gremlinunderway

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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
lol what "commons" even exists nowadays? Everything is privatized or driven by small cliques/inner circles. There's no commons to exploit.
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
damn acronyms. I was genuinely excited to learn about more Exploratory Data Analysis tools.
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Is it really that "bold" of an assumption to make that most shell companies aren't mom and pop small businesses but rather just fronts for money laundering and tax evasion?
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Gotta say I'm surprised anyone interpreted the title literally but reading it again I get it (it is conceivable to somehow physically fit harddrives into a cassette).
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
It's not hyperbole when he listed multiple examples and issues which clearly highlight why he calls it that. I don't think there was anything hyperbolic or disrespectful in that post at all. If I was a maintainer there and someone
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
shrug it wasnt obvious to me. I'm glad someone explained.
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
it's not "bitching and moaning" to be concerned about the over collection and exploitation of surveillance capitalism.
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
uh huh, so are these so-called "woke social justice lunatics" you talk about in the room with you right now?
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
If you haven't already I'd recommend this blog post that was shared awhile ago by a devs experience building "Excel for Uber"[1]. Not sure if there's overlap here with their experience, but its an interesting read n
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
There's only value in them if whatever regulation thats governing them (GDPR, CCPA) is seen by the organization as enough of a punishment for non-compliance that they choose to respect opt-out rather than not. So, opting out of a sketc
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
>simply push their operations elsewhere, if not already. This is true of any regulation, and its sort of a tired trope. We don't make CP legal simply because its currently being pushed to regions with less regulation. Adding a hig
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
No. The answer isn't just individual action. Despite what the lolbertarians say, technology can and should be regulated. This is definitely one of those spaces that need more regulations like GDPR and CCPA. We've run this libertar
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
It should hopefully be a good highlight of some of the base absurdities that we accept as fact when it comes to "intellectual property" law.
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Good luck trying to explain "updating weights incrementally based on predicted next token probabilities" to completely non-technical lawyers and judges.
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
This is a pedantic and pointless distinction given the fact that the law regularly does in fact map IP addresses to people without additional forensic evidence. People are successfully convicted on the basis of an IP correlation to a device
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Hate to be the one to break it to you but there's no such thing as "apolitical" technology. Everything designed by humans has and always will have some kind of ideological or political underpinnings or context. Just closing y
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Honestly, this blog post reads just like really whiney culture war "pc culture has gone amok!" than an actual attempt at criticising academic history. Refusing to even engage in the slightest with the theories and methodologies an
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
I think you're being a bit pedantic here. Neurons also don't "respond" to specific input either. They can't speak or provide an answer to your input. These are all just abstract metaphors and analogies. Literally ev
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
"Innovation" through anti-trust isn't "killing it".
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Except the USSR 'ended up' with those people because they went towards Western-style capitalism, these werent Soviet nomenklatura who stole power by abusing Soviet bureacracy, these were post-Soviet, American-style "democrati
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
"we don't literally steal your data but we surveil you to harvest data from you like a skinner box."
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
You're actually on to a really important thing that IT depts misunderstand about Excel/VBA monstrosities. They exist because they work. You want UX or business analysis? You literally just got that done for you for free if you run
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Or we should be funding transit 100% from taxes because it's infrastructure that everyone benefits from (even drivers, because more transit, less other cars on the road). You know what would prevent all friction? Making it free and pro
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
when you click on "AI models" on the docs page it looks like they left docusaurus boilerplate in there. In fact, all of the pages under Train your model are also docusaurus boilerplate pages, lol https://docs.mazaal.ai&
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Thanks, I also misunderstood "in 3 years" meant forward-looking (i.e. "3 years from now...") rather than backward-looking ("for over 3 years...")
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Except you're forgetting about the issue of how to incorporate indigenous decision making on their traditional land. This law doesn't require any consent or permission with local indigenous peoples.
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
LOL, HN is owned by a major VC-funder, its not some grassroots hacker website.
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
This article really sucks at actually engaging with the really extraordinarily interesting debate between Foucault and Chomssky. I mean, even the introduction is a giant leap of logic (the premise that Chomsky was refering to Foucault as an
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
For whatever it's worth, this is interesting as someone who (a) wants to learn to build UIs, (b) doesn't care about getting a front-end job (so I don't care about learning React or whatever to get me a job) and (c) absolutely
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
You can't really have a "mistake" unless there's an authoritative source and standard that everyone agrees to use. Language evolves with use, and being really passionate about an idealized standard in your head doesn&#x2

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