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by munk-a 3mo ago
That's less of a worry though since xAI is patently incompetent.
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by munk-a 3mo ago
I don't demand a customized compiler for my code even if such a compiler could outperform gcc. There is a lot of value in focusing on correctness to an extreme degree even if the outcome might be suboptimal to something more tailored
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by munk-a 3mo ago
It helps solicit more feedback and lets them trial different approaches. You're not just a user, you're a tester!
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Exactly, I find this sort of nostalgizing to be unhelpful. I am not _that_ old but I did cut my teeth on C++ and learned about manual memory management, programming language design and had a few (even at the time) esoteric courses about as
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by munk-a 3mo ago
If you are hand-rolling them then I might suggest https://github.com/trickle-labs/pg-trickle#pg_trickle which at least reduces the labor involved in trying to get it up and running and appears to address a lot of the c
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by munk-a 4mo ago
Gosh, I didn't know the DMCA went that far. I had assumed it was in line with Canada's TPM related laws which do disallow direct circumvention of DRM but do specifically except format shifting if the copy will be used for a legal
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by munk-a 4mo ago
Oftentimes that end date is not clearly knowable and can't be communicated explicitly, but consumers should still be aware of the fact that their rights are limited. While the Gaben lives valve will store many people's games - wh
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by munk-a 4mo ago
DRM is like a vibe, man - if you have the ability to output a video stream to an arbitrary display device you can always bypass DRM and it's never been illegal[1] to do so (though publishing approaches to defeat it often is). 1. To my
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by munk-a 4mo ago
If you buy a DVD you have the right, in every sane jurisdiction I'm aware of, to rip the movie from the DVD into an iso. You can then discard/recycle the media and retain the digital copy you have the right to view privately in p
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by munk-a 4mo ago
It's also super annoying being collateral damage in America's war on free speech. Canadian TikTok is now also being similarly moderated for content unfriendly of your administration. I guess we're still in a position of pri
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by munk-a 4mo ago
I have built the perfect document safe, it is impossible for a thief to steal the paper documents you entrust to me. Granted, as soon as you give them to me I just throw them in the fire.
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by munk-a 4mo ago
The rendering appears to be done specifically by the js hosted on jsdelivr so if you've blocked that as a script source you'll just get the raw LaTeX (which I assume we're all fluent in anyways, of course!)
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by munk-a 4mo ago
Just to ensure you don't gaslight yourself - I did live through that era and I worked on and supported a niche community (a MUD) where we did a lot of work encouraging marketing and discoverability through MUD forums as well as making
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by munk-a 4mo ago
Determinism vs. free will and the mechanisms of communication in your body. I think it's especially helpful to try and consider, within the context of a fully rationale mind, how decisions are made based on input and how weights aroun
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by munk-a 4mo ago
Genuinely, understanding around philosophy of action has been deeply enriching over my life. To anyone trying to decide on a minor philosophy is always an excellent choice.
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by munk-a 4mo ago
It carries the danger of one of your coworkers responding "What makes a coder good?" and stealing the promotion, though.
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by munk-a 4mo ago
The same effect can be observed if you've ever been a software developer where you're told what solution to build without any of the context of the problem you're solving. "We need an FTP server, quick, ops, get on that
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by munk-a 4mo ago
The premise of taxes?
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by munk-a 4mo ago
I prefer the opposite since it absolutely trashes proper nouns and makes it extremely annoying to type bilingually.
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by munk-a 4mo ago
There are two rationale objections, I think... One is the potential for skill rot where AI grows a heavy dependence in new employees and once the real price per token cost is settled on and discoverable (post massive IPOs and probably a whi
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by munk-a 4mo ago
This problem is not new and is a relatively minor exposure to the sort of issues that TZ conversion constantly needs to deal with. Different parts of the world have different dates that they adopt (or don't adopt) DST and some nations
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by munk-a 4mo ago
I am sure that Valve has some analytics they can lean on to try and measure how likely it is for an account to be a scalper/trading bot and it's also quite convenient for them that if they're describing their system as random
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by munk-a 4mo ago
I don't disagree. I still use facebook once a year for contact with relatives but if the only thing keeping you is the network effect then hopefully people will migrate off - maybe you can help them do so!
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by munk-a 4mo ago
At this point I purely use it to log in on my birthday to pass pleasantries with relatives that don't use any other platform and then turn it off again for a year.
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by munk-a 4mo ago
You are correct that your data isn't particularly impactful for these platforms - but you're also overestimating the value that many of these services have. A fair few of them have competitors with better features and privacy off
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by munk-a 4mo ago
> But frankly it’s unsustainable to have all patients on branded drug, it would be too costly for patients and payers. This is incorrect, the Canadian healthcare system negotiates drug costing at a per province rather than per patient ma
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by munk-a 4mo ago
If you've been following pop news there's actually a really interesting parallel to this in the lego case. Assuming the legos were consigned, assuming they were physically transferred with the store when the ownership changed, an
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by munk-a 4mo ago
I think there really is a fair difference between pure indexing and reoffering. I also don't think the way Google currently operates is still anywhere close to pure indexing - programs of theirs like amp and the news tab specifically
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by munk-a 4mo ago
The per token costs are still dramatically subsidized. The major AI models are priced below cost especially when accounting for depreciation. We live in the time of Uber Eats letting you pay 50 cents to hire a limousine that will deliver a
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by munk-a 4mo ago
I think some backlash is inevitable but I really hope we don't end up in Orange Catholic territory. ML & AI is a useful tool and was used long before ChatGPT for really critical things. Additionally ChatGPT and the like do have t

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