bossyTeacher

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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
> But colloquially, when people say consciousness, we usually mean the thing that goes away when we sleep or are anesthetized. Sounds like attention rather than consciousness. You lose your attention.
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
> By this definition there has never been a waterfall project. They all need to correct, adapt, or redo something. I think he means before the official release.
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
One word: ecosystem. Phones are useless bricks without an ecosystem. This is why we only have 2 operating systems for portable devices when we used to have more than twice the amount.
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
So the top-most entity is the Mozilla Foundation, they control and dictate what the subsidiary, also called Mozilla, can and cannot do. The OpenAI foundation cannot dictate what OpenAI Corp can and cannot do. 1. Mozilla isn't working i
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
It's not just Claude API. See: "We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork.". Seems pretty big to me. It's software used
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
> Don't even need claude anymore at their insane prices for anything I do. What insane price is that? Pro is $20 per month. Same price as a Netflix ad free sub.
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
> There's nothing wrong with dependence! It's the harm that makes it addiction, and coffee in moderation has no harm No, addiction is an uncontrolled dependence. If you FEEL dependent on a substance to function as an adult and
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
What does "authentically British" means? Is a formal letter more authentic than a teenager chat style message? Regional variances? What is this core you allude to that is universally recognizable?
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
Mozilla is not a company though.
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
>From what I know it works for most Brave users. "From what I know" is epistemologically equivalent to "For me".
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
> Fortunately if projects like Ladybird gain enough momentum, websites might be forced to cater to it. Time will tell. Ladybird has corporate sponsors too. Sponsorship is influence. Obviously, the more sponsorships you have the less infl
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
> You know you can make a browser based on Firefox's core and don't need to make a new one from scratch that'll never get past Cloudflare? Under some definitions, the browser IS the core. You are bound at a fundamental lev
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
The title misses something more important: Firefox is and has been for a very long time the only browser who wasn't made by people trying to extract profit from you. Everything follows from this. Edge people, Chrome people have been li
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
This is probably HN's tech background speaking. In the enterprise dev world, everyone knows what BDD means just like every dev out there knows what OOP means.
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
I think it is to avoid dealing with unauthorised copies. If you forbid their existence, you never have to deal with them. Much easier than making laws about what you can and cannot do with the copies you made or what someone else can/c
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
No one buys CDs but Taylor Swift still makes a lot of money from her music. Doesn't negate that making music is economically worse than ever. Most people book flights online, travel agents still make a lot of money. Doesn't negate
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
It causes: - High heart rate and blood pressure - Increased risk of arrhtymia - Less deep sleep - Disruption to your cortisol level dynamics Whether you consider all of them not "bad" or worth the benefits is up to you. People als
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
Addiction implies dependence. If you feel unable to be a productive member of society without a psychoactive substance that you must ingest daily, then I have bad news for you.
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
> I've been seeing more bugs from their side, while reducing bugs on my side with the help of AI. You should question your ability to see any bugs on YOUR side.
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
Why is most AI work done in Lisp? There are many reasons, most of which are somewhat technical, but one of the best is quite simple: Lisp is crisp. Or as Marilyn Monroe said in The Seven-Year Itch, "I think it's just elegant!&quot
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
> This is absolutely still shy of Sol and Fable, but only just by a hair. Even if there was a small/medium gap, the fact that this is a free model beats both of the above on pure economics.
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
> It stops the uncountably large majority of people from doing it. Like more then 99.9% of people. Most people don't even know about it or have the means to access it as its either not available or not legal in their jurisdiction so
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
Again generalising. Psychdelics, if you are not predisposed to psychotic breaks, can cause anxiety and similarly overwhelming emotions. They last 12 hours max. And this mescaline and LSD mostly. Datura can potentially last 2 days. It is dan
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
> they're all borderline psychotic inducing No, they are not. Let's not generalize. There is nothing funny or therapeutic about psychosis. We are leaving the dark ages of psychedelics. We don't need to bring them back.
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
I couldn't have phrased it better.
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
I don't think you can put Datura in this scale at all. Datura is borderline psychotic inducing. More damage you might not heal from than funny visuals.
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
It's funny how the Wikipedia article call hallucinations "ill effects". I am yet to hear people call caffeine effects "ill effects". People and their sociocultural biases, uh?
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
> We won't see a gas station clerk write photoshop because we won't need a photoshop. 100% agree. People are looking at the future through the lenses of the current paradigm just like when people from the past imagined the futu
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by bossyTeacher 2mo ago
> The past 5-10 years or so saw me pretty beaten down though with software engineering, and AI was the final nail in the coffin that caused me to leave the profession in later middle age. What year did you leave? And what are you doing n

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