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by gond 1y ago
> and most site operators care about focusing on their actual business rather than compliance, And that is exactly the point. Thank you. What is encoded as compliance in your example is actually the user experience. They off-loaded respo
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by gond 1y ago
Interesting framing. If you continue this line of thought, it will end up in a philosophical argument about what kind of image of humanity one has. So your solution would be to always expect everybody to be the worst version of themselves?
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by gond 1y ago
No, the EU did not do that. Companies did that and thoughtless website owners, small and large, who decided that it is better to collect arbitrary data, even if they have no capacity to convert it into information. The solution to get rid o
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by gond 1y ago
“Increasing Success by Lowering Expectations” That is from Despair Inc. This was obviously meant to be funny by them, now it looks like the state of play.
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by gond 1y ago
Are you saying that if some person is making a mistake, is angry about making the mistake at all, that this person will just happily do the mistake again because being angry about one’s own mistake is such a beautiful state of mind? I am un
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by gond 1y ago
I think we won’t have to endure that again. Contrary to popular belief, the EU organs are able to learn. About half a year ago, I read statements of members which, if one would translate the political jargon, would amount to: “We haven’t fo
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Stop Killing Games(jeffgeerling.com)
182 points by gond 1y ago|144 comments
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by gond 1y ago
Thanks!
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by gond 1y ago
I wish this would be the solution. What I would like specifically for Linux are alternative desktop environments like the resurrected CDE. Themes don’t update well and are in my experience, sluggish.
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by gond 1y ago
>We had such a great era of design around 2006-2013 and then it all rapidly went incredibly dull since then. I agree with the huge disagreement. That 2006-2013 era was, in my opinion, horrendous and takes the second spot as an offender j
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by gond 1y ago
That is actually a feature. An UI should never be, under any circumstances, in line with a trend, fresh or different for the sake of being different. It should, however, be as invisible as possible. Being only functional is a compliment.
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by gond 1y ago
Disregarding the downvotes, I mean this as a serious question. From the liked article: “We don’t know an “algorithm” for this, and we can’t even begin to guess the required parameter budget or the training data needed.” Why not, at least t
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by gond 1y ago
> Just call them properties with unknown provenance. They would if it would be the correct designation, however, it is not. Emergence does not equal non-understanding or some spooky-hooky force coming from the unknown.Reductionism does n
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by gond 1y ago
Interesting. Is there a quantitative threshold to emergence anyone could point at with these smaller models? Tracing the thoughts of a large language model is probably the only way to be sure, or is it?
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by gond 1y ago
Ah. Not semantics, that is cybernetics and systems theory. As in your example: If a bunch of x in a jar leads to the jar tipping over, it is not emergent. That’s just cause and effect. Problem to start with is that the jar containing x is n
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by gond 1y ago
Not at all. Here is an analogy: A car is a system which brings you from point A to B. No part of the car can bring you from point A to B. Not the seats, the wheels, not the frame, not even the motor. If you put the motor on a table, it won
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by gond 1y ago
You approaching this the wrong way. What you are listing as disadvantages is, for the most part, the USP. For example, if you are in the target group, you buy it exactly because it does not uses AR glasses; If you are proficient, you are sl
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by gond 2y ago
Regarding missing features: Is anyone around here who has found an alternative to the original “quick launch toolbar”? I mean the ‘real’ one which was introduced in Windows 95 - up to Windows 8 (IIRC), which could be separated from the Task
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by gond 2y ago
>not to waste our lives talking about politics. In case you are an U.S. citizen, I wish you good luck living your life if everything around erodes. And before you ask, no, there is not a single bit of irony in this post, sadly.
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by gond 2y ago
This is a gold mine, too: https://www.unoptimal.com/automated-ragequit Love it! Now needed more than ever.
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by gond 2y ago
Interesting that you think to have the authority to tell others what “the real world” actually is. That doesn’t seem to work. Maybe you should try to get out of the technofacist mindset?
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by gond 2y ago
>Failure #5: “One by one, every bank that had initially responded positively changed their minds. Worse, not a single one of them would tell me why.[…] I never got a straight answer from any of the banks about why they changed their min
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by gond 2y ago
Have a look at these: bluesound, audiopro, bang-olufsen, denon. Depending on which software is in use for streaming operations, you could also use ‘standard’ WiFi-enabled speakers like something from KEF (LS50) or dynaudio. Just from top
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Dr. Russell Ackoff – Systems Thinking (2h)(youtube.com)
2 points by gond 2y ago|0 comments
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College students used Meta's smart glasses to dox people in real time(theverge.com)
15 points by gond 2y ago|3 comments
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by gond 2y ago
I made a mistake here, leading astray. It's second-order cybernetics, not second order systems theory. I melted the two in my head, reason is that (Social) Systems Theory according to Niklas Luhmann [1] incorporates several parts of se
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by gond 2y ago
Agreed. I wonder if this is still the aftermath of the chasm which resulted when ‘Marvin Minsky et al‚ disowned Cybernetics, took some parts out of it and gave it a shiny new name. Especially Systems Theory in its second manifestation (Matu
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by gond 2y ago
“Though this pheonomenon is often discussed, it doesn't seem to be named. Let's call it the strong version of Goodhart's law“ I wonder why the author called it that way when this seems to me clearly derived from Ross Ashby‘s
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by gond 2y ago
> you don't really care about what things look like anyway. That statement has no connection to the premise. There are multiple reasons to use an old screen besides the mentioned reason of not caring for x.
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by gond 2y ago
> DP is still missing HDMI features like ARC and CEC, which are important for TVs. ARC could also be considered as a bug, a hindrance, or both. ARC and its various implementations would not exist if the HDMI Forum would not be so fanatic

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