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by eadmund 1y ago
Unfortunately ‘sourdough’ has come to mean two things: on the one hand it is a general term for all wild starters; on the other it is a particular term for actual sour bread, most particularly that made from a San Francisco starter which sp
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Ultimately, guaranteeing common trust between citizens is a fundamental role of the State. I don’t think that really follows. Businesses credit bureaus and Dun & Bradstreet have been privately enabling trust between non-familiar p
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by eadmund 1y ago
You are not addressing my point. The cost to consumers does not consider the cost to potential employees who no longer have jobs. Note the very first comment (at this time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43806765 ): ‘
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by eadmund 1y ago
> If employers can't make the economics work, that's unfortunate. Yes, minimum wages are unfortunate for those who don’t have sufficient skills to work at minimum wage. That’s why there are almost no more human order-takers at
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by eadmund 1y ago
Jobs calibrate pay in the same sense that employees calibrate labour: employers strive to pay the least they can for the most labour; employees strive put in the least labour to get the most wages. A job which doesn’t offer enough to live o
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by eadmund 1y ago
> KDE used to be the "bloated" desktop That’s not my recollection. I believe that the non-free license you mention was the major factor, in addition to the fact that KDE was written in C++ at a time when the free software comm
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by eadmund 1y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_Strategy Oh, that page is darkly funny itself. ‘[The Lisbon Strategy’s] aim was to make the EU “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable o
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by eadmund 1y ago
Congratulations! Always good to see another Lisp in the world. Have you thought about writing up your experience?
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by eadmund 2y ago
> are you really going to trust that you can stop it from _executing a harmful action_? Of course, because an LLM can’t take any action: a human being does, when he sets up a system comprising an LLM and other components which act based
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by eadmund 2y ago
I see this as a good thing: ‘AI safety’ is a meaningless term. Safety and unsafety are not attributes of information, but of actions and the physical environment. An LLM which produces instructions to produce a bomb is no more dangerous t
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by eadmund 2y ago
Remarkably, despite caring about this kind of thing, I had never heard of FB Purity until today! I am paranoid enough to wonder if I should be suspicious, but I am hopeful enough to wonder what other amazing stuff is out there to learn abou
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by eadmund 2y ago
> For T&E it really matters see NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter and the need for heroics in the Gimli glider. > You need to keep to the same unit. Completely agreed. You’ll get similar issues if you have one set of parts using m
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by eadmund 2y ago
> A4 isn’t some random format, you can derive it with three pieces of information … You can derive letter paper with two pieces of information: 8½ and 11. Just having a laugh, of course — I do admire the A/B series, even if I wis
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Metric is already used in areas where it actually matters (e.g. STEM) Using French Revolutionary units doesn’t really matter in STEM, either: one can conduct science just as well in any units one wishes. One unit of measure is not mor
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by eadmund 2y ago
Anubis isn’t really about reclaiming the public internet, though: it’s about excluding some internet users. It has its reasons, of course, but it’s fundamentally about making the internet not a commons.
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> each of which must be changed when some library at the bottom of the stack changes slightly. I hate checked exceptions too, but in fairness to them this specific problem can be handled by intermediate code throwing its own exceptions
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Just install Emacs. It respects your freedom, and it respects your rights.
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As utterly terrible as divorce is, it’s preferable to being murdered. Although it might not seem like it at the time. I wonder how much the rate of spousal murder has declined as divorce has become easier.
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Big if true. But is it?
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Yes, we have laws. When should the law intrude on the private transaction of two parties? Typically, the law holds both parties to their contractual agreement. If those two parties have contracted to abide by the output of an algorithm,
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by eadmund 2y ago
> the very elegant GraphQL The GraphQL which ‘elegantly’ returns a 200 on errors? The GraphQL which ‘elegantly’ encodes idempotent reads as mutating POSTS? The GraphQL which ‘elegantly’ creates its own ad hoc JSON-but-not-JSON langua
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by eadmund 2y ago
> I wonder what level of compartmentalisation inside DHS means they didn't see this as having sufficient downsides? The National Vulnerability Database has been unable to keep up with the flow of CVEs for over a year now: - https:&
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Use GNU Emacs: The Plain Text Computing Environment(www2.lib.uchicago.edu)
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'An unlimited piggy bank:' Inside a powerful union's lavish spending(politico.com)
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by eadmund 2y ago
I don’t think that’s really fair. It can certainly be a hard but necessary decision. And what does it matter that a CEO makes more than his employees? Even if he makes 50 times what they make, that means even if he gave up all of his sal
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by eadmund 2y ago
You’re right! (let (bar-x quux-y) (setq bar-x (bar-x) quux-y (quux y)) (foo bar-x quux-y z)) I just wouldn’t normally write it that way.
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I want to disable them in the phone and TV apps. I haven’t used YouTube in the browser much for almost a decade! It’s kind of surprising to me.
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by eadmund 2y ago
> It's not the parens persay, it's the fact that I'm used to reading up to down and left to right. Lisp without something like the clojure macro ->, means that I am reading from right to left, bottom to top - from insid
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Ideally you'd continue to pay for the subscription but never watch anything. I think that’s Netflix’s actual goal: deliver nothing anyone wants to watch, but keep on promising the possibility of something one might want to watch i
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by eadmund 2y ago
> YouTube. YouTube: Once a video catalog with social discovery. Now? TikTok. I hate YouTube Shorts with a passion. They are low-effort engagement bait. They cannot be disabled. Even worse, my Google TV will not play them when my phone

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