camgunz

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by camgunz 1y ago
Listen, guys, I'm so much more productive now. I've founded 10 companies and Claude's building the products for all of them. It's gonna be huge. Unrelated: can you front my rent for the next few months?
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by camgunz 1y ago
Man what bullshit. Here's the owner (and 4th author of the paper) [0] of the consultancy that authored the paper [1] they reference. She (almost certainly) has Meta stock! [0]: https://www.iicom.org/profile/dr-elia
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by camgunz 1y ago
This is pretty spot on. In the mid/latter half of the 20th century, most people who thought they should have what they thought was the good life could get it. It's less about "you didn't need 2 incomes" and more ab
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by camgunz 1y ago
Dear lazyweb: is there the opposite of this list anywhere?
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This is a problem with centralization, not with mods.
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by camgunz 1y ago
What used to happen is there would be human-powered networks ("if you like me, check out X/Y/Z"), rather than algorithm-powered networks. Sadly, the existence and dominance of algorithm-powered networks has withered huma
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by camgunz 1y ago
There's two distinguishing characteristics: One: algorithmic feeds (etc) are engineered to addict you Two: virality stats (views and likes) allow senders to hone message effectiveness based on structure (funny GIF, misspelling, "t
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by camgunz 1y ago
Only a small subset of conversations are debates, and personally I don't feel like I'm arguing with anyone (including you!), just discussing
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by camgunz 1y ago
> The purpose of debate is to challenge people's views, even if they strongly disagree, in order to convince if not participants then bystanders to change their mind. Debates are not two parties seeking the truth together. Unless yo
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by camgunz 1y ago
Strong disagree; there are multiple "things" in the "things" table. Also lead with your strongest argument, also `UserInfo` works, also it's probably not a good table (why isn't it just on `User`, why isn'
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by camgunz 1y ago
"Trump isn't pursuing financial crimes on blockchains, so we're cashing in as quickly as possible"
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by camgunz 1y ago
A lot of people in the retro gaming space have the conflict you describe. On the one hand, there are a lot of games. Like, a lot . Some (many?) games have multiple versions even! And this is without talking about mods and homebrew. On the
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by camgunz 1y ago
> What I like about your comment is that it points out that all technical work-arounds are moot if people as a whole are not willing to stand up with pitchforks and torches to defend their freedoms. If your system requires extraordinary
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by camgunz 1y ago
(Here I'll cop to searching your comment threads late at night in hopes of finding something interesting) The real worry is voting. The things you want to watch out for are stationing any military or LEOs at polling places and proscrib
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by camgunz 1y ago
This is because whatever Google tech is checking for this stuff is too simple right? Or, maybe it's too aggressive because of music industry contracts?
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by camgunz 1y ago
Am I right that, while we can't have SQLite because there's only 1 implementation, we can have XSLT even though there's only 1--unmaintained--implementation?
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by camgunz 1y ago
This is very cool, I'm glad someone else is doing the relay (or whatever it's called) hosting. But that's money right? Donated money is still money.
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by camgunz 1y ago
Wow I never thought about this, but I think I agree. Also Go does ~/Library/Application Support for os.UserConfigDir too [0] [0]: https://pkg.go.dev/os#UserConfigDir
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by camgunz 1y ago
> I say the tools are better and reading than writing. No way, models are much, much better at writing code than giving you true and correct information. The failure modes are also a lot easier to spot when writing code: it doesn't
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by camgunz 1y ago
I can use those processes to understand things at a high level, but when those processes become detailed enough to give me the same level of understanding as coding, they're functionally code. I used to work in aerospace, and this is t
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by camgunz 1y ago
Coding is how I build a sufficiently deep understanding of the problem space--there's no separating coding and understanding for me. I acknowledge there's different ways of working (and I imagine this is one of the reasons a lot o
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by camgunz 1y ago
> For a large LLM I think the science in the end will demonstrate that verbatim reproduction is not coming from verbatim recording We don't need all this (seemingly pretty good) analysis. We already know what everyone thinks: no rel
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by camgunz 1y ago
People are gonna pretty quickly quit paying for AI--we're well into the "let me see what everyone's talking about" phase and that'll wear off soon. The price is already skyrocketing way ahead of quality or utility,
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by camgunz 1y ago
The core problem TFA describes isn't complexity, capitalism, or bots. It's the lack of trust. People are fine w/ a few big players (or even one big player) as long as you can trust them, but we don't trust the players an
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by camgunz 1y ago
Honestly, just prosecute whatever weird ass antiwoke thing you're on somewhere else.
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by camgunz 1y ago
ffs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_science
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by camgunz 1y ago
Definitely. People think they'll get out of knowing how rounding works by using arbitrary precision arithmetic, but arguably it's even more important there (you run out of precision/memory at some point; what do you think hap
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by camgunz 1y ago
I (re)built it w/ a little script I call roygvim [0] -- here's the source [1] [0]: https://github.com/camgunz/roygvim [1]: https://pastebin.com/b0LRpjUC
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by camgunz 1y ago
Lol I'm full "macvim is the best terminal" mode; I tell everyone I know. I'm too far gone
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by camgunz 1y ago
I built a colorscheme for Vim [0] that is close to monochrome when I was worried about blue light (I've since had kids and now this kind of worry doesn't rate at all), and I basically use bold and highlights (I hate underlining, i

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