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by btreecat 7mo ago
It's still arbitrary, even if you attempt to backfill reasoning and conflate opinion with fact. The fact is, it's generated content, less sophisticated code was use to generate it, but it's still generated from text input.
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by btreecat 7mo ago
> sythansized audio playback Thats generated audio. It may not be LLM generated but it's not read by a human. To draw an arbitrary line between _this kind_ of generated content but not _that kind_ is seemingly a matter of perspectiv
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by btreecat 7mo ago
"No AI" right above a robot voice playback button. Mixed messages fr Hot take, folks packing it in because of AI probably were not difference makers before AI, and wouldn't be difference makers after it either. I agree with t
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by btreecat 7mo ago
That's a lot of words to explain people sharing psychosis rather than solutions to their questions in life, conflating motion with action.
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by btreecat 7mo ago
Fascinating that the skeptical nature stops short of the tarot itself
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by btreecat 7mo ago
Blasting your phone at volumes louder than the ambient noise is social terrorism
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by btreecat 8mo ago
I think we might need to take a hard look at the higher end path of CS and ask why we're not focused more on Software Engineering. Research is great, but if wre trying to train people to make real things, there's a whole different
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by btreecat 8mo ago
So in your mind, there is no acceptable risk. Do you hold this position for everything or only some things? If it's some things, how do you determine which things can have some level of risk that's acceptable and which things can
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by btreecat 8mo ago
>I am firmly against marijuana legalization. Is there an argument or data that could be presented that _would_ change your mind?
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by btreecat 8mo ago
TBF, if your paraphrasing others as "curing cancer" but what they claimed is "treats cancer" then the issue may be comprehension or activite listening. Something to consider.
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by btreecat 8mo ago
For everyone of those safety measures to be intentionally bypassed or ignored, the numbers are assuredly non-zero. But is it going to raise to a level of concern? I don't think we're going to see a ton of cars with blinding lasers
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by btreecat 8mo ago
It really isn't though. It's how you do something correctly. Drill into the details of just about any system and you'll see there's a lot of assumptions based on the layers above and below. A good safety system requires
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by btreecat 8mo ago
When designed, built, installed and calibrated correctly, the power and wavelengths used are not considered harmful to humans.
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by btreecat 8mo ago
That seems more complicated than jQuery
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by btreecat 8mo ago
>Corporate life under a tyrant who demands prayers or pronouns were unthinkable not long ago. See you give the game away with shallow complaints of forced pronouns. It's a fantasy that allows you to sit fence while only really casti
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by btreecat 8mo ago
Depends on the thing they intend to do. Is it chop down a tree that shouldn't be chopped down? I probably would need more people and equipment to effectively stop them because I'm probably not going to convince them with pretty wo
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by btreecat 8mo ago
I read over the documentation, I'm quite excited to give this a try! Thank you.
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by btreecat 8mo ago
Maybe you could start by expanding on what you mean? It's a statement that could be taken to favor xenophobia and isolationism.
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by btreecat 9mo ago
>but I do really like a heterogenous cultural situation Why isn't that a major red flag exactly?
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by btreecat 9mo ago
FTA >Mangione is being held at the notorious Brooklyn jail while awaiting state and federal murder trials in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. At least read the article
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by btreecat 9mo ago
I think it's hard to claim you're not getting news other than on Sunday in print, if your posting to HN mid-week.
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by btreecat 9mo ago
>idk why Arch doesn't invest in whats standard in every other major distro Because in reality, you should be able to use the wiki for installing. Because if you can't, you might not be able to use the wiki to support yourself i
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by btreecat 9mo ago
I look forward to testing this out. I keep a windows VM mostly for updating hardware when there's no other way. USB passthrough is a feature that doesn't always work in a stable manner with libvirt.
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by btreecat 9mo ago
Containers all the way down
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by btreecat 9mo ago
When the only real law is "might is right" we have a fundamental issue with upholding any sort of justice.
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by btreecat 9mo ago
Lately I've been using my desktop keyring/wallet to store the secrets encrypted at rest. Then on login they get injected to my shell directly from the secure storage (unlocked at login). I feel this is probably better than plain t
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by btreecat 9mo ago
This is how we did things with Jenkins and gitlab runners before, idk why folks would do it differently for GHA. If you can't run the same scripts locally (minus external hosted service/API) then how do you debug them w/o run
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by btreecat 9mo ago
How does this compare to pudb? That has a nice TUI and drops you into one of several Python REPL you can choose from.
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by btreecat 9mo ago
I'm not sure what XP you're speaking from, I see modern day companies with all faults of orgs past because the tooling isn't saving anyone from the human tendencies. If your problem with commit history is that folks have too
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by btreecat 9mo ago
What's your excuse then?

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