danaris

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by danaris 9mo ago
OK; you got me. I was insufficiently prepared for pedantry. Let's add another couple of critical points: - Must be a GUI application. - Must integrate at least somewhat reasonably with the platform's keyboard shortcuts and simil
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by danaris 9mo ago
I've been cooking eggs on induction cooktops for something like a decade now; while it's true that you can't tilt the pan (the induction won't work, and the cooktop is likely to just say "nope, not operating without
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by danaris 9mo ago
> Your problem is probably that your first instinct is to emulate your old workflow instead of finding a new workflow. I recently started a new job, and was given a choice of Windows or Linux for my desktop. Picked Linux, specifically Ub
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by danaris 9mo ago
Just as an additional anecdata point: I run a small, niche browser game (~125 weekly unique users, down from around 1500 at its peak 15 years ago), and until I put its Wiki behind a login wall a few months ago, we were getting absolutely h
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by danaris 9mo ago
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. Whether or not they had malice in their hearts when they implemented the scraper bots, their impact is still very much malicious.
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by danaris 9mo ago
This is status quo propaganda. Note that I'm not saying you, yourself, are a proponent of the status quo, deliberately spreading propaganda. But protests are absolutely not useless. "waaaah they don't change Trump's mi
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by danaris 9mo ago
In the latter half of the 20th century, while many things were much worse than they are today, it was genuinely possible to support a family on a single minimum-wage job in many parts of the country. Now, that doesn't mean that everyon
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by danaris 9mo ago
Well...millionaires and billionaires aren't exactly the same group, are they? An ordinary person, working diligently at a decent-paying job, can save up a million dollars if they're not unlucky. Even a million-dollar-a-year salary
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by danaris 9mo ago
I think you (and many others) are overestimating the degree to which everyone does, in fact, know that (everyone should , but not everyone does...), while simultaneously underestimating the degree to which the people in charge right now th
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by danaris 10mo ago
Or... don't give it access to your data/production systems. "Not using LLMs" is a solved problem.
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by danaris 10mo ago
Except that something effectively equivalent to spam filters will be utterly ineffective here. Spam filters - mitigate the symptom (our inboxes being impossible to trawl through for real emails) - reduce the incentive (because any spam ma
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by danaris 10mo ago
But right now , there is no way in hell we're going to get any kind of support for people who lost their jobs to AI. Not in the US, at least. Look at the current administration. Do you think they would even consider providing anyt
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by danaris 10mo ago
> That's why if you create a bot to scrape, make it not take up more resources than a typical browser based visitor. Well, right; that's the problem. They take up orders of magnitude more resources. They absolutely hammer the
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by danaris 10mo ago
But if you want a finished artwork, chances are it's going to take an amount of time worth $50-150. If you want a finished (nontrivial) program, chances are it's going to take at least an order of magnitude more than that.
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by danaris 10mo ago
These things are not equivalent. This is really not that far off from the argument that "well, people make mistakes a lot, too, so really, LLMs are just like people, and they're probably conscious too!" Yes, doctors make mist
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by danaris 10mo ago
Well, that makes everything they say immediately and deeply suspect.
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by danaris 10mo ago
I've talked with a number of people online from Europe (particularly the UK) who came in with the assumption that a parliamentary system was the default. (I don't consider this a mark against them: everyone is likely to start out
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by danaris 10mo ago
I mean, it feels like it would make some sense, and honestly I'd love for it to be true—but everything I've heard, from people who know Apple much better than me and/or have inside sources, is that not only was he not secre
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by danaris 10mo ago
Given the departure of Alan Dye and his replacement with someone (whose name I have temporarily forgotten) who comes from an actual UI design background, I am very optimistic that the next few iterations of macOS and iOS will actually sta
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by danaris 10mo ago
Shawn Fain, head of the UAW union, has already started calling for a general strike—in (IIRC) 2028. Because that's how long it takes to organize one.
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by danaris 10mo ago
If you're not American, then you may not understand the way the American voting system works. We only have two parties. (Technically, there are some third parties, but they're effectively worse than negligible—voting for them is
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by danaris 10mo ago
Of course it wouldn't, if those businesses weren't also monopolies . It really is frustrating sometimes dealing with people on HN who assume that there can only ever be one set of rules for how businesses can deal with each oth
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by danaris 10mo ago
Did I say this was a legal argument? I don't see that anywhere. And there's absolutely zero chance the current administration is going to take any positive antitrust steps unless the target just happens to be one that seriously
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by danaris 10mo ago
The personal judgement isn't really helpful here? If you don't close your <p> and <li> tags, you risk accidentally having content in the wrong place . It's something to avoid because it can have bad consequences,
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by danaris 10mo ago
You monster .
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by danaris 10mo ago
No. This idea is the result of decades of propaganda. The government has to answer to the people. PE firms do not: they answer only to money .
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by danaris 10mo ago
It's not bad because ZOMG AMZN , it's bad because * Amazon is a monopoly* , and thus anything they do to take more control should be treated with extreme suspicion.
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by danaris 10mo ago
Well, yes . That's part of the point.
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by danaris 10mo ago
"People losing their jobs on the right" can, in every case I'm aware of, be reworded as "people losing their jobs because they oppose basic human rights for certain categories of people." Over the past few decades,
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by danaris 10mo ago
In case you didn't read the usernames, I'm not the one with the Trinitron TV.

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