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by thwarted 2y ago
Describing some service/product in grandiose terms and misrepresenting it's actual use cases, utility, and applicablity, that it'll solve all your ills and put out the cat, is a grift for as long as there have been salesme
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by thwarted 2y ago
I've always wanted a recreation of 80s Saturday morning cartoons, you can choose one channel to watch and if you switch away to another channel, it's gone, just like this. You have three primary channels and two secondary or &quo
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by thwarted 2y ago
I feel like the GP and this response are a common exchange right before the next AI Winter hits.
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by thwarted 2y ago
Rainy "season" in SF? That's January, and the past few years even January had been pretty dry. That is in fact why I think SF has a bad rap for being dirty: it doesn't rain very much. I've lived in SF since 2007, be
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by thwarted 2y ago
Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me.
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by thwarted 2y ago
Not just length, but interactivity too. That suggestion makes sense for a long monologue that is ephemeral, but in the modern age where the content consumer is in the driver's seat and very little is actually "live", they can
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by thwarted 2y ago
> almost every article on the internet repeats itself in some form at least three times Even videos like YouTube shorts, which are meant to be short, have this problem. They are seriously padded with repetition. Here's thing, hav
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by thwarted 2y ago
So it's not that you don't want to pay someone, it's that you get so little value out of accurate tax calculations that you only want to pay a tiny amount. Just because you can amortize the cost of ChatGPT over more operation
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by thwarted 2y ago
Well, that was a simplistic contrived example, it may make sense to do this if you have other functionality you want to put in the wrapper. But I've seen more of these blind wrappers, the result of stuffing async and await keywords ar
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by thwarted 2y ago
> Async code bubbles all the way to the top. If you want to use await, then you have to mark your function as async. Then if someone else calling your function wants to use await, they also have to mark themselves as async, on and on un
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by thwarted 2y ago
> Its too late in the game for most major distros to get away from systemd. Oddly, this is the same rationale for keeping the established setup that was dismissed when systemd was introduced.
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by thwarted 2y ago
> you would get back a `Map<String, String | int>` (or, equivalently, `Map<String, String> | Map<String, int>`) How are these equivalent? Wouldn't the latter result in {foo:1, foo:"two"}, where the form
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by thwarted 2y ago
But you want to pay someone for software that doesn't do your taxes but looks like it does? Or are you using someone else's ChatGPT subscription to do your taxes?
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by thwarted 2y ago
it's still useful if the summary is usually right or mostly right. And you'd confirm that by having to read the unsummarized content. Thus useless. Consider that the alternative to reading the summary often isn't reading
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by thwarted 2y ago
Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me. When it comes to restrooms, some people can not help not help themselves and leave it in a significantly worse state, or use it for other purposes (like drug use). Maintaining restrooms is,
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by thwarted 2y ago
I'm not a Windows programmer so the exact meaning of PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA is not clear to me. I am familiar with UNIX style terminology here. Is this just a regular "dereferencing a bad pointer", what would be a "
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by thwarted 2y ago
Yes, it would be nice to live in a world where fizzbuzz wasn't necessary to filter for evidence of claimed qualifications (although, if fizzbuzz is taking half of a multi-hour experience, it's not being used correctly). My point b
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by thwarted 2y ago
Sales receipts are not necessarily a spool of paper. It's just a separate log of individual activity/events and is the source of truth for the list of transactions. A spool of paper is easy to make/inherently tamper-evident (
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by thwarted 2y ago
The yield functions only exist as syntactic sugar to make it look like iterators in other languages and to make it clear where the value emission point is (I had mentioned this in tweets and skeets when I was originally working on this, if
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by thwarted 2y ago
Here's a rough implementation of iterators using channels that I was experimenting with. It needs some syntactic sugar to do proper cleanup of the go routine if the loop exits early; probably the iterator function needs to return a fu
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by thwarted 2y ago
A picture is worth a thousand words, but so many pictures and "style" that adorn websites are completely unrelated to the purpose, design, content, or intent of the site. And I'm not referring to ads. A layout that makes th
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by thwarted 2y ago
So your issue is that someone who solved their problem didn't solve it in a way that you want or expect? Why does your opinion about their problem matter at all? Why does it matter to the person who makes their solution available that
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by thwarted 2y ago
Free software isn't about solving your problems, it's about solving mine and enabling you, and others, to solve yours, and theirs. It's about if I've been generous enough to give, anyone who takes can't undermine
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by thwarted 2y ago
You can add things to /etc/services and software that properly uses getservbyname(3) when binding to a port can use those names.
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by thwarted 2y ago
I think this is all too common due to a small few who take advantage which leads to the construction of barriers to prevent abuse. This isn't limited to large orgs -- it's everywhere in society. Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Ever
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by thwarted 2y ago
Use Crockford encoding to reduce this. It has readability and dictation considerations too which makes it ideal for things humans will interface with.
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by thwarted 2y ago
My own experience with edibles (of various ratios of the desired chemicals) is that, the only way I can describe it, the sample rate of my senses change and my brain isn't processing all the sensory input at the same rate—a different r
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by thwarted 2y ago
Ezra Pound worried his high art had become “arsthitic”. Is this a misspelling? I can not find a definition of "arsthitic".
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by thwarted 2y ago
Exactly. The lie is perpetrated by the snake oil peddlers who misrepresent the capabilities and utility of LLMs.
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by thwarted 2y ago
The lie occurs when information which is known to be false or its truthfulness can not be assessed is presented as useful or truthful.

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