coldtea

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by coldtea 5mo ago
Nope. They're the ones making those more expensive, via collusion, rent-seeking, monopoly capture, and lots of other ways.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
His lament isn't that uv lacks upper bounds. His point is that the cli experience of uv is badly designed. And having upper bounds an opt-in is another point he makes in that. Also, the overuse of the term "clickbait" for any
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> If an upper bound were to be supplied you would end up with trees that can no longer resolve in practice. And then we'd have to run uv again with an argument to not have upper bounds. Oh, the humanity! As opposed, to it nuking o
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by coldtea 5mo ago
I know plenty who have cancer because of STEM "advances". No shortage of STEM conveniences being carcinogenic. But the argument is always the small percentage that get medical treatment. Never the millions who get sick.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> We could probably do without computers too, but that would be idiotic because they speed everything up That they "speed everything up" would be a great reason to get rid of them or constrain them.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Maybe you're sitting pretty right now, but try posting this from your deathbed, or that of your kid, caused by the "advances"
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> This technology is going to drive some incredible discoveries in all of STEM. We could do without them.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Which is obviously not falsifiable Doesn't have to be. It's been empiracally proven the case for MS time and again. How many times do you need it to happen because you treat it as the default?
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by coldtea 5mo ago
If it uses npm plugins, it's the same crap you get with vscode, just with a rust facade.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Wow, such insight. It was worth their parent's sacrifices to send them to study Economics.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Greedy is enough. Neither dumb nor desperate needed for this.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> And yet somehow, magically, all of these things are better than they have been ever at any point throughout human history Nope, many things are worse than the past 3-4 decades and getting worse still. Especially precious things like a
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by coldtea 5mo ago
A, yes, what we needed. Even less human radio stations.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Creative after creative and artist after artist has said pretty much that constraints and limitations indeed spur creatitivy...
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Exluding them is for the better... we got more than enough
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by coldtea 5mo ago
With AI slop
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by coldtea 5mo ago
There's no type of decline Europe is NOT in Not that US is much better
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Parent said "bundle"
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> If people can’t afford their own livelihood, then they probably shouldn’t have them. "Poor people shoulnd't breed" - Follow me for more ivory tower advice
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by coldtea 6mo ago
Yeah, I'm sure Kier Starmer is pro-natalist...
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> being asked to render a clickable link within a paragraph in an iOS app The specific ask was already a bad idea.
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> when one of the anchors for “didn’t know when to stop” includes 10 years of schooling for children as being too far. 10 years of schooling for children is too far. We just adapted to the masochism and forgot how unnatural it is. Then
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> The first option is to use a condom if they are in a bad financial situation. It’s been amazing how every time I’ve used one, I haven’t had a child. That's what they've been doing in unprecedented numbers. Which via demograp
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by coldtea 6mo ago
The regulators don't want you to have neither privacy nor security (from them).
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by coldtea 6mo ago
Yes, but "fixing some fundamental Node problems" is a low bar, hardly the high mark of ambition now, was it? And to offer a counter example, something like Dart appeared much more ambitious to me.
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> If we don't understand the fundamental limits to any particular kind of trend, our default assumption should be that it will continue for about as long as it has gone on already. We can, in fact, easily put a confidence interval o
957.
by coldtea 6mo ago
Soylent Green and Mad Max with billionaires in private communities and bunkers sounds more likely than "paid to exist and woodwork"
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> we’re facing a perfect storm of Add Total collapse in government quality AND public trust to politicians Total collapse of news media to slop and paid-for Total collapse of culture (Not just the US either)
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> I think his agenda / point is that, viewed from Lindy's Law, given the SOTA in 2026, superintelligent AI arriving soon is vastly more probable than not, right Why would that be? Nothing about Lindy's Law makes that prom
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by coldtea 6mo ago
> but most importantly: this means you must take seriously the possibility that we are gonna get superintelligence quite soon. So, his point with all the demand for rigor is to end on a hand-waved jump of faith from "improved AI mo

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