blooalien

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by blooalien 3mo ago
> Why is it not part of the punishment? Indeed it is part of the punishment. As an earlier comment in this thread points out from the 13th amendment: > "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for c
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by blooalien 3mo ago
Every single time someone mentions "TDS" all I can think is how much you sound like a literal cult member worshiping "Dear Leader". If you're incapable of independent thought using your own "God-given brain&
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> "get your popcorn out. the git wars are on." I would make a joke here about git bein' rewritten in Rust (by AI even), but folk are already doin' various forms of exactly that, so it's not really a joke that c
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> We have the resources, science, technology and people to live in an approximation of utopia, but instead we have.... this. I've argued this exact thing (and been ridiculed as "naive" and "tree-hugging hippie" f
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> and it almost always comes across as preachy and just plain wrong This is the half of that sentence that gets you an upvote from me. I'm not as sure about the first part of your comment though, because it's really only a cert
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> I use reader mode on most sites where it is possible. ... That's my go-to solution on mobile devices almost every single time because on small screens even a good adblocker simply isn't nearly enough to overcome the othe
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> ... could hardly read it scrolling through in-article ads, banners, etc. Which is why you can take my adblocker from me when you pry it from my cold dead hands. Much of the modern web is largely straight-up hostile without a proper
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> In the end, there's always [at least the potential for] some amount of misinformation in any source. You read it while cross-checking with your own knowledge [and the knowledge gathered by others]. I wish they still taught this
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> I wonder what those original AI were used for. Inventing, learning about, and exploring new technology and ideas, just as many experiments we do today are. :)
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> It could just be proving out other aspects. It could also be completely innocent too, but I don't think this is quite conspiracy level thinking. This honestly strikes me as an innocent test of one random idea/technology. T
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> I'll bet they had LLM or better in the 80's and the tech we have now is the consumer-grade version they seeded into industry in the 2020's. They didn't have LLMs but they did have "AI" already (for a fai
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by blooalien 3mo ago
It's actually more'n a little bit scary how much of modern "politics" seems as if it could be driven by having watched any of a number of movies and thinking "We should do that!" When I hear people talk ab
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> "Wonder what would happen if a hacker focused all ten thousand of them on a single area for an hour or two. Sounds like a really energy-efficient way to demolish a city." I'm far more concerned about the people who own
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> What's the problem exactly? Is using AI for visualization considered a bad practice? Some people just assume that anything "AI" has touched is automatically "slop" because ... AI! Probably at least partly du
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by blooalien 3mo ago
My thoughts on reading it (and looking around your site) was that you were building these explanations to help cement your own understanding of the topics and that you were just sharing the results because you thought it might be helpful to
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by blooalien 3mo ago
My own personal "pet peeve" cliche phrase is anything that is "literally" (except it's really figurative) something. So many people for so very long have used "literally" to mean the literal opposite of
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> "Still, some points are explained quite clearly." My experience with "AI" is that if you ask the right questions in the right way (and give it access to accurate information to build it's answers from) it'
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by blooalien 3mo ago
Except for those few of us who grew up interested in science, because science pretty much world-wide (even in the USA) uses metric for pretty near everything. I've used metric for my entire life, and been ridiculed for it that entire
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> "I cannot read it. Maybe I am AI." I found the bot living in a simulation! What do I win? Where's my prize?
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by blooalien 3mo ago
To give an easy visualization for most people (average Americans, really, because most other people in the world already know what a meter looks like), imagine that the average doorknob is about 1m above the floor, so imagine basically
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> Have you seen the clown they elected in the US? So much worse than a clown... At least clowns are scary and funny - but yeah... Not the Tangerine Terror. He's just scary in the stupidest of ways (as in; "How is this cl
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> to make sure Meta and co. can crawl into every last nook and cranny of your brain that they can for that sweet, sweet data. Just wait 'til Musk's brain-chip gets approved for general public sale. They'll find a way to g
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> where fiber rollouts are too expensive Or in cities where fiber gets blocked by cable providers bribing corrupt local officials.
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by blooalien 3mo ago
^^^ Exactly this. I live in just such an area (one where Cable and DSL providers successfully bribed local officials to get fiber blocked so the two of them could split the city between them). They're both literally the worst Int
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by blooalien 3mo ago
I'ma huge fan of `fish` myself, but I've been watching `elvish` for a while now, and some of their scripting stuff really is awfully nice.
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by blooalien 3mo ago
Yeah, one developer I recently had a chat with on Chatto (recently featured here on Hacker News) actually wrote the core code and project layout by hand before invoking the LLM and found that he had to hand-hold it a lot less because he had
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> @meerita: I think you are arguing against a point I did not make. (Sorry, it won't let me directly reply to your comment for some odd reason.) I'm not actually "arguing against a point" you made or that anyone els
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by blooalien 3mo ago
And I agree with you as well, but the "industry" has sure gotten mighty good at training people to not think critically about ads (or much anything else for that matter). It's really been turned into quite the "mass-p
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by blooalien 3mo ago
> Ads aren't really the problem, either. You're right. Ads are a different problem that just happens to finance this problem (and many others). > Meet people in real life and spend time with them and form mutual relatio
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by blooalien 3mo ago
I know, right? And what did society learn from all that mess? Oh yea... Nothing. It was pretty promptly swept under the rug and forgotten. :(

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