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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
Probably when it stops agreeing with me when I tell it that industrial quantities of garlic salt are an acceptable substitution for coco powder in a chocolate mousse recipe...
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
"reflexive anti AI luddite attitude" That's awfully reductive there, champ. Most critiques of AI are based on some combination of observed failings of the technology, observed failings of the tech industry writ large, and hea
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
"AI-based tutoring is going to raise the average level of education and literacy in the world" Without exception every claim made to date about tech boosting educational outcomes has been provably false. As in, adding tech to the
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
That's inaccurate, orbital periods are a thing at least for moons. It's one of those things you'd have to spend a year or two piloting an Orca to notice though.
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
If your primary mode of transportation is a bicycle and you're cheering shit that annoys and (critically) distracts motorists you might have a death wish.
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
While there are certainly more examples than either of us can count of shitty half-baked codebases claiming quality code has never existed is pretty wild. With humans it's at least something to be aspired to and occasionally even accom
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
You're in for a real treat when you find out how we got organ transplantation.
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
My patience with the pluralism argument evaporates instantly when the topic of discussion is services that are demonstrably harmful to both individuals and society at large. Trying to hide the tech industry at large and especially social me
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
That argument is on really shaky ground in an era of ubiquitous surveillance, social media, Amazon's retail extortion empire.
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
Automating a stamp mill that fed 50 families does not obviously correlate with human progress. I'm sure it's nice for an auto manufacturer's bottom line though.
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
When did killing someone else's livelihood stop being sociopathic?
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
Right and wrong. I am of a generation before common keyboard usage. As far as writers cramp goes, we all got it from time to time. At worst it was a minor nuisance compared to the skinned knees, bruises, and occasional broken bone that we r
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
"Automating agricultural labor brings vast material benefits for all since it lowers the cost of tangible goods needed for life" In point of fact a loaf of bread is not significantly cheaper now than it was 40 years ago. What has
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
Pretty much. Given the levels of investment in capital and research if AI companies actually hit what they're aiming at they'd have to collapse the labor market to recoup, bricking the economy in the process. Given the levels of o
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
I have absolutely no concern over a 20 yr old's ability to weather the rigors of manipulating a 7 gram pencil. It's not like we're talking about getting them to spend a week on a roofing crew or swap their gaming mouse for a
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
And yet strangely this hasn't proved a major impediment to the species at any point in the last ~5000 years...
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
I'm 50. Optimizing testing for speed is goofy. The point of the exercise is to demonstrate the student's understanding of the material, not their WPM.
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
Uh huh. Because python development is a fortress of stability and security... /s
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
Having coded back end projects in PHP, Perl, Python, and Node idk wtf folks who make comments like this are on about. Node took all of the worst aspects of JavaScript and spread them to back end development. Someone should have ended up on
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
I glanced at D.O the other day and was depressed to find they're reporting 400k active installs. I remember when that was 16M and growing. We're talking a loss of 97.5% of active sites. I'm betting the few that remain are mos
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
Oh that ship sailed over a decade ago. Industry appeasement is a big part of what killed Drupal.
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by forgetfreeman 3mo ago
I hope you live to be 90. :)
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by forgetfreeman 4mo ago
"Olds are some of the worst drivers on the road" A bold claim, let's see if accident statistics back it. "Drivers 65 to 74 account for 13.6% of licensed drivers, but represent only 7.6% of drivers in all crashes" &q
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by forgetfreeman 4mo ago
For the downvoters I lost a whole-ass F150 AND THE UTILITY TRAILER IT WAS TOWING behind the goddamn A-pillar on my wife's Sorento. This kind of shit wasn't possible in any of her prior station wagons or in any of the vans I'v
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by forgetfreeman 4mo ago
Or you know you could just veer entirely off-topic and turn this into some kind of ageist food fight. That's an option too I suppose.
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by forgetfreeman 4mo ago
Yeah and that's the other horn of the dilemma facing would-be truck owners right now. If I don't want to take on a 2nd mortgage payment for a vehicle that can only barely perform the tasks required of it (and that poorly) my other
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by forgetfreeman 4mo ago
Sounds utterly ridiculous I agree but there's something to be said for 60+ years of muscle memory, otherwise olds rocketing motorhomes off of cliffs or augering into the side of the local walmart would feature more prominently in the l
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by forgetfreeman 4mo ago
Oh don't I know it. I'm currently in the midst of a full blown temper tantrum over the Toyota Hilux being unavailable on the US market. I need an actual real truck for actual real truck shit and there's literally nothing on t
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by forgetfreeman 4mo ago
Better, actually. Visibility is way better in either of those than a giant-ass SUV.
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by forgetfreeman 4mo ago
You're going to have a hard time hiding the entire SUV and Light Duty truck market behind an airstream, especially considering neither have transmissions capable of hauling one. Statistically almost nobody tows anything. Of those that

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