
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Are you familiar with Pratchett & Gaiman's "Good Omens" (book and TV series)? It has a certain amount of that general spirit.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Functionally speaking, current models are intelligent by any reasonable definition of the term. You can test them on their understanding of complex domains such as software systems, and within that domain as an example, you can judge them o
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by antonvs 4mo ago
The uranium wasn’t really dangerous, unless you swallowed it. Common U-238 has a half-life of about 4.5 billion years, so it’s not actually very radioactive. The most dangerous thing about it is its toxicity as a heavy metal, but plenty of
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by antonvs 4mo ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring : > To be a part of the webring, each site has a common navigation bar; it contains links to the previous and next sites. By selecting next (or previous) repeatedly, the us
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> I'd happily trade my collected years of shitposts to help folks get out of poverty. In other words, you'd happily do nothing to help folks get out of poverty?
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by antonvs 4mo ago
I chose to live in a city with laws. The ones who are in the wrong place are the ones who don’t want to follow those laws.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> FORTRAN stands for “formula translator”, which hints at its mathematical lineage. A choice of name doesn’t provide a “mathematical lineage”, and there’s no sense in which Fortran is any more “mathematical” than other programming langua
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by antonvs 4mo ago
In this case it would be “you might be interested in this <thing> if you have an unexamined and irrational hankering for pointless mid-1990s web tech.”
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Because it’s a company with no ethics beyond “might makes right,” owned by a person of dubious sanity who travels around the world to warn anyone who’ll listen about how the Antichrist is bad for their business. Why would anyone in their ri
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by antonvs 4mo ago
I hear he was good friends with H.F. Wells.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
The Crowdstrike outage only affected Windows machines. It probably improved the world economy.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Multiple choice invariably tells you more about the people writing the tests than the people answering them. It reveals their assumptions and biases. A good one was the response that said tech companies aren’t paying enough attention to “sa
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by antonvs 4mo ago
No, the original webrings from 1995 were literally rings - each site linked to one other site in the ring, and eventually one of them would link back to the “first” site, making an actual ring.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Do people also prefer paying zero percent tax over paying a positive percentage in tax? Perhaps you’d like to reconsider your comment with that in mind.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
I think it's purely nostalgia from the early days of the web, from before search engines existed. The first webring came out in 1995! Over 30 years ago. I think there was some sense of creating something to explore, where you didn&#x27
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by antonvs 4mo ago
Collectively, in the US at least, decisions collectively made by boards have led to greatly increased inequality. For example, at every AI company right now, an explicit goal it to make profit by replacing or reducing the need for human sta
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by antonvs 4mo ago
You know what else we’re going to get before fusion? Everything. Commercially viable fusion energy is still a fantasy, essentially. Anyone who claims it’s only X years away is implicitly assuming that somehow, in those X years, we’ll find s
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by antonvs 4mo ago
> Bringing most of the western world economy to a standstill That’s a huge exaggeration.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
You forgot to stipulate, “…living in an ultracapitalist country with no meaningful social safety net,” i.e. the USA.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
“Congratulations, you get improved brain function while we continue to run other experiments on you!”
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by antonvs 4mo ago
You can’t do it from a remote location. That’s a significant difference.
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by antonvs 4mo ago
The difference is the range of the delivery system. None of the options you mention allow you to remotely deliver a deadly payload without ever going particularly near the target location.

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