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by soco 2y ago
Please someone mention The User with their Symphonies for dot matrix printers (1999 and later): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grb_EIDSVnY
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by soco 2y ago
Unless I got it completely wrong, the beauty of this ambiguity is that one can make two radically different arguments based on it, depending on who we're trying to impress. Do you want to praise the USA? Here. Do you want to tax China?
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by soco 2y ago
Politics are lately more and more about emotion (we're under attack!) and speculation (it will be a catastrophe!) so as much as I agree with you, I don't see it happening. Or rather, I don't see this particular argument getti
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by soco 2y ago
You'd probably ask ChatGPT to write you a crawler for Wikipedia, without thinking to ask whether there's a better way to get Wikipedia info. So that download would be missed, because how and what we ask AI stays very important. Ac
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by soco 2y ago
Okay I think I finally get your point, and I even agree. The comparison with an executive assistant doesn't help much here, because the CEO interacts with only one person over all those delegatable activities, and the expectations are
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by soco 2y ago
And then we're back to point one: retelling the whole stack of choices every time because nobody on the other side of the conversation, person or AI; can tell whether all my previous options are still valid. Because even I, the caller,
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by soco 2y ago
I believe it's a fairly common approach, so singling out Japan this way sounds a bit unfair. For sore Switzerland does it the same manner, for example.
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by soco 2y ago
Is the project anything more than a (fairly elaborate I must recognize) 1 April joke? I agree with your point even on a more general level, amateur techies thinking to fix stuff which never needed fixing are nothing unusual. We "disrup
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by soco 2y ago
One could say that it also raised awareness of Ghibli movies to people who didn't know them (and I know quite a few who never heard of him). So I'm not sure it's all black. On a different angle, it shows how silly humanity is
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by soco 2y ago
Do you know such models or is this wishful thinking?
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by soco 2y ago
What I've seen in people supporting far-right politics is that they never, but never, ever, see themselves on the receiving end of the stick. It's really difficult to grasp how they are immigrants yet support throwing out immigran
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by soco 2y ago
Oh dear, how much does this sound like "the rule of two"... (insider joke, Star Wars reference)
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by soco 2y ago
At least in today's world with citizen programmers, a few low/no-code systems live much longer than expected and get used much wider than expected so hit walls nobody was bothered to think beforehand. Getting those programs past t
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by soco 2y ago
How many sites will have useful results to return for a "something 150"? Muzzle width? Bees? T-shirt size? Walking distance? You surely cannot want _all_ these categories yet you'll get them all in a list. I might be biased b
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by soco 2y ago
But after this appeal and when any upper courts finish their procedures and all possibilities of appeal, can one finally drop the "alleged"? (I also wonder why the downvoting but yeah that's HN)
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by soco 2y ago
The topic was about living there, which is the usual indicator of quality of life. Tourists do not influence directly the situation of the above family of three.
707.
by soco 2y ago
Now that she was convicted, it's not "allegedly" anymore is it. Why then this formulation?
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by soco 2y ago
I'm not sure why you'd say there's room to argue about Romania (lying about campaign funding is probably the only easy provable reason to be banned) but it's not the topic here.
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by soco 2y ago
I'm fully aware that in other countries skirting or blatantly ignoring the courts is becoming practice, but I'm definitely not a fan of that practice.
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by soco 2y ago
That is a quite pervasive thought in the tech industry nowadays: we break everything, let the politics/society/aliens fix it. What would you say if the politics/society/aliens decide to block said tech, stopping the prob
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by soco 2y ago
COBOL engineers are about the lowest on the pay grade and steadily deliver (when they are involved). Peanuts compared to any fancy consultant invited to draw cloud architectures with unrealistic expectations or timeframes. So this workforce
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by soco 2y ago
Because mainframe is "legacy" and also "dusty" technology it won't show in magazines as much as the hype du jour - nosql, frontend wonders, you name it. So yes it will be paid less by default. Also the fact that mos
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by soco 2y ago
To be totally honest, greens are blocking nuclear and conservatives are blocking renewables so here we are, with the worst of both worlds, breathing smokes and fumes.
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by soco 2y ago
Stupid question: why is important to read in order to be able to speak? Are there no illiterate people who can speak? Is Japanese something special, like dunno you modulate your lips in the way the character is traced or something? Or you j
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by soco 2y ago
Because anything related to "delivering better lives" gets labeled as "tangled up social issues" and discarded in favor of "increasing profits". Maybe the majority only understands life through money? Like, a b
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by soco 2y ago
An unhinged man with a gun is significantly riskier than an unhinged man without a gun, so I'm not sure I get your argument. But if you mean it in the philosophical/categorizational way, I'll just move on because I don't
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by soco 2y ago
I don't think we have a different usage based on the label "intelligent" or "not intelligent". I would leave this discussion to (armchair) philosophers, and focus on the utility and risks - which are exactly the sam
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by soco 2y ago
I guess they talk about free-to-scam-you markets, not about free-to-move-and-see markets.
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by soco 2y ago
Before or after they emigrate to Europe? Or are they coming to Switzerland out of spite?
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by soco 2y ago
And this is a very important point: there's no "perfect" situation (mandatory Churchill quote: "democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried"). But there are so man

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