dj_mc_merlin

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by dj_mc_merlin 6mo ago
Are you happy? Ignoring everything else that's been said, I truly mean this: are you happy with the person you are?
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by dj_mc_merlin 6mo ago
> You still, however, know that the author is who they say they are This doesn't mean anything since "who they say they are" is an anonymous username with no real life correlation. Might as well be completely anonymous. &g
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by dj_mc_merlin 6mo ago
Arch has pacman and that worked so well that it had to have AUR which is just glorified curl | bash. Linux distros managed it for decades when the vast majority of binaries you would run are made by nerds for nerds. If the original maintain
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by dj_mc_merlin 6mo ago
No, I agree with him. Everyone knows Russia has territory inside Europe. Does that make it European? Post-Ukraine not a lot of people would call it European. It's just a word at the end of the day, the politics are more important to pe
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by dj_mc_merlin 6mo ago
All Europeans know what is meant by Europe. We just don't agree on it. But it does mean "not US or someone hostile to us" and that's enough of a definition without splitting hairs about Belarus.
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by dj_mc_merlin 6mo ago
This is a really interesting question. Is it? My intuition would say no since you have no inherent duty to protect or help others. I have no clue though.
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by dj_mc_merlin 6mo ago
Is this the first time you have ever thought about the idea of supply chain attacks? This is the first thought 90% of people have and it doesn't work. Too much work to manually verify diffs and LLMs aren't good enough at this yet.
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by dj_mc_merlin 9mo ago
If ChatGPT can make a good plan for you from 5 bullet points, why was there a ticket for making a plan in the first place? If it makes a bad plan then the coworker submitted a bad plan and there's already avenues for when coworkers do
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by dj_mc_merlin 9mo ago
If the documents they're putting out are bad, then they're doing bad work and that eventually comes with consequences from your coworkers and superiors. If they're doing good work, then great! Who cares if an LLM wrote most o
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by dj_mc_merlin 9mo ago
> The unstated elephant in the room is that you can't possibly know how much thought the originator has given to this. You can just ask them if they reviewed it in detail.
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by dj_mc_merlin 1y ago
> So I guess the takeaway is: if elections are so close that a tiny amount of voters sway them, the problem of polarization is already pretty extensive enough that AI probably isn’t going to make it much worse than it already is. To reph
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by dj_mc_merlin 1y ago
Very well could be.
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by dj_mc_merlin 1y ago
BTW, despite disagreeing with you on this topic, I read other parts of your blog and, as somebody else who experiences manic episodes, I actually more or less 100% agree with your "Core Beliefs" section. I've seen this before
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by dj_mc_merlin 1y ago
> If consumers actually want unique local flavors an non-frozen foods, and are willing to pay a premium for it, sysco would have never gotten a foothold. This is rooted in the assumption that capitalism provides what people want, rather
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by dj_mc_merlin 1y ago
My point was that this is just the same tactic that corporations have been using for decades. For example, rather than fix systemic issues that cause them to dump mass amounts of greenhouse gases or toxic waste, they instead reframe the iss
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by dj_mc_merlin 1y ago
I can't say I agree fully with the original video either but this is just blatantly trying to reframe the same facts presented in said video, but placing the blame on consumers rather than businesses, which is a really dirty tactic. &g
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by dj_mc_merlin 2y ago
So if the new data is correct, there's no heat death or big rip, no? Everything just crashes back into itself.
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by dj_mc_merlin 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
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by dj_mc_merlin 2y ago
> Why call it Peng? > Peng (traditional Chinese: 鵬; simplified Chinese: 鹏; pinyin: péng; Wade–Giles: p'eng) or Dapeng (大鵬) is a giant bird that transforms from a Kun (鯤; 鲲; kūn; k'un) giant fish in Chinese mythology. Just a
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by dj_mc_merlin 2y ago
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3125 contains a fun keypad to reverse engineer. I thought I could simply extract the password from the text but the author lightly obfuscated it (which makes more sense knowing that he has a
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by dj_mc_merlin 2y ago
It comes from wanting the law to behave like physics and be universalizable. It is not at all like that in practice.
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by dj_mc_merlin 2y ago
> it never has before. Look up the Digital Markets Act.
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by dj_mc_merlin 2y ago
Yes but a human brain needs years of training to to get the basic skills, and further needs to refine on a specific style which can take anywhere from days to months/years depending on prior experience. There are also social connotatio
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by dj_mc_merlin 2y ago
You need to live near a population centre to find them, that's true. It's the same reason other minority groups such as homosexuals urbanized so quickly.
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by dj_mc_merlin 2y ago
> Some of us are isolating because y'all refuse to mask up and we can't risk going anywhere. disclaimer: you may have an autoimmune disease in which case your decision is reasonable. "y'all" is about 95%-99% of h
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by dj_mc_merlin 2y ago
> Unless you are able to stay within an extremely narrow range of behaviours (in terms of not being weird, basically speaking expected thinks in expected tone of voice and body language), nobody wants to associate with you. I'll agr
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by dj_mc_merlin 2y ago
I feel like the deskilling of web dev is that the web dev in this article doesn't feel competent enough to learn HTML, CSS _and_ Javascript at the same time.
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by dj_mc_merlin 2y ago
Just out of interest and if it's not too personal, what's your age/generation? I'm in my mid twenties and I don't have any peers that couldn't more or less always read analog clocks as far as they remember. edi
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by dj_mc_merlin 2y ago
You can make that claim about Reddit or other social networks but.. just read through this thread? It's pretty clear that this is just random people's uninformed opinions, fears and speculations. I don't see a single good arg
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by dj_mc_merlin 2y ago
> This assertion is in error. Communication is about transmitting information. Even if you're correct you've just taken my words at their absolute meaning without trying to understand what I'm saying. If all you care when

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