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by pmarreck 2y ago
NixOS may end up being "the last OS I ever use" (especially now that gaming is viable on it): https://nixos.org/ Check it out. The whitepaper's a fairly digestible read, too, and may get you excited about the
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by pmarreck 2y ago
yeah, allow me to introduce you to the Nix whitepaper, which is essentially this, and thus worth a read for you: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf Another possibly related idea is the language
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Isn't this basically... a Merkle Tree, the underlying storage architecture of things like git and Nix? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree Except that instead of a GUID, it's just a hash of the binary d
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Can second this. Beware that your old git habits may die hard though. (It's nice that it uses Git as its storage backend, for now, though)
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by pmarreck 2y ago
If this answer is satire, it is very clever. In practice, shared blocklists are not utilized to stop harassment, they are utilized to enforce ideological conformity and lack of critical-thinking
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Being put on a shared blocklist isn't a "stay away from this person"; it's a "tell these thousand people to stay away from these other thousand people regardless of actual basis, because 1 person got offended"
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Fair enough. I suppose that's one way to look at it. Except perhaps greatly-magnified online.
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Yeah, that's exactly the problem I'm referring to.
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by pmarreck 2y ago
yep, this is what I found. The evidentiary or reasonable basis doesn't matter. You will get shouted down and mass-blocked via shared blocklists, which is an absolutely horrible idea.
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by pmarreck 2y ago
If you don’t actually take the opportunity to review the code, I’ve found that it almost certainly does. Don’t “vibe code” while you’re sleepy, for example
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by pmarreck 2y ago
It’s easier to be nontoxic when you don’t have to confront the evidence contrary to your echo chamber
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Right, right. As if your framing is completely objective. Give me a fucking break. I refer you to this answer I gave the sibling comment because your framing of facts is just as incredibly biased as his was. https://news.ycombina
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by pmarreck 2y ago
> black bagged and disappeared/deported This is just terrible , ridiculous hyperbole. Disagree with his methods if you wish (and I do, myself), but an orange Pinochet, Trump is absolutely not. Your framing is incredibly one-sided..
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I guess I assumed that, for example, multi device support on websites for various device widths entails a bunch of CSS, which means the epub renderer would have to also do that, which basically means a whole web browser. also that things li
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by pmarreck 2y ago
That's not remotely "vibe coding" though. Vibe coding would be like using Claude Code or Codeium Windsurf with a recent model. Something that does the code edits for you and optionally lets you code-review them first to appro
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by pmarreck 2y ago
It surprises me that the eBook (clarification: epub) format is basically XHTML because 1) that means that every eReader needs to basically be a web browser 2) this sounds like it would make reformatting for different devices NOT easier
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Its errors are interesting (averaging around one per paragraph). Semantically-correct, but wrong on precision (simple example, the English word "ardour" is transcripted as "ardor", and a foreign word like "palazzo&q
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I think this is the vid you referred to, in case anyone else is curious (I was) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo0SWoqQ44w
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Does Nix have any relevance here?
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by pmarreck 2y ago
isn't this tu quoque?
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Downloading the MLX version of "Qwen2.5-VL-32b-Instruct -8bit" via LM Studio right now since it's not yet available on Ollama and I can run it locally... I have an OCR side project for it to work on, want to see how performan
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by pmarreck 2y ago
you don't even realize yet that you can't use "fascist" in a good faith argument without defining it precisely, because it's simply used as a cudgel word by both sides... and literally has been for almost 100 years
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Doesn't dispute my point that the laws are the problem, then, not the application of them
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by pmarreck 2y ago
I have looked into the legal basis of this. As a visa holder, you are enjoying a privilege, not a right. And to keep holding that privilege, you cannot openly support enemies of the state. Whether this is actually enforced or not is immater
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by pmarreck 2y ago
> Bahar Khan Suri (spelling corrected; assuming this is him) https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/us/bahar-khan-suri-deportatio... "While the filing does not mention Saleh’s father by name, The New Yor
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by pmarreck 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43539462
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Perfect example of what I was angling at: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doj-says-mahmoud-khalil... (Read the 5 paragraphs that begin with "He allegedly did not disclose".) Everyone was up in arms
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by pmarreck 2y ago
It would be better if your goal was not to make "the left's point of view" more well-known (which is just pushing an ideology), but to call out unsubstantiated rightwing BS using evidence and reason.
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Absolutely ridiculous slander. I challenge you to find good evidence against any assertion I make, because I only state things after I have researched them (and not only that, I ask an LLM to counterargue me). I don't hate anyone, I de
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by pmarreck 2y ago
Yes, and AI is demonstrably less biased than Slate is. Your point? Are you arguing for bias? The article was worded extremely slantingly. It was at least clear to me. In emotional contexts, it's best to stick to the least biased storie

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