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by disqard 2y ago
Thank You so much for making time to write that up! Deeply appreciated. It's fascinating how this "turn-taking protocol" has emerged in this space -- as a (possibly weird) analogy, different countries don't always use th
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by disqard 2y ago
Whoa! You broke my brain a bit there (but your posts often do, in a Good way!) Would you be so kind as to ELI5 what you did in that index.js? I've used ollama to run models locally, but I'm still stuck in chat-land. Of course, if
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by disqard 2y ago
> ...finding programming that works for you I see what you did there :D
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by disqard 2y ago
You're right, as long as software is concerned, and customers being left without service is a non-issue. Though if you do that with hardware, you might irreversibly break/short a component -- so you unplug, then figure out you act
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by disqard 2y ago
Thank you for that mental image of the flowers still standing :D > Unless their goal is to destroy the USA I have indeed heard this, even in his first term -- that people were so fed up of politics-as-usual, that they decided to "se
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by disqard 2y ago
If that is the goal, then what happened to "profile before you optimize"? As an analogy, what's happening feels like this: * Somebody (let's call them "X") has embarked upon a mission to de-bloat the ancient-bu
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by disqard 2y ago
I think the word you're looking for is "immaturity". It is not exclusively found in young people, as one can plainly see with the plutocrats in charge today. FWIW, even when it is justified in a software context, we understan
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by disqard 2y ago
They can operate this demolition op from the safety of their bunkers in NZ. All they need is a way to send messages to their "useful idiot" new college grad minions. True, instigating a global collapse might eventually get to them
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by disqard 2y ago
Obviously
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by disqard 2y ago
> But today we advanced a bit and demand that our justice is a bit more just. Like you, I used to believe this. Recent events have me re-examining my assumptions.
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by disqard 2y ago
I think you're discounting how easy it would be for them to say "it's all Biden's fault", and lots of people will eat it up.
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by disqard 2y ago
As they say, "quantity has it's own quality". Thus, once you're in the "three comma club", your money not only insulates you from the legal consequences of what would be considered "wrongdoing", it a
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by disqard 2y ago
Thank you for articulating this! We're all susceptible to this "it won't affect me, because <insert-reason-here>" kind of thinking. Dimensions like "level of education", wealth, etc. don't really fac
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by disqard 2y ago
Thank you for mentioning McLuhan, and for sharing that personal anecdote. The process of engaging with the Real World, is a constant choice. With the busy lives we lead, it is much easier to operate in "default mode", as David Fos
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by disqard 2y ago
Not defending or opposing the thesis of the essay, but this person's blog has (roughly) one post every day... it makes one wonder how much thought and editing goes into writing at that pace. Most serious writing I've seen is relea
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by disqard 2y ago
"Adult pacifier"
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by disqard 2y ago
You are right, and you made me sadder. Have an upboat.
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by disqard 2y ago
A lot of our society depends on good-faith participation and restraint when wielding power.
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by disqard 2y ago
Yes, I agree with the picture you're painting here, but it befuddles me where all these grifters think they'll go? They'll have to live in bunkers for the rest of their lives. Imagine that you're one of them, and you wan
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by disqard 2y ago
This is the wise, pragmatic answer indeed! Find the Middle Path. Neither extreme is correct. Doing the absolute bare minimum to not get PIP'ed is corrosive to your own soul. Going "above and beyond" when you might get laid of
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by disqard 2y ago
If somebody hasn't been following this, it's one person's passion project, and it doesn't aim to compete with Google/Bing/DDG. It's more of a way to find interesting things on the "small web". Pl
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by disqard 2y ago
I did check it out just now. Login required. During signup, one must check a box stating "I swear lifelong allegiance to the state of Israel"??
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by disqard 2y ago
...and, if you append a question mark to the end of your query, you get a one-shot LLM answer (currently powered by Claude).
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by disqard 2y ago
Try Anthropic's Claude -- just as good, and free (thus far) of the sort of shenanigans one sees with "Open"AI
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by disqard 2y ago
> But surely there is something that needs to be changed from what came out of the black box before you feel comfortable attaching your name to it. If you don’t, I think that’s slop-y. I chuckled at that :)
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by disqard 2y ago
It was already on the "sous-vide" setting for the past few years, now it's been set to "broil" overnight.
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by disqard 2y ago
TIL, thank you!
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by disqard 2y ago
This is a hilarious idea! :D No idea how well it might actually play out, but you made my day by putting this bit of whimsy out on the Internet. Thank You For Making And Sharing!!
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by disqard 2y ago
I love your concrete examples! Thanks for sharing the pointer to your wasm engine. Is that part of a course you teach, or something born out of an auto-didactic pursuit?
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by disqard 2y ago
I read your entire comment, and it echoed much of my experience in academia. Thank you for taking the time to write this!

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