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by serf 9mo ago
They shorted me a day off credit on the first day of offering the 200+ subscription and it took me 6 weeks for a human to tell me "whoops well we'll fix that, cya." I can't be alone . Literally the worst customer experie
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by serf 9mo ago
it's not immoral to fire people. it's immoral to lie to people. very few people can do the mental gymnastics required to equate " we look forward to realizing Vimeo’s full potential as we reach new heights together " t
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by serf 9mo ago
I thought that moderation was done mostly manually? oh I think you mean the filter on the game portion?
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by serf 9mo ago
>"Cool! What's G13 do?" - Bill Hicks I hear that bit in my head every time a new plane or weapon designation is announced, glad to hear it stuck with others too.
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by serf 9mo ago
>I've also found reviewing LLM generated code to be much more difficult and grueling than reviewing my own or another human's code. absolute opposite here. LLMs , for better or worse, generally stick to paradigms if they have t
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by serf 9mo ago
a lot of that may be TTS accessibility features. I know Ubuntu, among others, used to ship Firefox without modules it defaulted into, so it would complain harmlessly and bring up an annoying pop-up-blocked style modal when the TTS module&#x
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by serf 9mo ago
it has a clit mouse and I can take most units apart in 30 minutes. that's the entire reason. no need to get into supply chains and culture and hoodoo.
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by serf 9mo ago
>Thinkpads are “Cheap” because nobody who worships the things buys one new. most wrong statement ever. in fact with the entire 30th anniversary lineup was made to sell new units to fans, no one else cared.
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by serf 9mo ago
folding@home is still going I think? seti@home was definetly a cool screensaver, though.[0] [0]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric-Korpela/publicatio...
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by serf 9mo ago
>so! instead of posting weirdo "code of conduct" letters.. one corporate side overshares by pointing fingers and accusing a different corporation... so that corporation decides to be the better person, declare the opponent as w
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by serf 9mo ago
Fine, but you've now established this loop where one must find and analyze the human struggle in the music before qualifying an opinion, how does this jibe with deciding whether or not a tune playing in the grocery store has a catchy
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by serf 9mo ago
So in the future when we need an expert to discern the real art that's fundamentally human you'll be available, right? The concept that there is some hidden quality to human made art strikes me as the same line of thinking that l
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by serf 9mo ago
But the qusstion never got answered. If you liked a song that you later realized was generated would it ruin the song? If a robot ai basketball team was authentic enough to have hoodwinked me into thinking it was a real entertaining team t
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by serf 9mo ago
it's wild that somehow with regards to AI conversations lately someone can say "I saved 3 months doing X" and someone can willfully and thoughtfully reply "No you didn't , you're wrong." without hesitation
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by serf 9mo ago
> "Cancel culture" (your social actions having social consequences) cancel culture isn't a synonym for shaming. cancel culture is a modern phenomenon that is facilitated by modern media formats -- it could not have existed
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by serf 9mo ago
>Firstly because you think “BLM” was a someone you can attribute an opinion to three people coined the phrase and made a lot of money on it through donations, interviews, grants, books, media, etc. Yes, BLM the movement and actions may b
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by serf 9mo ago
as someone who made their living on f360 for many years I urge newcomers to avoid it. Vendor lock-in as much as possible, along with constant rug-pulls and price-increases. DLC-ification of once-included features, and just shit corporate ma
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by serf 9mo ago
the problem isn't that search engines are polluted; that's well known. The problem is that people perceive these AI responses as something greater than a search query; they view it as an objective view point that was reasoned out
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by serf 9mo ago
>They did not. Anthropic is protecting its huge asset: the Claude Code value chain that's just it, it has been proven over and over again with alternatives that CC isn't the moat that Anthropic seems to think it is. This is mad
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by serf 9mo ago
in a country that hostile to you I would be worried about radiating any kind of EM, honestly. It's too easy to track and could cause undue targetting & victimization. my real answer : I think at that point in time effort is best
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by serf 9mo ago
I don't understand the mindset because I began my foray into open source exactly because I wanted to distribute and share my code. in other words, i've never been in the position that I felt my charitable givings anywhere were e
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by serf 9mo ago
for me its the CSS glow and the random non-attributable stats like : "2 Apps Roasted ∞ Bugs Found 42 LOLs per Post 0 Feelings Hurt "
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by serf 9mo ago
limited prompts work well for limited programs, or already well defined and cemented source bases. once scope creeps up you need the guardrails of a carefully crafted prompt (and pre-prompts, tool hooks, AGENTS files, the whole gambit) -- o
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by serf 9mo ago
yeah, and it's been an easy win for game developers and smooth sailing on that front, too. ..right?
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by serf 9mo ago
spasmodic dysphonia as a service.
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by serf 10mo ago
it's fun getting old and forgetting about what you forgot about. seeing those screenshots from planetquake and the gameshark site it feels as if mentally it was just yesterday, but I wouldn't have given them a split second conside
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by serf 10mo ago
counterpoint : my father had realistic expectations for what he wanted to do post-retirement. what actually happened was that he sat around purposeless because it turns out that the motivation of producing a paycheck or product was actually
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by serf 10mo ago
>We call AI models "open source" if you can download the binary and not the source. Why not programs? the weights of a model aren't equivalent to the binary output of source code, no matter how you try to stretch the metap
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by serf 10mo ago
OK. Well, the way you wrote this sentence : > I used to drink protein shakes, but now I am actively against these. Artificial sweeteners provoke insulin release [1] [2] that leads to type-II diabetes. makes it read , structurally, like t
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by serf 10mo ago
our genetics haven't had the time to figure that out, yet. that's parents' point ( I think ? )

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