jplusequalt

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by jplusequalt 3y ago
>but saves companies quite some money That's all that matters to companies.
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The majority of the US.
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
I think you are straw manning their argument. I believe it's clear from context that they are referring to something different than material conditions.
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Is there any recourse for a free web going forward?
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I don't buy this at all. There are shoddy houses in my area that were sold in 2021 for $100k that are now on the market for $250k in 2023. We're in a bubble.
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
I strongly disagree that we are doing something about it. We are doing the bare minimum, if that. Until we start heavily regulating corporations on their carbon impact and taxing further carbon from being extracted from the ground, we aren&
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
I agree, but people have been ringing the bells about climate change for 40 years. When will we actually do something about it? I think the increased sensationalism is, at the very least, a sign that people are becoming afraid about our lac
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
This argument does not work. You are making an assumption that humans learn and create the same way that AI models do. It's also deflecting from what most AI art opponents are actually upset about--the potential loss of income from AI
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
Boo! I enjoyed it a ton. More fun than another bland sleek web page.
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
Maybe not a "blind" slant, but there is a slant nonetheless. I frequent programming communities on twitter, reddit, etc. and HN is consistently the place with the most sympathy for corporations. (In my experience it's also th
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
I would say that a mathematical construction is based in logic, maybe not in the traditional sense, but there is definitely logic behind the construction itself. I think we are talking past one another, what I mean by logic here is more neb
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
Sure it does. How else would you prove that one number follows or precedes another? I think you are conflating the act of physically counting with the logical foundation of our number systems.
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
Art is separate from economics. It has existed before there were markets or even complex societies. Also, the amount of effort is not what determines art. However, I think art requires one to be the actor in the process that generates the w
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
Feynman has some useful words about this phenomenon of always wanting to dig deeper: https://youtu.be/36GT2zI8lVA?si=Boiqod3GXHVMyE_s
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
I think you are both getting lost in the weeds trying to make this metaphor work, or not work. Math is simply the logical conclusion of a set of conditions someone accepts as inherently true. If this, then that. Follow this logic far enough
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
But your prompt is merely a suggestion to the AI model. You aren't the one making the image.
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
But OpenAI and Midjourney did train on their artwork without consent, and as a result artists are at risk of losing income from these models.
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
Neither you or the above commenter have provided sources.
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
It seems human adaptation is just an uncanny ability to roll over.
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
If you want more working class people to have kids, you need to give them room to breathe financially.
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
The quality that disgusts me the most about society is mass apathy. It's so incredibly upsetting that the majority agree that our current systems aren't working and will only get worse with time, but most people just ... accept th
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
I disagree. At my job I rewrote an environment variable injector module written in JavaScript into pure Rust. Not only was it straightforward, but I'm fairly certain I finished the Rust port faster than it would have taken to port it a
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
I understand where you are coming from, but this will never happen in the US. This is tantamount to political suicide here. We will all sooner die, or there will be war and revolution before the US gives up its individualism.
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
It's better than the republican party removing environmental protections during the Trump administration.
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
I absolutely agree. You need to solve hard problems to strengthen your problem solving skills. I want to implement my own interpreter next. I think I'm going to pick up Crafting Interpreter's whenever I feel ready to dive into my
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
I have a CS degree, but I had to teach myself the theory due to my school's sad excuse for professors. Here are the two things I did that taught me the most about programming: learning how operating systems and programming languages wo
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
Preface: I'm speaking as someone who is diagnosed with OCD and generalized anxiety disorder, and I will be speaking about my experiences. When my mental health took a turn for the worse a few years ago, I was strongly encouraged by my
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by jplusequalt 3y ago
From the outside, it's easy to dismiss an anxious individuals fears as nothing more than thoughts in their head that are (sometimes, but not always) completely removed from reality. But from the perspective of the anxious person whose