kelnos

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by kelnos 7mo ago
I'm so tired of the paternalism from Google and Apple. And of course we have little choice, since we've surrendered to monopolists and walled gardens. It's disgusting, really, that most of the world is totally fine with this.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
That takes effort that I'd rather spend doing other things.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Pretty sure if the leaders are incompetent, it's not gonna be the right decision to bomb anyone . Seeing as that act requires competence as well. As we're seeing, they're incompetent at waging war against Iran as well.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
> When the choice is "let Iran have nukes" or "bomb Iran", you bomb Iran every time. Where's the proof that Iran has, or is even remotely close to having, nukes? I mean, actual proof, not the kind of "pro
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by kelnos 7mo ago
It's a lot more than "just" not bombing. We also need to stop meddling in other countries' affairs. 9/11 and the war on terror are a direct result of all of our "nation building" over the prior decades.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Because the US doesn't want sole responsibility or complicity for the wars it starts. It looks a lot better if everyone is involved. And besides, even if you have a large, capable military, why not spread the cost (in lives and materi
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Your "just" there is doing a lot of work. Don't trivialize the difficulty of starting a company. Most people who start companies and are successful either have some financial backing or reserves already, or they have very l
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by kelnos 7mo ago
That's a reflection/continuation of a very old meme (from before we called them memes). "Why your idea won't work" checklists were passed around USENET and other forums, and one of the checklist items was almost al
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by kelnos 7mo ago
I would agree, except that de-escalation generally assumes there's a rational reason for conflict. That is, both sides want or need something that makes sense, and the failing to come to some sort of terms is what leads to war. In the
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by kelnos 7mo ago
> AI has to be democratized; power cannot be too concentrated. Control of the future belongs to all people and their institutions. AI needs to empower people individually, and we need to make decisions about our future and the new rules
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by kelnos 7mo ago
That sounds suspiciously like a "ends justify the means" argument. It's easy to say we need to be willing to accept short term pains when it's someone else who has to bear the brunt of them.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
In secular America at least. Most people in the US are religious, many of them fervently so. And quite a few of them like to mix their religion with politics.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
That phrase does not mean what you think it means.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
You must be fun at parties. It's comedy. You might not find it funny, but it's rather small-minded to suggest that no one else could find it funny.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
The race of meat people are humans, though. So it's our universe.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
I really wanted to like this. The author presents a well-thought-out rationale for what conclusions to draw, but I'm skeptical. Commit counts aren't a great signal: yes, the person with the highest night be the person who built it
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Bad commit messages always fail PR review for me. It requires will and discipline, but it's not that hard.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
To Trump, when someone else does something, it's worthy of reproach, but when Trump himself does it, it's the cleverest 4D chess anyone could ever imagine.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
> Interesting to see them go from "DON'T GIVE US AI SLOP!" to "Wow, lots of actual bugs found, including [ed: at least one] bug found by two people!" Both of those things can be true.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
> It’s a dead end product that no one cares about. I think you are very much out of touch with the average book/e-book consumer.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
I disagree. There's no technical reason why they can't still work. They're perfectly good devices (possibly some needing a battery replacement). Why do we think it's ok to turn working devices into e-waste, because th
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by kelnos 7mo ago
In this case the reason for dropping support is most likely that the only DRM they can support on that older hardware has been broken. There's no technical reason why it can't be supported, and I doubt it would cost them much (or
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Not to mention that I feel like it's pretty unusual to be creating and managing threads yourself in Java these days, instead of using a thread pool/executor.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Similarly, a human can drown in only a few inches of water, not even enough to fully submerge you while lying face first in it, let alone while standing. Water is not to be trifled with.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Ah that's great! I wonder why they went with a new keyword; I assumed the compiler would opportunistically do TCO when it thinks it's possible, and I figured that the simplest way to require TCO (or else fail compilation) could be
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by kelnos 7mo ago
I get the general frustration there, but it's weird to focus on NASA's budget when it's such a teeny tiny fraction of the total. Yes, there's a lot of government waste, but NASA ain't it. And I would suggest that th
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by kelnos 7mo ago
I'm pretty enraged that the government was illegally taxing me, and now that those taxes have actually been found to be illegal, I'm not getting a refund. Corporations claiming the refund on my behalf (and then not propagating tha
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by kelnos 7mo ago
Or maybe the author is just a competent writer.
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by kelnos 7mo ago
But do you believe that they'll continue to improve until they're good at everything, all the time, in ways a human can never match? If yes, then that's dangerously optimistic. If not, then we'll always need humans who h
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by kelnos 7mo ago
But can Bob actually do that with agents, without limit? Right now, he's going to hit a ceiling at some point, and the Alices of the world will run circles around him. The question is: will agents improve to the point that even the mos

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