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by gwerbin 7mo ago
Git leaks a lot of implementation details into its UX. Rebasing is meant to be equivalent to checking out the "base" branch and cherry picking commits onto it. Therefore "ours" during a rebase is the base branch. The mea
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
I am very impressed. Kagi manages to maintain Google-par quality or better most of the time, whereas DDG became an unusable slop pit a few years ago. I'm a very happy customer and happy to keep paying for both Kagi and Orion, in part
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
> And billions of dollars in influencers, interest groups and activists. Elon Musk is singularly as wealthy as the Mormon Church. Art and music narratives. You're arguing against yourself. Musk has a clear political allegiance. Same
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
In practice, there will only be one or two "safe" AI vendors approved for such infrastructure. On one hand, that's probably a good thing. On the other hand, it's deeply anti-competitive and it's pretty much a recipe
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
You claim it's nonsense, I claim it's been the reality in the United States for decades, and only becoming more true every year. You can choose to confront the evidence before you, or continue to live in willful ignorance, but the
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
It's not just "small business". If the barriers to entry are high enough, you can keep out pretty much any company that isn't already part of your oligopoly, pretty much indefinitely. That could be anything from a well f
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
The whole point of the manufacturing consent propaganda model is that you don't need some vast conspiracy, you just need industry consolidation and the leaders of those consolidated industries to either be willingly part of the conspir
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
Yes, it's the classic "both sides" myth. It is promulgated in order to manufacture consent for doing the thing that "both sides" are supposedly already doing.
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
> Strict limits on governmental regulation wherein any restrictions must be demonstrably necessary and narrowly tailored to a compelling public safety or health interest. > Mandatory safety protocols for AI-controlled critical infrast
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
Out of curiosity how do you authenticate yourself with government services and finance companies and such? The reason the SSN is considered private is because it's used for authentication. Usually an SSN + one or two pieces of triviall
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
The frog has been boiled.
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
Wasn't Meta caught using pirate book databases for their training data? No decision maker of importance at any of these companies gives a whiff of a fart about data privacy beyond the bare minimum required by the letter of the law, and
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
You'd have to deal with all of the binding arbitration agreements first. That said, class action lawsuits also are part of the cost of business. Nothing is ever going to change unless the boards of directors (not CEOs) can be held lia
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
> And you won't even show me the product I'm buying? They'd rather rent to someone who is desperate enough to rent without seeing it. It's not that they don't want money, it's that they don't want your
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
> This particular treatment seems like it would stimulate immune response all the time which doesn’t strike me as a good thing. I may stick to a multivitamin for now. They're going to say it's "safe", and only the cra
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by gwerbin 7mo ago
This "world model" concept has been a big deal in AI research, in LLMs.
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by gwerbin 8mo ago
> if you assert ownership over physical infrastructure, the data centers just move to another country or eventually to space. This is the same false threat that gets repeated over and over whenever anyone tries to regulate or tax anythin
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by gwerbin 8mo ago
None of this matters if you're literally sending sensitive data to someone else's server.
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by gwerbin 8mo ago
Yeah I don't agree with this at all. I want the light when I'm getting up in the morning. When I'm coming home from work it's the end of the day: I'm tired, I'm hustling home to do errands or chores or make di
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by gwerbin 8mo ago
That doesn't make sense to me. I don't need to "engage" daily with MSF to feel like my donation is valuable. I can go days or weeks at a time without using or even thinking much about the Internet Archive, Wikipedia, or
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by gwerbin 8mo ago
That's the same kind of non-balance you see in human-authored news all the time, to be fair.
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by gwerbin 8mo ago
Why chase engagement? If policy is slow-moving then people can visit weekly. Or make an RSS feed. Unless you're planning to go ad monetized or worse...
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by gwerbin 8mo ago
Right, but my point is that the people who vote for leopards eating faces in the first place aren't thinking critically about the leopard ended up eating their face. Conservatives are angry at Trump specifically, and they are completel
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by gwerbin 8mo ago
This is too naive. A lot of voters were eager and happy to vote for hurting other people on the premise that it was somehow going to turn into personal benefit. They are only now upset because it turns out they're being hurt too. An
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by gwerbin 8mo ago
It's more about loyalty than about any particular dollar amount. It's a tribute moreso than a bribe.
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by gwerbin 8mo ago
I feel the same way about this as I feel about Trump himself. Nobody should be surprised or disappointed, you shouldn't have expected any different.
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by gwerbin 8mo ago
> We had a team boasting "we used Amazon Q to increase our projects' unit test coverage" Well are the tests good or no? Did it help the work get done faster or more thoroughly than without? > how he uses Cursor as some
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by gwerbin 8mo ago
We were messing around at work last week building an AI agent that was supposed to only respond with JSON data. GPT and Sonnet more or less what we wanted, but Gemma insisted on giving us a Python code snippet.
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I have a feeling nobody is paying particularly close attention to capturing usable energy from this process
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Update: I made a silly math mistake. That's $9 profit per shirt. So if you make 100 shirts but only sell 50 and burn the rest, that's $450 profit. You make $4.50 per shirt manufactured. Stated another way: you can total up the man

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