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by nerdponx 1y ago
So that's 35 Microsoft employees. Rank and file employees are probably all over the political spectrum. But two things have become clear over the past decade: 1) people who identify as conservative and/or libertarian tend to keep
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Murdering bad people is probably wrong, up to certain limits. Arresting someone for saying that the victim was also a bad person is definitely unequivocally wrong.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Conservatives mostly can get away with anything right now.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Does the Vietnamese government have any interest in cases like this? Or are things pretty laissez-faire over there despite the nominal socialism?
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Phishing and persecution are real things that happen and can be greatly facilitated by personal details like this.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Serious question: how often does a sensible default configuration need to change? I think I have used the same jedi-language-server config across projects and computers since before Neovim had a built-in LSP client, with the only changes be
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by nerdponx 1y ago
> Silicon Valley types vote left Citation needed. The famous SV names are all dumping money into right wing authoritarian political causes.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
You don't even need the plugin nowadays, you can just go to the lspconfig repo and copy paste the default config if you don't know where to start. lspconfig was an incredible effort, and I consider it a good thing that it is now f
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Nuance is the enemy when you are trying to run a propaganda campaign and push an agenda. Blaming the American people is victim blaming.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
I never said all is lost so give up. I just said that it's bad and even worse than it might seem. Trying to pretend it's not as bad as it is, is also capitulation.
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It looks OK on the surface, but it gets worse the more you look into the details. It doesn't really matter that the administration keeps losing in federal court, because the justice department doesn't really care and keeps doing t
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by nerdponx 1y ago
You know why...
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by nerdponx 1y ago
This is literally how extortion by organized crime works. It's the same mechanism. Of course they'll be back for more, but if you don't give them your money, they will beat the shit out of you and then come back for more anyw
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Not subpar but Terminal.app seemed a little faster, enough to notice a difference side by side.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Also I don't need high FPS when I accidentally cat a giant file or whatever. What I really want is minimal input latency. I switched from iTerm2 to Ghostty and then eventually back to Terminal.app because terminal input latency really
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by nerdponx 1y ago
LLMs are next-token prediction models. They "understand" in that, if the previous 1000 tokens are such-and-such, then they emit a best guess at the 1001th token. It "knows" what rsync is because it has a lot of material
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by nerdponx 1y ago
It often comes down to freedom for me , not freedom for everyone .
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Here's an alternative approach: Discuss the design with your team beforehand, and have active ongoing discussions, sanity checks, and even pair programming during the development process. That way the review is not an exhaustive end-to
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by nerdponx 1y ago
This is quite a deranged rant, but it's at least a window into the paranoid fantasy world of the contemporary conservative right wing, for those of us who are not already familiar with it. As they say, every accusation is a confession.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
The "both sides" argument, in the USA, does not at all stand up to even a little bit of scrutiny. Yes, both sides do various bad things, and individual politicians on both sides are varyingly corrupt. But only one side systematica
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Kind of? The way flights are sold and priced is opaque and complicated IMO. That doesn't make it bad necessarily: maybe there's no good alternative, I don't know. But it really is opaque and it really is complicated. I think
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Biden's FTC chair tried her best, but it didn't go anywhere because she had no support and Trump put an end to it. But both sides amirite?
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by nerdponx 1y ago
The bailouts for unusual circumstances are a really interesting case. The "unusual circumstances" tend to be perfect for industry consolidation, which is normally (and rightly) viewed with at least some skepticism, but tends to ge
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by nerdponx 1y ago
I don't think it follows at all that social media is the cause . It's clearly an enabling factor, especially in places that didn't already have a healthy right wing media like the USA. The common cause is long-standing disco
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by nerdponx 1y ago
That doesn't mean it's not opaque and complicated.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
"Voting doesn't work" is a right wing authoritarian propaganda lie. Don't fall for it.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Don't tread on me but please do tread on those other people I've been indoctrinated to dislike.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
That's fair, and yes it is a Markov chain if you frame it that way. Albeit with the interesting property that the state is very very high dimensional, and the current and previous states never differ by more than 1 token.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
It's not a Markov chain because it doesn't obey the Markov property. What it is , and what I assume you mean, is a next-word prediction model based solely on the previous sequence of words, up to some limit. It literally is that,
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Consider also that America became powerful as a product of being in the right place at the right time. There is no reason to believe that such a place and time will exist again.

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