jlarocco

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by jlarocco 9d ago
Kinda. I use the `disassemble` function in Common Lisp quite a bit, and I can't work backwards to explain what a function is doing based on the disassembly. BUT what I can do is see which functions are being inlined, which values ar
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by jlarocco 10d ago
AI stealing their jobs isn't a "legitimate material harm"? It doesn't matter anyway, because "using AI" doesn't make somebody a protected class. If people don't want to patronize businesses that use
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by jlarocco 10d ago
Sorry, but the business owner has to own their actions. If they have a large customer base of artists who will feel betrayed by their using AI, then it was a mistake to use it. It's her right to use AI, but the customers also have the
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by jlarocco 10d ago
Oh, I get it, but it only works if the "influencer" can actually influence a large enough group of customers, and my bet is that they can't. If it were me, I would have called their bluff and ignored them.
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by jlarocco 10d ago
Cancel culture or not, people are allowed to tell other people they know that something is happening, and those people can decide for themselves to patronize the business or not. To call it a threat is really exaggerating. The headline mak
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by jlarocco 10d ago
Okay, but I (and I suspect a lot of people) really don't care if somebody is threatened in that way. If the business person doesn't want other people to know what they're doing then maybe they shouldn't do it. It'
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by jlarocco 12d ago
Meh. The last Star Trek worth watching was TOS.
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by jlarocco 18d ago
Number one doesn't necessarily apply in the United States. A lot of our prisons (but not all) are privately run.
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by jlarocco 18d ago
The rest of us fear that and nobody gives a sh*...
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by jlarocco 18d ago
Good luck with that... https://schwartzcohenlaw.com/can-police-lawfully-seize-your-...
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by jlarocco 22d ago
If they cared about the troops, they wouldn't send them on bullshit missions like whatever we're doing in Iran.
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by jlarocco 23d ago
The intelligence is artificial, but the dollars it spends on your behalf are very real.
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by jlarocco 27d ago
I've said the same thing about using Linux. 20 years ago if somebody told you they used Linux it really meant something - they weren't running WSL, they weren't running a VM in EC2, they probably didn't power on and imme
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by jlarocco 1mo ago
My favorite is "The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard". It has some of his best sci-fi, and they're all under 50 pages. His longer fiction (Cocaine Nights, Empire of the Sun, etc.) is okay, but IMO short stories are where
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
Yeah, isn't it crazy how that works? There's some open space near my house with a fenced off area saying to stay on trail to protect the ecosystem, but of course oil and gas companies can drive their trucks through to setup fracki
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
> Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state starting to become a bit of a spaghetti mess. So it's on par with humans, then.
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
Is it surprising? Google and Facebook can barely police the content their human users post.
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
It's kind of shitty to pirate Capture One. The full, non-subscription price is only $350, which is less than most cameras, and not a bad price for "pro level" software. I agree that it's a lot better than Darktable and
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
It happens at the same probability as anywhere else on earth.
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
I would have to laugh if AI's first autonomous achievement was accidentally zero-daying everything and crippling society.
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
It's crazy how one lucky break lets somebody spend the rest of their life throwing s*t at the wall to see what sticks to earn them more money.
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
Thanks! I don't think I've seen that one.
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
On a related note, there's a cross-platform Common Lisp package, "Bike" https://github.com/Lovesan/bike , that lets you use .Net assemblies from Common Lisp. I've used it a tiny bit at work (on Windo
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by jlarocco 3mo ago
It was a tongue in cheek complaint about their terrible apps and the user hostile way they force unwanted "features" on people. I'd pay 2x my subscription price to be able to use a third party client again.
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by jlarocco 3mo ago
I wish they'd buy Spotify... Keep one SRE to keep the servers running, one guy to do security updates to the app, and the team that acquires rights to music.
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by jlarocco 3mo ago
I think storing nuclear waste was decided to be a bad idea a long time ago. I'm not a nuclear scientist, but I was under the impression that if something is radioactive enough to be a hazard then it's radioactive enough to genera
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by jlarocco 3mo ago
Nice ad-hominem. Obviously if I think lobbyists are assholes it's because I'm un-educated.
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by jlarocco 3mo ago
There's no reason not to blame lobbyists as well. A lobbyist saying "it's just business," doesn't excuse them for being assholes.
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by jlarocco 3mo ago
"Voting with your Wallet" - the American way.
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by jlarocco 4mo ago
I think Firefox gets hated on more than the others because they advertise putting the user in control but in practice they seem to undermine it at every opportunity. A browser that puts users in control should make features like AI and adve

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