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by pessimizer 5d ago
> (which everyone does) I don't think this is true. I'm pretty sure I don't ever pronounce the h in historical if I'm coming into it from "an." "Anistorical." The "i" takes care of the &q
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by pessimizer 5d ago
> people provide post-hoc justifications for language features that often have no essential rhyme or reason. Nah. English articles make sense, they're just usually unnecessary, and languages can often do without the information they
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by pessimizer 5d ago
> Instant messaging and calling is extremely valuable. They, and I, are disagreeing with you. Instant messaging and calling are nice-to-have at best, and a huge burden at worst. They teach an extreme codependency that has little benefit,
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by pessimizer 5d ago
They can't. But how is that unfair? It's literally a choice we made. And it's the one thing that unites every mainstream politician against Trump - they can't agree on tons of stuff, other than that we definitely should
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by pessimizer 5d ago
This isn't "clones/copying," but rather "Chinese people making things." It isn't like they're stealing our exclusive "lathe technology." They're just making lathes. It's certainly
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by pessimizer 9d ago
If you want to split up Europe to make the comparison favorable, split up the US to make it less favorable again. How many US states are below the per capita level of homelessness in the US?
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by pessimizer 9d ago
Now you're characterizing what you've done as progress, to defend characterizing it as opposed to modern parenting, and you anticipated attacks from other people. I'll tell you why I think you anticipated attacks after I tell
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by pessimizer 10d ago
You don't want to talk about it because either 1) you don't know it, or 2) you were downplaying it at the time, too. The only time we talk about Henry Ford, unless it's about his anti-Semitism, is about decisions he made in 1
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by pessimizer 10d ago
Why it's weird? Seems obvious. Because it doesn't behave any differently than any other process that we don't think of as conscious. We don't think of a valve as conscious; and if we make a Rube Goldberg machine valve, w
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by pessimizer 10d ago
> 2. those who need done a small set of narrowly defined tasks with existing clear guardrails: repetitive physical labor in a controlled environment, call center and customer service chat work, etc. The problem with this angle is that it
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by pessimizer 10d ago
The part that they generally leave out is that Shada is mostly terrible (although Christopher Neame's delivery as Skagra is very funny and over the top), and Douglas Adams's run on Who was mostly terrible. Adams himself was embarr
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by pessimizer 10d ago
There's no such thing as an advanced google search query anymore. The second will give you worse results than the first (without quotes.)
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by pessimizer 10d ago
People only read the headline, and the headline lies.
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by pessimizer 10d ago
You're talking out of your ass. It is so ironic that "normal people don't care about privacy, just you nerds" is an HN meme. Everybody I know cares, often in an extreme way, and I barely hang out with technical people in
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by pessimizer 11d ago
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by pessimizer 11d ago
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by pessimizer 11d ago
> I don’t know what lifestyle leads to a finger changing size dramatically during the lifespan of a smart ring. Are you pretending that you are unaware that this can happen, or are you showing contempt for people who gain or lose weight?
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by pessimizer 11d ago
> I would advocate for a shift of power[...] This is not advocating, this is wishing. It is as meaningful as "advocating" that you were rich and that Elon was poor, or "advocating" that you should be six inches taller
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by pessimizer 11d ago
LLMs have been good at knowing what's in the manual from v1.0. Super good at that. Pretty good translators. Pretty good at doing things that have been done a million times before, like your CRUD app. Super mediocre at everything else.
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by pessimizer 11d ago
Mint is downstream from Ubuntu still afaik. They had/have LMDE as an escape hatch, maybe they should pull the ripcord (to mix metaphors.) Need a wider variety of people protecting Debian anyway, governance there is getting weird.
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by pessimizer 11d ago
Rewrite it in anything that isn't GPL.
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by pessimizer 11d ago
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by pessimizer 11d ago
Next step, make them subtly incompatible with gnutils. Then make them a Ubuntu dependency, then a systemd/Gnome dependency. Then take Ubuntu closed source. Success, suckers!
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by pessimizer 12d ago
This doesn't even make logical sense. Actual judges have highly correlated outputs. This would literally be actively sculpting the range of opinions you want to see. It's like the idea of political districting that thinks that t
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by pessimizer 12d ago
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by pessimizer 12d ago
He also didn't make a living, and record companies took his style and used it to generate billions. His income came from his studio, production work, and being a celebrity. I was just having a discussion about this with a friend who wa
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by pessimizer 12d ago
They were hoping he'd just accept it and walk away with infinite money and zero responsibilities. But he really likes being boss and really loves attention. Try again in 3 years. Although I guarantee they would run it into the ground w
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by pessimizer 13d ago
Yeah freeze peach, freedumb of ass-embly, dumb process durr durr rights are so stupid and blame is so mysterious
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by pessimizer 13d ago
The real secret: the models have stopped improving, and they're even hitting brick walls on the harnesses. They need to go public in order to dump the companies, which are at 1st world nation-state levels of debt. They've engineer
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by pessimizer 13d ago
Yes, this is literally just dumb PR. It's Cambridge Analytica claiming that they were controlling people's minds, and people just eating that up because it's part of their juvenile SF fantasy. I'm lying, it's smart

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