darby_nine

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by darby_nine 2y ago
> Reacting fast is the least the vendor could do. And yet, so few do. Let's remind ourselves the bar sank into the floor a long time ago.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Right! Imagine how big they'd be if they hadn't given up on microtransactions in the 90s. I'd guess not trying to be broken up by the DOJ.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
This is truly interesting from a dialectical perspective. The current narrative is that data is simultaneously infinitely valuable and presents zero liability. This contradiction can't hold forever (though it can hold longer than any o
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by darby_nine 2y ago
It's only ambiguous if you let it be. The rest is just implementation details.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
I'm struggling to think of definitions of these terms where this sentiment might seem coherent
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> It also supports the conclusion that it is not actively transmissible between humans, yet. Sorry, I'm not following. How does a high level of prevalence show a lack of virality?
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Google basically destroyed itself when it decided to become an ad network rather than a dumb pipe you pay to access. You have to pick a base to sell to. Selling to two different bases at once (advertisers/seo and actual users) means bo
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> This is a virtue. We can do whatever we want with the computer we own and use. You certainly don't need to do it with a single line of powershell though. At least, not without intentionally opting into it. For the most part on a d
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> It is meant to be a good tool for progressive enhancement text markup, such as stylizing hypertext or math equations. Well, at least hypertext. I've seen the disaster that is MathML.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> No-one forced you to use all the complex bits in XML. Just parsing XML alone is hugely painful, let alone implementing the rest of the stuff like XSLT, namespaces, validation, xpath, etc etc. Plus, once you've done this, you stil
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Oddly I associate `chile` with the pepper and `chili` with the stew. Curiously chili pepper seems to be the common spelling around where I live so I have no clue where I picked this up.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> But I can't help noticing that Json is gaining more and more XML-like functionality through things like schemas and JsonPath, as people slowly realise why XML had those functions they're now having to replace. I think there&#
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> have nothing to do with markup Yes, it's a badly named language. It has nothing to do with markup. As always, intentions don't matter at all, and it's the best tool we have for certain types of structures.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> In my experience, anything XML-related seems to be the product of simplicity-hating architecture astronauts with zero consideration for efficiency, possibly as a way of justifying their existence and continued employment. I am very con
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Sure, this is the natural reaction of people living in the imperial core, but this isn't true for the majority of people in the world, especially as global warming accelerates. World-systems theory is typically the alternative to the t
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Yes, but "safety" or "peace" is not always desirable. MLK himself said it best: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/whe... A short snippet: > The next day after Autherin
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by darby_nine 2y ago
In fact, you should assume they are. This doesn't imply the network doesn't have utility for a given actor.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> The fact that we can't pin down a strong effect on human health outcomes after decades of exposure should be a relief. I can't say this means much to me when exposure to plastic has been accelerating that entire time. Still,
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by darby_nine 2y ago
I'm sure they already are.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> Well, we've been exposed to microplastics for decades, but what does the evidence say? Afaict, not much. The revelation that you are likely to have microplastics suffused throughout your body seems far more meaningful than &quot
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by darby_nine 2y ago
This is very cool and I could have seriously used this when recovering from RSI! However, it's not exactly a great argument that this is better than a keyboard and mouse for those who are abled enough to use them fully.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> Easier async. I was on board until this one. Async is a rough spot for rust, but I find the async strategy swift went with absolutely baffling and difficult to reason about.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
...compared to what? Growth is just one way of representing market health, and it's one that is typically pushed by capital for obvious reasons. If you're talking about efficiency or productivity, you don't need markets for e
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Ok, but what i said is true regardless of SEO, and that SEO has also fed back into english before LLMs were a thing. If you only train on those subsets you'll also end up with a chatbot that doesn't speak in a way we'll ident
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> LLMs are not crazy good because they can generate stories, they are crazy good because they are a very very good interface to humans. Do you have an example of a tool that uses an LLM as an interface? Seems like that'd be the fast
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Aunt may's brownie recipe (or at least her thoughts on it) are likely something you'd want if you want to reflect how humans use language. Both news-style and encyclopedia-style writing represent a pretty narrow slice.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
"Our" it ain't ours, that's the whole point of not being communist. So who cares where the products come from
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Too much interaction with falun gong. Regardless, I'm talking about competency. I don't endorse any particular state, culture, or ideology.
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by darby_nine 2y ago
> Feels like the main thing holding this company back is the CEO Use has also dropped, no? There's serious questions about long term revenue generation. Ancestry.com doesn't require selling your genetic code to collaborate on g
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by darby_nine 2y ago
Man the term must have changed since I was in school; i thought garbage collection was a much more general concept than a specific tactic to achieve this end of automatic memory collection. Pity, it was a useful term. It's worth noting

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