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by philipov 5mo ago
remember AMP?
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by philipov 5mo ago
The future will certainly change things, but who can change the direction of a tidal wave? It will go where it wants, not where we want. The best a single individual can do is flee to higher ground. Unless you happen to have a media empire
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by philipov 6mo ago
AV obviously stands for Adult Video.
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by philipov 6mo ago
Now you've learned the advantage of knowing how to do things yourself. When you depend on untrustworthy agents, you shackle yourself to their idiotic whims. Be careful who you partner with.
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by philipov 6mo ago
What does it say, for those of us who can't use twitter?
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by philipov 6mo ago
An ad blocker handles this use case just fine, however. It's easy to create a rule to remove the div containing shorts. Also works on many Use AI buttons.
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by philipov 6mo ago
Sunk cost is sufficient friction for most people even without network dependence.
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by philipov 6mo ago
It was already necessary to solve the problem of humans contributing infringing code. It was solved by having contributors assume liability with a DCO. The policy being discussed today asserts that, because AI may not be held legally liab
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by philipov 6mo ago
This policy effectively punts on the question of what tools were used to create the contribution, and states that regardless of how the code was made, only humans may be considered authors. From the foundation's point of view, humans a
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by philipov 6mo ago
If you think it's an unacceptable risk to use a tool you can't trust when your own head is on the line, you're right, and you shouldn't use it. You don't have to guarantee anything. You just have to accept punishmen
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by philipov 6mo ago
GPL-2.0-only is the name of a license. One word. It is an alternative to GPL-2.0-or-later.
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by philipov 6mo ago
You take responsibility. That means if the AI messes up, you get punished. No pushing blame onto the stupid computer. If you're not comfortable with that, don't use the AI.
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by philipov 6mo ago
Unless one wishes to control the entire ecosystem rather than simply participate in it.
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by philipov 6mo ago
You are falling into the trap of thinking there's a single monolithic being called Software Developers that has inconsistent opinions. In fact, you're observing different people with conflicting values.
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by philipov 6mo ago
I also started at the other end, in the sense that from an early age and for the rest of my life I have spent a lot more time chatting over text than with spoken word.
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by philipov 6mo ago
I always understood it as advice for school children who don't know how to express themselves in writing and end up with a blank page. You are encouraged to imagine you're talking to someone to overcome the hurdle of translating t
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by philipov 6mo ago
I learned the opposite lesson and ended up talking like I write.
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by philipov 6mo ago
Yes, perl is considered write-only because it is a mess of features that allow unhygienic programming habits to flourish - it is full of hard-to-trace magical behavior. Completely different than APL, which has had perl's write-only lab
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by philipov 6mo ago
Not to be confused with b programming language, which is not its succesor, but is the predecessor to c.
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by philipov 6mo ago
The more people use chargebacks to get around black hole customer service the better, because it is difficult for companies to blacklist everyone. If they don't want to pay the mediation fee, they should provide customer service in the
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by philipov 6mo ago
I have that same book. It was a major source of inspiration when I was a kid.
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by philipov 6mo ago
I wish the people currently building the global terror nexus would have that mature realization.
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by philipov 6mo ago
I was talking about Actually Existing Capitalism, not hypothetical scenarios that don't obtain in the world we're subjected to. It is a diagnosis, not a theoretical law of nature. When it comes to communicating, the meaning of a w
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by philipov 6mo ago
It's to help you learn to recognise different types of trees from quite a long way away.
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by philipov 6mo ago
And now... No. 1: The Larch
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by philipov 7mo ago
It could alternatively be proof that Sam Altman's incompetence is dramatically understated.
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by philipov 7mo ago
It's a version of the principal-agent problem, with the added wrinkle that principals have low barriers to exit. Both the management and investors share the incentive structure of a con artist.
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by philipov 7mo ago
Capitalism means ownership by investors, and it is the investors who ruin your product.
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by philipov 7mo ago
Yes. Only people who are used to living in non-corrupt countries presume corruption is covert.
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by philipov 7mo ago
When the mission is to screw over the employees, we don't need people who will align with that. CEOs should be held responsible for the enemies they create within their organization. Treating people as necessary collateral damage is un

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