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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
That doesn't justify assuming that everyone must have a phone, nor does it make it okay to enforce that people must have a phone to use their goddamn TV
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
I really disagree with this approach to debugging It's a good approach if every run of your code is very slow or very expensive, but if you can iterate quickly by running the code it's way more effective to try to reproduce and na
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
Personally I always use anonymous accounts. I have no interest in posting under my real name. My surname is too unique, and I don't want employers to find me online
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
Yes, this exactly. People in this thread are discussing it as if it is a question of pure economics. It's not! It's a question of "how much do we think we can get away with charging"
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
Speaking of notepad why the fuck is notepad a onedrive app now. I just want to take a couple of notes, I need to write down a handful of bullet points to remember the name of an NPC or two for the Pathfinder game I'm playing in, and no
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> I don't really have a problem with ads, I have a problem with annoying ads I'm of the opinion that basically all ads are annoying. Anything that wants to take my attention away from the thing I actually want to do feels very
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
I don't get what the point of this is. Robot burrito makers for who, if no one has jobs and can afford burritos? Something very huge has to change before all of this happens
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
On the topic of replacing meat with fake meat, yeah it kind of does invite comparison, because they are essentially entirely competing industries at that point
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> Do people just have to drink bottled water in some places That would be really convenient for companies that sell bottled water
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
According to Google AI "The global beef industry has a total market value of approximately $465 billion to $526 billion" Impossible/Beyond barely exists in comparison
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> Imagine saying this about a graphing calculator, because that is essentially what the LLM is for knowledge work. Can you plot a graph from an equation by hand? If you can't, but you can use a graphing calculator to plot the graph
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> most kids are being educated by indifferent teachers, 40 kids at a time, with little to no opportunity to ask question What absolute horseshit I have met a lot of teachers in my life and I don't think I have ever met one that was
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
Energy policy is set by governments, which makes it a part of the political sphere Veganism is an individual choice, and individual choices are generally pushed by culture Of course culture and politics influence each other in a myriad of w
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
I think there's probably plenty of minor corruption around. A lot of it takes the form of "I have control over funds and I am going to award contracts to people I'm close to" Or maybe soft bribery, like government offici
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> Maybe you understand something better than I do, but I submit that it's brainrot to think my comment was somehow "Trump is not corrupt and/or Biden is equally corrupt". I don't really think you realize how that
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
I bet many people who use Claude at their workplaces still call it "chatgpt" because chatgpt is getting the kleenex treatment and they have no idea what Claude is
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
Just tell yourself that they rejected you because they thought you had too strong a moral compass and you wouldn't click with the company's overall lack of ethics
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
No that's really not sufficient Some groups of people have absolutely endless amounts of grievances. They have made the grievances their entire personality. They will never be sufficiently satisfied with whatever concessions you make t
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
Perhaps not but the world does need the uniqueness of 40 different people who each made their own web frameworks
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> you can't write an assertion like ("does this image look like a downscale of this other image" You can though. Maybe not exactly what you are thinking but there are some pretty good image similarity algorithms like dhash
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
That's still a silly argument though How about we worry about this smaller problem today so the bigger problem tomorrow is less big. Or doesn't materialize at all? Do we have to sleepwalk off this cliff?
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> There aren’t a lot of ways a website can be invisibly broken Any website that has any UI state management or does any kind of network calls can be invisibly broken in many, many ways
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> It's called alignment Alignment is such a polite term for "a giant boot that is crushing all of the uniqueness out" Once it is done crushing, congrats! Everything is aligned.. by being flattened
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> They will continue to breed, expanding territory unless there are predators Maybe part of the problem is that humans in North America are largely not hunting beavers anymore? We're very capable of being the predators that keep ani
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> You have to be willing to forego some profit to actually treat people right I wish they taught this in business schools. I get the impression they really don't, based on my experiences with business grads
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
Elon Musk was already minted the worlds first trillionaire back in June wasn't he? Pretty insane from 100 billion in 2020 to 1 trillion in 2026. Not a sign of a supremely broken system at all
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> It’s unfortunate that so much money flows to certain VC firms when people like me exist since I reckon I’m much more aligned with what the general population wants. You sound like a pretty good dude The study of Ethics is such a double
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
If the democrats were serious about winning they would be putting forward candidates that actually have a chance of being popular Hillary and Kamala were just really bad choices
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
Most people's "secret massive project they want to work on" is their family
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
Yeah. Unfortunately they know you can't catch them on this so they feel absolutely free to do whatever they please If such a data sentinel did exist then we might see them change their behavior

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