dTal

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by dTal 5d ago
There is a wide range between "medical procedure" and "bizzare kink". Most of the world can handle a nipple. Hell, babies suck on em. It's disturbing how repressed attitudes are being exported from the US.
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by dTal 5d ago
The funny thing about Instagram is that it's both: 1) One the most prudish social networks, in the West at least 2) The primary funnel to OnlyFans
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by dTal 7d ago
I checked Wikipedia, it says in the first paragraph that there's a 427 acre compound in upstate New York. Not bad for "no organisation". (It also contradicts your narrative about why CCP doesn't like them)
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by dTal 7d ago
None of those people are remotely right wing. Christopher Hitchens was outright Marxist. All believe(d) in liberal, progressive values, which is precisely where their objections to theocracy came from. If you terminate your thoughts at &quo
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by dTal 7d ago
I wouldn't be so sure about that. 95% of the population will starve to death, global supply chains will collapse, and the world will regress to a pre-industrial-revolution lifestyle - with the critical difference that all shallow oil a
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by dTal 7d ago
> I personally can go on and on and on about how awesome it is that systemd offers workload isolation, least privileges, cgroups for juggling priorities. I love that mdns kind of just works for me, and integrates well with my resolver. S
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by dTal 7d ago
Well, yes. Why would there be? It's a piece of software designed to turn all distros into Red Hat, and then sell consulting services to manage the untameable complexity. Legibility, composability, these would defeat the purpose.
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by dTal 7d ago
Your mistake is framing this as "skynet vs unified human resistance led by john connor". In reality it's "human players in the existing class war suddenly curb stomped by software". Think less "skynet" and
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by dTal 7d ago
>And yeah, LLMs likely will exacerbate the problem. But at its core, the problem is the humans Ah yes - LLMs don't kill people, people kill people. Cold comfort!
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by dTal 7d ago
As with Hacker News, the existence of a web forum that anyone can create an account on does not imply the lack of a socially and geographically centralized ruling elite.
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by dTal 8d ago
>This is probably the most important concept for "normies" to understand about AI, IMO. It's the stochastic brother of the deterministic Church-Turing thesis. Your local normies appear to be oddly well versed in computer s
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by dTal 8d ago
People are scared of inhuman AIs taking over but maybe they should be more scared of the inhuman humans who've already done so. How many of the world's billionaires are emotionally stunted misanthropes like this? What do we do whe
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by dTal 8d ago
No, that's shown lower down with Redmond chrome. maybe the "cocoa calculator"?
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by dTal 8d ago
(and cryptographically signed, naturally, for regulatory and alignment purposes...)
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by dTal 11d ago
Firefox's "awesome bar" behaves the same way. I guess it's either inherent to the problem somehow, or else everyone is sharing a library (unlikely), or else everyone just makes the same mistakes.
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by dTal 16d ago
Linguistic lineages are not the same as genetic lineages. Populations can switch languages, or die out completely while their language lives on. And in this case, genetic studies show no clear genetic relationship between the Celtic-speakin
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by dTal 18d ago
Hence, objects; keep alternating between functional (stateless) and imperative (stateful) as you ascend the abstraction tower, so that the hairiness does not leak between layers and hence accumulate.
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by dTal 18d ago
I am not the author, sorry!
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by dTal 18d ago
I have never understood how it is that "Ollama" manages to stay some sort of de-facto standard local hosting solution when all it does is wrap llama.cpp poorly. It's not as if llama.cpp is hard to use - it offers pre-compiled
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by dTal 19d ago
Yikes, thanks for letting me know. That seems like a clbuttic case of buttumptions - Of course the text is indeed AI-generated, but it's being quoted! We shall all have to get used to AI-assisted summaries of software, I'm afraid.
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El Yayster – a resident LLM that inhabits Emacs(github.com)
37 points by dTal 19d ago|6 comments
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by dTal 19d ago
I thought this looked interesting: "Most "LLM in Emacs" packages make Emacs a mouth that talks to a model: you type, it replies into a buffer. El Yayster inverts that. It makes Emacs a body the model inhabits — the agent perc
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by dTal 19d ago
Not true by any stretch, though parent didn't mention any competitor MacOS's current Finder dates from 2001. Earlier versions of "Finder" were a completely different piece of software - different code, different interfac
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by dTal 26d ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/me
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by dTal 27d ago
Right. We must only talk about how to build the Torment Nexus. Never why - too upsetting.
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by dTal 29d ago
Is a "truly intelligent home" something I should want? None of the current generation of "smart" addons are true value adds - their entire purpose is data collection. The pretext is always absurdly thin. I just thought &
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by dTal 1mo ago
Gonna make this real short and simple: it's totally unclear what you're on about. You've described nothing, merely complained, infuriatingly, in the vaguest possible terms.
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by dTal 1mo ago
That's a very long-ass way of saying "I disagree with this comment, I can't be bothered explaining why (too much work), so instead I think this user should be banned". I extracted nothing useful from your comment, which
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by dTal 1mo ago
Difficult and also solves nothing, since you can just point the camera at a screen.
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by dTal 1mo ago
"Doomscrolling", as an addictive technology, was invented by the Hacker News commentariat. I understand you don't enjoy being told that your "little geek corner" is making the world worse, but you don't really

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