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by avazhi 2y ago
Using artificial intelligence No thanks
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by avazhi 2y ago
Sequoia sure looks annoying. Nagware and AI shit I never asked for? I'll stay on Sonoma, thanks. Wish I could use Snow Leopard again at this point.
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by avazhi 2y ago
I don't care, bro. I'm a white Australian-American. The idea that either side is committing genocide is laughable and belies complete legal ignorance. But saying that doesn't mean I don't know which side I want to win, o
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by avazhi 2y ago
What's your point? That doesn't mean they owe anybody an apology. There have been plenty of CIA ops that have failed or resulted in blowback that I'm sure the CIA regretted ex post - that doesn't mean they wouldn't
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by avazhi 2y ago
Assuming you're serious, why would the CIA apologise to foreign aid workers? Maybe you can petition Médecins Sans Frontières to make a plaque, but the US security services are mandated to deal with pretty discrete and clear issues. The
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by avazhi 2y ago
If you're stupid enough to paste something off a random website (that you discovered through a random email link) into the command line (and then execute it), then you deserve what happens next. At some point the end user is to blame.
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by avazhi 2y ago
Because the author specifically mentioned that it's worthless because it's 'right-wing' (a 'right-wing cesspool'), as if there aren't plenty of people espousing left-wing views on the platform. The right-w
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by avazhi 2y ago
I agree with the general ethos of the piece (albeit a few of the details are puzzling and unnecessarily partisan - content on X isn't invariably worthless drivel, nor does what Reddit is doing make much intellectual as opposed to econo
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by avazhi 2y ago
Music being easier to both create and consume hasn’t made it worse. Thinking about why it would for more than about 5 seconds makes this obvious - there is no logical causal link. If anything, logically a lower barrier to entry means more c
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by avazhi 2y ago
Intel is arguably on the cusp of death as the company that it was between, say, 2000-2013. https://www.economist.com/business/2024/09/12/intel-is-on-li... It’s pretty nuts reading The Atlantic’s piece fr
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by avazhi 2y ago
Sorting society into consumerist pawns that are ‘used’ by some sort of first mover elite is intellectually convenient (albeit inaccurate) but in a ‘2005ish Pre-incel pickup artist’ self help website kind of way, which is to say it creates a
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by avazhi 2y ago
I stopped reading when I read that Mr Genius here judges computer speed solely based on how quickly his computer boots and shuts down. Objectively, how quickly your computer opens programs and undertakes operations (encoding, decoding, rend
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by avazhi 2y ago
I know the author says the article is tongue in cheek but honestly, what's he smoking? Forget about physiologically measurable eyestrain for a second. NOT staring at a super bright white light is more comfortable and less jarring in ma
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by avazhi 2y ago
I know subtlety is quite difficult for certain people, but you should consider the difference between narcissism and a lack of empathy. Turns out they aren't at all the same thing so it isn't even subtle. You can do it.
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by avazhi 2y ago
Not so much 'screw them' as much as pointing out that the hysteria surrounding 'climate change' is not proportional to the impact it will have on the very people who are being hysterical about it. I'm all for trying
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by avazhi 2y ago
Variance as used in statistics is esoteric and technical and no reasonable person would expect it to be used as a technical or esoteric term unless the surrounding context required it. Given the generality of my original comment and the cle
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by avazhi 2y ago
The OED defines variance as: 'the fact or quality of being different, divergent, or inconsistent: her light tone was at variance with her sudden trembling.' That is the first entry for variance; I was not referring to its technica
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by avazhi 2y ago
Yes, because my position is at odds with yours I 'clearly don't understand the issue in the slightest'. Do better.
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by avazhi 2y ago
I've got a BSc and I'm fully acquainted with the arguments for man-made climate change, as well as the proposed solutions. Even if one concedes that the climate is 'rapidly changing' solely or primarily because of man-ma
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by avazhi 2y ago
'In a first' over what, the past 150 years? Less than that? The hysteria about 'climate change' - when almost all frames of reference are less than 1% of mankind's existence, a time span representing .0017% of the h
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by avazhi 2y ago
I read the piece. Our society is certainly not infinite economically or as a matter of what is acceptable socially, and while different cultures have varying degrees of acceptability in terms of plausible occupations and behaviour, they are
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by avazhi 2y ago
No, there’s not. The evolutionary process is pretty adept at rigorously excluding most personality and physical variants out of all the available options. Pretending otherwise is naive ahistorical nonsense.
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by avazhi 2y ago
What's the point of this comment?
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by avazhi 2y ago
Well at this point for anybody who cares about adblocking Firefox is the only choice, unfortunately.
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by avazhi 2y ago
Sometimes they are. Nuance is hard, right?
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by avazhi 3y ago
This echoes my thought process, too. I would go full Luddite and swear off YouTube, Twitch, etc if I absolutely had to watch ads to use their services. I already do this with twitch - once the unblockable ads start playing I close the tab a
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by avazhi 3y ago
The actual paper, for people who don’t want to read hearsay science journalism: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06810-1
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by avazhi 3y ago
I can only speak for myself in this thread, but my issue was your referring to something that was cheap as free, as if the customer was freeloading. Google is able to leverage probably the greatest economy of scale in the cloud industry (ma
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by avazhi 3y ago
It's the only reasonable way to construe what Google said. If Google unilaterally changed its TOS and updated those terms by saying the account would go 'into a read only state' without any further details (both of which in f
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by avazhi 3y ago
Highly recommend reading the article again, slowly, until you fully understand the situation. This was a paid service until Google changed the terms; afterwards, Google claimed that the files would merely be read only (indefinitely), not de

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