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by sortoflog 7d ago
I’m not so sure the usefulness of custom allocators really relates to the complexity of the problem. Take the scratch arena example: ifaik it’s just free performance (& simplicity) whenever you need dynamic allocations with lifetimes th
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by sortoflog 9d ago
Agreed. I was specifically talking about the one blackmailing message they got.
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by sortoflog 10d ago
I feel quite bad for her. If you aren’t in the know (chronically online), I don’t think it’s obvious whatsoever that using AI for a poster could be seen as unethical. I doubt she even expected anyone to point it out. At the same time though
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by sortoflog 12d ago
> You look very odd and silly if you still want to engage with it and just use a different UI layer (i.e., "XCancel", "Nitter".) Why? The site still hosts plenty of content worth seeing. Is it really so silly to do it
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by sortoflog 25d ago
> Why should you put in effort to something that should be effortless? Why should it be effortless? > Why should I waste my time writing some inferior copy by hand? Have some faith in yourself :) If the LLM writing was superior then s
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by sortoflog 25d ago
> This person doesn't owe you any work. He's providing a product for free A product being free doesn’t make it exempt from criticism. It’s not about “owing” anybody work. > and this is a reasonable enough description of the
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by sortoflog 1mo ago
> Nothing is ideal Right, which is why touting oversimplified economic models is likely to be contentious ;) Speaking of which: > The more free market a country is, the more prosperous it is. When do you think the US was at its most p
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by sortoflog 1mo ago
That’s an ideal free market, but do you know of any large economies that actually meet this criteria? Happy customers are optional when you have regulatory capture.
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by sortoflog 2mo ago
Sure, but almost everyone already knows this. It’s not hugely relevant in a discussion about how things could be better.