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by caconym_ 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
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by caconym_ 1y ago
I think people who grasp the basic idea of a commit graph and approach it in terms of "this is how I want to manipulate the graph, what are the tools that will allow me to do this?" find it easy, and people who approach it in term
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by caconym_ 1y ago
When I need to build an established project written [mostly] in C or C++, even if I don't have the dependencies installed, it's typically just a matter of installing my distro's packages for the deps and then running configur
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by caconym_ 1y ago
There is nothing I dread more within the general context of software development, broadly , than trying to run other people's Python projects. Nothing. It's shocking that it has been so bad for so long.
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> Was it really? I thought it was more about having 1 device that did it all when it launched, and app stores were a rather late addition if anything that still was more pro app store than pro lockdown. I don't really agree with it
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by caconym_ 1y ago
> I wasn't even arguing with you, nor saying that it doesn't matter to me, rather just pointing an out an observation. My interpretation of your comment was that it related to my use of the word "important", which has
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by caconym_ 1y ago
s/important/significant/, then, if that helps make the point clearer. I cannot tell you that it objectively matters whether or not an article was written by a human or an LLM, but it should be clear to anybody that it is at
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by caconym_ 1y ago
> It would be more human to handwrite your blog post instead. I don’t see how this is a good argument. The use of tools to help with writing and communication should make it easier to convey your thoughts, and that itself is valuable. Wh
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by caconym_ 1y ago
LLMs only know how to use emdashes, semicolons, and ellipses because human writers used them first. The way I see it, a large part of "respecting yourself as a writer" in current year is not letting the mere existence of LLMs ch
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by caconym_ 1y ago
Without funding, America would not have landed on the moon.
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by caconym_ 1y ago
> there is no reason to expect a modern day lunar mission to cost the same relatively By some rough math, the cost of the Artemis program as a fraction of national budget is on the order of 1/10 that of Apollo in its day (comparing
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by caconym_ 1y ago
> Funding doesn't make things happen. Go ahead and land on the moon without spending any money on it, then. I'll wait.
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by caconym_ 1y ago
Apollo was funded at a much higher fraction of the national budget, and I believe in inflation-adjusted dollars the cost is comparable but generally higher depending on how you measure it. Funding makes it happen. Fund it, it will happen. D
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by caconym_ 1y ago
2024 was never considered remotely realistic by anybody in the "industry"---it was a purely political deadline and the will/funding was not there to achieve it. Today (AFAIK) 2028 is considered quite aggressive, mostly due to
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by caconym_ 1y ago
Probably because everyone knows most SaaSes are slimy schemes to lock customers in and exploit them for every last penny that can be wrung out of them. If you want trust, you don't need a Chief Officer for it---you just need a product
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by caconym_ 1y ago
Same. I like my Synology unit well enough but I see a trend toward less openness, toward greed (including removing capabilities from units they've already sold) and toward a decline of their business as a result of tanking customer goo
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by caconym_ 1y ago
Even this is a charitable description of what they did. It seems like it was more of a data exfiltration play, forcing their way into agencies' IT departments with armed thugs and scraping data to be joined and shared with ICE, etc. Po
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by caconym_ 1y ago
I went to the "extra effort" of learning the (trivial) Mac keystroke to insert an emdash, probably about 10 years ago. Now I use it so often and so easily that I can't even recall which keys it is---it's pure muscle memo
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by caconym_ 1y ago
> It’s important in the fair use assessment to understand that the training itself is fair use IIUC this is very far from settled, at least in US law.
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by caconym_ 1y ago
You made this claim above: > I don't know of any prose that relies on crutch dashes If that's true then you are not widely read, and if it's false then you are a disingenuous troll and your comments here are exactly as wor
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by caconym_ 1y ago
It's just a book, man. Maybe you should read more widely; it might even cure you of the obscenely stupid opinion you've expressed here.
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by caconym_ 1y ago
To make sure I wasn't posting out of my ass i opened Gravity's Rainbow to 4 or 5 random pages. All confirmed what I said above. Maybe you should read more widely. It's good for the brain!
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by caconym_ 1y ago
Wrong. They show up in some of the best and most widely and intensely read prose that exists, with good reason. Of course, like any tool, they can be misused by people who don't know better.
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by caconym_ 1y ago
I'm sure somebody else has mentioned this, but if you're willing to buy physical media, it's not difficult to rip even 4K HDR blu-rays yourself and stream from a self hosted platform like Jellyfin. I'm able to find most
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by caconym_ 1y ago
And yet I have vivid memories of many situations that weren't dangerous in the slightest, and essentially verbatim recall of a lot of useless information e.g. quotes from my favorite books and movies. I am not sure exactly what point y
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by caconym_ 1y ago
If there was any indication of a hard takeoff being even slightly imminent, I really don't think key employees of the company where that was happening would be jumping ship. The amounts of money flying around are direct evidence of how
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by caconym_ 1y ago
Based on my own usage patterns I don't think this is too implausible. When I do use an LLM chatbot for a "search", I'm almost always gathering initial information to use in one or more traditional search queries to find
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by caconym_ 1y ago
If you start down this road, policing which media people have access to based on your own totally subjective moral standards and interpretations, you will end up with pervasive censorship that severely stunts cultural development. Because w
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by caconym_ 1y ago
The real question is what you yourself are adding to the creative process. Importing libraries into a moderately complex piece of software you wrote yourself is analogous to including genai-produced elements in a collage assembled by hand,
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by caconym_ 1y ago
> Heck, writing in a language you didn't personally invent is like using a player piano. Do you actually believe that any arbitrary act of writing is necessarily equivalent in creative terms to flipping a switch on a machine you did

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