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by neltnerb 4y ago
Oh god, I have yet to figure out what it even wants. I assume it is asking me to close firefox to run an update, but I do and nothing is run. And apt upgrade doesn't somehow catch it? It's amazing that they're managing to mak
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Huh, I wonder if they decided to remove the licenses and other comments from code before training on it. That would almost be necessary to avoid comments ending up inside of code.
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Alternatively, I would suggest philosophers have been arguing about what "optimal" means here for millennia. We keep learning more about the effect of our actions on the ecosystem and our own health, so I hope we are doing better
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I am happy to concede that there are ways to spend energy that are neutral or negative, like, say, pervasive surveillance and limitless data retention. I think the point that energy substitutes for labor is generally fair though. But honest
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Summary: If energy is free and doesn't impact anything then of course you would want to use more of it. I don't know why they think this is a unique perspective, I guess just pointing out that people don't discriminate by ele
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The origin dates to antiquity, slavery has existed a long time. I'm sure there are accounting books from ancient Egypt documenting all of this in intricate detail. The fact that this mindset continues to persist is horrifying, but it&#
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The only "marketing" a mastodon server does is the description on the main website though, what matters is who joins the server. It seems that people who would join a server that was characterized in the press as "free speech
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Yes, I know that. It doesn't really impact that people enjoying watching a script read by Bruce Willis's voice and likeness will be commercially viable for a limited time. He's a fun actor, but all actors eventually stop bein
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by neltnerb 4y ago
In general it's a good idea to let the defendant decide how to argue their case and have access to evidence, for better and worse.
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by neltnerb 4y ago
If he's decided to retire, for whatever reason, wouldn't it make sense to sell this sort of thing? Like, barring serious reputational issues, why not? You're not doing any work. They do have to pay a different actor to have y
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by neltnerb 4y ago
I feel the same way, it's strangely mixed. You look at movies that are 30 years old and the music is very quiet or in different bands than speech, very carefully done. You can still hear speech in Jurassic Park or The Matrix. A Marvel
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by neltnerb 4y ago
Why not get both, I suppose..
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I had some really bad issues using vendor supplied (TI even!) and snap parts with misnumbered pins or the wrong width package... and many bad experiences with eagle built in libraries. I much prefer using a formula based tool to make packag
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by neltnerb 4y ago
You don't have to periodically pop into chrome or chromium in order to get a website to work right? Just a few weeks back I couldn't place an order on a major airline with Firefox on Linux, Chromium on Linux, or Firefox on Windows
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More importantly, some people can only see maybe a dozen characters at a time due to vision impairment. To me, "can someone without good vision work with this code" was all the argument needed. Preferences, sure, accessibility tho
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I'm definitely not saying that the supreme court will be correct or reasonable, but I also look at the decisions they've been making lately and am not so sure they care. We need to abandon the idea that they are neutral at this po
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I have the feeling that people like musk or that crypto CEO yesterday are just chomping at the bit for the opportunity to appeal to the supreme court. Someone will get to have their name attached to the decision declaring any government int
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This is the first time I've thought about it since the original announcement. I wonder what I missed? I guess researchers will get to use the communications pages of Elsevier journals to make fun of MIT without anyone noticing! More se
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If I were legally responsible for a company's behavior, I would not want to, for instance, use pirated copies of SolidWorks or Office. It's an minor risk I would imagine, compared to the benefits of reading the articles. But payin
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They could even pay scientists a more reasonable wage and make funding easier to get with all that money and maybe not have an unsustainable university system where even amazing researchers can't get multi-year reliable funding (in the
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Sure, sometimes. Certainly against the people applying force. I am definitely not suggesting this approach will help, it seems like a ridiculous solution that's all about exploiting performative compassion for the sake of the hacker&#x
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I think the approach is clumsy and overly constrained, but I would hope the idea was that by being forced to actually interact with neighbors and their families it would increase social cohesion and empathy. I don't think that's p
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Certainly an aspect of my willingness to switch was that email encryption end to end only worked with other protonmail users, and unencrypted emails in transit are already readable, and they could surely be compelled to capture my decryptio
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by neltnerb 4y ago
Yeah, I really wish protonmail had been good enough, obviously I originally got it due to the privacy features which I agree are better. But five years is a long time to then get them spending this much money to redesign their website inste
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After five years waiting for them to implement swipe to move forward and backwards in your inbox rather than having to click and wait multiple times to move to the next message, and the same amount of time waiting for it to let me automatic
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by neltnerb 4y ago
During a recession it is common for companies to freeze hiring. Even Google has done it before, from low levels to very very high, it's a very common and fast to implement step. It's a sledgehammer instead of a scalpel, but they o
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by neltnerb 4y ago
Ah, okay then. I thought you were hoping to get a straw poll of what people think of the idea, in which case I'd have simply said "yes" because I don't think my reasoning is very original.
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Hacker News lets you make polls. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231804 It seems silly to me to bother replying with a comment that just says "Yes" but I guess to elaborate I think that there's clear e
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Yeah, we'd always either play duplicate hands to compare performance or else at least rotate through all three sets of partners so that each individual player had a score that was at least somewhat less reliant on luck and also lets yo
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by neltnerb 4y ago
Ah, thanks, very interesting. So it sounds like this "ERM" is algorithmic enough that it broke things. It did get stopped due to human intervention though, so it feels like a weak metaphor. I hope international currency markets ar

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