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by jrm4 1y ago
I'd always argued that GNOME/Unity was garbage, but funny that I'd never bothered to read up on the history and background of exactly why , so this is illuminating. For me it generally lines up with what it felt like was goi
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by jrm4 1y ago
this, but without (joke)
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by jrm4 1y ago
There may be something interesting here to think about, but I'd argue that the following statement is literally much more useful than that entire article. "When advertising, appealing to emotion is much more important than informa
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yup. I would 100% support aggressive localism here, given that the actual service is very easy to replicate. I'd absolutely support an absurdly high tax on any "out-of-town" food delivery service in order to -- maybe "
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by jrm4 1y ago
This is the best 'literary' comparison I have ever seen on this site. Since we're in hip-hop for a bit, I gotta point to the way less famous Camp Lo: They do this, but instead of kung-fu + hood drug dealing; they're mor
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yeah, always thought this was incredibly short-sighted. You have an orders-of-magnitude smaller non-profit-ish thing going toe to toe with THREE of the hugest and most powerful companies to ever exist -- and generally holding their own for
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by jrm4 1y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted so hard, it's a good point. I'm not thrilled with where we are and I'm very cautious, but as a Black man in America the net difference in my fear and concern over my own gov
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by jrm4 1y ago
Right, I'd argue that the people without training are going to be way more surprising.
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by jrm4 1y ago
"Nobody in their right mind.." Um, did you forget we were talking about therapy? :)
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by jrm4 1y ago
Coming from a few years of lots of different therapists for stuff in my family... Replace? Probably not. Challenge? 100%. The variance in therapist quality is egregious, and should be discussed more, especially in this current age of "
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by jrm4 1y ago
Because there's no real case against him AFAIK? Again, from here it really looks like "what can we throw at this incredibly rich person?"
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by jrm4 1y ago
I'll take your argument a bit further. The thing is -- "human-data" interfaces are not particularly important. Human-Human ones are. This is probably why it's going to be difficult, if not impossible, to beat the smartp
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by jrm4 1y ago
I don't think this conflicts with what I'm saying; I've seen what you talk about -- and yet in modern days people will emulate the "square pixel bad style" regardless.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yup, yet another example of the thing I'll never stop finding fascinating: ANY noticeable percieved "flaw" in any creative media will eventually become an aesthetic choice.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yup, I can't help but think that a lot of the bad thinking comes from trying to avoid the following fact: LLMs are only good where your output does not need to be precise and/or verifiably "perfect," which is kind of the
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by jrm4 1y ago
Not even remotely in the same universe; the difference is ChatGPT is actually having an impact, people are incorporating it day-to-day in a way that NFTs never stood much of a chance.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Oh, absolutely -- I definitely meant that in the least complimentary way possible :). In a way, it's just the triumph of the ideals of "open source," -- sharing is better for everyone, even Zuck, selfishly.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Big picture, I'll always believe we dodged a huge bullet in that "AI" got big in a nearly fully "open-source," maybe even "post open-source" world. The fact that Meta is, for now, one of the good guys
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by jrm4 1y ago
I 100% agree -- but still I find this a feature and not a bug. It's always an arms race, and I like this shot fired.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Man. Reminds me when many years back I had about 10 friends collaborating on a movie and I needed something between asynchronous and synchronous, so I stripped Wordpress down to just titles and little avatars on a front page feed thing. Abo
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by jrm4 1y ago
It's really not though; I went with it for a while then it did this weird diverging thing with updates and full versions that I still don't fully understand because I just got fed up with it.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yup. I'm no programmer by any stretch, but I wrote my own crappy little thing years ago and I still use it nearly daily. One thing I realized is that everything else I used had too many features; one I really never ever wanted was a
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by jrm4 1y ago
Oh, I'm aware that they're not the same. I suppose I'm thinking more like a "real-life lawyer." At this stage, you can't just declare "infringing or not," thats the point of trials. What I'm sayi
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by jrm4 1y ago
I think that that two of our more instructive examples here might be Wayland and late stage GNOME -- namely, how did these two projects get as big as they did, despite being both 1) past compatibility breaking and 2) not obviously good?
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by jrm4 1y ago
Oh. Yeah, sorry man, you're rightly getting downvoted to hell here because you're absolutely wrong; it's the reverse that's more often true.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yeah, I mean I know this can be a feather-ruffling point but (esp at my age) there's something wild about the Black slang -> "mainstream cool" slang pipeline that's ubiquitous and feels instant. :)
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by jrm4 1y ago
I'd be happy to take "reasonable level of fidelity" + yes, the act of training itself as infringing to a jury? I feel like it's going to look way more like "feeding into a copy machine" than "teaching a to
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by jrm4 1y ago
I do, and this is a far bigger discussion than I can get into here -- but it's about respecting/understanding Black American cultural contributions .. .. which is hard because when you start making accounts of them you begin to re
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by jrm4 1y ago
Oh, no. It sounds black because it is black. Check the history. "Juneteenth" the term was absolutely invented by black folks. I'm just finding it interesting that it "doesn't sound black to others."
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by jrm4 1y ago
You'd have a very hard time legally distinguishing this from "compressing a copyrighted work" though.

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