rdiddly

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by rdiddly 1y ago
Yep that's why I said "all well and good" instead of "total hogwash" or the like.
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by rdiddly 1y ago
What a snowflake.
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by rdiddly 1y ago
All the "athlete" and "farther" and "faster" talk is all well and good, but kids are going to buy these, hack them, and use them to create the next generation of impossible dance moves.
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by rdiddly 1y ago
To its credit, the article avoids mention of various "generations," which are a pretty unscientific prism through which to view the world. Yet there is still something to be learned from looking at a particular age cohort and its
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by rdiddly 1y ago
It's more like an admission that they fund astroturf campaigns themselves.
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by rdiddly 1y ago
The quantities are what changed. Taking a photo used to be relatively difficult and rare, so it was mainly reserved for relatively meaningful subjects. Which meant that having your picture taken was also relatively rare, and was something o
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by rdiddly 1y ago
I get "job" notification emails from LinkedIn saying "[company] is hiring 45,000 [type of engineer I am]" and I'm always like "Sure they are" and delete it. It's sad really.
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by rdiddly 1y ago
I have no idea and don't use OpenAI either. A quick search tells me OpenAI started out as a nonprofit and turned into the same thing Bluesky is, a PBC.
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by rdiddly 1y ago
People need to consider the source. Not sure how that basic advice ever got short-circuited where AI is concerned. Owners and marketers of AI systems have every incentive to exaggerate their capabilities, even to the extent of disingenuousl
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by rdiddly 1y ago
Two-party system only offers two buckets to put issues in.
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by rdiddly 1y ago
We need the "scientists find X less useful" study for Google.
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by rdiddly 1y ago
Bluesky is a public benefit corp which at least nominally means they don't have to maximize shareholder value at the expense of everything else. Decentralization is not a priority for most people. If anything, they actively want centra
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by rdiddly 1y ago
Jeez, are there really people out there so afraid of looking unsmart that they won't stand up against the demon Complexity? Complexity is an evil whose presence you tolerate, not something you go chasing after like a trophy. Everybody
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by rdiddly 1y ago
It feels to me, without any external substantiation and without knowing anything about shibboleth, that "insult to father's stones" might refer to an error raised by calling code or a parent process, in protest of a condition
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by rdiddly 1y ago
Which is probably why religion was developed in the first place, for its comforting effects, as a balm, a bravery-enhancer, a coping strategy for dealing with inevitable death. I think the way we deal with death nowadays has more to do with
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by rdiddly 1y ago
Makes sense to me, maybe I'm old too. Although things get murky when the link kicks off an action like downloading something. But it's still a noun if you think of it as "a download" or "a downloader."
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by rdiddly 1y ago
I must be missing something because water seems like the least of our worries when compared to the energy being used and the carbon dioxide being produced. I know I know, still talking about CO2 at parties instead of the hot new water thing
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by rdiddly 1y ago
Ah yes the "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention" crowd. As if being pissed-off and scared is the highest acme of civic participation. Outrage and fear are, at best, merely the initial reaction before gett
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by rdiddly 2y ago
"The only reason?" One reason for prematurely losing most of the investment is enough. The car analogy is inadequate but let's say my car skids gently into a position from which it won't start and I can't get out an
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by rdiddly 2y ago
That's a good point, and there's probably a sweet spot somewhere between "a few" and Dunbar's number, that represents the typically-most-efficient team size going forward.
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by rdiddly 2y ago
They clearly don't mean one person with AI now vs. 100 people with AI now. They're comparing one person with AI now to 100 people without AI before. Regardless, one person still costs 1/100 as much as 100 people. Let's s
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by rdiddly 2y ago
LOL - they're made out of meat
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by rdiddly 2y ago
Maybe use the name of whatever the substitute is, like nitrile butadiene?
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by rdiddly 2y ago
I quit (the first time) after the first three totally unlabeled icons appeared. Not having hovered on them, I had no idea there was anything more. Lesson for designers of scroll bars and other commonly-hidden but important UI elements.
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by rdiddly 2y ago
The hack quotient on this is high, so that's good, though ironically it's hacking around all the BS we put up with (languages, frameworks) to get a programming project up and running!
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by rdiddly 2y ago
Yes. The ratchain.
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by rdiddly 2y ago
Stick to the streets that have bus lines! Edit: There's clearly a bus stop right near the pole.
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by rdiddly 2y ago
Yes that's exactly what I said, good job friend!
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by rdiddly 2y ago
Counterpoint: You stay able-bodied by exercising, and young by stimulating your brain with sights, sounds and smells. And rent hikes happen everywhere.
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by rdiddly 3y ago
I like the guy who called saying GTFO of my country. Like too good to be seen in the same country as "Mexicans" yet too poor to afford $22 for a burrito.

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