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by rfrey 10mo ago
No honour among thieves, I guess.
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by rfrey 10mo ago
Maybe the very core of what it is to be human is to destroy ourselves.
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by rfrey 10mo ago
What does "forced" mean in this context?
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by rfrey 10mo ago
If you and I put the same input into GCC, we will get the same output (counting flags and config as input). The same is not true for an LLM.
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by rfrey 10mo ago
> Nobody was ever talking about AI. If you want to participate in the discussions actually taking place, not just the one you imagined in your head Wow. No, I actually don't want to participate in a discussion where the default is r
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by rfrey 10mo ago
I understand what you're getting at, but compilers are deterministic. AI isn't just another tool, or just a higher level of program specification.
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by rfrey 10mo ago
I do not think it was or is true.
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by rfrey 10mo ago
> The quality of posts and comments has definitely decreased, in line with the quality of content on blog posts decreasing. I fondly remember the first time I read this comment. I think it was August of 2008.
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by rfrey 10mo ago
Christians don't drink or use contraceptives? I think you have to have a pretty extreme "no true Scotsman" attitude to make such a claim. Even the drugs claim is pretty specious.
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by rfrey 11mo ago
I'm not sure where your numbers come from. In my region job prospects are not much better for a liberal arts grad than a high school graduate, and much, much worse than someone with a trades education.
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by rfrey 11mo ago
Outsourcing is the American Way.
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by rfrey 11mo ago
This is solved with humans. Mens Rea is usually required for successful prosecution. A taxi driver who takes a fare to a bank, who then robs the bank, is not prosecuted. A getaway driver is. To avoid nitpicking, op probably should have said
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by rfrey 11mo ago
Nobody who seriously read and understood the literature in a given field would issue a blanket dismissal of all the experts in that field. My experience is that reading papers and research leads one to understand WHY the professionals get i
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by rfrey 11mo ago
> People can read papers, understand research etc. Then he should cite the papers, point out the research, etc. Rather than dismissing the entire discipline and all its practitioners with a wave of the "common-sense mental illness i
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by rfrey 11mo ago
Did you stop reading before he described the extensive consultations with the pediatric psychologist?
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by rfrey 11mo ago
People who have never experienced a particular challenge are quick to assume credit for its absence and assign moral failings to others who experience it. It's insufferable but common. Imagine a millionaire who had millionaire parents
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by rfrey 11mo ago
Your midbrow dismissal only makes sense if there is nobody who denies that regulation is nuanced. In fact, the entire political landscape is set up around a "regulation is GOOD" vs "regulation is BAD" worldview.
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by rfrey 11mo ago
If you had actually been impoverished, you'd have worked 60 hour weeks, and still be working 60 hour weeks with nothing to show for it. If you think "didn't take a vacation that wasn't a long weekend" is poverty, yo
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by rfrey 11mo ago
One half-hour later the post is unflagged and not greyed at all. There are many unflagged, un-downvoted posts on this forum that criticize Trump, my own included.
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by rfrey 1y ago
You can start with his recent Russian apologia where he blames the U.S. and Ukraine for forcing Russia to invade Ukraine. That might provide some context when you read one of his books.
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by rfrey 1y ago
I think they were talking about physical computers ending up in landfills. Edit: nvmd, I see this account was created 20 minutes ago and has only low-effort comments attacking BSD. I've never understood how people can develop such nega
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by rfrey 1y ago
I think your map might be upside down... It's not Europe invading Russia.
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by rfrey 1y ago
I am not American, and I am having tremendous difficulty understanding what you are talking about. Nobody in this thread has denied this is propaganda or that it is nationalistic.
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by rfrey 1y ago
There is certainly at least one prominent politician who thinks its amusing to physically mock disabled people to get cheap laughs.
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by rfrey 1y ago
"it's a shame" is a common English colloquialism that means "that's sad", or maybe "that saddens me". No actual shamefulness is usually implied by the phrase. Weird, but there it is.
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by rfrey 1y ago
There's all sorts of things I have no interest in learning because they seem unspeakably dull. That some people don't want to spend time learning the thing that you happen to find interesting doesn't mean they're wasting
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by rfrey 1y ago
So yes, the extremely privileged
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by rfrey 1y ago
Question for those conversant in blender: I'm pretty good with parametric CAD (solidworks and fusion) but have never touched Blender. I've been curious about Blender but I have no artistic or sculptural skills. I use 3D cad for bo
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by rfrey 1y ago
This is confusing. If I accept your statement, then it seems: 1) The democrats hypocritically supports offshoring while claiming to support workers 2) The republicans explicitly (prior to Trump, but MAGA is not very similar to traditional R
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by rfrey 1y ago
Blaming this on the amorphous "left" is extraordinary, when offshoring has been a 40 year project of corporate America and "shareholder returns at any cost". A neoliberal global order has been the traditional Republican

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