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by lynx23 3y ago
> But being a victim in modern world pays because outrage sells. That.
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by lynx23 3y ago
The problem with bullying is the bullying itself, and not the specific way in which it is performed. It does not matter if you are being bullied old-fashioned analog, or hypermodern digital. The issue is that we basically have never thoug
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by lynx23 3y ago
Oh yes, I still remember the few cases where I saw that being put to "good" use. It was always about enabling immigration which would otherwise have failed. Find a woman to do a fake marriage with, pay her for it, and voila, you
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by lynx23 3y ago
Being blind is not the issue. Existing in a society that never really has embraced the fact that some members are incapacitated and would need better support is. I am 43 now, and blind since almost 40 years. And even if you are not going
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by lynx23 3y ago
Marriage is a dying concept anyways. With a few exceptions, it appears it is only used to secure relationships where children are involved. And given the declining birth rate and steadily increasing independence of women, marriage is a ra
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by lynx23 3y ago
Ahhh, you apparently listened to Agent Smith :-)
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by lynx23 3y ago
I am not sure if science as we understand it had so much to do with it. To my experience, society changed enough to no longer tolerate--or at least accept as normal- drunken family members. There was a point where the always-drunken-grandf
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by lynx23 3y ago
Thanks for this comment. It absolutely made my day, and it couldn't be more on the point!!!
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For some reason, straight raw performance and theoretical computer science are not really friends, nor is it expected that they should be. To a certain extent, I understand why. Science at a university is done for the sake of the knowledg
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by lynx23 3y ago
I was never really attracted to web forums, be it StackOverflow or Reddit. I still to this day prefer tech discussions on mailing lists. That is the preferable way of cunsuming that sort of content, for me. I prefer reading/writing
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by lynx23 3y ago
I have a lot of respect for Joey. But I cant help and think: it is rather easy to go full-protest-mode if you are as famous as he is. git-annex basically powers my whole long-term file archive. Not to mention all the infrastructual code
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by lynx23 3y ago
To me, there is one big argument for privacy: You never know what your govewrnment will change into in the next few years. This basic argument for encryption is often raised in combination with countries which we already consider non-free.
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by lynx23 3y ago
I am aware how dangerous it is to completely and utterly give oneself up to the medical system. Those without experience dont want to believe this for the sake of their own feeling of comfort and safety.
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I expected nothing else but downvotes. It is pretty representative for the times that peopel can not stand viewpoints which do not align with their own. And no, I am not going to post my personal medical history on HN in detail. My short
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by lynx23 3y ago
> He was diligent with everything the doctors told him I know I am going to be hated for this comment, but... Given my own experience with the medical system, I can't resist and state the (for me) obvious: Maybe that was the reason
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by lynx23 3y ago
Agreed. The system is flawed. And as a result, many scientific "findings" simply can't be trusted. And there is no solution in sight.
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by lynx23 3y ago
Well, location and (aparently) attitude of workers/service providers does matter. If I call a taxi, it arrives with a 99.9% probability. And it usually takes around 5 minutes to arrive. In fact, fiddling with an app to order a taxi
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by lynx23 3y ago
There are exceptions to every rule of course, and the situaton has changed significantly with all-software productions, but... If you dig deeper into many electronic music producers bio, you realize they were sort of rich-kids. First and f
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by lynx23 3y ago
Wow, the top comment is neither relevant to the post, nor friendly or interesting. Activism, even with false premises. Many of us tried, and those with a little sense left know that running your local LLM on a non-GPU is not really useful
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by lynx23 3y ago
Well, I wasn't trying to say that small tech is better in any way then big tech. It is just that most for most standard users, most valuable data is likely going to big tech companies. Also, I disagree with your analysis, I wouldn&#x
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by lynx23 3y ago
Wel, its not easy to ban some big tech services from your life, but IMO, now is a good time to evaluate what can go. I have been toying with killing FaceBook for at least two years, this is likely a good moment to actually make it happen.
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by lynx23 3y ago
I tried, and decided it is not worth it. llama.cpp with a 13B model fit into RAM of my laptop, but pushes CPU temperature to 95 degrees within a few seconds, and mightily sucks the battery dry. Besides, the results were slow and rather us
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by lynx23 3y ago
And it is no surprise that the behaviour of The Artists clashes with expectations of people that rely on accessibility. It is very telling if I read a blog where the content is about terminal stuff, and each and every example is a plain im
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by lynx23 3y ago
https://blind.guru/
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by lynx23 3y ago
Really? On first meeting they brought a witness who sort of livewteeted the meeting? This is so weird, I wonder what is going on with author that they dont see by themselves what they are doing here? Feels like a case of totally missing
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by lynx23 3y ago
Wait, I have never said anything about my supposed abilities or self-perceived performance regarding programming. How come you are diagnosing overconfidence from afar, without knowing anything beyond the few lines I've written? Being
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by lynx23 3y ago
Can you elaborate a little on why you think programming is "completely artless"? I hear many coders making comparisons of their work with art, so this kind of contradicts my intuition.
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by lynx23 3y ago
While we are at bloated things reimplemented in a few lines of shell: https://github.com/mlang/openai-kiss is my CLI client for ChatGPT. No Python, just curl and jq.
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by lynx23 3y ago
Wait, KISS is a novelty? :-)
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by lynx23 3y ago
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