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by troad 7mo ago
That's a really good point, thank you. I'm running Elixir in prod right now, so F# would be up my alley. As someone with all the memory of a fruit fly, I love a good REPL when I'm trying to recall the various magic incantat
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by troad 7mo ago
The problem with this approach is that it implies that I am responsible for how my interlocutor reacts, something I do not and cannot control. (Nor do I feel any need to.) It also presumes the interlocutor is acting entirely in good faith a
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by troad 7mo ago
> you’re turning toward personal insults based on top of your own incorrect theorizing. I think it's pretty clear that I tried to phrase it as kindly as I possibly could. Not intended as an insult in the slightest, merely a purely s
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by troad 7mo ago
> I know you’re desperate for reasons to believe the deleted Reddit story and discredit me, but you’re the one coming up with explanations that disagree with the story posted I honestly don't even know who you are, or really care ab
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by troad 7mo ago
> If this really happened then it would be referred to law enforcement because companies don’t handle CSAM as internal matters that go through their appeals process There's just an awful lot of armchair theorising in your posts, and
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by troad 7mo ago
Who said it's a new email? Most people have preexisting alternative emails - work emails, college emails, etc. I personally have a non-Google email in the recovery email list, and I don't think that's uncommon. They also have
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by troad 7mo ago
The story as OP tells it is that they appealed the ban, and the ban was upheld. Logically, they appealed the ban from an email address they had access to. I don't know how you get from 'all of their Google accounts were banned&#x2
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by troad 7mo ago
You identify two inconsistencies, neither of which appear to actually be inconsistent. (One is just the observation that multiple accounts were banned, which is not actually an inconsistency? Just something you don't find likely?) It&#
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by troad 7mo ago
> but then later they received an email explaining the reason for the ban Presumably this was in response to an appeal, which would have required an email, which would obviously have been a non-Google email given the wider context? I&#
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by troad 7mo ago
And for the vast majority of people who don't have access to some kind of megaphone?
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by troad 7mo ago
God, this is a real nightmare. I'm pretty reticent to rush to regulation, but I really don't know what other solution is even possible here. The average person cannot realistically exist in a digital vacuum, self-hosting their ent
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by troad 7mo ago
Thanks!
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by troad 7mo ago
Thanks for taking the time, I really appreciate the insights.
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by troad 7mo ago
Lol. My most recent comment before this one is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583593 . You judge if AI threatens my identity. But hey, don't let the facts get in the way of a slick narrative.
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by troad 7mo ago
Sorry, but no. Respectfully but firmly disagree. > You're argument about "exposed contacts" is absurd. The entire design of the US plug is exposed contacts. Anyone can and will find a way to use them in an unsafe manner. W
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by troad 7mo ago
Interesting! Unfortunately, the smallest Hermes 4 model I can see is 14B, which would really strain the limits of my little laptop. The only way I might get acceptable performance would be to run it extremely quantised, but then I probably
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by troad 7mo ago
This is really interesting, thanks for sharing. Great food for thought. Being tightly coupled with MS already, did you ever explore .NET?
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by troad 7mo ago
Because it's completely impossible to prevent people from being able to touch a live contact in a socket that must accept many different types of plug. Safe sockets firmly grip the plug they are designed for. This socket cannot, since
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by troad 7mo ago
These are definitely some good thoughts, thanks! Do you worry at all about the future of F#? I've been told it's feeling more and more like a second-class citizen on .NET, but I don't have much personal experience.
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by troad 7mo ago
What are some good alternatives for closed source codebases that people have been using and enjoying? I only ask because I already know of good alternatives for FOSS, but it's the private / work projects that keep me tethered to G
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by troad 7mo ago
What are some examples of batteries-included languages that folk around here really feel productive in and/or love? What makes them so great, in your opinion? (Leaving aside thoughts on language syntax, compile times, tooling etc - jus
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by troad 7mo ago
Ah, so you've traded the possibility of bad dependencies for certainty.
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by troad 7mo ago
That's very cool! I think giving it some research tools might be a nifty thing to try next. This is a fairly new area for me, so pointers or suggestions are welcome, even basic ones. :) Worth adding that I had reasoning on for the Tian
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by troad 7mo ago
Hey, if Margaret Thatcher's son can give it a go, why not you? Believe in yourself and reach for those dreams. *sparkle emoji*
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by troad 7mo ago
I very recently installed llama.cpp on my consumer-grade M4 MBP, and I've been having loads of fun poking and prodding the local models. There's now a ChatGPT style interface baked into llama.cpp, which is very handy for quick exp
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by troad 7mo ago
Analogue TV would not be much better. How would the aliens know they're supposed to shoot an electron raygun left-to-right 486 times across a screen, then ignore the next 39 lines, then repeat this 29.97 times a second? And that's
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by troad 7mo ago
I probably can't keep this debate up for too much longer, but know that I hear you. And I hope I was heard in return. More broadly, I don't think any of us arguing in this thread are really all that far apart. Nothing would please
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by troad 7mo ago
I reject the scare quotes you're putting around the word vaccine. The COVID vaccine is a triumph of human ingenuity and we should all feel incredibly proud it exists. It was the moon landing of our time. More broadly, vaccines have pro
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by troad 7mo ago
> While I get the dislike for conspiracy nutjobs, I did not make any such statements or implications Fair! Withdrawn. > So what is the handout here, exactly? Your argument is an oxymoron. I'm not sure how it's an oxymoron. I
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by troad 7mo ago
They exist but are insanely unsafe. It would be ten kinds of illegal to install a socket like that in your home under any code I've ever seen. It's already difficult enough to prevent people from making contact with the live parts

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