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by ezst 9mo ago
The Netherlands is peculiar in that cyclists reclaimed their rights to the cities by kicking cars out of them.
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by ezst 9mo ago
> intelligence. Human or LLM doesn't matter. Being enthusiastic about a technology isn't incompatible with objective scrutiny. Throwing-up an ill-defined "intelligence" in the air certainly doesn't help with that
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by ezst 9mo ago
> You really need to be obstinate in your convictions if you can dismiss LLMs at the time when everyone's job is being turned around by them. I'm factual. You are the one with the extraordinary claim that LLMs will find new sub
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by ezst 9mo ago
Happy to throw some of mine for that. Scala may not be as popular as some other languages, but it's relevant for use cases as diverse as those for which you would otherwise use Java/C#/Go, JS/TS, C/C++/Rust (vi
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by ezst 9mo ago
Since a hot take is as good as the next one: LLMs are by the day more and more clearly understood as a "local maximum" with flawed capabilities, limited efficiency, a $trillion + a large chunk of the USA's GDP wasted, nobody
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by ezst 9mo ago
Who in their right mind would put Windows on such a device, though? This is THE hardware generation that Microsoft painted a target on with their planned obsolescence strategy. I don't know if there can be a clearer signalling that it
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by ezst 9mo ago
In some ways, the legacy of mercurial lives through jujutsu/jj and offers some sanity and familiarity on top of git's UI. But with that said, mercurial is far from dead, major "under-the-hood" works are going strong (inc
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by ezst 9mo ago
Not sure either but sharing the sentiment.
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by ezst 9mo ago
Sure, but now we can't even assume that such research is submitted in good faith anymore. There just seems to be no perfect solution. Maybe something like a "hierarchy/DAG? of trusted-peers", where groups like universiti
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by ezst 9mo ago
Doesn't stop the flood, i.e. the unfair asymmetry between the effort to produce vs. effort to review.
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by ezst 9mo ago
As I understand it, the problem isn't publication or how it's changing over time, it's about the challenges of producing new science when the existing one is muddied in plausible lies. That warrants a new process by which to
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by ezst 9mo ago
On recursive merging, by the author of mercurial https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial/2012-Janua...
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by ezst 9mo ago
> The administration can tell all the lies they want about it, but most of us have eyeballs […] In the past, […] it would have been a case of "who do you believe, team A or team B?" Damn I wish I could share your optimism. If o
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by ezst 9mo ago
> MacOS however truly takes the cake. An OS that’s great for creative softwate, working with images, video, audio and so on Funny since there was quite a thread here yesterday or the day before about Mac users regretting the dumbificatio
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by ezst 9mo ago
I tend to use strawberry these days, as an amarok convert from back in the kde3 days. My "workflow" is to go fish for the stuff that I'm in the mood to listen to in the moment, using the collection tree view, dragging and dro
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by ezst 9mo ago
> a simple DMCA takedown notice DMCA takedown has no legal basis outside the US. And it's funny you bring that up: the only reason why this has any relevance at all is because of the established norm for countries to sacrifice some
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by ezst 9mo ago
> I just can't see this being a realistic concern for Microsoft I think Microsoft strategy for Windows shifted a long time ago, from being their most precious engineering product, to a necessary component for their sales teams to bu
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by ezst 9mo ago
…and another one, much less academic in style and substance, but no less informative and relevant: https://scribe.rip/@carmitage/i-researched-every-attempt-to-...
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by ezst 9mo ago
> So the United States, once the world’s exemplary liberal democracy, is now a hybrid state combining a fascist leader and a liberal Constitution; but no, it has not fallen to fascism. And it will not. That's some optimism right the
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by ezst 9mo ago
I don't think it matters very much. It's not a matter of "if" but of "when": one is consistently getting worse, and the other is measurably getting better and more compatible with the former. Unless of a drasti
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by ezst 9mo ago
> There are still plenty of sharp edges. So lots of cursing and griping at Windows 11 continues. I wouldn't be so assertive about that. No OS is perfect, and as we see here, windows is no exception. It's mostly a matter of bein
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by ezst 9mo ago
> That is just like when loom machines took money away from weavers back in the 19th century, or computers took money away from typists/secretaries in the 20th century. We should carefully consider whether or not that is a net good
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by ezst 9mo ago
It's analogous in the sense that tons of machine-submitted emails exist for the sole purpose of being mechanically triaged. The technology might be slightly different (it may not be LLMs through and through), but the pattern is the sam
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by ezst 9mo ago
Doesn't work when using throwaway accounts, the low effort gets only marginally higher.
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by ezst 9mo ago
I encourage you to have a look at subsonic-compatible servers (navidrome, airsonic & forks), that's a good compromise IMO/E when you've got to pick what music you want to carry with you.
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by ezst 9mo ago
Punishing bad behaviour does close to nothing, because the problem at hand is one of high asymmetry between the low effort to submit vs the high effort to review. I do agree that paying for reports isn't ideal, and we should find other
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by ezst 9mo ago
I relate, and then realized that's been the basis of spam handling for decades now. It's depressing, and we aren't putting this genie back in the bottle unfortunately.
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by ezst 9mo ago
I will never START paying for Spotify. I like my music and so I like to know my music, I have no problem curating my collection, chasing rare works for artists I really like. I enjoy the process, I enjoy the result, I enjoy that I own it. I
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by ezst 9mo ago
What seems to be missing from every alternative I've seen is the power offered by the combo Nova+Sesame. I really don't use my launcher as a navigation system. All it does for me is pop open a search box after a swipe so I can typ
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by ezst 9mo ago
So, "let's have Trump burn the house down just to make the point nobody was arguing against that fireplaces can be hazardous"?

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