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by jrm4 5mo ago
Not even industrial, I remember someone asking, what's the heaviest thing you can buy per dollar. And someone ran the math, somewhere it's like $20 for a full swimming pool on the expensive side.
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Interesting people talking about whether they should be "defended," here or whatnot, and all of that strikes me as wildly naive. They have a business model that's more or less known, and that includes THEIR AI model(s) that t
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by jrm4 6mo ago
But, you know, Yet.
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Maybe you're not the target, then. I haven't heard too many people say these extreme-sounding, yet at least arguably true points out loud. Someone should be saying them, and the fact that it's not your particular cup of tea
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by jrm4 6mo ago
This strikes me as a good "meta" article, though. As in, yes, people here probably don't need this. But perhaps a lot of other people do.
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Looking at Zed (and Brave in another thread) I'm really firming up this idea that the "big funded private company model" for essential tech software is just most often idea. They don't know how to add features without al
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Their whole thing looks sketchy, frankly. I'm not saying they're evil or have some deep secret ulterior motive. But their "vision" appears to be bunch of absolutely half-baked ideas for privacy, for which Firefox has a
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by jrm4 6mo ago
I don't understand this either. The GPL doesn't address end users and their use of software at all, to be technical. It only addresses what terms of copyright redistributors of GPLed software are allowed to apply in-turn to subs
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by jrm4 6mo ago
As people have noted, the "local" part makes it hard. Here's my question, y'all. What is the deal with the magic Syncthing uses and why can't we use it for stuff like this? And well, for everything? (I've be
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Right, as I said elsewhere, maybe let's just let "open-source" have it. "Open-source" can be "anything you can go out and grab a copy of and use" but doesn't give you much legal certainty about any of
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by jrm4 6mo ago
I'm genuinely torn on this one; I get technically why not, but why I think I have no problem with it is the wishy-washiness of "open source" generally. As I teach this stuff to people newer to this tech, it's probably ju
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by jrm4 6mo ago
I lucked into starting very early what I planned on doing in retirement, which is teaching college; as a result I did that for a while with no real life experience. Later, I ended up at the same time starting a company for family-related (b
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by jrm4 6mo ago
I teach online and Zoom + screen sharing on Wayland is just not there yet.
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Slightly offtopic and it's odd because I'm asking for something that feels like should exist though, like, I get that I have no right to it. This, for X, but not under Gnome or KDE? Even better, perhaps as just a script or som
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Weird. The project is obviously holding itself out to be some amazing awesome new thing. Extraordinary claims at least invite questions like this. Or are you all suggesting we should be comfortable with, and never question, flowery unc
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Still though -- once you got a workflow, no matter how terrible, it strongly tended to continue to work that way, and it was still much easier to diagnose, fix, and just generally not have unexpected behavior. This is the issue; agents in
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Great, good riddance. Hopefully open source and/or AI push this person out of developing entirely. People who focus this much on "conversion" et al are dinosaurs who deserve extinction.
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by jrm4 6mo ago
It's technically odd and illogical, but practically probably correct and on-the-money, as the companies try to artificially create demand?
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Anyone else entirely unimpressed? I'm just thinking about all the sensor and responsive things that must exist for cars, planes, manufacturing etc, and this just seems like an inevitable trick that someone could do? Like, my kid watc
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by jrm4 6mo ago
I'm sorry, what is this "high trust" society of which you speak?
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by jrm4 6mo ago
Reductio ad absurdum big time. But let's see if I can explain it in a capitalism friendly way, I guess. I have a preference for cashiers checking my stuff out for me, so that's how I select. Partly because I like the convenience,
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by jrm4 6mo ago
And where do you account for the absolutely countable number of lost jobs in this equation?
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by jrm4 6mo ago
"Everyone does it every day" That makes it okay? "It is not considered wrong" By WHOM? I go out of my way to avoid self-checkout when I can, because I consider it 'wrong.'
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by jrm4 6mo ago
I like how "soft to hard" makes sense as a gradient, which is often the flaw in new "periodic tables," but, for anyone who might know, does Cow to Reindeer make any sense here as a gradient? I'm guessing not?
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by jrm4 6mo ago
This comment exemplifies my worst fear and reinforces my somewhat incomplete idea that IPv4 is perhaps overall safer for the world, and that "worse is better" depending on what you're optimizing for. Roughly, it's my b
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by jrm4 6mo ago
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by jrm4 6mo ago
My gut is -- of course these concerns are valid, but, especially with "newfangled" software projects like this, I'd genuinely be surprised to see major quality differences between "human" and "vibe-coded."
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by jrm4 6mo ago
For the record, I think it's important to highlight this as "hey, the system actually works" sometimes. All the fatalism and whatnot with government.

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