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by danaris 11mo ago
"Weirder" does not mean "more complex" or "more human-like".
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by danaris 11mo ago
> there is so few organic interesting content destinations anymore. Are there really? Or are they out there, just impossible to find, because search is fully captured by ad-related interests, and they're not running ads? And if it
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by danaris 11mo ago
Possibly, but that's an absurdly overbroad mission. Organizations with clear, focused missions are much more likely to be able to achieve them than organizations that want to be everything to everybody. "Make and maintain Firefox
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by danaris 11mo ago
...Safari?? Apple doesn't collect your browsing data, they build in privacy controls that are pretty much as strong as they can manage given the state of the world, and while it doesn't support uBO, it supports a variety of pretty
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by danaris 11mo ago
What specific aspects of PWAs are still not supported on iOS these days? I know that Apple made some huge advances in that within the past couple of years, but I...generally don't want PWAs myself, so I haven't paid very close a
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by danaris 11mo ago
I think the timing is coincidental. That was also roughly the time period where mobile phones and their networks started to become reliably able to stream video at scale. That seems like a more plausible proximate cause for the timing of th
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by danaris 11mo ago
The monetization of attention was a side effect of TV, not the primary purpose. TikTok and other current efforts have that monetization as their primary purpose. The profit-first-everything-else-never approach typical in late-stage capita
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by danaris 11mo ago
There is a divide here between "is" and "ought". What "is", right now, leads us to the suggestion of int32_64, which would actually be a good metric to keep track of. You are right about what "ought"
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by danaris 11mo ago
This is flat-out false. For reference: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. - https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/13-354 > While it is certainly true that a central objective of for-profit corporations
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by danaris 11mo ago
> The results of votes are enforced on the losers using the police, who will do so violently if required. The whims of the dictator are also enforced on the public using police. All human rules, laws, customs, and edicts are enforced
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by danaris 11mo ago
Er...what? The change I'm talking about happened in the mid-to-late 2000s. Nothing from the periods you cite are relevant. Here's one of the articles that's been written about the three-cueing model: https://www.ap
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by danaris 11mo ago
...Where do you get that what demolished teaching over the last 30 years is "left-wing teaching practices"? The biggest change in teaching in the past 30 years was No Child Left Behind, and...I don't know how to tell you this
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by danaris 11mo ago
None of these other public sector unions are for jobs that have the power of life and death over people on a daily basis. None of these other public sector unions are for people who already get massive deference by the legal system. None
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by danaris 11mo ago
Specifically, during the Reagan Administration, the official policy on how to interpret antitrust law shifted from one major economic school to another—I'm not fully up on the details, but my understanding is that the latter is the Chi
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by danaris 11mo ago
> It does actually happen quite often Maybe it used to. Nowadays, it's very, very hard for anyone not already born to generational wealth to have enough financial security to start their own competitor to any of the bad companies th
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by danaris 11mo ago
> Collectivist thinking always leads to violence, and eventually societal failure. This statement is so blatantly, staggeringly false that I can't even fathom how to begin to discuss this topic with you.
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by danaris 11mo ago
Police unions are the single example of a union that cannot be allowed to exist unchecked, because their primary purpose is to remove restrictions on the power of the police. Given that the police are already the group charged with enfor
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by danaris 11mo ago
If you would rather have an extra, say, $3k/yr* in salary, rather than having that exact same amount of money go toward an employer-provided health plan that would, if you tried to obtain it on your own, cost $10k/yr, then I think
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by danaris 11mo ago
Well, the right wing also wants to destroy education, which is pretty bad for teachers in or out of a union. The teaching profession also has a tendency (far from a universal rule) to select for people with higher compassion and empathy,
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by danaris 11mo ago
The switch away from teaching phonics, and the consequent drop in literacy, is real. It is not particularly something that was pushed by teacher unions. The "three cueing model" was being pushed for some time as being more effecti
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by danaris 11mo ago
I've never seen it framed in an article as management being the party with agency. It's always about what the union is or isn't doing. I do not make a habit of reading any conservative-leaning outlets.
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by danaris 11mo ago
This kind of absolutist individualist argument just rings more and more hollow as we see the very real consequences of that philosophy for our society. Who am I to say they're wrong? A human being, that's who. A human being who li
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by danaris 11mo ago
No. We need to kill the idea that a) this is what investors should be looking for, and b) it's even possible aside from a 1 in 1,000,000,000 fluke. All of these economic instruments are supposed to be there to serve the needs of r
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by danaris 11mo ago
I've been using an AppleTV as the primary way to get content to my (dumb, vintage 2007) TV for approximately a decade now. While my usage has increasingly shifted toward drawing from my personal library through first Plex, then Jellyfi
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by danaris 11mo ago
...yes? What AI out there now is coming up with ideas for articles?
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by danaris 11mo ago
God, yes. I see so many people quote that damnable Heinlein quote about specialization being for insects as if it's some deep insight worth making the cornerstone of your philosophy, when in fact a) it's the opinion of a characte
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by danaris 11mo ago
> I really don't see it ever working without one or more humans in the loop, if only to confirm that what is being done is actually what the human(s) intended. That is precisely my point.
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by danaris 11mo ago
There's also the problem that many "IQ" tests are heavily biased toward a Western, Anglophone education. Being able to correctly say, for instance, which of four options a "façade" is most like has nothing to do w
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by danaris 11mo ago
If they were to set down what the curriculum needed to meet such a requirement would be today, by the time the students who matriculate in August graduate, it will be so out of date to be effectively worthless. This is not remotely the kind
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by danaris 11mo ago
LLMs, at least as they exist today, could be trained to be very good at producing text that looks like formal specifications, but there would be no way to guarantee that what they produced was a) correctly formed, or b) correctly specifyi

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