joquarky

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by joquarky 10mo ago
Wealth begets wealth in a positive feedback loop. How do we typically deal with positive feedback?
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by joquarky 10mo ago
Browsers need a "toggle scripts" button up with the back/reload buttons. Back in the 90s, I could hit the Esc key and stop all of the animations, allowing my ADHD brain to regain the focus needed to read the actual article.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
I'm not seeing it. If crypto has a resurgence, it will only be because wealthy people invest in it to enable shady behavior.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
Do this before you reach your 40s, because ageism will put a damper on your disposable income. I once had plans like this...
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by joquarky 10mo ago
Livestock used to eat cannabis back when it was a weed.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
How to reconcile this with the general consensus here that open [source] models are only 6-12 months behind the leading commercial models?
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by joquarky 10mo ago
This is only going to get worse as nepotistic brogrammers continue to take over the industry and gish gallop their bullshit over the experienced developers.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
Which is even worse since darker gradients seem to leave more visible compression artifacts.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
One problem is that the people mixing the audio already know what is being said: Top-down processing (or more specifically, top-down auditory perception) This refers to perception being driven by prior knowledge, expectations, and context r
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by joquarky 10mo ago
My particular brain feels the fun is diminished if I can't just click undo.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
Well put. And dishes and laundry can be enjoyable zen moments. One only suffers by perceiving them as chores. Some people want all yang without any yin.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
It comes from being young and naive.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
Vanilla JS is also a lot more capable than it was when React was invented. And yeah, you can't beat the iteration speed. I feel like there are dozens of us.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
Are you really going to manually review all of moment.js just to format a date?
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by joquarky 10mo ago
Don't forget to include supply chain attacks in your risk assessment.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
Look at the US tax system and tell me how UBI won't become just as convoluted.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
Also gains on sales of things like stocks and commodities should be taxed proportionally to how briefly they are owned, with an asymptote approaching 100% for HFT. And no basis reset upon inheritance.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
I go to various meetups and frequently meet people who have had their jobs taken by AI. Paxys is living in a privileged bubble. Journalism and transcription/translation jobs have been hit especially hard.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
> we would simply see corporate flight from the US Good. If they don't want to pay for the physical and legal infrastructure to make their business possible here, then they can go elsewhere. I'm so tired of this cowardly excu
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by joquarky 10mo ago
Who cares? A lot of people with disabilities are also using LLMs to level the playing field and to compete with non-disabled people. Are you going to be the person who tells them they need to stay out, stop using this technology, and stay i
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by joquarky 10mo ago
If you like speculative fiction on this topic, read Manna by Marshall Brain while you still can (the author died not long ago, so it may not stay up). https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
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by joquarky 10mo ago
It's the do-gooders who we should most fear will press the big shiny world-ending button.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
> It certainly happened before. With nuclear weapons, human cloning, chemical weapons, and ozone destruction. All of these are highly centralized, controlled via big government-scale operations. How do you propose doing this with GPT LL
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by joquarky 10mo ago
Video games, fast food, and religion are other examples. They are mostly useful, but occasionally can kill someone who indulges in them too much.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
Obviously it depends on the quality of service where you live.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
I don't see how this will kill the web. If anything, it might make it easier to find more of the older nerdier web that wasn't made for profit. Also, there are so many people that are already so rabidly anti-AI that I'm certa
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by joquarky 10mo ago
Alan Watts says something similar about how religions often harden into institutions that demand loyalty and "purity". When that happens, they slide into in-group/out-group thinking, defensiveness, and "spiritual one-upm
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by joquarky 10mo ago
What's your point? We should all aspire to this? I'm reminded of a 90s comedy series that had a regular segment that lampooned how some families worked 3 or more jobs. I never found it all that funny given that it was a reality
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by joquarky 10mo ago
Please keep the sarcasm on Reddit.
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by joquarky 10mo ago
What do you mean? Jerry Springer theatrics has infiltrated politics, and I would judge our civilization as being in a downward trend as a result.

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