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10mo ago
> volunteering Sure, I guess -- if you're not charging for your time, it's more efficient to use human labor than AI+robots. > inventing If we get working AI, humans will be unemployable at inventing useful things. > teac
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That definition would exclude half of the early Zionist conference attendees, who would have accepted any region where refugees could gather, and seriously considered multiple locations.
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10mo ago
A good enough one isn't so bad. Here's an example concurrent collector that was used with the Inferno OS: https://github.com/inferno-os/inferno-os/blob/master/libinte... There's lots of ro
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10mo ago
Zionism, as in the belief that Jews deserve self-determination as a nation?
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10mo ago
It's asking "If digital is so good, why aren't there more photos?"
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11mo ago
Which is why making this trash profitable for them is a problem.
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11mo ago
You're showing the company that shoving advertising and data gathering into products will help them make products that sell. What you buy is what companies put out into the world.
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11mo ago
That still gives money to the people producing this garbage.
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11mo ago
Do you mean RPCs, or dispatching to threads? If not, your async code is a deterministic state machine. They're going to complete in the same order. Async is just a way of manually scheduling task switches.
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11mo ago
> What do you want Rust to do differently? Lean into being synchronous. Why should I have to manually schedule my context switches as a programmer?
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11mo ago
> Thanks to the ossification of the internet, every new protocol or protocol extension needs to be over HTTPS. If someone can tell you're using HTTPS instead of some other TLS-encrypted protocol, that means they've broken TLS
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11mo ago
Yes; the web server I use for my site is about twice the size of that blog post. Though, I think that if you drop the file-listing functionality you may be able to get it closer.
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11mo ago
Yep. Exactly. It won't be obvious, clearly marked ads, but subtle biases, skew, and placement of slightly misplaced products in answers. You seem to think I want this future. I'm merely making a prediction on the most profitable,
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11mo ago
Advertising is going to be nothing like that. Here's an example where I experimented with adding a pre-prompt to push Nike products. Imagine that these products have direct links, so that OpenAI can track clickthrough rates: >> W
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11mo ago
There are many examples of democracies backsliding.
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11mo ago
Sounds like a wonderful argument for centralizing it and making it a single button that a bureaucrat has to push.
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11mo ago
> How is it a permission system? It's a way to prove your identity safely, online. Can someone revoke your ability to prove your identity? To pick an example, say, the far right wins an election and decides that trans people need
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11mo ago
And the ads can be blended seamlessly into generated content. "You can do this in Postgres, but the throughput will be limited. Consider using hosted clickhouse instead. Would you like me to migrate your project?"
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11mo ago
That's a reasonable interpretation. People are choosing to mute their voices, and replace their identity with ChatGPT. It's not a passive loss of voice. Their voice didn't fall off and slip between the couch cushions.
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11mo ago
If you chose to trade your soul to 'incentives', and replace incisive thought with bland SEO and professionalism -- you chose this. Your voice has become the bland language of business.
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11mo ago
I appreciate the gesture, but... just release the docs!
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11mo ago
They stopped favoring looks recently.
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11mo ago
> With an mmap based heap, you can free all 999 other pages back to the OS whereas with sbrk you're stuck with those 999 pages you don't need for the lifetime of that 1000th object (better hope it's not long lived!). Thank
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11mo ago
Forget equal effort: Start off with hardware docs.
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1y ago
Does that mean that the Google and the government are taking full legal liability for protecting me from scams?
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1y ago
> Te Awa Tupua is a legal person and has all the rights, powers, duties, and liabilities of a legal person. Does that mean I can sue it for flooding my property?
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1y ago
I think we should start calling LLM-generated data 'dis-content'.
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1y ago
Is compiling so hard?
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1y ago
I don't use calculators for most math because punching it in is slower than doing it in my head -- especially for fermi calculations. I will reach for a calculator when it makes sense, but because I don't use a calculator for ever
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1y ago
Huh. I was taught how to use both an abacus and a slide rule as a kid, in the 90s.
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