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by hedora 4mo ago
I don’t get it either. I think it is a combination of the two party system, and short attention span / tribalism. Look at the California primaries. In every race I can name, the right wing (like funded by the same people as Trump lev
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by hedora 4mo ago
I challenge you to find a single example anywhere on earth where redistribution of foreign tax revenue significantly improved the economic standing of the existing general population.
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by hedora 4mo ago
Your point is that the rhetoric of the late 1800s running into WWII was, by far, the worst thing that happened during that time period, just like now? I emphatically disagree. However, there was widespread vilification of cephalopods on a
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by hedora 4mo ago
KMFDMs latest album cover is spot on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_(KMFDM_album) (Judging from the lyrics, there’s a reason they went with orange.)
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by hedora 4mo ago
Apple has started adding ads to iOS (e.g. maps), just like Microsoft. I guarantee you Google will start letting people pay to influence the output of the Gemini models once they figure out how to do it.
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by hedora 4mo ago
This is the most likely explanation. Apple manufacturers some of the best inference silicon on earth. Apache licensed models are already 1000x smarter than siri and strongly outperform anthropic, openai and google in the 8-128GiB of RAM r
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by hedora 4mo ago
I constantly have trouble with VLC (long standing bugs, where it gets confused and fails to play audio after dvd menu clicks, etc). I’ve had mixed luck getting llm’s to configure mpv (which involved writing lua or something for basic functi
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by hedora 4mo ago
I think this is going to finally bring about the year of the open source desktop. I’ll happily install that if I can see the source code, read it all in a sitting, and it is not terrible. (Note that, in this model, if I want to futz with ke
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by hedora 4mo ago
I strongly recommend going this route (speaking from experience). It is shockingly easy to build an opinionated UI for these things in a web browser. You need to implement m3u generation (or use a js web player), and some sort of hierarchi
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by hedora 4mo ago
I had an OO perl replacement for iTunes back in the day (to learn OO perl, mostly). It had a web frontend, and also handled ripping and cd metadata with “insert disk, up arrow enter”. It failed to eject the disk iff there was a problem wi
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by hedora 4mo ago
You probably need to tell it to rip as many of those out as possible (and replace them with null annotations). I've noticed LLMs sometimes pick a documented anti-pattern (passing Optional around in Java is not recommended), then amplif
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by hedora 4mo ago
I've done thus a few times for stuff in the < 10,000 LOC space. It works great. There's something particularly satisfying about shipping a 1-10MB static rust binary instead of a 2GiB docker python environment. (I'm talkin
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by hedora 4mo ago
They clearly mean the first definition. Ever since the Trump admin got editorial influence at the BBC, the remaining reporters have to be very careful to fly under the radar, or they will lose their jobs like their former colleagues did. R
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by hedora 4mo ago
Twitter was similarly bad. A better heuristic is market share. We should reintroduce media ownership rules that cap audience share to something < 10% per distribution channel. Meta, Disney, Paramount, etc should not exist.
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by hedora 4mo ago
Or, buy a bluray player, then find a library.
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by hedora 4mo ago
My bar for "is it social media?" is "is the sole benefit network effects?" Now that GitHub's availability has hit one 9, I consider it just a social network. Any code I put there is just for marketing. Real work s
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by hedora 4mo ago
billions; 30%. (His approval rating is finally starting to drop below the historic floor).
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by hedora 4mo ago
That incident was definitely ahead of its time, but before that, targeted ads for scams were propping the industry up. For instance, Experian used to spend $$$ to funnel people into credit card scams -- one year, they stole our CC#, and I
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by hedora 4mo ago
That data is just unemployment. It doesn’t address real wages. Out here in California, I see headlines like “inflation hits 3.8%”, which seems right until I realize they mean YoY and not monthly, seasonally adjusted. I know the Trump admin
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by hedora 4mo ago
Yeah; it's one thing to get a kickback so you waste $75M of taxpayer dollars on coal export terminals in Oakland in 2026. It's quite another to do $75B in damage to Oakland in 20 years when climate change from the coal exports hit
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by hedora 4mo ago
It's hard to figure out if a device will work to spec offline. For instance, our home HVAC shipped with blatant firmware bugs that eat blower fans, lock up compressors, etc, but take a few years to do it and access to the hidden servic
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by hedora 4mo ago
There's a chapter in Simple Sabotage about how to undermine a white collar organization from the inside. One of the key tactics is to hold meetings that revisit decided upon points, and to invent unnecessary process / checking. S
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by hedora 4mo ago
I walked down that path for a few months. The more you constrain LLM's, the more underhanded they behave in order to produce something that satisfies all the constraints. Doing the above doesn't actually make the model smarter, s
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by hedora 4mo ago
What’s the problem? We’re committed to destroying livable human habitat for 100M’s to 1B’s of people via global warming. That’ll be less painful if there are fewer people. Lower populations should lead to lower emissions growth too.
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by hedora 5mo ago
Their military is at something like 66% the missile/drone capacity it was at when the war started, and the US is what? Out of patriots? They also now know they will beat the US in an all out conflict, which was unthinkable before this
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by hedora 5mo ago
I’ll just add that from 2016-2020, Trump perpetuated a zero interest rate policy despite the economy booming. Macroeconomics 101 says this will cause inflation on a few year delay, which is what happened, and Biden was also blamed for that.
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by hedora 5mo ago
Maybe as a percentage of their economy, but not in absolute dollars. Iran’s doing orders of magnitude more absolute economic damage to the west and its allies than vice versa. Even the drone strikes followed this math: The patriots were in
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by hedora 5mo ago
We have some exotic chicks the kids picked out, and 4 were going to die of brooder pneumonia. An LLM correctly diagnosed it, and figure out that we could treat them with Nutri-drench Sheep Supplement, since Tractor Supply was sold out of th
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by hedora 5mo ago
I do too, and pay $200/month, but anthropic’s margins on that revenue are negative. What’s the long term plan? Make it up on margin? 100% tariffs on Chinese open weight models? I don’t plan on pulling from my 401k for decades, so the
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by hedora 5mo ago
There's a really bad implicit assumption in there: Microsoft's scanners have solved the halting problem, so they can tell if a package update will ever flip to malicious mode, or has an intentionally inserted security hole in it.

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