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by scared_together 3mo ago
> my kids love using this fantastic learning tool > The friendly interaction between the Ello character and my kids gives them a fun motivation > AI drives a love for reading I cannot trust someone to assess a love for reading, if
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by scared_together 3mo ago
> I design my code so that I always know which number will be larger than the other. That’s good discipline, but with better tooling and languages such conditions could be enforced by the compiler such as with Dafny. But Dafny is overkil
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by scared_together 3mo ago
There was a related article from the other side of the debate a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989154 It’s pretty sad that after all these years, dealing with fixed size integers is still so complicated.
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by scared_together 3mo ago
> Eventually someone important enough will force digital resales to become reality Honest question: why? Why would anyone important enough to hold that power actually use it to force resales to exist? Who actually has the incentives to m
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by scared_together 3mo ago
The problem of false advertising is resolved but the problem of consumer freedom remains. If all digital marketplaces for a particular art only offer rents, without any option to buy or any physical media to serve as an alternative, tha
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by scared_together 3mo ago
You could use separate tools for those tasks. JIRA/Bugzilla/etc. for issue tracking, Sublime Merge or equivalent for comparing a dev branch to a main branch, and CI/CD with Azure Pipelines or whatever the “modern” equivalent
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by scared_together 4mo ago
With regards to interpreting the laws, I mostly agree with you, although I certainly haven’t delved as deep into the true meaning of law in society. But I still don’t understand what you actually expect from maintainers of free and open sou
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by scared_together 4mo ago
I disagree that a spoiler warning qualifies as a “dismissal” or even a “complaint”.
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by scared_together 4mo ago
> I still really don’t understand what is so entitled about asking for a level of base empathy and care from maintainers. > People now yell at you that their only obligation is whatever is spelled out in the license they attached to t
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by scared_together 4mo ago
> Contributions from people from identities known and consistent before the AI-age are fine Unfortunately, according to the article: > Giovannini has participated in discussions at least as far back as 2018, and his activity in Bugzil
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by scared_together 4mo ago
And what’s stopping an AI agent from throwing in a casual NATCIOS here and there?
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by scared_together 4mo ago
Read closer - Giovanni’s accounts may have been compromised.
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by scared_together 4mo ago
Near the top, the page claims it’s about learning the difference between checking, saving and money market accounts. In the entire linked article, where is the explanation for what a savings account is? Most of the early paragraphs are just
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by scared_together 4mo ago
How exactly would BlackSmith enforce the overdue payment? By sending the user to court?
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by scared_together 4mo ago
The offering in question is "A better GitHub" so you are correct. That is an actual quote from the FAQ [0] by the way. In comparison CodeBerg [1] and SourceHut [2] both offer Git hosting but don't merely describe themselves a
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by scared_together 4mo ago
Point #5 seems near impossible and even furthermore undesirable. Unless we are envisioning an application with all the characteristics of a web browser, but using different layout languages.
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by scared_together 4mo ago
Is this a trend? Do you have any other examples? And what division would a world flag generate??
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by scared_together 4mo ago
Mukbangs are a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukbang
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by scared_together 4mo ago
> Is that suppose to make this better? When I first saw the 26k changes statistic I was shocked. It made me think a large chunk of code running on people’s machines was AI-generated. But the knowledge that a lot of the changes might be t
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by scared_together 4mo ago
When I look at the commits themselves, most of the ones generated by Claude are testsuite changes, or at least labelled as such. https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commits/master/
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by scared_together 4mo ago
> businesses will continue to need humans to differentiate. Honestly, why? If AI actually becomes capable of replacing large sections of the workforce, why wouldn’t a business composed entirely of AI “employees” outcompete their rivals?
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by scared_together 5mo ago
I attend a local writer’s group in my area, where people write in person within a time limit. The art of writing without AI assistance still lives, but it’s not online and probably not discussing the C++ standard library.
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by scared_together 5mo ago
I think Meta, Twitter and Reddit will lose relevance as younger generations move to different social networks. TikTok has already taken a bite out of the social media market, so has Discord. Out of the four companies listed, Google is the o
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by scared_together 5mo ago
Nudists exist, and compared to the span of human history toilets are a recent phenomenon.
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by scared_together 5mo ago
If self-expression doesn’t put food on the table, it will become monopolized by those who were already well-fed doing something else.
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by scared_together 5mo ago
> Apps and websites are throwing abusive fine print and dark patterns at users left and right. > I'd be absolutely thrilled to e.g. not have to interact with the Uber app and all its dark patterns if there were somebody or someth
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by scared_together 5mo ago
> Should AIs be held to a higher standard than X/Twitter? Than Reddit? Than Fox News? What censorship is appropriate? And, yes, alignment is censorship. Yes, a thousand times yes. Freedom of speech/expression should be a freedo
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by scared_together 5mo ago
The entire thing. If you want a specific example: where do those three pillars at the start come from? Why three and not four? Are all those three of equal importance, to the point where all three are pillars? Furthermore, why are you offlo
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by scared_together 5mo ago
I only started using it a couple of days ago, so I have no loyalty to it. Do you have any suggestions for identifying AI writing, other than relying on intuition or going through the points of Wikipedia's list [0]? [0]: https:/&#
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by scared_together 5mo ago
You're asking me to actually read the article instead of responding to the comment section? Oh the humanity! ;) The author's name in the article is linked to a list of articles attributed to her, and it's easy to advance thro

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