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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Why isn’t it realistic? I’m not trying to be glib. With “git add -p” and “git checkout -p” I find it fairly straightforward to do. I think usage of “git commit -a” or “git commit .” is the source of a lot of messy commits, but is often easi
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Presumably the content creators are paying taxes just like the rest of us. Many almost certainly improve society in other ways.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I gain a lot from such laws. It helps stimulate the arts. Without the ability to earn money from creations, that will leave the arts to a patron model or as the purview of the already wealthy. Given the collective disdain for anyone pursuin
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
The Ruby LSP uses Prism. Kevin Newton has implemented a Prism-based backed for the white quark/parser gem [1] that can be used with Rubocop. [1] https://github.com/kddnewton/parser-prism
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
It didn’t, it just made it way easier to order from. And Amazon carried more inventory than most mail order catalogs. Subsidizing shipping helped a lot as well.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I’m convinced this is a big part of Amazon’s rise to prominence. While they often had competitive pricing, they also had a built-in discount by not collecting sales tax that brick and mortar stores with nexus could not avoid. And they fough
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Thanks for asking. I ended up revisiting the text to make sure my impression was accurate. It is more ambiguous than I recalled.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Perhaps my initial selection was too short. I was trying to avoid copying out whole sections of the book. Overall, I think the book is less ambiguous than the one definition I presented shows. The entirety of the text reinforces different a
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I think something similar happened with the term "refactoring." While it had been in use by a small community beforehand, Fowler's "Refactoring" book is what really opened it up to a wider audience. The book defines
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
It turns out many others prefer banking locally with smaller banks or credit unions. The market is meeting the demand. I’m not even sure why you’re intent on blaming small banks for the slow rollout. The article notes that the large banks i
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
That’s not the natural next step. And even if it were, shareholders would push that new big entity to increase profits and then it just becomes the thing it disrupted. A core topic of what I wrote is that I enjoy banking with an entity that
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
This is a pretty aggressive stance. The US is rather large and not particularly uniform. In my experience, small banks are better adapted for the needs of these different communities. I used to bank with large national banks. Their fees wer
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Perhaps it was a mistake, but offering unlimited was a competitive advantage. Others working with the economies of storage had limits or priced based on usage; having unlimited would be a great way to draw in customers. I'm highly skep
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I haven’t been involved with hiring with other industries, so I can’t really say. Given the way I’ve seen story points get distributed or people moved around after layoffs or a reorg at tech companies, I suspect many industries treat their
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Unfortunately, I don’t have any insight into the UAW. I hope they add value in some way. Unions should adapt to the needs of the sector they’re in so I do expect it’s fairly different from the trades. There’s skilled labor still involved at
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
They trust the certification body. Either you demonstrably know the electrical code or you don’t. And the union requires its members to have their licenses (save for apprentices — but they can wash out). Imagine how much time we could all s
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
That’s a pretty broad brush you’re using. My experience is mostly with the IBEW and so won’t be applicable in all cases. But, the employer gets a flexible, locally licensed work force. They can hire as many people as they need off the union
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
It can be worth it to them and still be egregious. At 50% it’d likely be worth it (to the extent it’s still a viable business) because that’s where the largest market of PC gamers are. It doesn’t necessarily mean anyone would be happy with
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
That’s quite alright. I’ve written amply about the topic of creativity in this thread in order to delineate it from “creative” meaning “something that creates”. If you don’t know what “genuine” means my Webster’s definition isn’t going to h
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
The systems in question require learning from art generated by humans. If they didn't, they could avoid all of this IP mess by learning how to draw. The supposition I'm pushing back on is that humans only generate art by regurgita
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
We don’t know the associations they form. But, we know how they’re built and that they’re not reprogramming themselves. That establishes a very strong bound on what they’re doing.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Well, we know how these things are built and how they function. This isn’t Skynet building an army and being coy about it.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
You didn’t elaborate on the points I asked about. You literally argued with the response from a chat bot. You can’t just say “QED, I win”. Until I get satisfactory definitions the rest of your response is unjustifiable.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Define “understanding”. Please provide a formal definition for “vague intuition”. These sorts of clipped sentences without any supporting context are understood to be delivered in bad faith. If you want to discuss in good faith, then elabor
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Which is precisely why I said “genuine creativity” in hopes of avoiding pedantry around word etymology. It’s hard to have these discussions when people are deliberately being obtuse. By this definition, nearly everything is creative making
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I don't follow. Which standard is that? Many (most?) artists do in fact fail, particularly if they're unable to find a creative way to differentiate themselves. Society generally shuns plagiarism. We call out things that are deeme
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Given the terse reply, I'm guessing you disagree that it's even a concept. So, to round out the inevitable circular discussion I've gone ahead and asked ChatGPT for you: Genuine creativity, often attributed to humans, is the
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
And we penalize plagiarism. Sure, people often get away with it but it's not something we generally condone.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
And yet these systems are incapable of genuine creativity. If they were, they would be taught rules & techniques and set off to their own devices to draw, like humans. But, they can't and they're not. LLMs and humans don'
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Isn’t that what they’re doing with this change in policy?

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