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by sam0x17 3y ago
> I can't pay for a single article Yeah this is a super good idea. I would pay $5 a lot of the time to access these just so I don't have to deal. Would have to accept paypal and I'd do it.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I agree this should be a thing. Or imagine a new distributed internet where every request is an extremely extremely small micro transaction / mining event.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
They never started learning more like.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Very based, very true. This is also why I believe after many many failed iterations and variations of capitalism, we will arrive at worker-owned co-ops winning in the end. It is the only way to truly align interests while still working with
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I think the moral dilemma is a completely artificial one. You have to do a lot of bending over backwards in your head before you come to the extremely weird conclusion that knowledge can "belong" to a particular person or entity,
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by sam0x17 3y ago
That they can't make enough money from contextual advertising with literally the entire internet linking to them all the time is a spectacular failure.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I think most in the tech space tacitly believe that if Alice has a cool string of 0s and 1s, but you have to pay $5 to go into her house to see it, and Bob happens to memorize the string of 0s and 1s and decides to display it publicly for a
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Or really, proof-of-work based CAPTCHAs. I think inevitably that's the world we're eventually stuck in
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by sam0x17 3y ago
breaking: AI is better than humans at appearing human when completing CAPTCHAs
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by sam0x17 3y ago
All of that said, engineers are not static -- everyone is learning and changing all the time, so "problem" engineers after you've eliminated the above are simply people who have a ways to go before they change enough to becom
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by sam0x17 3y ago
"local minima" is entirely a function of what processes and requirements are in place for code to be accepted. In a well designed engineering org, the "local minima" and "optimal" are indistinguishable from eac
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by sam0x17 3y ago
One could, and one could counter with "then that is R&D done for the wrong reasons" This is why we (at least used to) have things like wide-sweeping federally funded research grants aimed at advancing science and technology in
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Public clouds don't dictate what people use. You can freely run windows or any other OS on an AWS or Google VPS, it's just people very seldom choose to do so, because (this is the punchline), linux is just that much more popular a
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I maintain that patents are unequivocally bad across the board no matter who holds them. We like to subscribe to this myth of the "small-time inventor" being able to capitalize on their invention by requiring copycats to pay them
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by sam0x17 3y ago
This isn't true at all. Most people are using containers anyway, and guess what they're running in those containers... ASP.net had it's day, and everyone wanted to instead run their .NET apps on linux rather than deal with wi
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Linux accounts for: 82% of the smartphone market 90% of public cloud workloads 62% of the embedded market 99% of the super-computer market The first figure alone makes it more relevant to the general population than windows or any other OS.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Funny you mention that I've actually been using gpt 4 to write stable diffusion prompts for my own stuff
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Prompt engineering is just the "good at google searching" of tomorrow. That said, I think there is a lot more potential depth to it, seeing how inexpressive web searches are by comparison.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
There are github projects that are forks of things like selenium and puppeteer that are specifically designed to avoid detection for things like scraping google search results, etc.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Yeah this always turned me off of contributing in earnest to SE. The purpose is supposed to be a general purpose site with an answer to _all_ questions, but in practice it's just a site with answers to questions an expert might have. A
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Yeah, for me the breakout interesting thing about this post was that it was written by a 17 year old.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Furthermore, all bots worth their salt as far as threats go enable js and do everything they can to appear like a normal browser.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
"Our PoW-based solution defends fierily" oof
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I am 100% sure this comment was AI-generated.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I retract my previous statement! If you're already doing the Co-authored-by, that is fantastic, then their names are clickable on GitHub, and the developers themselves will be able to directly interact through their own GitHub accounts
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by sam0x17 3y ago
It's a lot easier to trust an individual than it is to trust an entire organization which is effectively trusting every individual who may have access at that org at any given time. We often think of orgs as these big trusty things but
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Unless the question was "write a program that simulates a coin flip"
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True/false answers to programming questions don't build apps.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
> Relative to the times, obviously, people at every time do exactly as well. You would be measuring a thing against itself. My point is that "relative to the times" captures a lot of the crucial things worthy of comparison. The
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Right, now we're the "stuck in a 30 year mortgage we can't afford and If I lose my job I could lose my house" generation. Humbling, in a way boomers never experienced.

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