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by gentleman11 2y ago
The core issue is software freedom. Software, when it’s commercial, is something you basically give control of your hardware to and you have to trust that it won’t abuse that power. Or, you dont even use your own hardware, and you just send
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by gentleman11 2y ago
Yeah, they say programmers get paid that too, but not where I live
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by gentleman11 2y ago
You don’t need a high school degree for those jobs either. Hamlet and biology isn’t needed day to day at most workplaces
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by gentleman11 2y ago
If you say the problem is social class and poverty, and not having available role models to show how adult life actually works, you’ll get flamed and trolled. If you say the problem is racial issues, you’ll get upvotes. I’ll just sit here a
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by gentleman11 2y ago
It’s the opposite. Being contrarian is free karma, generally. The downvotes come from picking unpopular positions, whether you’re wright or wrong. I used to get downvoted a lot when talking to people about privacy, but now those sorts of po
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by gentleman11 3y ago
But then they take you over the data harvesting coals
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Make a good website; try to get graphic and Ux designers on board so it won’t be fugly; then contact people, one at a time, using personalized emails. They’ll agree to be on there. Eventually you’ll hit enough of a critical mass that people
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by gentleman11 3y ago
More likely that it will bury everyone else who isn’t spamming
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by gentleman11 3y ago
We’ll, that would help their agents afford rent I guess
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by gentleman11 3y ago
I’m not sure about that. It sounds like both to me. I read that some people use generated speech with strong accents to mask that it’s ai. But who knows in this case. Either way, it’s not very pleasant to listen to
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Good point
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by gentleman11 3y ago
And would killer a lot of birds too; in a national park no less
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Why do you think artists will be the ones to use ai to create art? Rather than big tech and clusters of corporate ais working together?
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by gentleman11 3y ago
A machine owned by a corporation is not a person. They don’t get the same rights as people
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Take Banff for instance: it’s in a national park and is legally restricted from growing much more. You could approve more building, but then more people would move in until prices were high again. The area is so appealing that no matter how
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Very interesting! Quick (but difficult) question: do you foresee there arising a reasonably reliable way to filter out the coming wave of ai spam? I’m told that half of Twitter is bots talking to each other at this point, and I’m sure this
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by gentleman11 3y ago
It’s almost like they hire exclusively for your ability to leetcode rather than trying to hire people who can produce software Maybe the ai teams were too busy keeping up to date with their tree reversals to read those textbooks on their ni
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by gentleman11 3y ago
I actually heard somebody say gcp was going to be shuttered, didn’t verify, and just assumed it wasn’t going to be around for long. Now I assume what I read was nonsense, but it’s worth noting how non-suspicious of it I was when I read it
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by gentleman11 3y ago
1. Train an ai on everyone’s data 2. Try to replace everyone, and their companies too, but do it quietly 3. Try to sell ai tools to make those companies dependent on you, until your super ai can replace them completely
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by gentleman11 3y ago
That’s true of all knowledge organizational structures though. Even with composition, you end up with hierarchies that later you might turn on their heads, and also, those structures might end up being cyclical. Paradigm shifts happen and s
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by gentleman11 3y ago
You can have encapsulation without oop. Polymorphism is the real benefit of oop imho
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Explain?
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Everyone here is so anti-copyright and pro piracy. What about independent filmmakers? Should film distribution be free so that they, like musicians, have to go on tour in person to make money from their films? And by the way, why does every
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Then again, Amazon likes to take open source projects and monetize them so cheaply via aws at scale that it drives the creators out of business. And authors need ip protection to keep some random Amazon like printing press company from stea
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by gentleman11 3y ago
MIPS is great. You can learn it in great depth and fully understand the whole microprocessor while compacting it into a single class. You can make your own adder and multiplier with logic gates. It’s a scope that you can actually master
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by gentleman11 3y ago
In the USA, anyone can be an engineer. All they require is the will to call themselves an engineer. (Except for a few specific types). Eg, customer service engineers are now a thing
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by gentleman11 3y ago
Wouldn’t that be interesting. Snatch up a privacy friendly analytics company and some forum plugins while they’re at it to help people more easily create non-creepy online communities using their tech The all in one solution for being a g
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by gentleman11 3y ago
I rather like standard notes, personally. I also enjoy obsidian
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by gentleman11 3y ago
I use fastmail because at the time it had calendar and contacts, and proton at the time didn’t. Otherwise I’d use proton for the extra privacy (Eg, company isn’t in Australia)
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by gentleman11 3y ago
The government is passing a law that says only company x make saws, due to various patents making it unrealistic to make your own design. They’re outlawing competition. Unless every relevant patent is opened up, this is extreme regulatory c

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