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by jrm4 9mo ago
I'm optimistic, actually. One sort of "big-picture" idea that I've seen that I think is generally useful is kind of like this: For a VERY long time, Linux was kind of a joke for most. But I realized that, it being 1% of
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by jrm4 9mo ago
So, for better or worse, it's an "IT for Professionals" class, and I'm not "teaching coding" per se. It's more a big picture view of everything tech related that I see as important to be aware of, as wel
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by jrm4 9mo ago
YUP. Old timer here. I remember like having e.g. my Apple II, and somewhat later Stallman saying, e.g. "they're going to be able to reach into your device and burn your ebooks." And I distinctly remember thinking how absolute
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by jrm4 9mo ago
Weirdly, I couldn't disagree more. By focusing strictly on software, we can argue that Stallman mostly won, and I think the mistake would be conflating software freedom with freedom freedom. Freedom freedom will ALWAYS be hard, no ma
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by jrm4 9mo ago
AI assisted coding (and broader idea exploration) is 100% bringing me joy in this way. I don't code for a living in any way, but I teach IT. And for years and years I've had little script ideas and tasks (e.g. music organization)
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by jrm4 9mo ago
Stallman was right? Seriously, I like these ideas a lot. But/and also, the GNU Manifesto strikes me as ultimately "extremely similar but perhaps clearer," with the added bonus of having arguable "real life teeth," g
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by jrm4 9mo ago
Nice. You're exactly nailing what I'm working towards already. I'm programming with gemini for now and have no problem there, but the home use case I found for local Ollama was "taking a billion old bookmarks and taggi
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by jrm4 9mo ago
Whenever I see threads like this, I think its related but I'll be honest, my networking understanding might be limited. I use Tinc as a daily driver (for personal things) and have yet to come up with a new equivalent, given that I prob
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by jrm4 9mo ago
First of all Everything2 is still around? whoooa, totally forgot about that. Gotta definitely get back into that. That seems like one of those great anti-modern-social-media ideas that the kids might like to learn about.
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by jrm4 9mo ago
I respect this choice, but also I feel like one might need to respect that it may end up not being particularly "externally" valuable. Which is to say, if it's a thing you love spending your time on and it tickles your brain
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by jrm4 9mo ago
I'll take this further and I'm not sure if I've seen it anywhere, but I feel like humor is an absolutely necessary component to any philosophy or life practice in this direction. In a way, this is an idea that to me, rises ab
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by jrm4 9mo ago
Aha. This, ideally, is a job for local only. Ollama et al. Now, of course, it is in question as to whether my little graphics card can reasonably compare to a bigger cloud thing (and for me presently a very genuine question) but that really
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by jrm4 9mo ago
Black person here, and I too am finding this thread confusing . Adams here was doing one of two things, either being blatantly racist or (perhaps the more generous, and perhaps more likely) being extremely bad at comedy? It is of course &q
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by jrm4 9mo ago
But, come on, a WHOLE OTHER LEVEL of "controversy." Plasma criticism was pointed and deliberate and grownup. Windows 8, less so.
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by jrm4 9mo ago
This really does feel like a job for auto-complete -slash- Generative ai tools.
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Could? I'll go a bit further. I am 100% certain they will.
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by jrm4 9mo ago
So, duh LLM's are extremely adept at turning "what Tailwind does" into something "you don't have to pay for." Yes, generative AI destroys some code-related business models. Absolutely fine by me, I'd rat
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by jrm4 9mo ago
It's fundamentally 7 and 8, I think. It's just like comedy, timing is everything.
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by jrm4 9mo ago
Honestly, "no spec" feels like more of a feature than a bug -- or more specifically, "proof of quality." If it's gotten this far WITHOUT a spec, there's something inherently good going on that lets it keep goin
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by jrm4 9mo ago
This is advice that I would have rolled with pre-Generative AI. Today, I'm not so sure. I'm actually way used to zim-wiki syntax because that's what I started off with; and already "moving it around" is becoming ord
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by jrm4 10mo ago
Perfectly? No. No. A million times no. You're getting downvoted because "stop giving your resources to the bad actors" is not even remotely close to a viable solution. There is no opting out in a meaningful way. NOW, tha
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by jrm4 10mo ago
This, of course, more yelling into the void from decades ago, but companies who promise or imply "safety around your data" and fail should be proportionally punished, and we as a society have not yet effectively figured out how to
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by jrm4 10mo ago
I am finding that AI assisted coding is greatly reducing my interest and reliance on "IDE" type features. A back and forth "conversation" with Gemini with extreme amounts of copying/pasting/executing in Geany
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by jrm4 10mo ago
So, this whole analysis strikes me as the worst of "economic thought?" The first bit of failure here is "equating well-offness to output," e.g. something that can be measured by GDP. Then it misses the other big deal, wh
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by jrm4 10mo ago
My gut is that this is for the best; I haven't fully fleshed it out but it feels like the practical goal of "decentralizing power" and e.g. ISPs and other powerful entities exploiting end users is easier in an IPv6 regime, an
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by jrm4 10mo ago
I'm partial to the idea that we should think of these people as heroic. No way in hell I'd ever do anything like this, but people choosing to do this to their own bodies and essentially absorbing all of the risk is arguably val
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by jrm4 10mo ago
This is what the kids call "cope." Measuring growth along a tiny time frame; nice try.
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by jrm4 10mo ago
For any activity that humans have been doing for thousands of years, every "recent study" you've seen, good or bad, may be safely ignored. I am unlikely to stop consuming milk, eggs, coffee or alcohol anytime soon, and certai
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by jrm4 10mo ago
I never said it did that; It pushes back against the phenomenon. The most neutral way I can put it: Every school turns away a LOT of equally qualified applicants, at some point decisions must be made. Next issue, schools don't exist
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by jrm4 10mo ago
University admission is a zero-sum already deeply unfair game (with slots going to the rich and privileged) AA just pushes against THAT, for better or worse.

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