skinfaxi

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   by skinfaxi 3mo ago

   I don't get it. Why is breaking the law so hard to enforce when it is a company (i.e a person or group of people consenting to) running a computer program? If I take a gun and spray bullets around me I don't get to write it off as
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   by skinfaxi 3mo ago

   Who does this metaphor serve? To me it seems to try to legitimize the actions as a force of nature.
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   by skinfaxi 3mo ago

   The local government would need to know, and that would come out in town meetings.
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   by skinfaxi 3mo ago

   > No. This is system code. You let an LLM loose on it, it probably fixed 20 bugs and introduces 200 more plus 5 different performance regressions. What does it being system code have to do with anything?
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   by skinfaxi 3mo ago

   Being opt-in doesn't negate the fact that it is closing the web.
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   by skinfaxi 3mo ago

   Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
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   by skinfaxi 3mo ago

   I assume you are unfamiliar with the concept of user agents? Otherwise your browser would count as a bot user no? And if not, what if it was a custom browser and not Chrome/Firefox/Edge?
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   by skinfaxi 3mo ago

   Your statement prompted me to look at immigration options in Singapore. It seems it is pretty reasonable to get a visa as a foreign technologist.
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   by skinfaxi 3mo ago

   The cost to municipalities/towns for medical insurance has skyrocketed which I think is a contributor (not to mention pension obligations for retirees).
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    > I don't think this portents anything great for software in general. I think it is a natural progression in technology. Failure rates were high for initial aircraft designs and safety improved over time, for instance.
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    > How else can you explain the US trying to fuck up the UN and NATO? At least cynically, there is nothing ignorant about it, it is intentional undermining probably for personal gain.
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    THanks! English is not my first language.
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    > To counter you music example - grinding the same chord over and over does not make you a better musician more than watching youtube videos of other people playing. It does if you are still learning fingerings. Repetition absolutely hel
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    > LLMs have made making personal changes to devtools so effortless that I am now extremely hesitant to use any non source available software at all This mirrors my view so totally it's crazy. If AI is ushering in the era of personal
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    Ah I see you are focusing on apps that have some web component that would enable ongoing authorization. I was thinking about apps that offer a trial but you can upgrade with an in-app purchase and there is no ongoing service component.
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    You can patch out the payment checks if you can decompile it
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    Is that not possible with ios applications?
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    > a real example: a dev got OOMed after a release that coincided with a flash sale. he increased memory limits, and containers stopped crashing and it was "fixed". Actualy, a newly introduced internal module had a memory leak.
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    > And, even with specialization and fine-tuning, often a high-end general purpose model is going to do a better job and people don't need a bunch of local tools installed to do their various tasks. I think this is the critical point
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    EBADF
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    > It hasn’t made me a millionaire, but I haven’t lost money either - so that’s some sort of win, right? I'm curious if that is before or after token costs?
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    We live in a world where, routinely, police plant evidence and prosecutors fail to bring forth exonerating evidence. They don't have to be stupid when they are being deceptive. Search "Brady violation" on youtube for some exa
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    I would submit that all social relationships have power dynamics. Politics is about allocation of resources more than power accumulation. You may be conflating the two because more power allows you to allocate resources with less interefere
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    Criminal liability doesn't require civil suit.
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    I don't mind if they point it inwards.
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    If Waymo can be liable for their cars, why isn't OpenAI liable for its AI?
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    If I let my dog off leash and it bites you and causes grave injury, no harm done then?
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    The wording of this phrase is pretty specific: "Cloudflare does not use your Customer Content to (1) train any AI models made available on Workers AI," it would seem they could use your data to train models they don't make av
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    What about https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
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    by skinfaxi 3mo ago

    I checked by almost completing checkout and no state tax was charged. I would be surprised if the states could tax federal goods.