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by simondotau 5d ago
Or we treat them like humans and make each one do job interviews to work out what tasks they’re suited for.
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by simondotau 7d ago
“Not up for debate” is a much scarier string of words than anything that guy has said.
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by simondotau 7d ago
I’m a web developer and I have never dailied Chrome or a Chromium descendant. Firefox for daily, Safari for the occasional cross-check.
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by simondotau 7d ago
This isn’t analogous to repeated addition giving multiplication. You’ve switched from applying an operation nine times to counting how many times an operation can be applied. You chose 81 because it’s the one number that makes your argument
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by simondotau 8d ago
SQL Server stored procedures don’t provide a separate tier of T-SQL functionality. Anything they do to the data can generally be expressed and executed as a T-SQL batch. If you think you need stored procedures to avoid network roundtrips in
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by simondotau 8d ago
That’s mostly occasionally accurate.
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by simondotau 8d ago
That interpretation doesn’t make sense. Repeated subtraction does not correspond to division in the way repeated addition corresponds to multiplication.
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by simondotau 8d ago
"Nine times" literally means multiplied by nine, but here we're dividing by nine. It's not unintelligible (because the corrupted verbiage is so commonplace) but it is needlessly awkward. Like saying "resulted in a s
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by simondotau 9d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
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by simondotau 9d ago
Moral condemnation has little coercive force unless it is backed by material power.
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by simondotau 9d ago
The answer to every problem is to rebuild statistics. (And never use stored procedures. It's just a shitty API layer in the worst language imaginable, sitting outside of source control. If you need an API layer, write it in a real lang
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by simondotau 11d ago
For casual kids gaming, Apple TV and Apple Arcade is a fantastic combo. It's been plenty enough to keep my kid occupied, using hardware I already owned.
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by simondotau 11d ago
1 is true: if you control the web server, you control whether the content is published as readable by anonymous visitors. 2 is true: if you disagree, provide the name of that singular corporation. To be clear, you're always relying on
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by simondotau 11d ago
1. It's always publicly readable; 2. It is not reliant on any singular corporation, or trusting any singular corporation. 3. The established domain name system proves authenticity. And of course the information can still be posted to X
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by simondotau 11d ago
That's what some motivated cable news researchers decided to abuse statistics to say. To be generous, I would say the article makes a significantly stronger causal claim than the experiment supports. The best description is a good expl
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by simondotau 11d ago
You substituted a different question ("who owns the platform") for the one I originally raised ("how its information and narratives are governed in practice"). Call that a red herring or simply a non sequitur; the label
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by simondotau 11d ago
The key difference is that Reddit has never been treated like a synonym for objectivity.
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by simondotau 11d ago
In terms of species-level harm arising from the ways their systems can be abused, I’d rank them roughly as follows. To be clear, I’m ranking a platform’s potential for species-level harm based on its scale and its ability to concentrate, en
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by simondotau 11d ago
As far as I can tell, the only way Twitter has substantively changed over the past few years is that a small (but non-trivial) number of politically obsessed left-wingers have voluntarily self-exited. Everything else is narrative.
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by simondotau 11d ago
It suffers from the same fundamental flaw as a self-selected poll: the people most motivated to participate are not necessarily representative, impartial or even particularly reasonable. What appears like a diverse community of fair, object
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by simondotau 12d ago
"XCancel Taken Down Again" is the title of this thread.
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by simondotau 12d ago
If you want to make the rules, start your own club.
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by simondotau 12d ago
> And yet, wikipedia is not owned by... That is a red herring. A corporation can act ethically. A charity can act disgracefully. A government can protect people. A neighbourhood association can bully them. A billionare can be philanthrop
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by simondotau 12d ago
> Why should we let one far right billionaire control how we interact We don't. We let six or seven far right billionares do that. > And regarding copyright Copyright of tweets are owned by original authors. Unless you have permi
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by simondotau 12d ago
Yes, and? I can't bend reality to make it otherwise.
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by simondotau 12d ago
Maybe if people didn't make services like XCancel, the impracticality of X would be more salient.
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by simondotau 12d ago
4. Click the link 5. Accept that you won't click on the link
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by simondotau 12d ago
If you don’t like X, I don’t understand why anyone would use a service like XCancel, which effectively helps maintain the cultural relevance of X. On a practical level, I’m also wondering what consistent legal standard people want when it c
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by simondotau 13d ago
I think it's because LLMs tend to obsessively write in a this-therefore-that kind of way, where an emdash is often the most semantically fitting punctuation.
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by simondotau 13d ago
I regularly have issues like that with Opus. I rarely do with the supposedly sub-frontier Grok 4.6, or Kimi K3, or even with Sol.

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