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by krapp 1mo ago
Why is this strawman such a common trope among certain walks of life? I have yet to encounter someone who actually considers everything they disagree with to be fascist.
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by krapp 1mo ago
JSON still a very simple and useful format and being natively supported on the web and by javascript basically guarantees its universality. Native comments would be nice though. But to be fair even Douglas Crockford suggested using comments
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by krapp 1mo ago
Humanity is in its "fuck around" phase with LLMs and is going to fly headlong into "find out" soon.
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by krapp 1mo ago
>Why aren't LLM's just the tractors of the Information Age? We didn't have every company and every government in the world spending trillions of dollars to completely reorganize society and technology around tractors, and
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by krapp 1mo ago
If you hang out here, you've probably tried to write a HN clone or client.
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by krapp 1mo ago
There is no universe in which Dwarf Fortress becomes a "cultural milestone." It's core concept and gameplay would never appeal to the mainstream. The premise that the only thing holding it back is not using an AI seems far fe
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by krapp 1mo ago
Greed is "good" for a few, clearly.
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by krapp 1mo ago
>At some point it got misinterpreted into some kind of reverse-Jesus. That's from the Book of Revelations, which is probably talking about Nero Caesar anyway.
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by krapp 2mo ago
People competed all the time within tribes, even to the point of violence. Myths like Cain and Abel didn't come from nowhere.
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by krapp 2mo ago
Go one level up and you're talking about HN as it is echewing anything "political" for the same reason (politics is mainstream and doesn't satisfy intellectual curiosity.) But it isn't any more grounded in "r
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by krapp 2mo ago
From what I've observed (from the complaints people make about what is and isn't "HN worthy") most people who voice an opinion would prefer HN only have technical stories. It's common enough that it's explici
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by krapp 2mo ago
Probably not. LLMs might be a step towards AGI (assuming that's possible) but the prevailing belief that LLMs and human brains (the latter being the most complex structures in the universe that we know of) are already functionally equi
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by krapp 2mo ago
JSON was also meant to be read and edited by people, as was all web technology, and people have a use for comments. Even Douglas Crockford suggested that people could still use comments, as long as they strip them out before parsing.
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by krapp 2mo ago
This adds nothing of intellectual merit to the conversation but Pearlmania500 has become my spirit animal in this regard: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GlXFO6Wfcic
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by krapp 2mo ago
Of course it is. Why would you even bother to ask? https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-vetera...
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by krapp 2mo ago
What will happen is the US will elect a Democrat, the effects of Trump's policies will really start breaking things, people will blame the Democrats and the process of grift and destruction will continue with the Republicans again.
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by krapp 2mo ago
"Winning the vote" means winning the electoral college, it always has. The popular vote has never been relevant. The states elect the president, the people don't (not directly) and never have. Don't try to revise history
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by krapp 2mo ago
Americans voted for him twice. The electoral college is how American presidents are elected. If Americans wanted the popular vote to matter in their elections, they've had two centuries to change the system. They haven't, which me
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by krapp 2mo ago
>If you want to communicate to me then you are going to have use the accepted definition not the definition you want me to believe instead. And by "accepted definition" you mean "definition accepted by you." There are
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by krapp 2mo ago
Who do you think most of the NRA members and gun owners voted for? Their definition of "authoritarian government overreach" is "A Democrat is in the White House." >Are the US' well-regulated militias gearing up a
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by krapp 2mo ago
Americans should do the same. Stop believing that nothing matters, stop believing the propaganda that leads to empty cynicism and learned helplessness. The only reason we are where we are is because of who stepped up and who stayed home.
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by krapp 2mo ago
You make it sound as if Trump was the only choice, but there was an alternative to Trump on the ticket. Biden's age isn't the reason Americans voted for Trump, and it isn't the reason Americans didn't vote for Kamala Har
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by krapp 2mo ago
This isn't /g/ what are you talking about?
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by krapp 2mo ago
There is no "well accepted definition" for any political term, least of all any political term from the left, each which has been co-opted by the right to the point that most are simply pejoratives and slurs in common parlance. Ju
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by krapp 2mo ago
If we want to be fair, it depends on the characterization and its intended implications. The right has called every Democrat since FDR a "socialist" specifically to put the fear of tanks in the streets and death camps into people
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by krapp 2mo ago
Capitalism is what capitalists do. No capitalist system dictates that, because that no capitalist system practices that. Wages don't increase with productivity anymore, the gap between the two has only increased since the 1970s. Capita
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by krapp 2mo ago
>You must have responded to the wrong post as it has nothing to do with my statement. OK. You can't handle context, noted. >That statement is that there is nothing about capitalism that prevents a country from prioritizing its ow
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by krapp 2mo ago
Most capitalist countries have 100% employment for their citizens and little to no immigration? No. "Every citizen who can work having a job" is not something capitalist countries do. They all take ample advantage of foreign lab
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by krapp 2mo ago
But America is a capitalist system. The market has determined that not all Americans deserve jobs. Are Americans willing to work a 996 schedule for 2.00/hr to compete with labor overseas?
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by krapp 2mo ago
You may be right. It seems like a thing but I may just be oversensitive.

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