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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Yup, basically. The situation is relatively straightforward, though people with biases (&/ desire to just argue &/ trolls) complicate it over and over again: UNIX, and specifically Linux as a descendant, was evolved with v
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... they'll look the same everywhere. Hahahahhahhahahhahhahahahha ahhahahhaha ... ajajjjajjajaja... Look, I'm laughing so hard, I suddenly turned Spanish*. Lol. That wasn't true in the late 80s and 90s, and it isn't tr
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Because our (US) system is at Monty Python levels of absurdity. We waste more money with this "system" than most other countries spend as a total, and with worse outcomes on average [1]. Fundamentally, there are two factors, IMO,
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Amazingly enough, I think this is a bit of it. Some powerful enough people at Google became concerned about implications, including around "hallucinations", "poisoning", etc., and decided to put this sort of research on
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Very surface take (from me, since I really haven't been keeping up with this area in any depth), but, first: sanctioning them sounds like the right thing to do (if I have the gist of this correct, reminds me of the Linux kernel poisoni
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
As another commenter noted, you're making lots of assumptions. For example, your mindset sounds, to me, entirely "modern 'western'". I would suggest that the fundamental issue with your assumptions is a blurring of
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Exactly! I do think that while "Threads" reduces reach, clamoring to get in, etc., OTOH, it will suck up most of the "worst of social media". This may mean that Bluesky grows slowly and ends up with the best discussions,
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
I don't think it's quite that 'settled' (although, comically, I made my own [much worse] overstatement in a comment this morning). But, the landscape is certainly a LOT less friendly, at this point. Threads has obviously
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Big part of it, as far as I can tell. Slight further (and darker) twist: our economic model is dying, but nothing substantive is being done to make appropriate revisions. Essentially: we have excessive, but still increasing, numbers of peop
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There's a hack that solves "the problem" in general: "non-judgment". We get so inculcated with comparing, contrasting, thinking about "better", "not as good as", "worse" ... it's T
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What do you mean "going to become"? I mean, not to just be a jerk or trot out a tired cliche for the heck of it, the "internet" - particularly the web - has, IMO / IME, massively degraded in the past 5 - 7 years. An
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Haha, normally I'd agree. And, I think that's one of the reasons no big company put any real effort (that I'm aware of / can think of at the moment) into trying to create and deploy a twitter-like service. The "Musk
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
AI licensing is extremely complex. Unlike software licensing, AI isn’t as simple as applying current proprietary/open source software licenses. AI has multiple components—the source code, weights, data, etc.—that are licensed differen
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Brings to mind the excellent team behind REAPER - "cockos": John Schwartz, in the role of "Italics" is reportedly "so highly trained that he can type code that compiles correctly almost 3% of the time"! Remarka
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
You may be far better informed than many you're arguing with, but casual dismissal IS foolish. The biggest potential / likely issues here aren't mere capabilities of systems and simple replacement of humans here and there.
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Very true. Sadly, while "companies" play a very large role, ultimately, it's people. The dynamics are, I think, somewhat interesting. The essential pattern appears like "theme and variations", woven endlessly throug
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
What, you'd rather spend that time working "for the man"? ;) To be honest, I used to be much more critical about how people spent time - particularly how I spent time ... Then I learned to stop worrying and love the reality:
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Right or not, /u/spez* really needs to stop relying so strongly on the 'techniques' of the "Marie Antoinette" School of PR**. * AKA "Steve Antoinette" ** Yes, Antoinette was, really, particularly unfa
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
That's right, blockchain = old and busted. Buc Nasty, what can I say about that blockchain that hasn't already been said about Afghanistan? It is bombed out and depleted...
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
There are a lot of stupid comments on HN (to be fair, I've contributed some of them, willfully or not). One real "distinction" of HN - as much as this seems to pervade far too much modern & social media 'discourse&#x
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Yup, here's info through Xilinx website (without some of the confusion possible in the current comparatively early stages after acquisition): https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/acap/versal-..
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Besides the "Better Off Ted outtakes" (comment on another comment), this also brought to mind Chappelle's Show "Player Haters Ball", Letterkenny ("chirps", etc.), and The Inbetweeners. I'm sure there
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Ooh, good stuff! Reminds me of the excellent, but unfortunately short-lived, "Better Off Ted". The episode these bits (link below) are from was, (also) unfortunately, far less amusing / acerbic, as aired. But, while the &quot
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
I like this approach, speaking from a very general perspective (very uneducated regarding hardware, comparatively). Absolutely brings back memories of the 90s and arguments regarding open vs closed source and "security through obscurit
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Quick follow-up: just started seeing the name "tildes" pop up in the past week or so. One of the potential alternatives that's been mentioned. Then, saw an article yesterday that, to me, implied, that tildes has a very simila
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Ooh, unexpected and interesting reference to one of the "realms" of human experience (in the terminology / model of Buddhism, in particular, to me). "Hungry ghosts" is exactly it (as I've learned / come to
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...Used to loathe anything practical - experiments, programming, applied math etc cuz you know they weren't "pure" and engaging enough. I would also have a hardtime processing/registering something if I'm not able
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Thank you for some interesting comments grounded in your experience. I do, personally, think that now would be a good time for some form of non-profit/co-op/etc. reddit competitor to emerge. I've seen multiple suggestions in
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
"Won't somebody think of the corporations?!" The older I get, and the more I work on aspects of trying to build businesses, products, and services, the more I lament the loss of a kind of service-oriented ethos that truly mak
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by tiffanyg 3y ago
Not just a fisherman, but a teacher. Gracias!

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