macintux

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by macintux 5mo ago
I value traceability, and I value understanding the "why" of the code. For me, the prompts are useful for both.
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by macintux 5mo ago
Or not coming here at all.
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by macintux 5mo ago
> That's why we're fed the narrative that social media is evil and needs to be regulated or banned at all costs. Social media prioritizing algorithms that feed off division and anger is evil. If Facebook & Twitter were stil
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by macintux 5mo ago
Name all the times Biden fired someone from his administration for failing to obtain a conviction of a political opponent, and I'll take this false equivalence seriously.
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by macintux 5mo ago
You’re giving Google far more credit than they’ve earned.
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by macintux 5mo ago
Your description sounds more like evil vs boring , which is an easy choice for me. And frankly I’ll vote for incompetence over evil too. Because, y’know, evil.
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by macintux 5mo ago
Sore losers don’t generally write at length about their own mistakes and poor decisions that led to the ultimate demise of their baby.
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by macintux 5mo ago
Setting aside the blind and others with challenges for whom voice has the potential to be (if it isn’t already) a magical interface, I find it great for my HomePod for very narrow use cases. Wake me at 7am. Tell me the weather forecast for
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by macintux 5mo ago
That sounds alarming, but from reading more about it, it doesn't seem like it would be relevant to this, although in the long run it's certainly possible that calling from a payphone would never actually reach someone directly, be
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by macintux 5mo ago
It continues to be immensely surprising to me that Joe Armstrong was able to write the initial Erlang implementation in Prolog. I wish I’d asked him about getting a copy of the source code.
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by macintux 5mo ago
The problem is that the C Suite folks can hang onto their delusions longer than most people can get by without gainful employment.
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by macintux 5mo ago
Not to mention the countries heavily reliant on LNG from Qatar that are facing a very difficult time.
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by macintux 5mo ago
Yep: tap to click and 3-finger drag are amazing. I know mice are useful, particularly for games, but every time I'm forced to use one when helping someone with their computer I absolutely rage at it. Apple's trackpads, and softwar
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by macintux 5mo ago
Shades of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput...
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by macintux 5mo ago
I think the problem is that laws overlap, with decades of case law clarifying their interactions. Looking at one law probably isn't enough to determine whether an LLM is lying to you.
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by macintux 5mo ago
I took a job in another state in large part because one of the interviewers was a highly skilled sysadmin that I wanted to learn from (I had basically backed myself into system administration as a career at my first job, a startup, so I did
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by macintux 5mo ago
So. What. People, particularly non-native English speakers, are going to use LLMs to help with their writing. Complaining about it adds nothing to the discussion.
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by macintux 5mo ago
I'm curious what someone who actually knows NYC could do. 74 stations, 41.42 miles, 3:23, 4 boroughs, $3.00 fare Starting from Pelham Bay Park on the 6
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by macintux 5mo ago
I remember waking up in the middle of the night for some reason, turning on CNN, and finding out we had invaded Panama. Growing up, TV stations shut off around midnight. Quite the sea change.
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by macintux 5mo ago
It was a sad day (well, presumably pair of days) when Sun & Apple gave up that fight and moved caps lock into that position. Also, Apple definitely had the nubbins correct (D and K) and foolishly surrendered that as well: they're e
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by macintux 5mo ago
I was the only person in the theater when I saw Phenomenon , 30 years ago. I’m sure the movie business isn’t a healthy ecosystem right now, but the existence of empty showings isn’t new.
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by macintux 5mo ago
They're still distorting our political and social worlds, whether we're participants or not.
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by macintux 5mo ago
If that’s the short version, you should really write up a blog post.
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by macintux 5mo ago
Ad blocking isn’t illegal (yet).
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by macintux 5mo ago
How many users are going to have the technical acumen & desire to keep playing the game? At some point the number of people who are going to be able to succeed is so small they might know who you are just by virtue of you continuing to
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by macintux 5mo ago
Or automatic transmission shifters that behave differently than every previous car you’ve driven. RIP Anton Yelchin.
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by macintux 5mo ago
And many stupid decisions have no direct impact on the driver, but instead on those around the car. Like red beltline lights that don’t function as brake lights, instead using red lamps near the road that are easy to be obscured/ignore
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by macintux 5mo ago
Creative people are creative. Dick van Dyke is an accomplished computer animator, dating back to the Amiga. https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/obe3v6/95_year_old_d...
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by macintux 5mo ago
My boss, many years ago, talked about the time he programmed a printer to act as a web server using Postscript. I never asked what happened to other print requests while it was running.
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by macintux 5mo ago
Tough luck. That's the point of representative government: look out for the interests of the nation and sell it to your populace. If you can't sell it, be prepared to be voted out, but do the right thing.

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