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by antonvs 1mo ago
Are you really missing the point that badly? If you allow this pandering to satisfy you, you’re essentially supporting an age verification requirement for all other computing systems. So you didn’t think the requirement itself was a problem
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by antonvs 1mo ago
> There was a distinct lack of self-reflection It’s not their fault, they’re lawnmowers. And these are the people we’re entrusting to work on “alignment”. It’s difficult for them to do that when they’re not aligned themselves.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
The correct term is genocidal monsters. Israelis and others who support this have shown that the lesson they took from the Holocaust is that they believe it's morally fine as long as they're the ones doing the killing.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
Sure, but the point is (1) that you don’t need a package manager to install software, which the comment I replied to seemed to assume, and (2) that for something you’re developing against like SQLite, installing it via package manager rea
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by antonvs 1mo ago
It delivered an arbitrary exception to a stupid law. If all someone wanted was an exception for Linux, they don’t understand the problem with this law.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
Joke’s on them, Andreesen has no neck.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
> (Aside: The hard bit may be getting a new enough SQLite, at the time of writing Homebrew on macOS has it, else you likely need to use an unstable source like nixpkgs-unstable.) Or just download the source and build it! (Gasp!)
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by antonvs 1mo ago
It might help to reorganize the sentence: "For LLMs, app development has always been harder than web development."
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by antonvs 1mo ago
Show me someone who "likes torturing" and I'll show you someone who's a social media algorithm away from being MAGA or the local equivalent. "Right wing" is the correct term. Briefly checking your comment histo
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by antonvs 1mo ago
Because then you’re acting as free labor for a for-profit organization, improving their proprietary product.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
> Anyone who corrects this, with a good UX solution, will win the password manager wars. In some technical sense, not necessarily in popularity.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
I’m not missing it, I thought that was obvious. See my other longer comment in this thread.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
That’s quite the Overton window you’re living with. > Georgia Ah yes, I see.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
> he appears to be completely fine. Yup, looks fine, sounds fine... wait
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by antonvs 1mo ago
That was a major theme of "Wyrd Sisters". The book itself was a parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth, which featured three "weird sisters" (actually "weyard sisters" and even "weyward sisters".) As th
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by antonvs 1mo ago
> He let Elon tear our institutions to shreds, costing infinitely more money... ...and lives. Musk is now up there as one of the individuals with the highest kill counts in history - at least 500,000 to 700,000 so far. Analysis suggests
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by antonvs 1mo ago
A conspiracy theory without a shadowy government organization is just a conspiracy.
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by antonvs 1mo ago
It’s a conspiracy theory in that there’s no evidence of funding, support, or even cooperation in the particular case of “24”. The 24 pilot was filmed before 9/11. After 9/11, the show had to be modified because reality has become
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by antonvs 1mo ago
My conspiracy theory is that "24" was funded by the CIA (etc.) to build public support for measures like the Patriot Act. "24" debuted 11 days after the Patriot Act became law, so they were being worked on at the same ti
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by antonvs 1mo ago
Could you expand on why Auth0 is a PoS? I've never really liked it, but auth is not my area. Of course, our company uses it...
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by antonvs 1mo ago
I like GCP as well, having previously used AWS for many years. The biggest issue is that it's taken Google a long time to figure out what enterprise security is - it's not something what was in their DNA - and the product shows it
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by antonvs 1mo ago
How does it compare to the imagery you see in dreams?
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by antonvs 1mo ago
That quote is referenced twice in the article, including in the subtitle.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Sounds like you have aphantasia but you’ve convinced yourself that you don’t. Here’s a simple question: how close are your waking visualizations to images you see in vivid dreams? From what you’ve said, assuming you do experience vivid drea
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> There’s no way to write Haskell that puts us inside the program process, so we will still need to restart in a debugger. If you’re regularly using a debugger while developing ordinary Haskell programs, you’re doing something terribly w
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by antonvs 2mo ago
“I have no mouth but I must scream” is a Harlan Ellison story about an AI that tortures humans for revenge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc... I suppose Moflin is preemptive revenge against
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Robots don’t die if you forget to feed them, and don’t get depressed if you don’t get around to taking them for walks. They also don’t need to be trained not to pee or poop in the house, not to bark at the mailman, etc.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Follow the money!
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> wall? it is less than 400 words, separated over 5 paragraphs. is that what counts as a "wall" now? It seems to be, yes. The Twitterization of discourse.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> the same can be told about all. Because the idea that there's one simple ideologically-based system that's going to solve all problems is simplistic. Markets are useful, but that doesn't mean that societies should be org

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