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by kolektiv 10mo ago
Another voice basically begging them to change the name here, yeah. It might be quite interesting as a tool, but please...
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by kolektiv 10mo ago
If anyone submitted such a PR to one of my projects and could explain compelling benefits for why doing so would be a general improvement, even considering trade-offs of increased complexity/maintainability, etc., then I'd be deli
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by kolektiv 10mo ago
It's why we see so many infants getting caught for DUIs. Seriously? You seem to be implying that there's no justification/efficacy for any law/ban prohibiting children from engaging in adult activities. That's... so
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by kolektiv 11mo ago
Ooh, perhaps, but maybe not semantically identical? Visually probably the same though, devilish!
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by kolektiv 1y ago
I was curious about Shakti after reading this and the comments, so followed the link to shakti.com on Wikipedia. It seems it now redirects to the k.nyc domain, which displays a single letter 'k'. I wondered if I was missing someth
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by kolektiv 1y ago
An anomaly for sure, and I think as much as anything else one caused by the fact that Covid meant that government couldn't do business as usual. It wasn't procured and developed in the usual way, it didn't have the usual poli
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by kolektiv 1y ago
For me the objections in the UK is not really about the principle (although there are always going to be some privacy/liberty/etc. concerns in that sense), but about the likely implementation. If we could be assured that whatever
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by kolektiv 1y ago
It's not really about whether it aligns or not, it's more about whether it's true. What he says about London isn't true, but it is divisive and fearmongering.
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by kolektiv 1y ago
Yup, and just to add, for those not in the UK, or particularly connected to London, etc. - this take is utter garbage. The UK certainly has a variety of challenges, but they are not what the far right (and that's what the people he&#x2
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by kolektiv 1y ago
Absolutely, the technique of "you won't debate me so I must be right" has somehow risen from the playground to mainstream politics, but it's arrant nonsense. Not every idea is worthy of rational and moral consideration,
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by kolektiv 1y ago
Indeed, and "what Mosley believed" was pretty well known at the time given his fascist activity over the preceding thirty years. Mosley was not likely to change his mind, and while there may well sometimes be joy and enlightenment
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by kolektiv 1y ago
Way, way off-topic now, but if you ever get a chance to see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Disappearing_Number , don't miss it. It's rare to see a play weave mathematics and history into such a form, threadin
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by kolektiv 1y ago
You're absolutely right, English - my family north of the border are no doubt cursing me as we speak, I'll go and replace the cone as penance next time I'm there.
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by kolektiv 1y ago
Particularly when, as in the case of UK water privatisation, there's a fairly convenient revolving door between the supposed regulator and the privatised water companies. Poacher turned entirely ineffective and rather friendly gamekeep
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by kolektiv 1y ago
It's useful as a term of understanding. It's not useful to OpenAI and their investors, so they'd like that term to mean something else. It's very generous to say that whether an LLM "knows" is irrelevant. They
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by kolektiv 1y ago
But an LLM is not answering "what is truth?". It's "answering" "what does an answer to the question "what is truth?" look like?". It doesn't need a conceptual understanding of truth - yes, t
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by kolektiv 1y ago
Oh, ouch, yeah. We already know that misinformation tends to get amplified, the last thing we need is a starting point full of harmful misinformation. There are lots of "causal beliefs" on the internet that should have no place in
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by kolektiv 1y ago
Plus, regardless of what you might think of how valid that connection is, what they're actually collecting, absent any kind of mechanism, is a set of all apparent correlations...
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by kolektiv 1y ago
You don't have to assume people are going to be bad, but it's reasonable and prudent to expect it from people who have already shown themselves to be so (in this context). I trust people until they give me cause to do otherwise.
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by kolektiv 1y ago
It's not always about mocking (in my cases it hasn't been). Sometimes it is about multiple "real" implementations - a filesystem is itself an abstraction, and a very common one, it seems like it would at least sometimes
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by kolektiv 1y ago
It always surprised me somewhat that there isn't a set of traits covering some kind of `fs` like surface. It's not a trivial surface, but it's not huge either, and I've also found myself in a position of wanting to have
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by kolektiv 1y ago
> training them to accept the surveillance state From the perspective of those pushing this kind of technology and political movement, is that a bug or a feature?
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by kolektiv 1y ago
Given their positions on things like Russia, the Epstein files, free trade, etc. (where the position has changed from things that were either broadly "American" values or positions that Trump directly supported) I would guess it w
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by kolektiv 1y ago
I can't take anything seriously with phrases like "it has not yet achieved AGI, but it is one leap forward in the race to AGI" - based on what? Nobody knows whether LLMs are a viable approach to AGI, nobody really agrees on w
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by kolektiv 1y ago
Yeah, you're right, "adverts" as a catch-all term is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, and it's not focused enough. And thank you for a clearly, deeply considered reply! You raise some interesting points, and I'm
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by kolektiv 1y ago
I'm not sure we're actually disagreeing that much, but I will say: even if you show me something I love, in a way that I appreciate, but you do it in a time or place where I don't want that thing? That's still an imposit
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by kolektiv 1y ago
As spoken by thousands of tech companies over and over - if only the ads were more relevant, users would like them! No, they never will. That's because an advert is effectively an unasked-for imposition on my attention intended to bene
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by kolektiv 2y ago
There's a lovely walk in the UK around Lingmoor Fell which has a famous narrow squeeze between a rock and a cliff face called Fat Man's Agony. There's a good photo about half way down this blog post: https://www.wa
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by kolektiv 2y ago
Very likely. I remember reading a while back about developers who thought of rendering things on the server side as novel, which was absolutely wild to someone who was writing web pages before JS was a thing! It's such a shame because
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by kolektiv 2y ago
It is amazing how quickly a simple, traditional, "collection of pages" type website actually works if you don't do annoying things to slow it down. Most websites would be absolutely fine if a) HTTP was used reasonably well to

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