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by tshaddox 3mo ago
Isn't it a bad sign that there are such varied results? Perhaps that's only a bad sign for the state of science, but I suspect it's also a bad sign for the effectiveness of the drug.
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
> Historically, Sudafed has contained pseudoephedrine, the wonder drug equally good at clearing congestion and making crystal meth. It's much better at clearing congestion than at making crystal meth. And, as the joke goes, it'
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
> The problem for us isn’t that AI will take our jobs; it’s that snake-oil salesmen can sell the idea that AI will take our jobs, investors buy into it, companies try it, fire their folks, the snake-oil salesmen IPOs, the companies that
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
I think it’s exceedingly unlikely for a good-faith reader to mistake good-faith human writing for AI writing. Even if you use em dashes and a few phrases that have become associated with AI writing, there’s still an unmistakeable sense of h
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
The article was very clearly written or heavily edited by AI, which I suspect explains some of the peculiarities in structure and wording.
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
6! is the number of minutes in 12 hours and the number of hours in a 30-day month.
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
Okay, then how can something become boring? It needs to start as the new hotness? Does that imply that the people who use non-boring software are the ones who determine which things get to graduate to being boring?
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
So something can only be "boring but works" if it was created before today?
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
They literally sell actual crystals that you’re supposed to place on top of speakers and amplifiers to make them sound better.
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
To me it’s less about the technologies used to produce the audio. If a human has put some creative effort into it, even if it’s mostly curating AI-generated audio, I’m in principle fine with that. But if little to no effort was put into it,
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
I didn’t suggest anything about the link between pirating media and buying media, and that’s not relevant to my point. The point is, if you want to support a creator financially, then by all means do so. And if you want a DRM-free copy of a
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
Again, pirating doesn’t stop you or anyone else from sending money to the copyright holder via whatever means the copyright holder prefers.
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
I think you’re confusing your own file backup practices with ownership. If you purchase a DRM-free piece of software (say, a game from GoG), I’d say you own it just as much as if you bought the same game on a CD (assuming the CD was also DR
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
I’m somewhat experienced in wilderness backpacking, and I always look into bear protocol anywhere I visit (including talking to the rangers there in person). But it’s disingenuous to suggest that you’d learn nothing from death statistics.
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
Those numbers look way off. Are you making the common mistake of ignoring mandatory spending? In 2024 defense spending and net interest were each about 13% of federal spending.
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
> Dumb question, when should a developer not use a monospaced font? I.e. when should they use MonaLisa Text When I get back to work, I’ll try it out on my markdown editor.
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
“Movie stars tend to be more attractive and better at acting than the median human. Really makes ya think doesn’t it?”
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
I understand it. Just like the precautionary principle, it’s bad epistemology and bad advice. It doesn’t provide any guidance on how much research is necessary before removing any specific fence. The most charitable interpretation is “don
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
Haven’t there been successful rewrites of nontrivial applications? I’ve always been skeptical of Joel’s Netscape example. Was the rewrite really the mistake? Couldn’t the mistake have been making an application where no one knows how it’s s
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
Advocates of Chesterton’s Fence tend to miss that they’re applying selective pressure to favor systems that fail to document (or outright obscure) their purpose. Of course, the much more obvious flaw of Chesterton’s Fence is that it trivial
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
Why is that ironic? This is exactly what you should expect, unless you feel very strongly about sideloading apps or installing different operating systems. Or if you love ads.
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
Is there reason to expect the consumer hardware markets to recover any time soon? Is there reason to expect they’ll ever recover without an AI bust that takes down the U.S. economy?
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
In the United States it’s illegal to sell Chinese EVs. It’s also illegal to download copyrighted music and movies. Which one do you suppose illegal open-weight models would more closely resemble?
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
That's an ignorant simplification of how property ownership works. For example, defeasible estates are not a new or rare thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defeasible_estate Granting land conditionally such that
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
I don’t think potential criminals need to research statistics to have a general sense of the ROI of attempting the crime. They probably have a ballpark sense of both the cash value of the stolen property and the likelihood of getting caught
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
I have only a surface level awareness of those topics. I would be very surprised if there are notable proponents of the idea that parents/adults should never attempt to encourage children to learn things. I’ve seen some stuff bordering
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
Isn’t the most obvious response from economics that the crime needs to be made more expensive? In other words, the likelihood of being harmed while attempting the crime needs to be much higher. If a quarter of the people who tried a compara
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
I'm sorry if I was uncharitable. That certainly was not my intention. The only usage of "coerce" I'm aware of is in direct opposition to "persuade" or "inspire," and I'm not aware of any serious
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
Why is it obvious to you that children should be coerced into learning something? Let's say that you have some curriculum C that you think is vital for children to learn, and you want as many children as possible to learn C. Even ignor
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by tshaddox 4mo ago
I had the same experience after subscribing for crosswords around 10 years ago, but I think at that time they did let you ask nicely for cancellation via a support chat bot. I think they might have only supported this in California due to C

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