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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
Good for you. Over-enforcement absolutely needs to be penalized. One of my biggest weaknesses is refusing to let people get away with the kind of lazy thinking you encountered. Hands up if you’ve ever been told you can’t do something
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
Do I recognize the UI style here as being that cool, hacker, dark-mode, glowing aura text, rounded mono typeface style? Whoever came up with that motif and inadvertently coaxed fhe AI tools into copying it into ubiquity has had an enormous
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
In my experience it’s extremely difficult for a highly resourced corporate engineering team to get married to an open source project run by volunteers, consensus, or both. It is possible but you need to have a first class relationship with
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by gorgoiler 3mo ago
I’d not heard of this fallacy* but it makes perfect sense. Well executed human greeting is such a killer asset if you get it right. There’s a few million years of genetic programming inside us all that responds unreasonably positively t
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
It sounds like an interesting case study. Do these things get reported with a patch?: (a) add a new function that does regular expressions searching / matching with a resource checker (eg a timer); (b) write a local linter that report
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
Nuclear weapons… somewhat complicated to build and complicated to maintain, mass-produce, transport, smuggle, hide, and use. Models on the other hand are just software. You can download Fable / Mythos / Praxia / Concordicon
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
My favourite of these is. “If you feel jealous, talk about it, then we’ll figure something out” In which one of the children wants the other one’s cool toy so the parent’s response is to encourage them to ask for it to be shared. Except
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
Salem Mass represent whoop whoop! Been dropping mad gables — sorry, secondary mass — since 1668 for real yo. Check this witchin’ crib’s void rhythm: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_of_the_Seven_G... I
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
On the one hand you have a technology product that’s only relevant to rural consumers. Nine out of ten people have cable already. On the other hand your margins are amazing because all you do is fly little boxes over everyone’s heads launc
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
The press release itself is wildly implausible: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/social-media-to-be-banned... Native toolkits would use a modal window to make an important announcement. The window would not be
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
They ship every other (boreal!) summer, so more like this time next year.
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
But what about if: …the signature included the depth measured by the autofocus system across the image? …or a tiny stereo image was included to capture depth? …or a mini video in the ten seconds before and after the photo was taken? …and th
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
Yes but I don’t think the pig regime in Orwell’s Animal Farm really stayed true to the farm’s leftist roots :) Snowball did nothing wrong!
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
The big difference between left and right is that leftish politics are based on everyone being equal, and rightish politics accept that some are more equal than others. It’s not such a terrible tension to live with. We can have, say, equal
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
Haven’t we learned by now that software is a commodity, and that revenue only comes from unique products and services? On the one hand someone will subscribe $4.99 a month for TODO.app or calendar.com because they are paying for a solo dev
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
They’ve bought up all the RAM and GPUs… Is there an endgame where even this is considered overly complex? Instead of starving the competition by buying up all the compute, why not just buy up… all the money!? Hoover up as much investmen
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
Why do index funds follow the exact companies in the index itself? Is it simply a branding thing? I’m buying into S&P500 because S&P500 is a highly recognized term used to mean “The US Economy”? I feel that what this article is te
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
Outbound mail gets harder every year as opaque reputation systems flag mailer daemons as false spam positives. Inbound mail on the other hand — notably, the OG form of Internet identification — is very achievable for a stick in the mud to s
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
And you have to declare your accounts to border police prior to international travel.
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
I don’t disagree with you but it’s worth remembering your rights are very different onboard a crewed commercial vessel. As I understand it if a member of crew tells you to do something and you don’t do it, you’re in trouble.
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
I always like the axiom with crime that once X% of the population are violating a statute then it should probably struck off. Recreational drugs being the obvious example. If randomized canvas stuff was cracked down upon as a bot thing but
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
All software anneals into a final form that is incontrovertibly correct. Each of these OpenBSD rewrites feels like the realization of such a final form! Code is like a math proof: sketched first on a napkin, then on a blackboard, and then
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
If you are writing an integration test for some new and potentially bug-ridden code then you might opt to mock, say, the database connection. Doing so risks having to write so much database logic — with all the potential for getting that
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
One might make the same observations about software “bugginess” and complexity. The pace of improvement is such that everyone is riding the bleeding edge and, as such, the carpet inevitably gets a few spots of blood on it.
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
I was thinking about the situation where someone cheats and declares their property to be half as valuable as it actually sold for. They would then owe back taxes for all of those years when they declared it as $X when it ended up having a
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
I was indeed assuming that if you declared a value of $X but then sold N years later for $Y, then you pay N*(Y-X) in taxes. You are right to imply that it seems unfair if you discover in year 49 of your happy 50 year tenure that your Queens
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
What if the city lets you declare your chosen value without being able to force you to sell, but if you ever sell at a higher value then you owe back-taxes on the difference? And if the difference is more than X% then it’s fraud unless yo
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
What value do the big model makers provide other than having a head start on gathering up humanity’s IP to train their proprietary models? What’s their moat? Is it hoping for regulatory capture where scraping is made illegal the day after
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
”To bake an apple pie from scratch, first you must create the universe.” — Carl Sagan
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by gorgoiler 4mo ago
LAN parties?! Pfff, what we would’ve given for a LAN. When I were a lad we made do with a badly soldered RS232 cable and a copy of DOOM. The shareware WAD at that. It barely worked but we were ‘appy! …after Cleese et al.

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