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by jlarocco 1y ago
> I have about 6 devices with this problem, and I consider it unforgivable. If you still have them, you've forgiven it. Return them and complain about it, or the manufacturers have no way to tell it bothers you.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I think a more interesting question is: At what point can we give an AI agent $100, set it free on the internet, come back in a week, and it'll have $1000?
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Can't you say that about anything, though? And why would having a multi-mellenia history have anything to do with it? Do people really own land? Or is it just a legal fiction to make things easier? Is a contract really a thing? Or i
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I just don't trust the system any more. I bet somebody pulled strings and lobbied to get it certified, knowing it would be too broad and get defeated later, just so the AI companies can operate with impunity later. They'll point
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by jlarocco 1y ago
> it's probably even less likely we would've had just as much investment. I doubt it. Investors aren't going to just sit on money and let it lose value to inflation. On the other hand, you could claim non-AI companies wou
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by jlarocco 1y ago
How ridiculous. `mutool convert -o <some-txt-file-name.txt> -F text <somefile.pdf>` Disclaimer: I work at a company that generates and works with PDFs.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I think personality plays a big role. If it works for you, great! But living with a group of people sounds like hell to me. When I go home, I want to be alone and relax. I don't want to deal with other people's shit, and I don&
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by jlarocco 1y ago
> and facebook wasn't involved aside from providing such an SDK/backend service. I don't think that's the case. If Facebook used the data for advertising, they should have checked that it was legal to do so. I would
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I was once laid off in a group of about 50, and we were all invited to a conference room meeting to be laid off in-person by some higher up director, and a group of our managers. This was long before remote work was popular, and we were al
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by jlarocco 1y ago
LOL! Passed on to the AI company is more like it. Because their software never gets tired of giving you the run around, while actual people do.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
That's kind of neat. I had an idea for a macro that would search GitHub for functions with the desired name and use their implementation, but this is probably more predicatable.
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In some situations an iPhone can't even compete. For example in low light, or in the rain, or with wet hands, or for getting certain focus and bokeh effects. I love having a camera on my phone for the convenience, but when I want to t
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Well, is the free market going anywhere? Who's lost out at the end of the day? People who didn't understand the free market and lost access to these "free" services? Or people who knew what would happen and avoided the
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by jlarocco 1y ago
There's the possibility that some of the users of these sites voted for these laws and want the verification in place.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
IMO it's less Google's fault and more a crappy tech education problem. It wasn't a good idea to use shortened links in a citation in the first place, and somebody should have explained that to the authors. They didn't p
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I feel like a checked firearm has a very small chance of going missing, though.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I'm not sure what they were looking for, specifically, but snails can be bad news: https://bouldercolorado.gov/services/new-zealand-mudsnails
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by jlarocco 1y ago
It's killing the joy in everything else, so why not? At least we can all wait tables and sell crap at convenience stores when it takes over our jobs.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Sorry, but I just don't believe it when Google, Facebook and Microsoft are the major players in AI. It'd be the foxes protecting the hen house, to say the least.
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I think that argument is begging the question. Media consumption habits changed because that's how the internet was foisted on people - not necesarily because anybody made a choice or were asked what their preferences were. After 30 ye
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I don't see the problem. Pay for the ones that you find valuable and ignore the rest. Nobody needs, or is entitled to, everything.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
The web has been terrible for 20 years. Advertising killed it, not AI.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
There used to be, when new laptops were thousands of dollars, and it was easier to swap out parts and the batteries were removable. I learned a ton about Linux playing with Slackware on a $50 used laptop back in the mid 2000s. Not so sure
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by jlarocco 1y ago
When did Python go out of fashion? This is the second article I've seen talking about it as if it's some kind abomination. I get that it's not the shiny new thing, but I don't understand people hating on it. Is this ju
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Not everybody wants to install Go just to get an application.
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Did you hit a bug or security issue that's blocking you from using it?
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> $(dotnet publish) < https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/sing... > is the way they solve that problem in modern .net That may work now, but it didn't exist when AWS was s
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I don't understand why Windows people are completely okay having to install all kinds of crazy service packs and Visual C++ runtimes anytime they install anything, but then having to install Python seperately makes it a no-go.
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by jlarocco 1y ago
Python is a memory and typesafe language. Also, AWS is 10 years older than Rust, and C# only runs on Windows (at least it certainly only did when AWS was created, and is laughably more difficult to get running on Linux or OSX than Python).
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by jlarocco 1y ago
I don't understand the Python hate. What would they use instead? Python is installed on most systems and easy to install when it's not. Only Azure is dumb enough to bundle it, and that was a complaint in the bug - there's n

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