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by kibwen 5mo ago
Unions are a poor solution to a worse problem. It's like if your roof was sagging, so you propped it up with a rotten log. You might be tempted to remove the rotten log, but that just means your roof caves in. Unions exist to antagoniz
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Yes, famously, acquisitions only make services more reliable, as in the case of Microsoft and Github, or Apple and DarkSky.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
You misunderestimate the gullibility of the average human. The \s is always needed (though the interrobang is also acceptable).
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by kibwen 5mo ago
When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the PII.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
The use or adherence to semver isn't the problem here. As you say, if a package follows semver, it's easy enough for the package managers to automatically update to newer compatible versions. The problem is when you want to have t
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Any given person might only experience a single flooded roadway or two in their lifetime. But that doesn't mean that there aren't tens of thousands of people exposed to flooded roadways every year. Something can be individually un
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Rain is one thing, but despite the rain Oregon is almost dead-last among all the states in terms of flood risk. It gets constant drizzles, not sporadic deluges.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> the “spice” due to wasabi is a different thing But also, outside of Japan, 95% of the time the stuff with your sushi isn't wasabi, it's green-colored horseradish-and-mustard paste.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Then go ahead and abolish copyright for everyone. Instead we're stuck in an even worse system where the hypercorporations gleefully plagiarize everyone else while sending SWAT teams to kill anyone who pirates a movie.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> We found our data in the outputs of their models but who can do anything about it... If the crawlers refuse to voluntarily respect your robots.txt, then you are well within your rights to poison their data.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
The chatbot craze in microcosm.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
This. Ads are industrialized brainwashing designed to induce dissatisfaction in the viewer to stoke demand for shit you don't need. And because companies pay for ads and then pass the price on to you, you're getting taxed on every
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> You also still have the delegation problem - A can't do X, but A can talk to B, which can do X. Most modern attacks involve that approach. On the contrary, the whole selling point of capability-based systems is that they're
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Sure, and a white noise generator transmits information too.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
No, this doesn't work. Predictions markets can only resolve to things that are publicly verifiable, so any leaked information is information that was destined to become public anyway. Furthermore, the leaker is disincentivized to leak
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Other way around. If I'm looking for the answer to a problem, I don't want the hallucination engine's half-remembered ramblings, I want the primary source that it's poorly attempting to reconstruct. But finding those pri
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> they'll give me an answer without trying to sell me their thing or pump me with ads Surely we all understand that any commercial model is going to inevitably metastasize into this.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Because it's an activity with zero benefit and nonzero cost?
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by kibwen 5mo ago
If the user asks for a faster horse and you sell them a car, you win. If the user asks for a faster horse and you sell them a trebuchet, you lose, no matter how fast the trebuchet would technically get them to their destination.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
You appear to have missed that NPM is owned by Microsoft. In addition, crates.io has not flatly refused to support namespaces, there's an entire accepted RFC for it: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull&#x2F
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Not janitors. Hazmat cleanup crews.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> a big, flashy announcement (here: bun was re-written in memory-safe rust in a couple weeks) Did they even claim it was "memory-safe"? Every discussion of this topic has had dozens of comments noting that their vibed codebas
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> For example any mildly complex loop that involves pointer juggling can benefit. I'd say that when you're writing a mildly complex loop that involves pointer juggling, one should prefer to be defensive and explicit rather th
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> I don't see what it has to do with for loops or operators specifically. The reason that these operators pull their weight in C is because iteration over arrays is achieved by manual incrementation (usually via the leading clause
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by kibwen 5mo ago
In any language where the practice of iteration isn't achieved via C-style for-loops, having an operator devoted to increment just doesn't make sense (let alone four operators, for each of pre/post-increment/decrement)
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Then I have good news, you can save even more money by cancelling your Claude plan and using GnuCash for free, without having to worry about the inevitability of having your financials hallucinated.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Trump was not the beginning of the decline, only the terminal symptom.
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by kibwen 5mo ago
The fish rots from the head. It's a sucker's game to aspire to selflessly serve the greater good when the most powerful people in the land are brazenly corrupt pedophiles. In other words: monkey see, monkey do.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
The magnitude of that number is a consequence of the effects being discussed in the post. And unless you find a way to solve the tyranny of the loudest, it's only going to continue to increase.
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by kibwen 6mo ago
> LLMs evaporated 90% of the "moments of despair" And then condensed an equal quantity of despair out of the ether via confident confabulations.

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