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by dingnuts 3y ago
> And yet I still do not know of a convincing way to get money from where it sits to the pockets of all the devs working on the stack This is the purpose of licensing and you're describing a failure in the popular licenses that wer
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by dingnuts 3y ago
> As if FOSS tooling was a crowded space!! These projects are desperate for volunteers, and lack of developer time and resources is one of the biggest handicaps that these projects often face thinking about eg the recent xz vuln, isn&#x2
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by dingnuts 3y ago
same thing; if you have money you can hire people to spread the burden
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by dingnuts 3y ago
I see kids outside playing in the street and in yards and in my neighborhood park all the time. What suburbs are you folks choosing to live in? also some of your examples, like the CNN article about Maryland, seem like they may be targeted
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by dingnuts 3y ago
where do you live that there are no parks in your suburb? mine is chock full of them, there's a park every couple blocks. why has your HOA closed a hill, and have you gone to meetings to advocate for reopening it?
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by dingnuts 3y ago
I hate to be this cynical but are we sure the US hasn't also become a corrupt oligarchy?
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by dingnuts 3y ago
Is the end user you refer to a highly technical person? Because 1 in 5 Americans do not have the literacy skills to "complete tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences"[
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by dingnuts 3y ago
Anecdotes aren't data, and one summer isn't climate. The climate warriors absolutely pounded that into my head for decades, but you experience a drought and the world is literally ending? C'mon Maybe the world IS ending, but
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by dingnuts 3y ago
Yes it is useful. Knowing who you contacted and when tells advertisers demographic information and probably more that I can't think of
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by dingnuts 3y ago
Free countries don't need their own Pravda. For every Murdoch there's a dozen other channels, and anyway, Facebook is worse for radicalization than any Murdoch property. The State has press releases, and the ability to command att
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by dingnuts 3y ago
This is a demonstrative example of why an LLM is NOT intelligent at all, and we need to stop calling these models AI. A real intelligence would be able to either put together the information needed and fill in gaps with research or it would
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by dingnuts 3y ago
the article is about the edit-compile-edit loop during development, which has absolutely nothing to do with CI/CD at all If you are pushing your code elsewhere and then waiting on CI to test single line changes that you make during dev
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by dingnuts 3y ago
>> > Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. > Blackwell. I'm fucking sorry but there is no LLM or "AI" platform that is even real intelligence, today, easily d
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by dingnuts 3y ago
>Some of the instances are (imo) full of straight-up insane and, worse, perpetually angry people This has been true for every instance of every Fedi thing I've ever tried to use or thought of using. And many instances block single-u
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by dingnuts 3y ago
use the knowledge that your plans may not succeed despite your best efforts to set expectations so that you are not emotionally devastated if this happens, and so that you are prepared in other ways as well. take the shot, but have a back-u
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by dingnuts 3y ago
Maybe that commentator lives in a country without common law, so precedent doesn't matter, but in a country like the US a law without precedent is considered "untried" and a lot of the details are worked out when the law is f
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by dingnuts 3y ago
> if you're in decent health and if you're not? Not all bad health is a character failure, you know. Some people just have diseases like multiple sclerosis in the public vs private transit discussion, all I know is that I'
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by dingnuts 3y ago
idk man, I remember graduating from writing my HTML in Notepad to HotDog and being blown away by the syntax highlighting and I never looked back I've heard this argument before and I just can't say that I share the experience.
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by dingnuts 3y ago
You gotta keep up with the narrative bud, it's not "weather isn't climate" anymore; as long as the weather seems unusual to adults, it's evidence of climate change. But don't forget! That doesn't mean nice
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by dingnuts 3y ago
"But what software owners typically deliver is a black box that we can’t study or change" I think a lot about how RMS's view on software freedom was warped by the highly intelligent and intellectual peer group that he must ha
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by dingnuts 3y ago
Purely from a consumer standpoint, why on Earth would I EVER choose a vehicle that expects me to pull over to change the AC or to take my eyes off the road to control it, if there are competitors on the market that allow me to do so without
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by dingnuts 3y ago
you have to love that the GP says "browsers like Chrome don't allow" and the two responses under it are "Safari does" and "mobile Firefox does" -- literally the only other browsers in the mobile ecosystem
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by dingnuts 3y ago
as I get older I do this less but there was a period where I enjoyed computing laying back in bed with the laptop fully open (180 degrees) or nearly 180 degrees, propped up on my legs and it always annoyed me if a laptop wouldn't open
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by dingnuts 3y ago
real discussion happens in private spaces. everything on Twitter/Facebook/etc is performative. including my comment.
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by dingnuts 3y ago
I always thought the Arabic references in Dune, and also the desert planet that produces the fuel by which commerce operates, was a downright obvious social commentary on oil and the geopolitics at the time the book was published Honestly I
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by dingnuts 3y ago
I mean, RMS has done plenty to his own reputation
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by dingnuts 3y ago
no, the criticism of their side projects is NOT that they would provide diversification, it's that they're usually politically motivated feel-good marketing distractions with no chance of ever producing additional revenue except m
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by dingnuts 3y ago
I got the impression that the Vision Pro was less well-baked than previous forays into existing fields, like the iPod -- but maybe I'm wrong as I have not tried it myself, and am only parroting what I've read
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by dingnuts 3y ago
well, it does make a difference in the perceived slowness, so something about your mental model of what nativecomp does, must be incorrect. I compile Emacs from source specifically to get nativecomp because of the obviously perceptible diff
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by dingnuts 3y ago
before native compilation Emacs itself was pretty dang slow on its own, and you probably have to compile yourself to get nativecomp (which won't always be true) depending on the distro you're using etc

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