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by flir 2y ago
I think grandparent is arguing that citizenship is a protected characteristic. I think they're on iffy ground there, personally.
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by flir 2y ago
> Jeez what a paranoid sad viewpoint *whoosh*? Not sure, but that's either a videogame meme or some repurposed good ol' mid-20th Commie paranoia. > less than 5% of the world population 85% of the world's handguns though
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by flir 2y ago
Solid summary, very clearly written. If you expanded it with some examples, I'd send it to non-technical family members as a rough guide to getting the best out of chatbots.
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by flir 2y ago
When I was a kid (80s) I knew old boys with lathes and mills and pillar drills at the bottom of the garden. They were the last generation, I think, of a tradition rooted in the Victorian era which informally transferred a lot of knowledge f
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by flir 2y ago
The post I'm replying to is arguing that fiduciary duty would force the sale, not a law. The banning just... sets a chain of events in motion.
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by flir 2y ago
Assuming that behaviour is intolerance: Yup. It's a peace treaty. Break the peace treaty, and you no longer benefit from the peace treaty.
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by flir 2y ago
Interesting position. I wonder if another country could just force Musk to divest himself of Twitter in the same way. Could solve a lot of headaches that way. Maybe the EU could force the issue.
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by flir 2y ago
In my experience the chatbots have bumped transcription accuracy quite a bit. (Of course, it's possible I just don't have access to the best-in-class OCR software I should be comparing against). (I always go over the transcript by
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by flir 2y ago
Dammit. Unchecked geocentric model privilege, sorry about that.
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by flir 2y ago
Personally I'm not trying to block the bots, I'm trying to avoid the bandwidth bill. I've recently blocked everything that isn't offering a user agent. If it had only pulled text I probably wouldn't have cared, but
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by flir 2y ago
In the UK, the Computer Misuse Act applies if: * There is knowledge that the intended access was unauthorised * There is an intention to secure access to any program or data held in a computer I imagine US law has similar definitions of una
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by flir 2y ago
How's it worse for me, personally, to give up PII to Tik Tok as opposed to - well, all the US-owned equivalents.
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by flir 2y ago
"I'm not lazy, I'm efficient" - Heinlein
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by flir 2y ago
Oh . That brings so much into perspective. They wouldn't cannibalize their own sales, so someone else did. Classic. How deeply Kodak of them.
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by flir 2y ago
But with no app store. (As a programmer, I never in a billion years would have invented the app store. Yet it was the most important component of the iphone ecosystem).
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by flir 2y ago
> I would instead expect them to use the tool they normally use for accessibility. Yes, that was my second thought. But I'd rather ask someone than rely on my assumptions.
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by flir 2y ago
I was just thinking about automatically slapping an mp3 on every blog post, just an accessibility nicety. Can someone with low vision tell me if this would be useful to them? It may be that specialist tools already do this better.
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by flir 2y ago
I think, if someone's going to gamble anyway, gambling competently is better than gambling poorly. (Am I stretching this analogy too far?) Entrepreneurship may not be for you (or me), but there are people who find it a deeply satisfyin
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by flir 2y ago
It was for him. It wouldn't have been for me, hence the caveat. Different people have different goals.
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by flir 2y ago
Good thoughts. But I don't buy it; Capitalism eats everything . Che Guevara t-shirts are the ur-example, but it took capitalism about 15 minutes to turn grunge from a bunch of kids hanging out in Seattle basements to worldwide catwalk
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by flir 2y ago
And I've seen people succeed (admittedly by spending every spare minute devoting themselves to the pursuit of money). Can we agree that it is, at core, gambling? Like spending all your disposable income on lottery tickets?
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by flir 2y ago
Me either. I think that's possibly a self-serving guess, to be honest. But how would we test it? On the comedians question: some people think it's because it's easier to be funny when kicking up than kicking down.
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by flir 2y ago
BoingBoing is still very much made in Doctorow's image. Michael Moore is an earlier example. Not suggesting equivalence, in fact I would be really interested to hear theories as to why right-wing polemicists are so much more popular (a
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by flir 2y ago
The advice (in the post you're replying to) isn't bad. But you can do it all, and still not have lightning strike.
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by flir 2y ago
> I think the word “woke” means very different things to some people. Before that it was "social justice warrior", before that it was "political correctness". It's just a drumbeat of demonization. https:/&#
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by flir 2y ago
LLM's tend to write classic "what, not why" comments/commit messages. The idea of the LLM interrogating the programmer for the "why" is interesting, though. Or maybe reading the ticket? (That might just be movi
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by flir 2y ago
That was fantastic on, like, eight different levels.
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by flir 2y ago
> least constructive comment I've seen on HN in quite some time But we should still archive it. Some day it might be useful to someone ;)
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by flir 2y ago
You mention the example of romance novels above. There's a schlocky Victorian pulp novel that's of no use to anyone - except that it happens to contain a fantastically detailed description of an abandoned saltings in my hometown
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by flir 2y ago
Everyone's 41% is different. Long tail, innit.

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