qarl

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by qarl 2y ago
Yes. Removing posts based on their content is censorship, full stop. In fact, the dictionary definition of "censorship" mentions porn as one example.
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by qarl 2y ago
Hm... sounds like distinction without a difference to me. Posts get deleted because their content is disallowed by some arbitrary criteria determined by an authority.
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by qarl 2y ago
No censorship leads to 4chan. I suspect there's a reason why you're making this comment right now on HN (which has censorship) rather than 4chan.
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by qarl 2y ago
Oh great. The crazy guy from the street corner is now following me. I'm so surprised. Stop harassing me you creepy fuck.
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by qarl 2y ago
Yes, of course, I'm speaking approximately. But given the various evolutionary processes, the trend is improvement over time.
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by qarl 2y ago
I guess I'm put off by how horrible he repeatedly describes the past, seemingly ignoring that those people of the past had it extremely well compared to the people of their past. And how people of the future will look at us with that s
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by qarl 2y ago
Seems like his argument is about now . The truth is that every now has been the peak so far, so his words apply to all points in time. It seems to me he's missing that. Does it sound like he's urging people 2000 years ago to ap
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by qarl 2y ago
Sure, if civilization collapses, it may take us a while to get back to this point. But my point is, essays like these assume we are peak humanity. We're not. Given enough time, we'll look like primitive barbarians too.
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by qarl 2y ago
And it would be extremely naive to think that people 100 years from now won't think our lives were dirty, difficult, and dangerous too.
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by qarl 2y ago
There are browser extensions that let you bypass the paywall pretty easily. I would agree with you if it weren't so easy to dodge. But it is.
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by qarl 2y ago
HEH... yeah. Why does software engineering always go out the window when there appear to be a couple of unused bits?
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by qarl 2y ago
Yes, it is. Which makes the only truly zero parameter system the collection of all systems, in all forms.
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by qarl 2y ago
I guess we'll just have to disagree. Goodbye now.
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by qarl 2y ago
Yeah. The downside of working with people is that many people are truly horrible. It sounds like your client is simply stealing from you, probably with some half-assed argument that is pure bullshit but designed to go in circles and make
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by qarl 2y ago
No, friend. I just don't like to argue with crazy people. It's a waste of time. It's like the crazy guy on the street corner screaming about his conspiracy theories. No one talks to him. Take a hint.
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by qarl 2y ago
I disagree, friend. You take care now.
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by qarl 2y ago
> I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. Good. I'm glad we could reach agreement. I will not respond to your further.
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by qarl 2y ago
> Your sense that an LLM being able to write a simple python script is good enough to replace engineers Friend, I never said anything of the sort. You are literally arguing with voices in your own head. > makes you reek of being a ju
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by qarl 2y ago
Friend, I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. You take care now.
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by qarl 2y ago
I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. You take care now.
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by qarl 2y ago
LOL! I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. You take care now.
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by qarl 2y ago
I can see you have very strong feelings about this. Yes, I believe that AI will eventually be able to create accurate patch files. I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. You take care now.
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by qarl 2y ago
HEH. Your point is that ChatGPT is useless because it doesn't (yet) do everything? FYI - it can't turn lead to gold either.
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by qarl 2y ago
Yes. Last week I wanted to interface with a bluetooth device in Python on a Mac. I asked ChatGPT for a solution - it told me about a Python-ObjectiveC bridge to the MacOS Bluetooth API. It coded a stub to search for the device, connect to
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by qarl 2y ago
I'm not criticizing your skill with English. I'm criticizing your surprise that English isn't as precise as mathematics.
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by qarl 2y ago
Your complaint here is that vernacular English ("biggest") isn't as precise as mathematics?
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by qarl 2y ago
As I explained in the other comment - plea bargains are a different issue - and do not impact my argument in the least. The OP claims that juries can be bullied by a prosecutor into delivering a guilty plea. But if this were so, defendants
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by qarl 2y ago
Well, no. That's a different situation. My point still stands. For cases that go to trial, if they jury is just a pawn for prosecution, the defendants would choose a bench trial. They do not, so this argument does not hold water.
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by qarl 2y ago
> Convictions are in the high 90%. Juries are very weak and at the mercy of powerful prosecutors. If that were true then defendants would waive their right to a jury trial. They don't. The conviction rate is high because prosecutor
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by qarl 2y ago
Wasn't this in the plot of Westworld? They started with mechanical robots, but discovered that bio-based machines were easier to grow/repair?

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