soulofmischief

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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
I agree, designing institutions around incentives is key. But the discussion around factory farms can shaped around ethics and not morals, and I had taken the opportunity to point out that "preference" reads as unwarranted euphemi
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
Some might argue that ignorance or apathy doesn't reduce someone's participation as a consumer in a very inhumane and climate-wrecking meat industry down to simply "preference". I do agree it's unrealistic to expect
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
The key principle is simple. If you want to best predict what state comes next from a space of possibilities, you have to figure out how probable each next state is and pick the most probable one. If you want to compress something, you have
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
It's basic information theory, which has been around since the end of WWII. It's a common topic today because some of its subtle insights are becoming increasingly relevant in our current era of AI, as we learn to understand these
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
Is that why you just felt the need to edit each of your comments in an attempt to make them less petulant and more substantial?
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
They also just went and silently changed multiple comments in order to make their replies look less edgy, petulant and unprofessional. I'm all for editing out swipes, but the lack of acknowledgement makes it clear that their last resor
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
That has nothing to do with your general professional respect for others and knowing how to read the room.
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
Is that your legal advice? Has this strategy worked for your clients before? Edit: Poor taste to edit out your original comment with no acknowledgement. That was inappropriate and you know it, which is why you've now changed your comme
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
I am amazed that an attorney would ask me to divulge this kind of highly personal information in a public forum when I am clearly trying to be discreet.
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
You quite frankly have the conversational intelligence of a petulant child and I would not seek your legal advice in any matter if this is how you conduct yourself when discussing law with others online.
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
You have no idea who I am, what hardships I have dealt with, and clearly don't have a complete understanding of civil liberties if you cannot make the connection between the violation of two different Constitutional rights. Your curren
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
This reads like your personal fantasy. It's also insulting to people who stand by these words all the way down the slippery slope. People who spend time trying to make the world safer for you and others. Instead of positioning yourself
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
The public may have weev's back, but privately the majority of us disavowed him after he went full nazi in prison and doubled down on an alt-right agenda. I personally know people who signed the court petition to get him acquitted and
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
You're right, they're not.
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
Who is "most of y'all"? Sounds like a generalization to me and a poor attempt at an appeal to character in order to undermine the perspective I've shared. Have you been to prison? I've been incarcerated before alrea
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
Is is also clear that there are major deficits in our Constitution but that the amendment process has failed to survive a modern world. Any of our original forefathers would recognize today's American federal government as an overreach
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
Actually, yes. It's a really fucked up situation.
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
I think this is highly dependent on the area we're discussing. As I mentioned, the process for me took a month.
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
The thing about inalienable rights is that they are not rhetoric, they are an intrinsic recognition of rights that do not require the recognition of authority: Governments which do not respect these human rights should not be modified; not
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
I evicted someone from my home just a couple months ago and the process took one month. I'm not sure what "Do you mean in absolute terms?" is asking, but I think it's generally wise to follow the Hacker News guidelines h
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
Right now, many people do not own property and are one missed paycheck away from homelessness.
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
It's difficult to tell if you are for or against access to open weight models as a general rule, so I am curious to hear your opinion on this. Personally, I think we will one day come to see access to open weight models as an inalienab
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
No, the pret decompilations it's based on do include assets.
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by soulofmischief 2mo ago
Since this is clearly coded with an LLM and the README has not been written by a human, I'm curious if it actually does play end-to-end. I have personally recently ported all of the mainline GBA Pokemon games to run on a modern PC. It
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by soulofmischief 3mo ago
> If we're pushed to delegate most work to them, how do you build that expertise? Have you ever pair programmed with someone? It's the same idea. You can be an active enough participant in the process if you wish to be and ca
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by soulofmischief 3mo ago
Location: Southern US Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript/Web, Python, C, Full-stack, AI/ML Email: hello @ bad-software dot com GitHub: https://github.com/soulofmischief F
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by soulofmischief 3mo ago
I used to be a heavy shell and IDE user and now I ask my local AI to do the majority of computing tasks I used to do by hand. Codex/similar harnesses allow me a digital workspace where I can organize both short-term and long-horizon ta
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by soulofmischief 3mo ago
I also cancelled Cursor this month after a few months of not using it at all other than to read code and make a few surgical edits. I can do that in any IDE, hell I can do that in Notepad. There are better products, the paradigm has shifted
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by soulofmischief 3mo ago
What are the economics of connecting flights? I'd imagine that max flight time isn't the only factor; hubs allow people to move around via connecting flights in a way that might not be economically acceptable if all flights were d
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by soulofmischief 3mo ago
900 years ago, Christians were crusading across Europe and slaughtering tens of thousands in religiously motivated militant action. Furthermore, Christian European colonization of the Arab world is what led to any modern notion of resentmen

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