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by fyredge 4mo ago
I hope we're still talking about homosexuality, because you can have support for gay people without being gay. There were more than just black people who protested against what happened to George Floyd. You can absolutely have empathy
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by fyredge 4mo ago
Then I'm disappointed that you would think that way. Change is the only constant, in people, in societies, in politics. Change can be spontaneous, but more of then than not, it is slow, gradual, boring, but still change nonetheless. Wo
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by fyredge 4mo ago
Right, and therefore we regulate them
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by fyredge 4mo ago
Yes, because the zeitgeist still changes regardless of enforcement. If all gay people were sentenced purely for their sexuality and nothing else, how long do you think it will take for ordinary folk to change their view? I reckon not long,
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by fyredge 4mo ago
And they absolutely should not scale. Scaling is the root cause of all social media ills. If all you see are the 100 people nearest to you, the village idiot will not be able to spread his gospel so easily
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by fyredge 4mo ago
This is hauntingly reminiscent of the gun law argument in US: The government shouldn't infringe on my right to bear arms, mass shooting is a mental health issue anyways, oh but we can't really fund mental health support because my
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by fyredge 4mo ago
Seems to me that a single database does reduce maintenance burden, just at the cost of higher risk of failure. The trade off should be for the architect to decide.
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by fyredge 4mo ago
There is something to be said about the qualia of LLM generated passages. Each individual sentence reads as a statement and every next statement a continuation of the previous one. This happened, then this happened... Ad infinitum. Before t
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by fyredge 4mo ago
To discourage rent seeking behaviour?
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by fyredge 4mo ago
> Spend the budget or next time people will ask why you need all that money when you didn't spend it last time. I've always heard of this nugget of wisdom but never really understood it. By punishing those who underspend (by ma
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by fyredge 4mo ago
That's the nature of research. You try every idea that may be a good avenue and only a handful work out, if at all. That's why quantifying research credibility via publication and citation counts inherently lead to toxic work cult
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by fyredge 4mo ago
If income stream is the metric, then I don't see why 'real' income stream can't be used to evaluate the value of the building instead of the last transaction. If the building sits at half occupancy, then the income strea
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by fyredge 4mo ago
As bad as the whole Iran situation has been, I'm glad that there are still rational actors pushing back within the military. If Trump had his way completely, I wouldn't put off the chance of an offensive nuke being used.
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by fyredge 4mo ago
Isn't that better? For one, they're connected to peers they have physically met. Additionally, they won't be exposed to strangers or ads that warp their world view. I still believe that the government should ban unsolicited a
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by fyredge 4mo ago
Reading the comments here is an exercise of patience. Why are we so uncreative of solutions to high rent? Let's just do away with regular renting. Either provide the full service of a serviced apartment, or provide a rent-to-own scheme
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by fyredge 5mo ago
Definitely, and both are also a lot better than starting with none. At the end of the day, I'm not asking for perfect, I'm asking for best effort.
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by fyredge 5mo ago
Then table a bill to remove that legislation, that is entirely possible. The point being that all legislation have consequences, but it is better to move forward with the best step we could take than to stand still and do nothing. Just as t
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by fyredge 5mo ago
The reason is open standard. Obsidian uses markdown, that's it. No proprietary database, no fancy algorithm, no locked in platform, just a convenient way to manage your notes (jesus, that sounded like AI). You can realistically do it
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by fyredge 5mo ago
Unintended consequences is the price of progress. The alternative is to continue farming by hand, and carry after from the river for your daily needs. We legislate away unintended consequences, that is the job of government. We put in laws
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by fyredge 5mo ago
My take is that I can never be confident that anything an LLM produce will not be broken. Since I will have to check everything it produces anyways, why not write it in a human friendly language, i.e. python? C and rust may have better stri
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by fyredge 5mo ago
> recreationally employed It is one of my greatest hope for everyone to be able to achieve this. It would shift the workplace dynamic so much that employers would have to work harder (beyond pizza parties) to retain employees since no on
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by fyredge 6mo ago
I think you are coming at this with very different priorities. For most people, installing tool chains is a one time job, that they can grit their teeth through if it works well for them. No one wants to constantly install or reinstall and
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by fyredge 6mo ago
Agreed, and to that point, the way to produce such outputs is to absorb a large corpus of words and find the most likely prediction that mimics the written language. By virtue of the sheer amount of text it learns from, would you say that t
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by fyredge 6mo ago
> Thinking of it as an averaging devoid of meaning is not really correct. To me, this sentence contradicts the sentence before it. What would you say neural networks are then? Conscious?
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by fyredge 6mo ago
That still does not satisfactorily answer the question though, why don't they just sign a purchase order with N month lead time? That still gives a well defined price ahead of time.
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by fyredge 6mo ago
> They've turned the cottage industry of malicious hacking into a multi-billion-dollar enterprise Thank you for this insight! Crypto truly is the financialization of crime.
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by fyredge 6mo ago
I won't undersell the efforts professionals need to acquire their skills, but I also stand by my view that a clearly defined progression makes life a lot easier to navigate. It's why quests are fundamental in RPGs and uncertainty
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by fyredge 6mo ago
Yes? Insofar as a career path. You go to a good school, get a good degree and be almost guaranteed a good pay with known career progression. It's not like entrepreneurship, where you can't see the path ahead of you. Think video ga
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by fyredge 6mo ago
> because their website was not showing me a button the support scripts said should be there. At that point, it's effectively a phone tree executed by a human. Colloquially, human-based support means getting a hold of someone who kn
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by fyredge 6mo ago
Would you want Americans to take Trump down yourselves, or would rather China come and take him down for you? Iranians have as much agency as Americans do. Denying them that never ends well.

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