smaudet

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by smaudet 11d ago
> and that is precisely my point! It's neither one you raised, nor one I was arguing... > for the one I originally raised ("how its information and narratives are governed in practice") Except, that's not what you
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by smaudet 11d ago
Your "counter" is nonsensical - if you are referring to the concept of a logical "red herring", something to distract by introducing an irrelevant topic, this is not that. Your comment pertained to your (dislike of) use
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by smaudet 12d ago
And yet, wikipedia is not owned by an evil (incompetent?) oligarch who made his mission to make the platform as shitty as possible... That's what Grok as for. Apples and Oranges...
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by smaudet 12d ago
Like it or not network effects can be overcome, but not with this sort of prisoner's dilemma thinking. Everyone using something was never a (good) reason to use it.
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by smaudet 16d ago
> Consider that you probably didn't have such an intense response to WIX templates or substack articles Apologism at best. People have been bemoaning this issue for a while now..., pre-AI even. First time I'm seeing this defend
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by smaudet 18d ago
You seem to be representative of this mob - I merely said that the post was bad, and welcomed some actual commentary. There's no need for pushback, there was no technical information realy shared in the OP (no work shown or explained).
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by smaudet 18d ago
For what it's worth, this comment was better than the article... When you outsource to the slop machine, you don't have anything interesting to say (usually).
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by smaudet 1mo ago
The lack of imagination here is the issue. I think AI bots are perfectly capable of replicating arbitrary barriers to entry, they can and will decide which (real or not) CEOs to interact with.
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by smaudet 1mo ago
> Career UX/UI folks will defend them, and this just feels like they smoked too much of their own shenanigans. Of course, people are a part of the problem, never said they weren't. But when you ask how did Bobby from marketing
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by smaudet 1mo ago
Serious answer: Bootstrap. That framework did more damage to web design than any other framework. Yeah, its nice that you can spin up a page in a second that looks like every other page on the internet, wait a minute... Technical answer: CS
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by smaudet 1mo ago
And then uninstall the app...
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by smaudet 1mo ago
Not necessarily. A VM doesn't have a "real" DMA controller, and this exploit is specific to a family of real hardware CPUs. Its not to say that its not impressive, but its fairly isolated to a specific family of processors fr
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by smaudet 1mo ago
Not only is this not really correct (obscuring pertinent legal information on purpose is a crime, e.g. such that it cannot be recalled), it isn't even applicable. Its been long documented that these systems are attempting to monitor yo
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by smaudet 1mo ago
I think the obvious answer is, that you are the product, and you are worth $$$$, possibly $$$$$, even $$$$$$ When did you agree to be sold without representation and a contract, again? Something about malicious contracts nobody reads? Prett
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by smaudet 2mo ago
This is an interesting take, although I'm not sure the legacy -> modern evolution is perhaps quite as significant as you make it out to be. Smart pointers and better std library constructs are absolutely welcome, metaprogramming is
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by smaudet 2mo ago
Ruby felt like a better Javascript, but JS ran in the browser, and so had the constraint of the DOM... Aka you have to be (more) disciplined within the constraints of the browser. I'm not saying JS was good... The lesson here being, co
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by smaudet 2mo ago
REPL isn't just more ineractive, it's open ended. I.e. you could execute a unit test in a REPL (after e.g. loading the test), but you can't run a REPL in a unit test - you can debug a test and maybe do some REPL like things,
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by smaudet 2mo ago
> A lot of the durable goods that became very cheap were a huge quality of life improvement that we simply take for granted. Like the previous poster mentioned, I'm not sure that's really such a quality of life improvement. Fir
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by smaudet 2mo ago
What crack was the YTber on? Income has only raised ~15% (on average), while inflation has been at 30%... meanwhile in the past century, money has lost 96% of its value... Not sure how that translates at all into "stuff" being mor
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by smaudet 2mo ago
Products tend to be someone else's tool. Like you hint at, though, a tool is useful immediately and without end (at a particular task - windows operating systems remain useful despite whatever current version is being sold), the produc
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by smaudet 2mo ago
You are correct about growth, but speed is also a resource - kinetic energy is still energy, which comes from somewhere, and unless you have 100% perfect energy usage, there is thermodynamic loss, contributing to entropy, which itself is an
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by smaudet 2mo ago
> Once we've met our basic material needs The concern is not goods produced, those are not "resources", except perhaps in the very limited sense that food is a "produce". Energy, materials, those are resources.
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by smaudet 2mo ago
> It's not a zero sum game. Resources are, though. The planet cannot support a race of digital super-people, and us, and an continually growing economy. It's the height of folly to think that, as things are going, we are going
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by smaudet 3mo ago
The mistake was not claiming features rather browser client versions... JS devs were kinda able to patch around the nonsense because they were able to feature-detect - part of the reason this stuck around was because no legitimate user or d
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by smaudet 3mo ago
I'd prefer a mode where you fail the word, but can continue to the next word. Perhaps it is intentionally part of the design, but being a bit of a perfectionist, I failed a couple of times, and found that actually the longer words were
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by smaudet 3mo ago
"The only solution is to lock every LLM query in the entire stack behind the same deterministic role-based access controls that determine resources available to the current user." Exactly. The sooner people stop trying to replace
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by smaudet 3mo ago
> The SW industry Partly the issue is, it was never the right model. If you write/wrote code, you were a manager. Probably a better one than your "people manager" ever was, but that is/was arguably a different skill.
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by smaudet 3mo ago
> Because arms race. The irony is, they are building their own competitor... Yeah, we get that nobody can trust China/Russia/USA/Shady cabal of too-rich-people, but we stopped the atom bomb because it was MAD (mutually ass
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by smaudet 4mo ago
Keyword is conjectured. Infinities of random sequences exist that can be shown not to contain all data, 0-8 (base 10) is one such random sequence that is trivially proven to never contain 9... There are no known patterns to pi, but, (I am l
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by smaudet 4mo ago
I don't think you understand the goal of a hackathon. They aren't (or weren't) VC pitch sessions. You don't run marathons to be usane bolt, you don't go to hackathons to land VC deals. 24 hours of non stop AI usage

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