kelnos

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by kelnos 5d ago
Why would this be implemented, though? The author talks about how companies don't pay OSS maintainers because they don't have to. But they often pay registry maintainers because they do have to (or they have to run their own, whic
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by kelnos 5d ago
I think the maintainer is still better off if only 50% of companies that should be paying are actually paying. The alternative is to just get nothing. And if the maintainer wants to, they can always try to go after some of the more egregiou
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by kelnos 5d ago
I was thinking this too, and also thinking about who even gets paid. Like say I start an open source project and work on it for a few years, build a reputation and user base, and the registry is paying me. I decide to step down, and nominat
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by kelnos 6d ago
What a weird argument. Sure, he didn't "have" to, but I don't blame him for not wanting to spend years (decades? life?) in prison for doing something he believed was morally right.
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by kelnos 6d ago
> And if we're going to pretend that plea deals are coercion Many absolutely are coercion, not sure why you'd think otherwise.
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by kelnos 7d ago
And Australian, I believe.
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by kelnos 7d ago
> This one seems to defy the rule. No it doesn't. If I pronounce the "h", then using "an" sounds weird. If I don't, then "a" sounds weird. > Journalists and films seem to use "an histo
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by kelnos 7d ago
I think that's somewhat reasonable, but not always: the effort of researching and of writing yourself will teach you better then reading something someone else wrote, especially an LLM that will get things wrong in surprising ways that
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by kelnos 7d ago
I really did like the author's framing there, but I think there is a different, simpler way to put it: Why would you think that asking someone else (that is, another human) to write something (and then reviewing it) is the same thing a
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by kelnos 8d ago
Looking at the graphs in the article, I don't think the overall picture supports the headline...
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by kelnos 9d ago
I think it's telling of your bubble that you think anyone who works in tech has heard of YC or Stallman. As for Yudkowsky and Alexander, I've known about them for at least a decade, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of fol
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by kelnos 9d ago
Personally I appreciate when things are written in plain language rather than using insider jargon, even when the intended audience likely knows what the jargon means.
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by kelnos 10d ago
> If the code is simple, the tests aren't much extra work. Disagree. Even if it isn't much work to write (which is debatable), it still carries costs: CI takes longer to run, and the tests have to be carried and maintained (
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by kelnos 10d ago
Man, when I was a kid in the 80s, my parents considered "crap" to be a bad word, and my sister and I would get in trouble for using it. I'm sure that's still the case for some kids/parents today, but I can't im
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by kelnos 11d ago
Sure, but all the time I'll ask Claude a question, and then I'll see it fetch 5-10 different URLs to come up with answer. I certainly would not be fetching those URLs at that rate if I were doing it myself. I would probably be v
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by kelnos 12d ago
I agree that the focus on decentralization is a distraction, but Mastodon and Bluesky are perfectly fine alternatives that are just as easy to use as Twitter. The fact that they have not succeeded in attracting a critical mass of Twitter us
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by kelnos 12d ago
I expect that the percentage of politicians and public services/institutions who have even heard of xcancel is incredibly small. The real way to combat this is to write to your representative. The best way is probably to ask questions
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by kelnos 12d ago
Ad hominem would be if the GP was making a personal attack on you. Saying a question is "silly" is not that. Downvoting can also mean that the downvoter doesn't think it's worth the time to engage with prose. It's
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by kelnos 13d ago
> The pool is currently keeping the time of an estimated 5-15 million systems accurate. When was this page last updated? I would expect that number to be in the hundreds of millions these days, perhaps even billions.
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by kelnos 13d ago
I agree. The frontier models are based on training data from tons of copyrighted work. Some of that work was obtained illegally, even. They could not exist without strip-mining the commons. The labs have no moral or ethical ownership to the
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by kelnos 14d ago
Because "we" embodies a hugely diverse set of beings with different wants, needs, goals, and priorities. Not to mention different morality and ethics. So sure, let's say you get 95% of the world to not use or work on LLMs.
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by kelnos 14d ago
Perhaps things have gotten better over time, but I did this 4 or 5 years ago and it was anything but trivial. I got it working, but it was a huge pain to set up.
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by kelnos 14d ago
> Saying someone is showing signs of mental illness isn't a diagnosis. It's saying someone looks like they need medical attention. That's fair if the target is someone you know and interact with personally. Lazy armchai
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by kelnos 14d ago
Sure, it's not, but it's a term used to describe a wide collection of conditions that are in the DSM. In some ways, asserting that someone has "a mental illness" is worse than saying they have something specific, like
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by kelnos 14d ago
You can have a bad trip on a drug without being addicted, or without having any mental illness whatsoever. Nice try dismissing something someone said for invalid reasons, "pal".
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by kelnos 14d ago
That's not what anyone is saying. There are many classes of human (and non-human) condition where it's best to allow a subject-matter expert to diagnose, and where armchair diagnosticians can do a lot of harm. This is one of the
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by kelnos 14d ago
> Why are people so eager to gatekeep who gets to call others mentally ill? Because calling someone mentally ill is a serious thing to do, and doing so without being qualified to offer that diagnosis is irresponsible and cruel. > I
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by kelnos 14d ago
Hard disagree. Physical ailments like the one you describe are indeed simple to armchair-diagnose, but psychological problems are not that. Even for physical issues, there's a lot of grey. A bone protruding from an arm is one thing,
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by kelnos 15d ago
I think there's also, from some people (sometimes including myself), a negative reaction to armchair diagnoses of mental illness. I think it's a problem because it's a faux medical diagnosis made by someone who is not qualif
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by kelnos 15d ago
> What information from your login keychain do you expect to need on your new computer? Pretty much everything?

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