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by beej71 1y ago
For me the safety factor easily outweighs anything else. Give me mechanical door handles, please. I was bummed to hear the new leaf was going this way.
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by beej71 1y ago
In this context, "algorithm" means something that gives you the endorphin hit and keeps you scrolling. Facebook is "algorithmic social media", whereas Mastodon is not.
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by beej71 1y ago
Words can and do cause a lot of damage, up to and including destroying a nation. But in the US, we're supposed to be tough enough and Constitution-loving enough to handle it. But I wouldn't bet any money on us, given what I'v
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by beej71 1y ago
> How much damage is ok? To justify the vigilante killing? Some exceptional amount far beyond anything he could have possibly caused with his rhetoric. If he had broken some law with his speech, the police could handle that.
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by beej71 1y ago
I don't want to live in a place where people are killed for expressing opinions I consider highly offensive and damaging.
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by beej71 1y ago
A savings of 4 UTF-8 bytes per!
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by beej71 1y ago
Good source of factory labor.
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by beej71 1y ago
Why would a big AI-assisted team be hard to justify?
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by beej71 1y ago
Contrasted to the exponential curve of power consumption...
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by beej71 1y ago
> The bar for "good enough" code keeps dropping This is one of the main reasons I got out, and AI is just making it worse by using ambiguous language to describe a solution. Unlike the free market, I have no interest in contrib
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by beej71 1y ago
Is there explicit liberal bias in there, did anyone find out?
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by beej71 1y ago
And China has the US beat per capita in emissions.
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by beej71 1y ago
I resent them saving the planet in this way.
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by beej71 1y ago
I still use them when appropriate. On the plus side, people are suddenly aware of what an em dash is. :)
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by beej71 1y ago
Same. And my logs say that AI crawls my pages roughly 1.2 bazillion times per day.
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by beej71 1y ago
The numbers I've seen aren't currently far worse, with the US producing slightly more CO2 per capita than China. But the trend is there to make it eventually far worse as we maneuver to be bass-ackwards.
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by beej71 1y ago
And as an educator, I also look forward to more classes where people genuinely want to learn the material and aren't just in it for the money.
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by beej71 1y ago
I fucking dream of going back to the Internet where no one is compensated for their work. I'm not compensated for mine, and I don't want to be. Read freely!
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by beej71 1y ago
Kinda sounds like hitting the "stop" button mid-load might be a copyright violation...
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by beej71 1y ago
I could only imagine the 18 year old getting that loan with really onerous terms one way or another.
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by beej71 1y ago
Out of curiosity, how are federal student loans rigged in favor of the borrower? Asking for a friend.
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by beej71 1y ago
Maybe they haven't, but your other ideas are clearly worse.
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by beej71 1y ago
Your son is not the average student. He will level up in school and will get hired if his interpersonal skills measure up to his tech chops. We have students who have not written their own compilers getting hired straight out of their BS to
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by beej71 1y ago
> They'll happily insure high risk stuff, for an appropriate premium. From what I've seen, this isn't always the case. My parents' insurer stopped offering fire coverage in their area with no option to buy at a higher
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by beej71 1y ago
Not the parent, but I've been using Handbrake for DVDs and good old CD Paranoia for CDs.
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by beej71 1y ago
> I’m sure it’s killing him as much as us. I'm not. If someone were playing the pure numbers, I'll bet they'd have some exactly this. It's how you maximize profit under Trump.
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by beej71 1y ago
Someone needs to show up in hi vis and a helmet and hack the lights to flash all the time. Hit em right in the revenue.
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by beej71 1y ago
Well, clearly someone did, but not anyone who used it.
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by beej71 1y ago
No one wanted to dismantle it; it was a very positive change in terms of government and citizen efficiency.
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by beej71 1y ago
They did. It was called DirectFile, and it was working great with overwhelmingly positive reviews.

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