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by arjie 4mo ago
Functions are colored. Software has sexuality. And we aren't even talking about AI!
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by arjie 4mo ago
The text is mostly content-free. Headline + charts are enough for most HN stories.
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by arjie 4mo ago
Sure, and I paid for all the contributions to Linux too in that respect. It's fine, if the unpaid ones want to not do any more work, that's fine too. It was always about user freedom, and now we have it.
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by arjie 4mo ago
The rest is not OSS. Some of it is. Lots of it is proprietary software too and maintained at no cost to me. I can't imagine how much network switching software my stuff goes through. Didn't pay anything for that.
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by arjie 4mo ago
The promise of free software was that you, as a user, were not constrained by the software someone else wrote. You could modify it to see fit. Today, I can replicate most software that way. So the promise is more realized than before. The a
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by arjie 4mo ago
The entire point was that replacing AI with Human makes the statement true... Garbage is garbage.
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by arjie 4mo ago
Inter-country statistics almost entirely rely on definitional disparity. Border towns are good sources of comparison.
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by arjie 4mo ago
You can invert nearly anything in the US with the right justification. You can cite the environment to ensure roads don’t have bike lanes, you can cite anti-racism rules to treat individuals by their race, to protect a man from a small home
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by arjie 4mo ago
That’s a good point. We can truly create social change much more effectively through the uni-context and much of it is for good.
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by arjie 4mo ago
AI text is just a quick heuristic for garbage. But I’ve always disliked garbage. Even when it came dressed like: How to use Monads When David James was a young child, his mother used to tell him that you could oil vegetables before putting
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by arjie 4mo ago
Yeah but his users are hiring him to set up their killing machines so that they’ll do it better. So that makes him highly aligned with users. Besides, the SaaSification of these things is expected. When you run a model, the reasoning traces
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by arjie 4mo ago
Poland is now in the Western sphere of influence and it is not in decay. A weak case can be made for Ireland but it’s harder to extract effects of tax haven status. But Poland certainly. Going to be a higher income populace than the UK soon
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by arjie 4mo ago
Well dogs specifically have supplanted children in many households so one could argue the dogs won. In a selfish gene sense, the dogs created a machine that carefully ensures a much larger reproduction scale than could be managed by the dog
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by arjie 4mo ago
Like most of these things, one can bemoan it and say “oh it’s terrible that this is how it is” but I think it’s pretty easy to self-test this to see it’s adaptive for a reason. Brendan Eich was fired from Mozilla as CTO because of a small d
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by arjie 4mo ago
Paying for the services you receive includes the eminent-domain rule usable for others. It is the backstop to prevent nail-housing. And the existence of a point where the growth needs to slow down does not mean we are near it now. I do not
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by arjie 4mo ago
Seems entirely fine. The land, the standard of living, all of this has value because of others doing a lot of work to keep it so. Once you’ve bought something you can’t free ride on the rest of society doing economically useful work. Eminen
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by arjie 4mo ago
Oh “of the top 100 tourist destinations on Euromonitor”. Okay, that’s believable I suppose.
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by arjie 4mo ago
One of the most dirty places on Earth. Surely this cannot be true. I’ve been to ten dirtier cities in India alone than that, let alone the rest of South and South East Asia. I suppose in some sense every city is one of the most dirty places
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by arjie 4mo ago
Here is a fun exploration of that concept: https://novehiclesinthepark.com/
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by arjie 4mo ago
How is HIPAA relevant here? Samsung isn't a covered entity. HIPAA is not just "I have some health data" freebie. Might as well ask why it doesn't violate Sarbanes-Oxley or Jim Crow.
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by arjie 4mo ago
Thank you for this too. I am running in an offline scope so I don't need speed just quality. I'm willing to do it overnight as well if required.
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by arjie 4mo ago
Never had any trouble with them, but also moving away from them is unnecessarily hard (the code sometimes takes a day to arrive) and they cover the entire interface with their paid hosting stuff which makes them a poor registrar. I ended up
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by arjie 4mo ago
Chevron Deference was in force for decades but it was based entirely on[0] "the whims of 9 unelected people". The entire doctrine rests, like the present use of the Commerce Clause, on the Supreme Court choosing some particular in
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by arjie 4mo ago
Thank you very much.
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by arjie 4mo ago
After getting used to Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5 is nigh unusable for coding. I much prefer Opus 4.8 + DS V4F for routing. Sonnet 5 is just not useful in the price/performance anywhere. I still get some use of Fable for planning because it can
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by arjie 4mo ago
Well, that's a bit pie-in-the-sky, right? The 'correct' way is for no one to inconvenience someone else. I have no magic wand that can make that happen. I also have no magic wand that can make authorities enforce the law. The
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by arjie 4mo ago
Considering the specific topic, I'm afraid we land on opposite sides here since I prefer clear rules made by the legislature and so Chevron deference inactivity is fortunate rather than unfortunate.
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by arjie 4mo ago
I think it’s a matter of belief and while I’d prefer adherence to the rule of law and enforcement in general I can see why people allow for not-that. As an example, here’s a post on /r/sanfrancisco https://old.reddit.co
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by arjie 4mo ago
I believe the analogous concept is Chevron deference here in the US. It must be a relatively easy optimization to make to reduce legislative load considering it arises so often. Interesting. One funny thing in California that is relevant is
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by arjie 4mo ago
Yes, I tend to agree. Understanding what forces brought it to be may help preserve it and bring it to more places. The US is moving in various ways, true, but certainly I think the diminishing of Chevron deference is a move towards clearer

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