jrm4

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by jrm4 2y ago
This might be the worst sort of comment, ever. It is absolutely a worthy-of-discussion topic; and the reasoning you gave is EXACTLY WHY WE SHOULD.
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by jrm4 2y ago
This is an excellent point and goal. I've always thought that one of the better things we could do is to make programming not specialized; e.g. Excel-as-a-programming-language has arguably done more to bring programming to the mass
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by jrm4 2y ago
On your first argument; we don't have to because we have e.g. football, and I would ABSOLUTELY argue that -- even if you don't like it -- it serves a DEEPLY important purpose in society (namely, a NECESSARY outlet for the weird tr
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by jrm4 2y ago
I find this such a backwards question. Which is to say -- the "use case" is "people REALLY obviously like it." Similarly, it's absurdly conclusory to say things like "You can't convey a meaningful mess
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by jrm4 2y ago
Not sure whether to be dismayed or excited at the fact that this is a question on Hacker News, but those who are new to it; definitely worth doing your homework. It's the legal jiu-jitsu that has enabled Linux and countless other &quot
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by jrm4 2y ago
"The goal of encryption is to ensure that only two parties, the receiver and sender, are aware of the contents of your data. Thus, AI training on your data breaks this, because it's another party. You now don't have encryptio
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by jrm4 2y ago
Going to guess you're pretty young? Seems odd to have not heard it differently elsewhere first.
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by jrm4 2y ago
This presumes a high, perhaps delusional , level of faith in the public speaking space to determine what is "true."
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by jrm4 2y ago
Seems like you're pointing to a singular imaginary boogeyman out to annoy you? You should try the better thing of actually considering the history of each of these. I won't deny that it can be annoying, but considering the specifi
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by jrm4 2y ago
I wish, but to be Black in America is to witness this sort of cluelessness (despite prowess in other areas) ALL THE TIME. Domain specific knowledge is SO REAL. (Incidentally, this is roughly why I don't believe we will ever have so cal
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by jrm4 2y ago
Black person here. Like most discussions of "woke" and "wokeness," this one too fails HARD by not fully and directly addressing the origins of the term -- and by "fails hard" I do mean will almost certainly do
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by jrm4 2y ago
Love this kind of thing so much. HTML got so popular so quickly for so many things, I feel like it might be a little unfortunate that "literarily" we didn't have time for the idea of "A book or magazine, but not linear
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by jrm4 2y ago
Not quite the same by, but I believe a criminally underrated film sort of in this space is "Surviving the Game." On it's surface, an absolutely wacky survival action film; but also subtly excellent commentary on class, race,
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by jrm4 2y ago
I remember the night when I knew clubbing (perhaps not raves per se) died. Blackbird Ordinary, Miami. July 4th weekend. Normal clubby kind of night. Then in comes a dude in bright ridiculous Uncle Sam gear, sparklers and all, making a spe
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by jrm4 2y ago
Wow, so glad to see the author's idea and this as well. After playing with this stuff it hit me why these systems are simultaneously so attractive and also not amazing. Human brains are still way better at the very cool linking thing.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Yeah, I don't get this at all. Sure, if you follow the caselaw etc. But this requires big picture thinking. The internet is like the telephone is like the radio is like TV. Ergo. THE FCC MAKES THE RULES. Don't overthink it.
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by jrm4 2y ago
"Linux is not ready for the desktop" -- from a usability or technology point of view -- is an idea with zero fundamental merit and it's rather brain-rotty to look at what Linux can do on a desktop through this particular lens
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by jrm4 2y ago
One thing that I've been looking for in these, and I seem to recall few have this: Public mode? I'd like people to NOT have to log in.
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by jrm4 2y ago
So far I love and am probably about to go all in, especially since you can bring your own "AI." Relatedly (and I think the authors are working on it) anyone using local AI for tags and know good ways to tweak (I'm using Ollam
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by jrm4 2y ago
Sure, but "benchmarks" here seems roughly as useful as "benchmarks" for GPUs or CPUs, which don't much translate to what the makers of GPT need, which is 'money making use cases.'
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by jrm4 2y ago
Anyone else using "aichat" (linked below) for this? I'm curious because this one feels nice and light and simple for this sort of thing, but can't tell if there may be something better out there? https://githu
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by jrm4 2y ago
My gut is that this will mostly break even at best. Whatever "gains" you see in terms of less drug addiction, etc, you're going to see losses in terms of the negative effects of not being "in person." I confess th
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by jrm4 2y ago
I think the confusion here (for me too) is what precisely is the purpose/meaning of "bring the size down?" aka, is the is a "make it easier to search" question or "we need to take up fewer bytes" question
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by jrm4 2y ago
Is this going to be another one of those things where the tech people incorrectly believe that the law is broken because their brains are kind of incompatible with how law actually works? Legal writing is doing just fine. It's not a
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by jrm4 2y ago
To the people that pay them money; consumers for the advertising business they run.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Right. They give away your photos, videos and personal information,and others might use them for advertising.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Geez. This is such a reminder of how many "current" negative labels of this are ambivalent, probably useless, and possibly dangerous, e.g. "Toxic" and cousins "problematic" and "not okay." And FWIW, I
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by jrm4 2y ago
But that's just a Cloudflare problem, no?
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by jrm4 2y ago
I was about to say, that was all Google. I'm still continually astounded that the tech community appeared to absolutely swallow Google's utter bullshit answers about why they shut down Reader; that really marked a turning point.
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by jrm4 2y ago
Not a bug at all, IMHO. If someone puts the wrong address for their business; Google picks it up, and someone Googles and gets the wrong address, it says nothing about "bugs in software."

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