chemotaxis

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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
There's no paywall on Substack, except for actual paid-only blogs. You might be thinking Medium.
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
Note that this is the admission policy for a per-blog whitelist - we're not talking about including *.substack.com as a "good" domain, just allowing someone to propose the inclusion of hacker-bob.substack.com. And the policy
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> People usually say contemporary media sucks because of commercial pressures, but those commercial pressures and conditions wouldn't exist without the expansion of copyright. I think this is a pretty bold assertion. Copyright prote
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
That's definitely true, but keep in mind the economics of cranking out AI slop. The whole point is that you tell it "yo ChatGPT, write 1,000 articles about knitting / gardening / electronics and organize them into a webs
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
I like the effort, but it's super restrictive. They exclude all of Substack on principle (but weirdly, allow blogspot.com and wordpress.com). They exclude anything that isn't a blog. And they exclude blogs that aren't updat
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
This was done before roasting. Benzene is volatile even at room temperature and the roasting process almost certainly removed it all. I think the concern was more about industry workers or the environment than the consumer. And maybe about
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> I'm not commenting on the core point of your comment, only the "why retain for 30 days" question. Im an age of automated backups and failovers, deleting can be really hard. I doubt it's that. Deletion is hard, but i
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
This is startling in so many ways. First, this looks like an archetypal default-tone LLM-generated article, ticking pretty much every single box in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing . And I re
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> You cross us? We nuke you. It's a nice theory, but it works only if every act of war is clearly an act of total war and there's a responsible party to nuke. Who were we supposed to nuke after 9/11? Who do we nuke if th
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
And where does it point toward? Other some untenable position such as "ban all plastics", which may very well produce more harm? The discourse around microplastics is pretty wild. The sport is finding them in random places, often
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
I am fairly confident that this article is largely AI-generated. More generally, the whole site appears to be heavy on AI slop, e.g.: https://thenewstack.io/how-ai-is-pushing-kubernetes-storage-... And maybe it's fine
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
As an open-source developer... no. No, no, no, no. The toil of dealing with low-quality, half-assed first-time contributions is often higher than the effort of implementing the same features or bug fixes from scratch. And that's if you
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
They get to frolic on a farm upstate. I'm curious if the parent poster thinks this is unique to film production, because I think you can make the same argument for pretty much any trade. Software engineering is 1% brilliance and 99% gr
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
Wouldn't personal property in the US fall under the same criteria, in the sense that the government can sue the property itself (civil forfeiture)? But I think the boring answer here is that we sometimes need legal abstractions. If t
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
The problem is that you just don't know. Some of these bans are a matter of political operatives stoking vague fears for personal or ideological gain. That was almost certainly the story about the TikTok ban. And some of it is actual i
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
I've heard it over and over again that the ultimate problem with corporate governance is that the CEOs and the VPs are incentivized to make the stock up at any cost to pad their own coffers. This is basically taken as gospel in many ci
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> I'm pretty surprised by how fooled normal people are by all this AI-sludge, and/or how accepting they are of all this low-effort content. My reaction to this stuff is the same as yours: please don't clog the internet up
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
In itself, I'm not sure this is a great argument. Putting shoes on a horse is an act of learning. Butchering your own pig is an act of learning. Sewing your own clothes is an act of learning. Writing your own operating system is an act
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
You could even imagine a world in which we create an entire suite of deterministic, limited-purpose tools and then expose it directly to humans!
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> We need to preserve data. ... I actually think there should be a human right to data. I'm not going to simp for the FBI here, but come on: do you have a human right to preserve my private photos leaked by a stalker or a hacker? Be
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
I think people sometimes jump the gun over small things (emdashes, etc). That said, in this instance, your anger is very likely misdirected. The article is almost certainly substantially AI-generated.
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
I think the parent basically sensed that you're not a trained mathematician and is trying to throw their middle-school math textbook at you. The simplest definition of a "graph of a function" is that it's a representatio
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> Neat, but I think it's deceptive I think your comment is insightful, but it's also a terrible choice of words (and something we probably do too often here). I very much doubt that deception was the intent. Sometimes, someone
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
That's a lot of economic theorizing, but to me, it doesn't seem to be substantiated all that well. You can just as well argue that labor is getting more expensive in the West because of two non-market pressures. First, we have a m
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> I look forward to the "personal computing" period, with small models distributed everywhere... One could argue that this period was just a brief fluke. Personal computers really took off only in the 1990s, web 2.0 happened in
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by chemotaxis 1y ago
The somewhat depressing reality is that if you're running ffmpeg on user-supplied multimedia without putting it in a bulletproof sandbox, you're just bound to have a bad time. Video decoding is one of these things that no one seem
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by chemotaxis 1y ago
> Will everyone's worse fears come true? I mean, it's sort of inevitable. Eventually, Canva will find itself under pressure to grow revenue (or even just weather a downturn). The maintenance of a complex desktop application is
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by chemotaxis 1y ago
My beef isn't with products where you have a choice between perpetual and monthly. It's with products where you don't. This includes the "always-online freemium" model, where you only really lose features over time
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by chemotaxis 1y ago
> Isn't this EXACTLY what subscriptions fix, though? That you can stop paying if the product stops getting updates. How? First, by that time, you've usually spent many times more than it would have cost you to own the software
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by chemotaxis 1y ago
How so? US forest cover bottomed out in the 1920s or 1930 and has been going up since. If anything, in the West, the forests aren't logged enough, which increases wildfire risk. China isn't following a particularly unique path, th

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