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by bediger4000 19d ago
What!?! And leave show business?
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by bediger4000 19d ago
You are correct, your opinion surfaces a load-bearing observation, gated on reality.
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by bediger4000 20d ago
I don't see this as a problem. We have a marketplace of marketplaces of ideas - yes, Reddit is a big one, but there's HN, Lobste.rs, even slashdot is still alive and functioning. If rigid bans on self-promotion are harmful, Reddit
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The Logic of Surveillance (2013)(ianwelsh.net)
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by bediger4000 21d ago
There wasn't for anyone who paid attention. That "logic of surveillance" article a few years ago got it 100% correct: surveillance is immediately used against those who object to its use.
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by bediger4000 22d ago
The 30-year old "harvest" system does some of the same things, I think: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232348387_The_Harve...
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by bediger4000 22d ago
Given that SCOTUS, in Citizens United, said that money is speech, and that the US guarantees free speech, this would appear to be real obvious prior constraint.
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by bediger4000 22d ago
There is one interaction with a text editor where even the pros will default to mouse or trackpad: selecting text. Not when you use vim: v, V, ctrl-v all allow you to select text using only the keyboard. I stopped reading at this point, b
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by bediger4000 25d ago
I did the same in June. The single most foul place I've ever been. I didn't see 20 decaying rhino carcasses, but I certainly smelled them.
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by bediger4000 25d ago
As a Linux user, I assumed it was to embrace, extend, and extinguish. Gradually make LinkedIn work only with Windows and gradually force all seekers of new professional jobs to use Windows. In 2016, you basically had to have your resume in
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by bediger4000 25d ago
I thought we were broadly against doing this sort of thing. That is, "woke" went too far, DEI actually ended up being racist and discriminatory. What's different here?
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by bediger4000 25d ago
Ok, 4 full time jobs. Makes it worse actually
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by bediger4000 25d ago
That's the US constitutional reason. Give a creator a temporary monopoly so as to compensate them for ultimately making the public domain larger.
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by bediger4000 25d ago
Secretary of the Army, acting director of BATF, and somehow involved in negotiations about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Busy guy, how does this combination of jobs in a single person happen? How does one person do 3 more-than-full-tim
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by bediger4000 26d ago
Things must be going doggone well for Trump to have time to do this himself. Good thing inflation is under control and there's no military actions to command, and no credible allegations of a large, semi-secret group of rich pedophile
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by bediger4000 26d ago
Why would you do this? Ar best, it's anti-social, nobody likes search results that are jlinauthentic SEO weak sauce. Before "AI", SEO had made the search experience far worse. Shame on you for doing this.
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by bediger4000 26d ago
Maybe it doesn't detract from the value of the research, but you wanted to convey that research to readers like OP and me, otherwise you wouldn't have written it/had an LLM generate it, and posted to your blog. I found the pr
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by bediger4000 26d ago
Too bad the cute, clever little monkey died penniless, never having profited from his or her valuable intellectual property. If we as a society had let him or her profit from the selfies, they might have been incentivized to create more val
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by bediger4000 27d ago
Sure, but saying "it's just standard practice" kind of lets them off the hook for practices that they'd change in an instant if it cost them any money whatsoever. This is one of those practices. It might be a standard pr
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by bediger4000 27d ago
Didn't work for me (Firefox on Linux). Is this vibe-coded?
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by bediger4000 27d ago
Sure, but they're not the standard business operating system that the world economy depends on. We in the USA let Microsoft have a monopoly essentially because of this.
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by bediger4000 27d ago
Great post. Pins the tail on the donkey. As a lifelong Unix and Linux user, when I was forced to use Windows at work, this kind of thing struck me profoundly. Windows users just didn't notice how crippling the whole experience was. The
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by bediger4000 28d ago
If LLMs generate it, is it yours? Given how LLMs work inside, everything they generate is syntactically a copy of something else.
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by bediger4000 29d ago
Where is the NRA in all this? I mean, the NRA and their acolytes have spent about 40 years insisting that private armory ownership is the last defense against an authoritarian government overreach. Here we are, this is the overreach. Are th
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by bediger4000 1mo ago
Sad that this is an immediate response. I think you're asking a valid question. Now that we're all mercantilists, these are questions we have to ask.
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by bediger4000 1mo ago
Me, personally? My conscience would nag me about it. I would feel that I was taking credit for something I didn't do, work I didn't perform, thoughts I didn't organize. I would also be reluctant to share it, given that I didn
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by bediger4000 1mo ago
enough requests and models and you’ll converge somewhere near Truth I think this kind of centrism is false. Consider two kids who have to divide a cookie between them. One kid demands 100%, the other only 50%. Sounds like your hypothetica
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by bediger4000 1mo ago
What agentic workflows change is that we can now produce code that never had a theory behind it to begin with. That's exactly right: there's no because there.
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by bediger4000 1mo ago
The "AI writing taboo" wasn't a top down thing, the Chicago Manual of Style doesn't formally forbid it, it's more of a (true) grassroots thing, isn't it? I mean, I personally loath LLM-written text. If I begin
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by bediger4000 1mo ago
The source paper is on PLOS, so no ads and open access, unlike this link. https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

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