nemomarx

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by nemomarx 1y ago
Reflex. People's opinion on a subject changes if you tell them which political group supports it, sometimes even if they get asked twice in a row. Tribal identity determines ideology more than the other way around for a lot of people.
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by nemomarx 1y ago
gotcha, and I appreciate the info. that sounds less acrimonious than I was imagining definitely
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by nemomarx 1y ago
I would definitely believe that, yeah. I just think that reflects something sad about the culture we're in, especially in an essay about struggling with transparency. I would like to get more of a sense of his emotions and writing styl
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by nemomarx 1y ago
Oh yeah I don't mean to diminish that part. Rather, I'm thinking this might actually be one of the things he's talking about in the post? Whatever happened that the maintainers took over the repo, that could be a point of ten
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by nemomarx 1y ago
It's definitely not slop, but there's something kind of sad about a very personal and emotional account needing to be fed through the corpo speak grammar checker? At least in my opinion. It feels like if a friend wanted to vent to
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by nemomarx 1y ago
Less serious, but this reminds me of how before stable diffusion was consistently useful, there were artists who made a sizeable Patreon income on anime characters in 'realistic' style. Unfortunately that seems to have been one of
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by nemomarx 1y ago
I hope you don't have to go through that in the future. The way people treat the homeless and how ERs treat anyone who asks for medication (accusations of pill seeking, as if it's impossible anyone might need pills) are horrible.
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by nemomarx 1y ago
It's more like 4 or 5 uses of it, and some of the phrasing choices also have that vibe. Everyone's threshold for the smell will be different, of course. It seems to me like it's more effort to write something and then have an
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by nemomarx 1y ago
Out of curiosity, why em dashes and not en dashes? Is one easier to type in a particular keyboard layout or the default in some editor?
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by nemomarx 1y ago
When someone tells you they prefer going by a nickname, do you also complain that they're forcing you to ignore the evidence on their paperwork and refuse?
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by nemomarx 1y ago
Masking sucks but everyone has to hide parts of themselves in normal corporate workplaces, so it's part of life really. If you're struggling at home or going through a messy divorce, if you're stressed and anxious, if you&#x2
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by nemomarx 1y ago
I think an llm would have put a comma in the middle of that? I wonder why no one's tuned their model to make minor errors that way or leave a few things uncapitalized to fake a human touch
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by nemomarx 1y ago
em dash in the middle of a "it's not just x, it's y" phrasing. I see it in several other spots in the essay and it's kind of a "code smell" Of course it's also a normal, polished sentence with good gr
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by nemomarx 1y ago
Yeah, I also kind of wish he published the blog in his own words instead of using what seems to be LLM polishing. It seems ironically like the same defensiveness and lack of transparency he wants to avoid?
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by nemomarx 1y ago
I feel pretty sympathetic, but I also feel sympathetic when I imagine working with someone who has outbursts. The details of how he responds to "routine workplace stress" and the actual symptoms are pretty absent from this piece.
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by nemomarx 1y ago
> I think a lot of people don't realize how little Reitz actually has to do with Requests development. For many years now, actual maintenance has been done almost exclusively by other volunteers. If you look at the maintainers list
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by nemomarx 1y ago
"subsidized" modifies institutions there, so what they mean is academics and students edit Wikipedia some times, and they want to claim the right to control what those people say.
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by nemomarx 1y ago
What's the negative stereotype we're worried about here? "trans women are hackers" or something? Linux secretly makes you trans? The banker thing would be bad optics because of conspiracies about it, but I'm not awa
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by nemomarx 1y ago
I mean it probably does? A somewhat disproportionate number of people in software are trans. However, you could look at it the other way - if you take any group of 5-10 people I bet they're disproportionately something. Very few groups
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by nemomarx 1y ago
I wonder how tokenizing ASCII would work - although you could try ocr?
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by nemomarx 1y ago
He's reported to have many more liberal friends when he was in college, used to be vocally anti trump, wrote a book criticizing rural Americans and their culture before running on a base of them. That kinda stuff. At minimum he's
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by nemomarx 1y ago
That does seem pretty helpful, I'll try and run down the list later
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by nemomarx 1y ago
It helps to think of these as clusters of symptoms or personality traits anyone might have, which occasionally interfere on your life enough to need treatment. A lot of mental illnesses aren't like a class of person but something that&
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by nemomarx 1y ago
Have you heard about that being enforced very often?
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by nemomarx 1y ago
That's why they get a warrant for the full contents of the phone though?
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by nemomarx 1y ago
Nationalized companies don't necessarily mean socialism or fascism but fascists did like giving the state fairly tight ownership and control of companies. It depends on how they handle that - if you see Trump loyalists embedded in lots
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by nemomarx 1y ago
We used to do group buys of custom keyboards like that. Generally the organizer finds a factory or etc willing to do it for a certain volume and then you see if that many people are interested and will put down the money. It's a lot of
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by nemomarx 1y ago
If you don't buy in bulk you'll spend more. Isn't that just markets?
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by nemomarx 1y ago
how is that a certain fact? why would an llm agent avoid being turned off? if you're talking about a hypothetical different system just build it so they don't want to stay on. there's no reason to emulate that part
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by nemomarx 1y ago
if my roommate charged me for toilet paper they picked out I would want to talk to them about the brand they go for and other details, at which point a lot of the overhead is back isn't it?

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