gentooflux

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by gentooflux 8mo ago
There's a difference between buying groceries for your family and losing that same amount of money on a hand of poker.
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by gentooflux 9mo ago
I suppose I can't afford to become a "member" in order to read your article about it then.
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by gentooflux 9mo ago
The water from sewage might end up there after it's extracted and sanitized, but all the solids have to be disposed of too. Those solids, plus the leftover chemicals used to extract and sanitize the water, go to landfill.
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by gentooflux 9mo ago
AI is not humanity. Also many open source licenses have attribution clauses, which AI does not honor when it regurgitates.
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by gentooflux 9mo ago
That's not novel, it's still applying techniques it's already seen, just in a different platform. Moreover it has no way of knowing if it's approach is anywhere near idiomatic in that new platform.
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by gentooflux 9mo ago
It's a zero sum game. AI cannot innovate, it can only predictively generate code based on what it's already seen. If we get to a point where new code is mostly or only written by AI, nothing new emerges. No new libraries, no new t
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel, and then The C Book by Mike Banahan, Declan Brady and Mark Doran. No clue why those books in that order, but they both proved to be decent choices. Then I had a couple of jobs where I was given access
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
If it empirically works, then sure. If instead every single solution it provides beyond a few trivial lines falls somewhere between "just a little bit off" and "relies entirely on core library functionality that doesn't
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
LLMs generate the most likely code given the problem they're presented and everything they've been trained on, they don't actually understand how (or even if) it works. I only ever get away with that when I'm writing a p
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
I believe they're implying that there's an unhealthy amount of regulatory capture in favor of big tech
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
The German word for how complicated the tax code is is "die Steuerverfassungskomplexität"
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
I bet he knows how but still won't
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
RMS could have taken a photo of his screen, or done something cheeky like dump his screen to a padded ASCII text file and submitted that. Stick in the mud.
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
People are born naked, there's nothing inherently wrong with being naked unless there's something inherently wrong with being a person.
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
If a company intentionally spoiled my food out of spite I would sue them. If they did it to all of their customers that becomes class action. They cannot force their customers into a contract which would include allowing them to spoil your
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
"Officer, take that ugly man away, we don't want to have to look at him"
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
No one can force you to watch ads, they're your eyeballs. There will always be a solution to this problem; if it's in your domicile then no one can stop you from spending time coming up with solutions
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
You don't own the gas pump, and it isn't in your house.
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
Drm is one thing, taping construction paper over a screen is another. That contract would be unenforceable. Shit is dystopian lately, but you're being hyperbolic.
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
The lawsuit you described in the first question would be without merit. The class action lawsuit stemming from the second would be choc full of merit. If the fridge is in my house and hammers aren't banned yet then that fridge will no
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
Which economic system makes jobs not suck?
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by gentooflux 10mo ago
That would be a waste of money on the manufacturers part. It will always be possible to disable the screen
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by gentooflux 11mo ago
Writing a thing about things that aren't doing the thing isn't doing the thing unless the thing happens to be writing a thing about things that aren't doing the thing
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by gentooflux 1y ago
I tried extending this analogy to dry erase boards, and all I could come up with was MS Paint
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by gentooflux 1y ago
I just use blocklists in Unbound without having to bother with Pi-Hole. Nothing against Pi-Hole, I just find it easier long-term to maintain fewer services.
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by gentooflux 1y ago
Use tabs as a delimiter and it's not CSV anymore, that's TSV.
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by gentooflux 1y ago
You are pointing to the same low code/no code prototypes that I am, but you keep calling them MVPs for some reason. There's no "used to be better" here, there is good and bad software full stop.
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by gentooflux 1y ago
They leave out more wood than a camper would even think to take because they only need one bundle every day or two. The sort of person who would need to steal a whole season's worth of wood is less likely to have the means to transport
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by gentooflux 1y ago
That's a matter of scale. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_H...
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by gentooflux 1y ago
When that happens they're usually badly formatted too.

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