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by eadmund 2y ago
> As a reader, I don't want page authors to start hard coding sizes into these elements, because then they'll be more likely to choose non-default values to make their page stand out a bit more. Completely agree. In fact, thi
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For a company this is probably okay: companies rely on other companies all the time, and can enforce contracts. I would gladly use tailscale at my company. For an individual, heck no. Fortunately, headscale exists for individuals to use.
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It took a truly colossal amount of human time and effort to build AI systems. It takes significant amount of energy to run those AI systems. I don’t see any meaningful difference at all between the system of a human, a computer and a corpu
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But it’s not copying and reselling — it’s imitation. Copying is controlled by copyrights. And imitation isn’t controlled by anything. As for a company: a company is just a group of people acting together.
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> Escape from yaml as quickly as possible, put basic logic in bash, and then escape from bash as quickly as possible too into a real language. This should be your #1 rule. Don’t compile logic to YAML, just write it in a real language an
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> it's unfair for artists to have their works sucked up I never thought it was unfair to artists for others to look at their work and imitate it. That seems to me to be what artists have been doing since the second caveman looked a
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> How would you have worded it in such a way as to sincerely express the stated sentiment without coming across as passive‐aggressively rude? Something like ‘While we understand that some people would prefer to read the original texts (m
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> storage is so cheap that being wasteful with it isn't really disincentivized I think another way of phrasing that is usage is correctly incentivised. In the example you give, the value to debugging is more than the cost of stor
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> We’re destroying our environment to create and store trillions of blurred images, half-baked videos, rip-off AI ‘songs’, rip-off AI animations, videos and images, emails with mega attachments, never-to-be-watched-again presentations, n
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by eadmund 2y ago
For what it’s worth, that’s also exactly how I read your response, which was (to repeat) ‘That's fine! Our editions didn't erase any of the other editions you can find online and in print. You're more than welcome to select a
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by eadmund 2y ago
Yeah, first-wins is definitely surprising. Off the top of my head, it feels like one would have to go out of one’s way to write a parser that does that (by storing an extra bit of state for each configuration item, and then checking it bef
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Would you have preferred ‘let them eat cake’? ‘Just do something else’ is not a valid response to ‘I would like to do this, but am unreasonably prevented from doing it.’
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> Python values are typed. So are Tcl values.
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100%. I miss the days when my phone was my phone, not Google’s. And of course nowadays a Windows computer really belongs to Microsoft, and an Apple computer belongs to Apple. At least my Linux box is mine. Well, mine and Lennart’s.
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Real Genius is a great film in many ways, marred only by the assumption that a military laser is a bad thing to be working on — I always thought that it would be neat to do. But the characters are great, a ton of the plot is great. It’s w
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I don’t think that ‘hostile’ is really fair in this case, when ‘insufficiently competent’ will do (albeit at the cost of more syllables). I am not a fan of Grammarly or their technical model, but I don think it’s fair to attribute malice wh
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Imagine if that man-millennium of engineering had been spent working on a decent language and ecosystem instead of C, C++ and Objective-C! That’s what gets me: better languages are able to scrape by with several orders of magnitude less inv
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Why couldn’t a sufficiently smart REPL have those things as well? Anything can happen after the read and around the execute stage!
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> The curses API may seem something of an archaism on UNIX desktops increasingly dominated by X, Motif, and Tcl/Tk. This sets the document at a particular point in time … in a lot of ways a better point in time. I really miss the
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> Doesn't seem nuts, unless you believe humans have souls that can't be digitised. Let’s ignore souls: humans have bodies which cannot be digitised. Our bodies are real matter, not some dross to be jettisoned. I wonder if Bl
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> the Citizens United ruling … basically legalized the corporate takeover of government and buyout of elected government officials in the name of free speech. No, it didn’t: it said that the First Amendment protects the right of American
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> If an AI model recongnizably regurgitates the essay it trained on then it has infringed. I completely agree — that’s why I explicitly wrote ‘non-copy paintings’ in my example. > The AI argument that passing original content through
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> The AI companies seek to train models in order to compete with the authors of the content used to train the models. When I read someone else’s essay I may intend to write essays like that author. When I read someone else’s code I may
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Well, the per-capita GDP of the poorest U.S. state — Mississippi — is greater than that of the U.K., France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Poland and many others, and within 10% of Finland, Germany, Belgium and Austria. 34 of the 47 European state
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I believe that they provide liquidity. That’s a fancy way of saying that they ensure that any time someone wants to sell he can find a buyer, and every time someone wants to buy he can find a seller. That in turn means that folks are more
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> Derivatives that require the fuel of 15 math Phds to lock in fractions of a percentage pricing inefficiencies so their firm can pocket the difference do not have much value at all. They have at least as much value as the total compensa
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Well-written websites look great it it; poorly-written ones look terrible or are blank pages. That’s the same as with any other text-mode browser. A lot of sites require Javascript to function, even when their actual functionality does not
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Why was FreeSWITCH written in C? Even in 2006 there were more secure alternatives. We as an industry keep poking each ourselves in our collective eye with a sharp stick, wondering why it hurts.
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But then I’d be using a Mac, and that would slow my development down and be generally miserable.
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> Falling asset prices hurt the middle class far more than they hurt the wealthy. For that to be true, the wealthy would have to have a lower percentage of their net worth in non-cash assets than the middle class. That sure doesn’t see

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