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by pcstl 3y ago
The issue is that he never explains why he does particular stuff, what specific results particular stuff he tried had, what worked and especially what didn't . His website is full of "look at my amazing results!", which
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by pcstl 3y ago
On my hand, I encourage everyone I know who is interested in longevity to stick to actual scientific research and stay away from Mr. Johnson as much as possible. There are more red flags around this man than in the entire People's Repu
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by pcstl 3y ago
I was thinking the same thing. This article seems remarkably light on the facts. They throw around a handful of scary words, but there is very little evidence to back it up or even specifics of how this surveillance might be happening or wh
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by pcstl 3y ago
Thank you. Much too often the replies in threads on prices are just a conspiracyfest of people alleging things that make no economic sense without providing any kind of evidence. Because it is of course completely obvious that collusion amo
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by pcstl 3y ago
Why should everyone raise their prices?
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by pcstl 3y ago
Are these "woke SJWs" in the room with us right now?
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by pcstl 3y ago
That is fair enough. And sorry if I seemed like I was policing your tone, I was actually just disagreeing with a certain characterization of the situation.
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by pcstl 3y ago
Fragmentation is a problem that solves itself, though. People tend to preferentially attach to larger communities and small communities tend to evaporate into a "hard core" of very dedicated people. If you look at the market as a
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by pcstl 3y ago
Yeah, I don't think this quote fits here. Elm had a massive shot at making the big time circa 2015-2016. If they hadn't blown that shot, yeah, they'd be the kind of tool a lot of people use and complain about. But what I see
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by pcstl 3y ago
I don't think it's very charitable of you to assume that the massive amount of people who have left the Elm community are all, and I quote: "a legion of idiots who have been conditioned on the open source models made possible
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by pcstl 3y ago
There is a certain self-centeredness present in many people that bothers me and that this piece displays in spades. It usually goes something like this. "I am A Very Smart Person. I do not understand the point of Thing X. Therefore, Th
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by pcstl 3y ago
ldd itself, at least on most Linux variants, is simply a wrapper around setting the LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS environment variable and then running the wrapped command, which can bite people in the ass, as it assumes that the code being run b
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by pcstl 3y ago
Passive Positive External -- Fanboy (speak warmly of the organization but without trying to take part in it) Passive Negative External -- Badmouth (try to warn other people about the organization, but don't act directly against the or
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by pcstl 3y ago
How is Svelte intended to be used that is so hard to learn?
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by pcstl 3y ago
WASI is not meant for browsers, it's for using WebAssembly as platform-independent bytecode in non-browser environments.
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by pcstl 3y ago
I think adding "in Emacs" to the title of an article published on Mastering Emacs Dot Org might be a bit redundant.
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by pcstl 3y ago
I feel like this is a general bias of people who look at reality through a Marxist framing - for their theory of reality to make sense, they need to undervalue any kind of work that does not take the form of "producing material objects
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by pcstl 3y ago
It makes me worried how people look at this and say it's "the unvarnished truth" because it confirms their biases, even if there is next to no actual evidence that current monopolists are more powerful than historic ones, or
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by pcstl 3y ago
There is no data and that is intentional. This is lazy activism, meant to prey on people's feelings and biases rather than actually propose concrete improvements.
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by pcstl 3y ago
This article is thinly-veiled activism disguised as factual claims, and it is a bit sad how far Cory has gone in this direction. Notice, if you will, that there is no evidence provided that any of his claims about pricing are true at all, a
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by pcstl 3y ago
Can anyone ELI5 how the hell this is possible? I think I have a decent model of how diffusion models work: They're trained by teaching them to denoise a bunch of images, so they eventually learn how to create images out of noise and th
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by pcstl 4y ago
Apparently the site got deathhugged. Does anyone have an archive link?
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by pcstl 4y ago
Care to elaborate? I'd like to see some evidence on that.
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by pcstl 4y ago
Fair enough. I understood your phrasing more as a criticism of the language's design, and that is where I disagree, but I agree that the article could be structured better.
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by pcstl 4y ago
I have a lot of criticisms of Rust's usability, but I think you're being pretty much just unreasonable here. One of the first things a Rust novice will see when picking up the language is: let a = 1; // a is immuta
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by pcstl 4y ago
I really don't see an issue with Pokémon moving to a DLC model. They're essentially replacing the updated rerelease they used to do (Platinum to Diamond/Pearl, Emerald to Ruby/Sapphire) with just releasing more content f
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by pcstl 4y ago
"AI discourse" is quickly becoming a topic to avoid due to excessive politization of viewpoints which are not inherently political - which is a bit sad, considering that the ramifications of AI will be very important in the next f
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by pcstl 4y ago
I don't think you can say an AI trained using RLHF - such as ChatGPT is - is really "simply reflecting the data it was trained on". ChatGPT was first trained on a load of data, then it was updated to act in specific ways base
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by pcstl 4y ago
UE = Union Europea, or Unione Europea, or Union Européenne, or União Europeia i.e. European Union using the Romance language acronym RoHS = Restriction of Hazardous Substances, a directive that restricts the materials that can be used in el
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by pcstl 4y ago
I don't disagree with you! However, proposing that the government (for instance) should be able to forcibly socialize a platform "for the greater good" opens up some very risky avenues.

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