tremon

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571.
by tremon 11mo ago
If you're going to use the "ooh freedom is scary and dangerous" card then I'm allowed to play the "some freedoms are necessary to maintain a free society" card. If that was not your argument, feel free to clari
572.
by tremon 11mo ago
is silly The word you're looking for is oppressive.
573.
by tremon 11mo ago
That's called a weapon (EMP discharge), and there's quite a lot of people in the US that are ready to defend even such devices. There's even a Constitutional article about it IIRC.
574.
by tremon 11mo ago
Forking the code fractures the community. The discussion at hand focuses on the community, not the code.
575.
by tremon 11mo ago
*moat
576.
by tremon 11mo ago
In countries with sufficient transportation alternatives, freedom of movement is still guaranteed even with your driver's license permanently revoked. And I've never heard anyone use freedom of movement to argue against prisons, s
577.
by tremon 11mo ago
Or alternatively, apply the corporate death penalty: remove the board and C-level executives, nationalize the assets. I favour this penalty especially for crimes related to worker unions.
578.
by tremon 11mo ago
That sounds quite useless to me. I've never been in an emergency where I could afford a 500ms delay before engaging the brakes, and also had ample opportunity and presence of mind to keep my finger uninterrupted on a dashboard button.
579.
by tremon 11mo ago
I think in the case of in-app tooltips, the cause is much more banal: it's UX managers having to defend their team and budget with usage metrics, and so they all try to shove their new features in your face to inflate their numbers. If
580.
by tremon 11mo ago
That's not the argument. The argument is that "when someone relays to you a claim of illegal activity, you are not allowed to verify for yourself" is not tenable in a free society. In this particular example, you have admitte
581.
by tremon 1y ago
An exec loses its wings?
582.
by tremon 1y ago
If that’s the US’s plan, it’s a good one Wait, why is almost 60% of energy coming from fossil fuels called a good plan? It's close to bottom of the class among first-world countries, but even Poland (50% coal/15% gas/25% re
583.
by tremon 1y ago
Maybe they're reporting only the inference energy usage, and not including the training and research phases? I'm just guessing here, I have no further knowledge nor desire to dig deeper, but it's the first thing that came to
584.
by tremon 1y ago
If it is so easy to fix, then why doesn't Google fix it? So far they've spent more effort in spreading knowledge about the vulnerability than fixing it, so I don't agree with your assessment that Google is not actively making
585.
by tremon 1y ago
No, this is Claude Sonnet 4.5 recalibrating its response.
586.
by tremon 1y ago
Why do they need to grow? Unlimited growth is normally classified as cancer. The only real need for growth is because of unsustainable economic practice.
587.
by tremon 1y ago
To prevent policymakers from writing regulations that harm the affected industries without gain But where are the lobbyists that prevent policymakers from writing regulations that harm the affected citizens? Are they not entitled to adequ
588.
by tremon 1y ago
"pop" music had its own avalanche of slop long before the advent of AI. Soulless reproductions and remixes of once-popular songs are everywhere.
589.
by tremon 1y ago
countries don't use legal precedents from other countries, as they obviously have different laws The seminal authority for all copyright laws, the Berne Convention, is ratified by 181 countries. Its latest revisions are TRIPS (concer
590.
by tremon 1y ago
Don't most DJ sets have elaborate cross-fades between tracks? It may not be possible to find a clean cut, and the best you can hope for is good judgement rather than precision.
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by tremon 1y ago
I started ripping before FLAC was a thing, and my first albums are all in 256k CBR mp3. I've never seen a big reason to re-do them. Yes, the files have gone through LAME's acoustic filter so they don't match the original bit-
592.
by tremon 1y ago
I have similar reservations about custom tags. My collection makes heavy use of non-standard tags, such as performer:<instrument>, opus, key, subtitle, or style. I can't find anything in the documentation about which tags are sup
593.
by tremon 1y ago
Then don't buy online, if you can't trust the vendor?
594.
by tremon 1y ago
Define "not working". The one and only function of a road is to support the wheels on top of it. Are you saying that there's regularly cars falling through the asphalt, or cars veering off the road when they meant to go strai
595.
by tremon 1y ago
It's way too early in the AI code lifecycle to see its full effects, especially for a codebase the size of Windows. It's going to take a decade for the full joy of this to manifest.
596.
by tremon 1y ago
the solution that doesn't involve having to disappear the half of the country that you don't agree with? You can't form a country with people who want half the country to disappear. There's only three possible outcomes
597.
by tremon 1y ago
Why does that distinction matter?
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by tremon 1y ago
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/byz.pdf , for those who lack patience.
599.
by tremon 1y ago
Please keep in mind that not everyone here speaks corporate English as their native language.
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by tremon 1y ago
Anticorruption work is good and necessary. If the FBI's work was any good, they would be investigating the funding of the destruction of the White House, or AIPAC and Qatari influence in DC, not Comey and Obama. Right now, they are wor

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