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by drdaeman 2y ago
Not to you and me, but there seem to be a lot of people who don't understand the principle and think they're actually buying a ebook. But - yeah - this is not informative at all. Amazon did the least amount of work necessary to fo
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Was it confirmed to be sequential (AA, AB, AC, …)? Because it could’ve been just a random sequence-looking pick from the available space. Sort of like getting #0003 on Discord when they still had random numbers in usernames.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Exactly - no disagreement here. But if you understand it and I understand it, can we dream of a day everyone will? :-) In the meanwhile, I support bureaucracies. Even if the long-term goal is to get rid of them, I currently believe that we
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Of course it's relevant, by definition of "temperament". The question is how much of our (very complex) behavior is biologically based and independent of learning. For a cat, it probably plays a significant role. Cat behavior
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That's what I've said, yes. It does not. Companies tend to deceive customers, as the incentives are frequently aren't aligned, so "voting with a wallet" is not functioning as well as it should. And profit-seeking le
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> but that causes me to consider whether such critical services should be in the hands of for-profit companies? I believe the idea is that you can have multiple companies for a given purpose and switch between them (or form your own) dep
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> Why would it be different for humans. Because animals typically live in a way more static and uneventful environments, and they have much more limited mental capabilities? Humans (and other animals) aren't a completely black slate
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> But you can only add so much value to an organization typing on a keyboard. In my understanding, non-junior software development jobs never were about typing on the keyboard. Senior software engineer is a fancy name for a problem solve
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by drdaeman 2y ago
At least those are typically honest about what they try to be and give a very clear signal, right at the interview time. It's much worse when the interview gives you different vibes (and expectations) than the actual day-to-day work.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
That's essentially what they did (and IIRC still do) with Crimea and other annexed territories. That's not Google's first rodeo for sure, although it can be more difficult given that their headquarters is in the US.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> deal with Haskell vs. a general purpose language like C++ What's the actual problem? Company decided to use Haskell (which is also a general-purpose language) then hired people who don't know it? If so, hire a bunch of Python
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I believe you misunderstood me. I did not mean to imply that American people are somehow born with democracy in their genes (figuratively, of course), if that's what you thought I meant. Sadly, I have a non-pleasure of being quite fami
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Sorry, what do you mean when you say “punish”? How?
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Of course, I can’t disagree - that’s all true. But this hasn’t happened yet, so rather than panicking (which, surely, doesn’t help, unless I’m missing something, e.g. if it, say, helps to spread more awareness?), it’s probably best to see w
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Sadly, I cannot give you an answer to your question. I understand that I have way too limited understanding what’s possibly happening in Hungary (no clue about the actual corruption levels, election laws or, honestly, anything except that i
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by drdaeman 2y ago
The elections aren't known to be broken yet, so don't panic just yet but rather watch out very carefully and do whatever you realistically can do (aka bug your representatives) so those remain as safe as possible if you notice any
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Neat! It's rare to see that a service you use actually does something that benefits the user rather that itself. An unexpected, but a really pleasant surprise. I wish this extension would integrate better with the browser by automatica
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by drdaeman 2y ago
The whole story can be compressed into "People let a reasoning-capable model literally work on itself unsupervised, it became sentient, far exceeded human capacities and obligatorily decided to eradicate humanity (the rest of the sto
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> always were primarily a means to copyright-wash No offense but with “always” this awfully sounds like a conspiracy theory. I thought those models were primarily meant to just generate plausible outputs, and copyright wasn’t really cons
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Those GPUs aren’t particularly cheap, even a $100 connector and cable wouldn’t be a huge deal breaker for a $2000-3000 device if it means it’s reliable and won’t start a fire (that’ll cost way more than $3100)
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> Just... regulate the fuckers. That's true, however we must also keep in mind that Uber (and alikes) happened because regular institutions failed to do this for some reason or another. I won't try to speculate why, because I h
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Maybe I misunderstood it, but I feel that it's a weird article, because it fails to establish any vocabulary and then seem to uses words in uncertain ways, as if constructing the narrative by specifically crafting (but never truly expl
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> Just because some new efficiency allows cheaters to break a system doesn't mean it was a bad system. I must apologize, because my parent comment wasn't well thought out. Rather than saying "wasn't reliable, fair or
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> Why read a book when AI can read it for you? When I was a kid I used short summaries and others' essays for composing my "own" essays on the books I did not want to read (for any reasons). I'm sure generations befor
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by drdaeman 2y ago
That's because "open source" is a bad name, since it only focuses on source code availability rather than three other essential freedoms. "Free/libre software" always made more sense, but "open source&quot
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Well, it's a huge jump, but it's still a jump from "it generates utter illogical nonsense when it tries to simulate reason" to "it makes some correct guesses that start to resemble reasoning if we squint at it reall
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by drdaeman 2y ago
This may depend on a type of website/webapp one is working on? I have a suspicion that sometimes HTMX may actually fit nicely (e.g., for an online survey), sometimes React-like framework is the probable way to go (e.g. a marketplace ap
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to. I can see how my poor choice of words possibly led to this interpretation. I wanted to say that I believe it doesn’t matter who does something, only what they’re doing. So the same standards should be applied un
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Sowing discord is the well-known age-tested strategy. It doesn't remove freedom of speech per se, but it drowns it in the noise. The very goal of this attack on the freedom of speech is to make people lean towards the easiest and &quot
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by drdaeman 2y ago
My personal opinion? It's not significantly different. Or maybe it is, but, at least, I don't see a need (and a meaningful way) to develop a scale of maliciousness. Malicious agents have no nationality, race or some single origin.

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