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by dingnuts 2y ago
It's actually worse than that. By holding his stocks he remains invested in the company in every meaning of the word. The dividends he's living on are the literal fruit of the proverbial sin that caused him to quit. In order to be
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by dingnuts 2y ago
who, exactly, is in control of independent agencies if Congress never corrects their power and the Executive isn't in charge? For example: the perennial fight over "net neutrality" was because Congress absconded their duty to
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by dingnuts 2y ago
To me it "seems like" the CIA is being attacked and its extinction burst through the media it controlled for the last generation is causing a blast of hysteria. Everything published in media organizations that until recently were
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> worried about the inevitable future where we have to take over someone else’s “vibe coding” mess of code. worried? we're going to make a goddamned fortune
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by dingnuts 2y ago
what if we lived forever and money grew on trees
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by dingnuts 2y ago
some work hard and get successful; some work hard and fail all who don't try fail
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by dingnuts 2y ago
when wealthy people have kids their wealth is diluted. Truly, one of the best parts of Elon Musk having so many fucking kids is that at least his fortune will be greatly divided and spread the second he dies Generational wealth rarely lasts
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by dingnuts 2y ago
it won't work for anything that requires a novel synthesis of ideas because Gen AI is incapable of novelty
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I read 2/3 of his book when it came out and nothing pissed me off more than realizing exactly what you just said. His GRANDMOTHER was Appalachian. Not him. He's a fucking carpetbagger
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by dingnuts 2y ago
The culture dies if locals don't have children and the immigrants don't assimilate. There are already many pockets of micro cultures in the US and that's what the people in power are using to divide us already. I'm incre
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by dingnuts 2y ago
addiction to anything is harmful. You might as well have said using porn unhealthily is unhealthy. It's a tautology, and it's moving the goal posts disingenuously. The argument is about moderate use, just like any other vice.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Your beliefs do not give you the right to impose your beliefs' lifestyle restrictions on others, period. Even if they did, forcing people through state violence to adhere to your lifestyle isn't very Christian of you.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
>Perhaps the only real solution is asking about what you want to do on messages boards, and hoping some weird old curmudgeon who is familiar with the small program you want to use sees your question. I'm an AI curmudgeon in general
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by dingnuts 2y ago
they gaslight you in "polite" Corporate Voice, you mean. It's one of the things I hate most about conversational agents. I always tell them to stop using the first person and respond in short declarative sentences and to stop
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I bet I can generate unit tests just as fast and for a fraction of the cost, and probably less typing, with a couple vim macros
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by dingnuts 2y ago
if you generate "creative" writing, please tell your audience that it is generated, before asking them to read it. I do not understand what possible motivation there could be for generating "creative writing" unless you
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by dingnuts 2y ago
it could do math reliably!
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by dingnuts 2y ago
what crazy progress? how much do you spend on tokens every month to witness the crazy progress that I'm not seeing? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. The progress is linear at best
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by dingnuts 2y ago
>The static-location model seems like the right place to start, since it is at least capable of expressing all the types of distributed systems we might want to implement, even if the programming model offers us little help in reasoning
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by dingnuts 2y ago
If people take it personally when you point out process or product problems it means you're on a team that can't handle criticism, and will run off a cliff telling each other how great they are. Do with that what you will. I usual
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I don't know what she means about setting the PATH for a GUI. If you want to run a program from the GUI you add a .desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications and provide the full path to the binary as part of the Exec k
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I can't see how in a world full of recordings how in person, live performance art could get anything but vastly more valuable. I saw a stage performance of Clue a few weeks ago. It was lovely. Nothing was AI generated, and couldn'
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Tate is a hardcore convert to Islam. Not sure if that's going to play with the MAGA base but what do I know
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by dingnuts 2y ago
The establishment is the apparatus currently complaining loudest about its demise at the hands of DOGE: unelected government bureaucrats and all downstream beneficiaries of their policies from SEC-mandated DEI practitioners in private indus
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by dingnuts 2y ago
this is complaining about the state of nature dressed as political commentary. perhaps Mr Swinton could show an example of a society that would satisfy his definitions, but he cannot, because his complaint amounts to the fact that the world
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by dingnuts 2y ago
if the Fairness Doctrine was implemented for the Internet and you had a Democrat leaning political blog you would have to give equal time/space to MAGA narratives on your site. That's what you want?
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by dingnuts 2y ago
it's an attack on the managerial class that absolutely deserves to have their funding cut. If you attended university in the US since the turn of the century you would have been party to the dearth of resources dedicated to actual educ
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by dingnuts 2y ago
if you think industrialized society should give up oil without alternatives then you should be honest and say that you believe we that the industrial revolution was a mistake and that we should by-and-large go back to an agrarian society wh
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by dingnuts 2y ago
If you ignore the narrative and only look at the links then you're just describing a search engine with an AI summarization feature. You could just use Kagi and click "summarize" on the interesting results and then you don&#x
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by dingnuts 2y ago
everything you listed was subject to the effects of Moore's Law, explaining their trajectories, but Moore's Law doesn't apply AI in any way. And it's dead.

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