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by fastball 2y ago
Yes, and it is arguably true, right? That doesn't mean digital shouldn't exist, but everything is a balance. The quality and effort put into the "average" movie has almost certainly gone down over the decades since the n
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by fastball 2y ago
You don't need this pipeline to produce 6 shows over a decade. Said another way, they almost certainly would not have bothered to build this system if the purpose was mainly to produce the shows you mention. The reason these systems ex
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by fastball 2y ago
It's not just editing though, right? This whole system makes it more viable to just film tons of b-roll quality footage without worrying about the end result. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention, and this system makes it
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by fastball 2y ago
The tech is cool, but it seems like the main result of having such a pipeline is that Netflix has been able to produce an incredible amount of low-effort schlock that mostly lacks soul and artistic merit.
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by fastball 2y ago
That was the promise of search engines, before SEO came along and kinda ruined that too. I suppose the ideal solution is a form of search engine that is basically magical and truly personalized. So that I could search for "most comfort
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by fastball 2y ago
Yes, I stated it as an outcome. I was not defining oligarchy. I was responding to a comment which was stating that Elon Musk becoming involved in the USG apparently makes it an oligarchy, and that this has something to do with this personal
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by fastball 2y ago
I don't remember defining oligarchy in my comment.
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by fastball 2y ago
Could you give a broad outline of how you'd make this list? The government is currently not run efficiently, so clearly we can't rely on people who already have lots of government experience, because that just means they've b
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by fastball 2y ago
Not sure that tracks. Oligarchy is generally how people who don't deserve wealth can get it. As pointed out by you, that doesn't exactly apply to the world's (already) richest man. And who exactly would you look for to help t
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by fastball 2y ago
Isn't X more profitable than Twitter was?
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by fastball 2y ago
Oh yeah, true. They look the exact same in the HN editor haha
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by fastball 2y ago
I use them as well. For blog posts I suppose I'll need to switch to regular hyphens lest people think all my writing is LLM-spam. That said, I don't even think you need the [shift] for em dash on Mac – just [option] + [hyphen] wor
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by fastball 2y ago
Well yes, I think there should be some tangible damage before you can make a claim like that.
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by fastball 2y ago
I agree. But that wasn't the argument made in the comment above mine.
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by fastball 2y ago
Have we? What have been the repercussions so far?
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by fastball 2y ago
To be honest, the whole security clearance process has always seemed (to me at least) much closer to McCarthyism/security theater than an effective way to prevent infiltration by actual spies and such.
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by fastball 2y ago
Glad we're giving so much credit to criminals for rationality and reasonable behavior.
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by fastball 2y ago
I extend my gratitude to my valued partner loudmax, who has been helping me commit cybercrime for the last 20 years.
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by fastball 2y ago
Emphasis on they (the cybercriminals) posting about it, right? Does it seem reasonable to take the word of the cybercriminals at face value? Usually a lot of this stuff is tongue in cheek anyway. e.g. if a cybercrime group puts out a publ
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by fastball 2y ago
Isn't that kinda the point? They don't really want these systems to exist at all.
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by fastball 2y ago
This kid wasn't charged. That is a required step before being convicted. What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
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by fastball 2y ago
He was charged 30 years ago, but consulted for many years after his release (only 25 years ago). So definitely his activities would be included in the last 20 years. Even if that wasn't the case, why should something that was OK 30 ye
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by fastball 2y ago
> So then have BigBalls at least do his time before handing him the keys to the kingdom. Given that he hasn't been charged with a crime (much less convicted), the "time" he is due to serve is zero.
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by fastball 2y ago
The comment you are replying is literally about someone convicted of hacking crimes (not someone alleged to have aided a cybercrime group with CDN services) working for the government. So no, your assertion that 20 years ago everyone would
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by fastball 2y ago
Huh, fair enough. Maybe my spheres are much more Kotlin-focused and I was projecting too much. That said, probably "number of Github projects" and/or "number of StackOverflow tags" doesn't encapsulate the sheer
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by fastball 2y ago
Most of those things are improved upon by Kotlin as well, and seems like an easier upgrade path from Java anyway vs Scala. Kotlin is also much more popular than Scala.
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by fastball 2y ago
Deja vu, or didn't we already know this? I remember allegations of cyber crime connections the first time I heard about "Big Balls".
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by fastball 2y ago
What is your company building with Elixir?
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by fastball 2y ago
I don't know if this was a design goal, but I just did the first 10 Arc-AGI-2 public eval (hard) puzzles, and found them much more enjoyable (as a human) than any of the Arc-AGI-1 puzzles. That said the grid/puzzle editor is still
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by fastball 2y ago
I did the first 10 from ARC-AGI-2 (hard) set. 9 were in one try, 1 was in two. To be fair I've spent a lot of time thinking about cellular automata and Conway's game of life, which definitely seems to be influencing the design of

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