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by ronsor 1y ago
I wish my desktop environment looked like this
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by ronsor 1y ago
Governments have a monopoly on violence
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by ronsor 1y ago
Indirectly it saves lives by making it hard for people to live in places where they are likely to get injured or killed by natural disasters.
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by ronsor 1y ago
> Where? SF and Manhattan are surrounded by water on 3 sides. Seattle has water on 2 sides. Other areas: LA, Boston, Miami, Portland, Denver, Chicago, have similar geographic limitations. All those places you listed are the cities with h
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by ronsor 1y ago
I dislike people all bunching up into cities (we have plenty of free space), but consider that there are many jobs in places like SF, even low-paying ones, that the richer residents do want filled. You're not getting a barista to com
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by ronsor 1y ago
Anthropic is by far the most moralizing and nanny-like AI company, complete with hypocrisy (Pentagon deals) and regulatory capture/ladder-pulling (this here).
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by ronsor 1y ago
It is easier, but it's still possible to solve the UX issues with a decentralized service, in my opinion. What I think is the main issue is that these decentralized services are made by programmers with little regard or intuition for U
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by ronsor 1y ago
Not to mention that Go is never going to put C code in the standard library for anything portable. It's all Go or assembly now.
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by ronsor 1y ago
I don't think North Korea is hindered by the lack of Google Maps. Their only real target, Seoul, has a very known location.
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by ronsor 1y ago
Aye-aye, that's a good name
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by ronsor 1y ago
The problem is that CUDA is tightly integrated with NVIDIA hardware. You don't just have to replicate CUDA (which is a lot of tedious work at best), but you also need the hardware to run your "I can't believe it's not CU
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by ronsor 1y ago
> Getting customers to pay for the weights would be entirely dependent on copyright law That's assuming weights are even covered by copyright law, and I have a feeling they are not in the US, since they aren't really a "wo
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by ronsor 1y ago
These lawsuits continue to be a waste of time. I hope these companies relocate their AI operations to countries with less ambiguous laws, like Japan or Singapore.
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by ronsor 1y ago
I don't know a single person who would prefer to change a little bit of the source dataset and then spend $100k training from scratch. Everyone finetunes existing models not simply because the source dataset is not available (for some
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by ronsor 1y ago
> Posse Comitatus act makes it unlawful for the US military to act as a police force in the US No, we're allowing that now for some reason.
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by ronsor 1y ago
That will irritate real users half the time while the bots won't care.
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by ronsor 1y ago
Perhaps do not have an office in that country. As for employees, that is their concern. Ideally the country is not willing to punish the family members of employees of companies that do not follow its draconian laws, but we know some do, s
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by ronsor 1y ago
This doesn't look like a problem with green threads so much as it is a problem with Java's implementation of them. Of course, Java is known for having problems with its implementations of many different things, such as sandboxing;
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by ronsor 1y ago
A sawstop doesn't spy on you and doesn't stop you from using your saw (why would you want to cut your own hand off?). Meanwhile there is a legitimate reason to want to install applications without the eye of Sauron always watching
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by ronsor 1y ago
I've just started clicking away from pages that are full of CAPTCHAs. Ironically this has resulted in me using AI more.
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by ronsor 1y ago
> What other moral standard is there besides laws? To be honest, you could restrict your compliance to only the laws of the country you're based in. American companies follow American laws, etc. Then move your company to where you m
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by ronsor 1y ago
This is acceptable.
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by ronsor 1y ago
Yes, this code is almost as trivial as a hello world.
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by ronsor 1y ago
People need to learn how to use computers without installing malware. In almost every other field, it's normal and expected that people learn how to operate the tools properly; if they don't, then it is their fault. For some reaso
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by ronsor 1y ago
1. Signing apps does not constitute endorsement. Re-read the developer agreement. 2. Apple's obligations under law supersede their agreements with any record labels.
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by ronsor 1y ago
Yes, users will install malware sometimes. I'm OK with that as long as the rest of us don't have to suffer everything being locked down for their sake.
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by ronsor 1y ago
Ideally you would be able to install what you want on devices you pay for, without being overseen by an external body, thus rendering sanctions irrelevant.
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by ronsor 1y ago
People often buy USB cables without data wires for security reasons, so personally I would like to keep them around.
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by ronsor 1y ago
No one cares about "fascism" or "communism"; these labels distract from the root of the problem: authoritarianism. Mind you, without excessive power and authority, neither hardcore fascists nor hardcore communists can do
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by ronsor 1y ago
Then is it ethical to create a scam to scam people who are trying to scam others?

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