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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
RHEL is not the be-all end-all of minimalist linux, even sans GUI. Puppy Linux, with a full WM, is completely usable with a single gig of ram. That's obviously a different use-case from RHEL but the point stands.
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
we have to look at what LLMs are and are not doing for this to be applicable; they are not "thinking", there is no real cognition going on inside an LLM. They are making statistical connections between data points in their traini
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
I won't stand for this erasure!
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
>But there is also a more subtle thing, which is we're trending towards superintelligence with these AIs do you have any evidence for that, though? Besides marketing claims, I mean.
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
And just like modern vehicles rob the user of autonomy, so too for coding agents. Modern tech moves further and further away from empowering normal people and increasingly serves to grow the influence of corporations and governments over ou
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
I guess it depends on if you were a Gibson fan or an Asimov fan as a teen
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
Are we shocked that a private entity, when given control of the public square, is using it's position to manipulate the discourse that goes in it's square? You think the quadspillion dollar megacorp is just going to let you critic
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
I haven't read the book, but I don't think there's anything dishonest about needing distance to see the context of what she was a part of. Now, if she is trying to paint herself as completely outside of that even while she w
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
are you a guido from Long Island?
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
>This discussion is a sea of jealously and a perfect example. Yes, the only reason anyone could have for criticizing the ultra-wealthy is jealousy. It's just the haders, b.
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
that's pretty rich coming from Tim "They're paying me enough to ignore slavery" Dillon.
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by b00ty4breakfast 6mo ago
this reminds me, I still have an ancient version of iTunes on my old win7 box because something got corrupted at some point and now I can't uninstall it. Not being able to simply remove a program like you would any other program is ne
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
boy you almost got me, ha. I need to get off the internet
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
I use a similar service from a different provider. Having a different card for different merchants is useful in general.
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
who's to say they aren't doing both? They may not even be sending anything over the number station; these stations will continue on a schedule even when there is nothing to say and nobody is listening because it makes it harder t
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
I think being the "home team" makes swallowing those casualties easier (as easy as they can be, anyways); it's easy to perceive the situation as a fight for your life. Obviously, there were other things going on in Vietnam (a
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
You can lose a game of chess to a guy with fewer and less powerful pieces than you if you play like a moron. The US has been playing the Iran situation like a gigantic moron.
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
the main pull of GitHub is not primarily git, which is easily done without an external provider. It's the bundle of all the little tools various other conveniences with git repositories, and how they're streamlined together into
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
This is how these kinds of companies operate; push the limit until customers start complaining, then you back off a little bit. They've still advanced to that line, of course, but now the userbase can be conditioned for the next push
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
>But the bigger thing is: why would you want to get disqualified from one of your biggest civic duties? because jury duty pays like 2 dollars an hour and I gotta eat. I know lots of folks on this website are relatively well off, but the
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
six of one, half dozen of the other; it may not be a payed advertisement but it functions as one if it's suggesting products. It's not like this is organic word of mouth we're dealing with here.
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
We've already got pumped-hydro storage infrastructure and battery tech, while certainly not as far along as the boosters circa the middle of the last decade promised us, is at a point where it's viable as one part of the puzzle. S
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
At the end of the video he says it needs real hardware or a "highly accurate emulator like Ares".
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
>It's interesting to wonder how you get out of a spiral of incompetence and border-line (to be polite) corrumption at the highest level. you get out when the thing dies because these kinds of organizations always end the same way; c
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
Wonder if I'll be able to add a new entry to the list of "mushrooms that supposedly grow in my region but cannot be located within 100 sq miles of my home" soon.
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
>On the other hand Codeberg doesn't let you create private repositories at all. are you sure about that? I'm fairly certain my repos on codeberg are all private but I could be mistaken.
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
you also said >we should be highly skeptical of any finding that claims an agreements between facts and ethical values And I'm saying that's silly because you should hold all claims in equal skepticism. Just because something c
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
>Reality is absolutely orthogonal to our values... what? that's nonsense. Not everybody's values are the same, for one thing. Especially as society has become more and more international. You should be equally skeptical of an
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
given the massive influence of 60s girl groups on the Ramones, I would say that getting one of the architects of that sound to produce their record is not selling out. To stay on the "hair metal" example I gave, getting Mutt Lange
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by b00ty4breakfast 7mo ago
I know most people don't take the concept of "selling out" seriously anymore, but the Ramones would not be sellouts for making Ramones merch. If they had turned into a hair metal band, where they would otherwise not make hair

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