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by veidr 1y ago
Each post of yours in this thread is doubling down on the false equivalence. The grievances you are expressing are real, but so trivial in magnitude relative to what you're comparing them to, that you sound absurd.
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by veidr 1y ago
For real, though. Even if you don't care about racial politics, or even good-vs-evil or legal-vs-criminal, the fact that that entire LLM got (obviously, and ineptly) tuned to the whim of one rich individual — even if he wasn't a
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by veidr 1y ago
Yeah, of course ZFS on macOS is a disaster, the people trying to make it work are what? Two people? One heroic dude? But I agree with you about the most important feature that Apple failed on. I lament Apple's failure to secure ZFS as
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by veidr 1y ago
> Let's stop at "vscode is open-source in a very narrow and limited capacity, and thoroughly deceptive in its messaging". OK, yes, I agree; we should stop, as the disagrement seems to boil down to semantics. I think "
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by veidr 1y ago
Yeah, I know all about that stuff. But nevertheless, you _can_ fork it. Is it the most awesome, selfless, altruistic version of open source? Clearly not. But is it better than being proprietary closed-source software? Well, that's a va
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by veidr 1y ago
It’s plenty open source — that is why all these forks exist! VS Code itself does not work without various propriety stuff, but that is a different thing. A large number of open-source projects work that way. If you don’t like the proprietar
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by veidr 1y ago
Yeah, part of it is that I do find const foo = something() .hoge() .hige() .hage(); better , sure, but not actually significantly harder to read than: let foo = something(); foo = foo.hoge(); foo
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by veidr 1y ago
The person you are quoting already conceded that is less readable, but that the ability to set a breakpoint easily (without having to stop the process and modify the code) is more important. I myself agree, and find myself doing that too, e
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by veidr 1y ago
Yep, mom→fetus/child is "maternal microchimerism" and it is also widely studied (though less so than the reverse) and seemingly confirmed.
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by veidr 1y ago
Glad for this family, but also: This is interesting to me at the margins, because one of the things I learned when my wife got pregnant the first time was that the womb is not exactly the warm cradle of nurturing that I had always (without
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by veidr 2y ago
Or might go away in May 2025, after whatever foreign leader or competitor bought enough $TRUMP, or rented sufficient luxury hotel rooms.
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by veidr 2y ago
You are laboring under the dubious assumption that Trump gives any fucks about the US economy. (And that, even more dubious, that the real-life congress will manage more than bloviation on TikTok.) This is a pure klept move. Who knows if he
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by veidr 2y ago
It's clearly not good for the US economy, but I think that is a red herring. This has been so far, and continues to be, a highly successful endeavor from the perspective that matters: that of the US president himself, who wants to bene
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by veidr 2y ago
Sure, that is just as true.
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by veidr 2y ago
Well, I hope you are right, but I suspect your hypothesis will be disproven, and that you might, in fact, be the one who is confused by the hysterical American media that you decry, conflating its ratings-driven amplification of every confl
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by veidr 2y ago
Yes, I 100% agree they should just mandate compliance with a specific HTTP header — and prohibit any popup or other smarmy trick or dark pattern of different behaviour if the header is present — but why haven't they? I am honestly curi
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by veidr 2y ago
They are both true. America engineered the previous world order, where the West relied on American protection, which at the same time helped keep the dollar the world currency and America the most influential and powerful nation. At the sam
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by veidr 2y ago
I think your normalcy bias might be showing here: > In reality, the US government is one of the most static, unchanging organizations on the planet. The changes in that past couple of months are, objectively, enormous disruptions to the
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by veidr 2y ago
I agree, but most Americans don't; I suspect we'll see in the coming decade or two, unless the US executes some kind of implausible course correction. On the one hand, studies have suggested that nearly half of highly successful e
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by veidr 2y ago
I don't use this app, although I'm sure I will regret that once the ongoing WWIII actually destroys all undersea cables and sattellite links. But I always tune in to a thread about this app to read the brutal commentary about its
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by veidr 2y ago
Oh, that blocking is most likely the reason, then, which does make sense. He posted a more complete version to hey.com: https://world.hey.com/dhh/apple-does-ai-as-microsoft-did-mob...
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by veidr 2y ago
Apple basically _did_ die, after Performa/Copland (and let's not forget Open Transport!!) The resuscitation was truly miraculous.
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by veidr 2y ago
Yeah, I personally remember "10.6.0 utterly fucking sucks" (though it got better) — hard to remember the details, which is probably in my personal best interest, but I remember fairly vividly shouting that to friends over beers so
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by veidr 2y ago
LOL I did not click the links because I don't want to visit that site (and also have limited interest in what DHH says about Apple Intelligence — not none, but not enough to click it), but I am actually very curious as to why DHH (or a
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by veidr 2y ago
OK, incomprehensible to me but also nothing to do with Fauna or the topic at hand :-/ https://www.jaxon.gg/ceres-fauna-graduation-announced-why-is...
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by veidr 2y ago
elaborate
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by veidr 2y ago
You're right to do so, but I think the urgency has changed. Since Bush and 9/11 we had some dubious, secret lists like the "no-fly list" — but we also had a bunch of other secret lists, too. The difference is now you get
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by veidr 2y ago
I take your point, because violations of the law and constitutional rights did happen then, too. But I don't think the magnitude or key charactersistics are quite the same. Post-9/11, I mean you had to expect a freak-out. Marginal
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by veidr 2y ago
Although less egregious at a glance, as a US citizen, I think that is pretty extreme and unprecedented in my lifetime (I'm 50) :-|
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by veidr 2y ago
To be clear, I don't mean "fuck you if you don't like it", I mean literally nobody should go to the USA (I'm a citizen) unless it's absolutely necessary.

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