ipdashc

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by ipdashc 6d ago
> this would be a major issue even without 'the algorithm' and other such 'engagement' maximization efforts Thank you, I don't know why nobody else brings this up. The engagement algorithms certainly aren't
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by ipdashc 9d ago
I haven't really seen this, personally. Basically everyone I know is both at once. We acknowledge that it's really good at what it does and use it, but it's not enjoyable to use, and we end up dejected about the future of o
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by ipdashc 10d ago
The amount of downright hostile comments is insane. HN moment, I guess. Guys, I don't think he said "all the airlines need to drop what they're doing and start using my model". He's clearly just playing around with
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by ipdashc 10d ago
Yes, but the plane fits hundreds of passengers. Isn't that much obvious? Not to disagree that flying is very CO2 intensive, but it's not like the airline is burning fuel for fun. The passengers paid them to do it
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by ipdashc 10d ago
This looks like a pretty reasonable policy to me all things considered. And no, I'm no fan of Flock. But they do run security cameras for the cops, they can't just say go ahead, go wild on all our customers' cameras. The lawy
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by ipdashc 12d ago
I think it's pretty analogous to coding, honestly. When it comes to gaining true understanding of a piece of software, I still find today's models almost as useless as they were a year ago. They can write great code, they can ga
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by ipdashc 13d ago
Not sure how to word this, but it's been bugging me for a while: In a public consciousness sense, it feels like there's barely sci-fi at all these days, let alone the optimistic sort. Something is off about it in a way I can'
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by ipdashc 19d ago
Reading this was a relief, I've only got a hobbyist's knowledge of impedance matching in the electrical sense and felt like I was going crazy... Good to know I'm not alone
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by ipdashc 19d ago
Hm, it seems like it'd make sense to automate a script to send one small prompt at, say, 7 or 8am so that you get your reset around noon instead of having to wait until 5h or more into the workday. I never quite understood why they pic
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by ipdashc 21d ago
Sure, that's much more feasible, but there's no real point. We don't do this for any other kind of industrial infrastructure (except the kind that HAS to go in residential areas, like utility substations). It's like the
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by ipdashc 22d ago
> They should be underground (that’s not shockingly expensive at the scale we talk about) ... I'm not sure you realize the size of a modern hyperscale datacenter? They're pretty dang big. The amount of earthmoving to bury one w
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by ipdashc 22d ago
People in my area are complaining about data centers being built in rural fields and on former aluminum plant and power plant sites. The debate has become pretty detached from reality. What remains rooted in reality mostly comes down to ele
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by ipdashc 25d ago
Wow, greebling is a good metaphor for it that I never would have thought of. > "every pod has a machine" Everything you mentioned is annoying, but I think this one is the worst. I don't know why it loves slapping on meanin
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by ipdashc 25d ago
Yeah, I know, I agree with all this. I'm still saying that if your entire argument for the absolutely giant section of society that drives into cities for work, which includes the rich, the poor, the disabled, those with large families
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by ipdashc 25d ago
> Congestion pricing is one of the few policy ideas that's so overwhelmingly positive that even the people who try to argue against it end up strengthening the argument. Love it. > "What about all the people who need to driv
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by ipdashc 26d ago
I think that this is true to some extent, but that people often underestimate how much Discord and group chats get used compared to "traditional" (feels weird calling it that, in this context) social media.
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by ipdashc 27d ago
I feel like he is. VM breakouts are vastly rarer than kernel LPEs, aren't they?
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by ipdashc 27d ago
> I'd also be interested in seeing where you do and don't agree I agree that society more or less eventually needs to get to the sort of state you're describing, or at least something resembling it. It should be plainly
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by ipdashc 27d ago
> it's not actually obvious who's running these bots This is fascinating to me. It's a large enough phenomenon that it's affecting the entire Internet and yet nobody seems to know yet who's actually doing it. Whi
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by ipdashc 1mo ago
"Critiquing the current system" on its own is nearly useless. Literally everyone can do it. Yes, articulating a more workable system is hard, that's why it's actually meaningful.
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by ipdashc 1mo ago
Thank you, now this is a solid answer. I don't think I agree with everything in it entirely, but it's well written and certainly gives me a lot to think about.
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by ipdashc 1mo ago
Yes, we've all heard this a million times. I'm afraid you've still given zero actual solution or even anything approaching one. "A radical break" okay, a radical break from what? How? To do what differently?
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by ipdashc 1mo ago
> and it simply got replaced by more time on HackerNews and YouTube I don't disagree with you at all, but doesn't this go against what most people are claiming in this thread (that Meta products are uniquely engineered to be
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by ipdashc 1mo ago
> I just wish people being cynical would at least comment on possible solutions. This has been bugging me damn near every time people talk about this stuff. Any attempt to propose or even discuss a solution is met with an endless wave of
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by ipdashc 1mo ago
Fair enough. Thank you!
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by ipdashc 1mo ago
> GenP (Adobe) and Massgrave MAS (anything Microsoft) It's questionable whether those two companies care that much about piracy, they make most of their money off enterprise, right? For a while I heard it theorized that Adobe and
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by ipdashc 1mo ago
Looks dope, though I'm surprised, is Tailscale fine with their DERP servers being used by non-customers like this? (Yes, it's a Tailscale project, but doesn't require login.) I vaguely assumed there was an auth step before yo
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by ipdashc 1mo ago
> Today, though, almost everyone carries either a contactless credit card or a phone with an NFC wallet. I would pay $0.25 for access to a clean public toilet if I could swipe one of those instead of having to carry change. This is one o
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by ipdashc 1mo ago
I more or less just wrote "never say stuff like 'good insight' or 'you're right to push back', and avoid addressing me directly, just answer questions". I'm sure there's better ways to write it,
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by ipdashc 1mo ago
There is a wide gulf between not caring about your work at all and getting angry about it. Plenty of us care about our work and the projects we own, we want them to be solid and will stand up to defend them. None of that requires getting an

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