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by rpdillon 1mo ago
> People are very hesitant to read something recent because it may very well be AI slop. I cannot imagine this is an actual trend that's preventing people from reading, so please bring a couple citations. Reading has been on the dec
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> AI is making this worse, since it’s unleashed an epidemic of cheating and the tool itself is inimical to learning. (Learning is friction. The tool to remove friction also removes learning) I disagree with this take so strongly. Yes, in
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
I just looked up global consumption.
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> The necessity of stabilization tells you that the food is likely labile (as otherwise, why would they have needed to stabilize it?) — and therefore is unhealthy to be consumed on a continuous basis. (Unless it's milk and you'
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
Yeah, this is totally true. A Greek yogurt is considered minimally processed, not ultra processed. The problem is, far and away, the majority of yogurt sold is fruit-flavored yogurt, which is considered ultra-processed. Icelandic yogurt and
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I mean, he's not presenting the evidence here in a hacker news comment, but that doesn't mean the evidence doesn't exist. There are a bunch of different categories of stabilizers, and only some of them have antimicrobial prop
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Thanks for articulating this. I've had a problem over the past 20 years with terms like "screen time" and "ultra-processed foods" because there's a kernel of something that really matters somewhere in the argum
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
With power comes responsibility, and I think responsibility has fallen out of fashion. I think this comes down to the definition of "want", and I talk to my kids about this because I wish we had a different word. Yes, I want to ha
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
This is exactly the case that came to mind when I saw the headline. They had gobs of course videos that they released online so that anybody could watch them. I was incredibly delighted to see a state funded school doing this. And they had
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Thank you for the reference. A really, really good one!
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> In his most stunning display of 'leadership', he used autopen to stamp his signature on condolence letters sent to the families of soldiers killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I get what you're saying, but I would t
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
> I agree with that though. It's better to circumvent than to submit and do what you're told. Not always. Sometimes the rules are stupid, and by simply obeying them, their stupidity becomes apparent. The governments that are tr
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I think it's just the modern version of the default MySpace or Facebook page. People primarily need the functionality and they reach for the tool that gives them that functionality even if it feels fairly cookie cutter.
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
This is a good point. Ifixit has guides for all the phones, but it reports that none of the replacement parts are actually sold in the United States. https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Fairphone Reminds me of the cold steel
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
I read the PDF, and thought I understood, but you're asking a good question. I did some research, and it turns out that when .name launched in 2001 (under Global Name Registry), it used this really weird shared-SLD architecture where t
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
Better link about the background here is on SteamDB's blog: https://steamdb.info/blog/steamdb-nexus-mods/ It seems pretty standard in terms of trajectory: hobby project blew up and became a thing people relie
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
Yes, I agree with this. I think your correct to point out that the leverage a legitimate corporation has to push ripped-off works far exceeds what the piracy community's ability to do so when it is infringement. That said, I increasing
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
Doesn't match my experience (or anyone I know that uses F-Droid), FWIW. We search for stuff, install it, it updates in the background. We install some of our own repos, but the bulk of our apps come from F-Droid's default repos. H
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
I understand copyright covers lots of things. It doesn't do a good job with any of them, sadly. > Even in the particular case of novels, I would prefer to live in a world where some authors are making money than live in one with no
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
Just treat copyright as an engineering issue, rather than a religion. Is copyright doing more good than harm when it comes to encouraging creativity? I think everything tilted in favor of abolishing copyright around the turn of the centur
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
The part this analysis misses is that the author's "dream" of doing that full time is almost never realized -- 25% percent of authors identify as "full-time", but only 10% of those authors can actually make ends mee
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
Rhys is the developer of the video version, a person named Miguel wrote the version that was linked with source code. The CONTRACT.md in Miguel's version suggests AI usage, as does commit history (I'm not a zealot about this, but
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
I had no idea! I'd switched from Kindle to Boox because Boox runs Android, which is more hackable, but if Kobo supports SSH, I'll have to give it another look!
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
> tone was appropriate TDR said: > You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
Good counterpoint. We link to GitHub from JIRA, and the reverse. Linking to the Claude session that generated the code seems reasonable...it's a related artifact. One thing I'm not sure about: what is the utility of linking to the
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
I've used both. Neither are as good. Your reply also completely ignores my point about the ease of hosting the infrastructure yourself. Prosody isn't too bad, but hosting Matrix is a nightmare -- as much as I admire what the Matri
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
I appreciate the simplicity of hosting ChatMail versus a regular mail server. It's simpler, lighter weight, and better suited for the chat use case. It's basically the ideal messaging platform for my needs.
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
I'm shouting into the wind here a fair amount, but I just discovered DeltaChat and ArcaneChat. ArcaneChat is available only on Android, but DeltaChat is available on iOS and uses chatmail relays. My family has found it to be super usef
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
I don't think the point you're trying to make improves the quality of the discussion here. If a downstream project laments a license and the author changes it, that's good communication and cooperation. Complaining that peopl
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by rpdillon 1mo ago
Oh my goodness, now you're conflating copyright with trademark law. This discussion is quite muddied. There are folks that are claiming intellectual property on the gameplay (that would be a patent and you can't patent gameplay, p

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