ghusto

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by ghusto 5mo ago
Labels are how brains work, but they carry the inherent danger of eventually leading to lazy thinking. Usage must periodically be checked. I don't see how this is exactly enshittification from the original definition of the word.
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by ghusto 5mo ago
I have, so who's right?
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by ghusto 5mo ago
Disallowing copying and sharing of art is a recent development in human history, not the norm. The normal distribution of music and stories was for others to repeat them, and only recently have we decided it's illegal. I understand tha
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by ghusto 5mo ago
The theory doesn't make sense. If the only traffic is from Google itself, the content maker would have to think to themselves "I have some spare time, I think I'll make some content for Google to consume". What?
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by ghusto 5mo ago
TL;DR to save you time: 1. GenAI companies are making a loss in order to gain adoption and later lock-in 2. ??? 3. They're going to cash-in soon and start milking you now that business critical systems rely on GenAI The "???"
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by ghusto 5mo ago
Either is acceptable: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-... Also, a comma is a pause — and what a wonderful thing — whilst an emdash is a tangent.
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by ghusto 5mo ago
I remember when the "AI feeding AI" issue was raised some time ago, we were told that OpenAI and co were "doing something about it. I've heard nothing since then though. What was/is being done about it?
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by ghusto 5mo ago
> I subconsciously tell myself 'If I just used Linux, I could be like them!'. Your intuition was right. Learning to fix issues in Linux gives you long-term transferable valuable skills in troubleshooting and far-reaching knowle
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by ghusto 5mo ago
Emdash separates, hyphen concatonates, endash is the one that seems superfluous. Emdash is actually what people mean a lot of the time when they use parenthesis.
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by ghusto 5mo ago
Well written and proper usage of punctuation? No human could possibly write like that! No, all human beings write like 5 year olds!
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by ghusto 5mo ago
I too realised that the films just aren't very good on re-watching them as an adult. The new films are not good in a different way though. There was never even an attempt at a cohesive story, let alone a single vision for the sequels.
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by ghusto 5mo ago
It isn't, at least for me. I choose between GUI and terminal apps based on which one is easies. Sometimes the "easy" option really isn't easy at all.
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by ghusto 5mo ago
You're right. This excuses everything Russia is doing.
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by ghusto 5mo ago
In troubleshooting, "It's always DNS" has become "If it's not DNS, it's IPv6". I don't even try to fix it. If I disable IPv6 and everything starts working, I move on.
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by ghusto 6mo ago
> and at worst it was commercially unworkable ("Welcome changing requirements, even late in development") It's been workable for me. We can change the requirements as late as you like, because I'm getting paid by the
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by ghusto 7mo ago
That really isn't his gripe. In fact near the end he describes would have been a good direction for starting fresh. His pain is that it's been 17 years and some basic core functionality is either still broken or entirely missing.
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by ghusto 7mo ago
The developer response is more what I would describe as entitled, rather than the user complaints: > Regardless, I simply don’t give a shit about you anymore. > > We’ve sacrificed our spare time to build this for you for free. If
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by ghusto 7mo ago
> the system was more likely to correctly identify men than women and it was “statistically significantly more likely to correctly identify black participants than participants from other ethnic groups”. I am genuinely unsure what's
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by ghusto 7mo ago
I wouldn't choose those words, but a 3% increase of something that's been steadily in decline is significant enough to warrant hyperbole of some kind.
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by ghusto 7mo ago
> It's on the way out, though it'll be a slow death At the very most, it's on its way out in the same way normal computers are on their way out for non-IT professionals. There are situations where wired is a must, not a pr
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by ghusto 7mo ago
The moment Trump said he'd like to have a say in the next _Ayatollah_, was when the knife went it. Listen, we know you weren't in it because you're such a swell guy, we're not stupid. But now we don't even get what
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by ghusto 7mo ago
It's the Guardian. Not exactly known for it's unbiased and objective reporting.
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by ghusto 7mo ago
I both agree with the sentiment, and believe it won't happen because the USA is past the point of no return. I mean this with no direspect or cynisism, and hope I'm wrong, but I think that country has rotted too much for saving. Y
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by ghusto 8mo ago
Hopefully. Everyone copied Apple without pausing to consider; "hey, does this make things _less_ usable?". Hint: yes, yes it does.
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by ghusto 8mo ago
> It's not a "grammatical technicality" to misuse a word. Iran is not carrying out a genocide. 10,000 dead in 2 days. > The US is under no obligation to the people of Iran whatsoever Nobody can make you do anything, but
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by ghusto 8mo ago
I don't think people feel entitled to free entertainment, they're just tired of being so badly ripped off. It used to be that you'd pay one company a little extra, and get all the extra channels you actually wanted. Now you p
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by ghusto 8mo ago
If that's sarcasm, it's British levels of dry.
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by ghusto 8mo ago
> "Genocidal" is not an order of magnitude; it's a description of purpose. What's going on in Iran is an atrocity, but it's not "genocidal." Oh, well that's alright then. Hey fellers, we got off on
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by ghusto 8mo ago
Talk to some Iranians. We would _welcome_ "imperialist" intervention. The black and white "west is bad" narrative you're being fed isn't accurate.
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by ghusto 8mo ago
What can we do about it? Genuinely want to know your thoughts. I'm in agreement with everything he says, but I've struggled to see eye to eye with anyone not in my age group. How can we have a constructive conversation about this,

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