californical

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by californical 8d ago
We already have laws that cover this. If you know enough to write your own course that completes and steals significant share from the original, you likely have so much background knowledge that you didn’t need to take the course in the fir
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by californical 8d ago
But how much slop are you willing to wade through, hoping to find a nugget of insight?
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by californical 9d ago
But that’s my point, it’ll tell you how things work. In libraries I’m using, you can just read the code yourself. You need the documentation to know why certain things work a particular way, or to know why some relationships or methods are
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by californical 9d ago
Yeah lol it’s basically the only reliable way to know how things work. Pre-AI, I read documentation for libraries that I used almost every day. And now with AI I’m using it to fact check Claude. And still reading it for myself to understand
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by californical 12d ago
I’m not on normal social media so I had no idea that stuff was out there. Absolutely incredible trolling from some of those people I’m sure, while others are actual believers
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by californical 13d ago
I mean I think there’s a similar level of judgement required. Was the owner negligent in controlling their pig/dog/AI? Was anyone else negligent along the way? For example if the pig was just a normal pig, the owner cared for
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by californical 15d ago
> We sold out for crypto scams and toxic social media and surveillance capitalism Eh maybe you did, I and a bunch of people that I know have worked in companies that build software that genuinely helps people and improves their lives - e
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by californical 15d ago
> Rarely works that way. How sure are you? Could it actually happen that way 95% of the time, which means they don’t crash and we never hear about it? Likely a pilot gets disciplined for the other errors and nobody else cares? This exact
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by californical 17d ago
(1) not the point I was making, I’m not any of those categories. But I am worried about the treatment of those people, as well as giving the government tools to someday come after people with guns, people who vote incorrectly, meeting up wi
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by californical 17d ago
Just wait til we have an administration in the White House (I’m guessing not this one?) which directly threatens your freedoms in such a way that they can easily use cameras to prosecute those who they disagree with. Current governments hav
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by californical 17d ago
Her family can own their copies of Harry Potter forever. But copyright restricts others from building on top of previous works. Can her family forever sue anyone into poverty for naming a wizard “Harry”? Does that even make sense in 100 yea
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by californical 21d ago
Whole wheat is not ultra processed though? It is processed but not ultra -processed. You can look into this by a simple search: “is flour ultra processed” and I got a number of results explaining the difference. White flour though, general
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by californical 22d ago
Holy gaslighting! Why do more reputable sites which don’t rank highly in the shopping results not have this problem? It’s specific to using the shopping results from search engines, I didn’t recently get any “surprise fee” on the Polk Audio
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by californical 23d ago
I think it depends. If they are also required to allow 3rd party stores, and one of the third parties has a “buy” button while the others have “lease (lifetime)” buttons, it might sway a decent number of people. Same thing with consoles, if
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by californical 1mo ago
If I own a restaurant and buy bread from a supplier — BreadHub. And 99% of the bread that I get is good but 1% of the loaves, they forgot to add flour. Consistently, for years, they always have loaves missing a key ingredient that I still e
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by californical 1mo ago
My favorite is the “acoustic bike” instead of electric bike (the joke comes from guitars, I think)
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by californical 1mo ago
Eh I think the monitors should just handle this automatically - mine do. I basically have no idea that they do any cleaning cycles except when I check their “advanced” menu and it says it’s run 1200 times or whatever
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by californical 1mo ago
I agree that input latency matters a LOT but disagree about 120hz being some sort of sweet spot. On the input side, yeah even a few 10’s of ms is very noticeable when typing or doing something quick. But also I use 240hz monitors for everyt
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by californical 1mo ago
> All of medical science still imagines a world where humans are in "God's shape", denying the fact that we are machines made of systems of smaller machines. No, it’s that these systems of systems are so incredibly complex
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by californical 1mo ago
Have you seen that SmarterEveryDay video about trying to make a grill brush in the US? That obviously would’ve been possible in the US 50 years ago but is borderline impossible today because every manufacturer laughs in your face and just s
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by californical 1mo ago
I’m guessing because it’s valuable to have a trustworthy AI assistant that you can just explain what you want and it finds the best options
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by californical 1mo ago
To be clear, I agree with you. I was making a point to the person that I replied to who wanted zero homeless people. My point was that there is a bottom some-percent of homeless people that can’t immediately be helped. But yeah I think I
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by californical 1mo ago
The spending per capita, unless I’m mistaken, is just “per person in the country” not “per person insured by the government”. That means that even though government insurance in the US only covers a relatively small percent of the populatio
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by californical 1mo ago
I’m guessing there’s a bit of breathing room at the lower end of the system - there will be people who become drug addicts or have major mental health breaks and lose everything. And ideally we have good safety nets that find these people a
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by californical 1mo ago
On the flip side, you are Uber and you’re trying to decide if you should charge the “low price” or the “high price” to somebody who just opened your app. Luckily the person you’re about to make an offer to lives within the flock network so
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by californical 1mo ago
I agree that it’s better at writing than a 50%-ile human, but it’s worse at communicating through writing than most humans. Even an average human writer can communicate details much more succinctly and directly than an LLM
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by californical 2mo ago
Agreed yes that’s not great. But really if that’s the worst thing you’re noticing in your daily life at home, things must be pretty ok? You must see the difference between us being unhappy that gas is more expensive, versus somebody living
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by californical 2mo ago
Have they? Obviously there have been a ton of issues due to the US’s strategy in Iran. But almost nobody in the US has any affect from this war. Gas prices are up a bit. Mildly inconvenient for the majority of people, and that’s the biggest
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by californical 2mo ago
A static website is one that doesn’t have an associated backend API server, just serves as one or more self contained file assets. The files you serve to the browser are static, not the contents of the page itself Updating the dom can happe
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by californical 2mo ago
It’s just a fancy version of previous tools. Imagine a coworker instead does a refactor by grepping the entire codebase and doing a find-and-replace. Do they ensure that it didn’t accidentally overwrite something it shouldn’t have? Or do th

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