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by imiric 1y ago
> My point is if we were to have sincere solidarity with Chinese people against the international ruling class we would look at our domestic members of that class first. I see your point, but disagree with it. Having solidarity with the
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by imiric 1y ago
Sadly, most people would rather allow someone else to tell them what to think and feel than make up their own mind. Plus, we're easily swayed if we're already sympathetic to their views, or even their persona. It's no wonder
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by imiric 1y ago
That's whataboutism at its purest. It's perfectly possible to criticize any government, whether your own or foreign. Claiming that every criticism is tantamount to racism is what's distracting from discussing actual problems.
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Fre – Command line frecency tracking(github.com)
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by imiric 1y ago
A clickbait, and wrong, title, for an otherwise interesting article. I could do without the cutesy tone and anime, though. You shouldn't parse HTML with regex. XML and strict XHTML are a different matter, since their structure is m
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by imiric 1y ago
Politics in the workplace is exhausting. I refuse to play these games, which is probably to my own detriment. I shouldn't need to promote and sell my ideas to anyone. I'm paid to provide my skills and ideas, and if the people arou
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by imiric 1y ago
> But you have to imagine what it must sound like from the perspective of a PM or EM. Itd be like my PM saying “I spent the last month organizing all eng docs to be properly formatted with bullet points.” If your managers think that, and
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by imiric 1y ago
Ugh, you're exhausting. Look, here's a program: print "Hello" Do you see any warts in it? No? Well, my point is that the likelihood of a program developing warts is partly related to its complexity. That's it
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by imiric 1y ago
I think you're misunderstanding what a "wart" is. None of those examples are warts. They're the way those programs work, which you can easily understand by reading their documentation. Your point about `cat` is an exampl
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by imiric 1y ago
"AI" tools can be very powerful once you approach them as what they are: very good pattern matchers and generators. This ability far surpasses anything a human could do. Detecting potential issues in software is a great applicatio
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by imiric 1y ago
I agree with the article's premise, but would add one thing: warts might be a sign that the software is too flexible, and/or is doing too many things. For programming languages and databases this, of course, doesn't apply, si
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by imiric 1y ago
I think you're conflating warts with bugs. The point of the article is that warts are subjective. What one person considers unwanted behavior, another might see it as a feature. They are a testament to the software's flexibility,
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by imiric 1y ago
> Immich is AGPL-licensed and doesn't have a CLA, which makes it functionally impossible for us to do any kind of rugpull. More difficult, perhaps, but certainly not impossible. And there are many other ways the software can be func
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by imiric 1y ago
Kudos to the team! It looks like a really polished product. I've been wanting to set it up at home for a while now, but I have some reservations... This type of fully featured open source software that competes with a service by a gian
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by imiric 1y ago
Oh, it's going to be "free" alright, in the same way that most web services are today. I.e., you will pay for it with your data and attention. The only difference is that the advertising will be much more insidious and manipu
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by imiric 1y ago
There's something deeply hypocritical about a blog that criticizes the "SaaS Industrial Complex"[1], while at the same time praising one of the biggest SaaS in existence, while also promoting their own "AI-first" st
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by imiric 1y ago
I can't tell anymore if comments like this are sarcastic or not.
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by imiric 1y ago
No joke—out of all tech products announced in the last ~year, that wristband is what excites me the most.
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by imiric 1y ago
This is interesting. Is it hypervisor-agnostic? Ideally, I would like to use something like this without being forced to use a specific file system. This is essentially what qcow2 does, and it's a shame that it's not supported by
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by imiric 1y ago
I actually don't mind that. It allows me to choose the pasta-sauce ratio in every bite. The taste difference from when pasta is soaked in sauce is negligible IME. Plus, I freeze my sauce separately from the pasta. Freezing pasta and th
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by imiric 1y ago
Ugh. I miss Encarta.
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by imiric 1y ago
> We need better journalism, not better summarizing aggregators. I agree, but how do you envision that happening? Journalism died a long time ago, arguably around the birth of the 24-hour news cycle, and it was further buried by social m
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by imiric 1y ago
What journalism? Most of these sites copy their content from each other or social media, and give it their own spin. Nowadays most of them use AI anyway. Actual journalism doesn't rely on advertising, and is subscription based. Anyone
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That's a fair concern, and I would prefer it if they scraped the sites instead. They could balance this out by favoring content from sites that do provide the entire article in their feeds, but that could lead to bias problems. Maybe t
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by imiric 1y ago
I'm firmly on the side of "AI" skepticism, but even I have to admit that this is a very good use of the tech. LLMs generally do a great job at summarizing text, which is essentially what this is. The sources could be statical
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by imiric 1y ago
I've been using this since the beta launch, and I really like it. They're spot on about news being broken. That said, I do think the service could be improved. Often the summary is a very short blurb that forces me to go to one of
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by imiric 1y ago
I'm not sure why you're only focusing on speech. "True threats" doesn't come close to covering all the possible use cases and ways that "AI" tools can be harmful to society. We can't apply legal prece
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by imiric 1y ago
> Add in the narrow exceptions like child porn and true threats, and that's it. You're contradicting yourself. On the one hand you're saying that governments shouldn't have the power to define "safety", but
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by imiric 1y ago
The only thing it exercises is the ability of the model to recall its pelican-on-bicycle and other SVG training data.
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by imiric 1y ago
> If you are breaking something up for "long" and "short" you're optimizing for the wrong thing. You don't care about code being short for its own sake or long for its own sake right? You're misundersta

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