vermilingua

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by vermilingua 8d ago
Lots more people die in car crashes than horse accidents. Good analogy!
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by vermilingua 9d ago
The question most of us are asking isn’t “is it useful”, but “is it worth it”. Engaging with these tools involves no small amount of self-debasement and long term degradation of skills; do I want to sacrifice myself on the altar of producti
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by vermilingua 12d ago
No, these are books that aren't online , which means not only are they not contributing to the commons, they are irrevocably salting the earth (irrevocably because let's be honest, anything going into their archives isn't co
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by vermilingua 13d ago
Yknow, aside from the books they are literally destroying while scanning
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Neijuan(en.wikipedia.org)
122 points by vermilingua 15d ago|49 comments
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by vermilingua 17d ago
I believe that "have to" is a little strong, no? I think my case was made just as well by remaining one of the only people in my team able to critically analyse changes and plan complex work after three years of the rest of my com
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by vermilingua 17d ago
I don't touch LLMs for any purpose (when I can help it, they are frequently shoved in your face regardless); and up until recently was doing just fine. I was fired for this stance, not for performance reasons (officially stated that th
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Meditations on Moloch (2014)(slatestarcodexabridged.com)
10 points by vermilingua 20d ago|0 comments
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by vermilingua 21d ago
I would love to hear more about this, could you expand?
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by vermilingua 26d ago
Sorry, no evidence for who's running... GPTBot and ClaudeBot?
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by vermilingua 29d ago
Fandom (40k's fandom seems less-terrible than most tbf) needs to die a faster death. Lexicanum is a much better resource. https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/High_Gothic
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by vermilingua 29d ago
Yep I’m on XR, I’ve tried taking half my dose twice daily instead, which did smooth out the effects a bit but also made me much more likely to miss a dose. Not really any other solution other than tapering afaict.
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by vermilingua 29d ago
I also went cold turkey from escitalopram about a decade ago, and my experience was not as tame as yours; my ideation kicked into 6th gear, with paranoia, nausea, and insanely intense and vivid dreams every night. That was while on a 10mg d
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by vermilingua 1mo ago
The Colour of Magic! Tim Curry introduced me to Discworld, it’s a shame those movies are so overlooked
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by vermilingua 1mo ago
Sydney, a scaleup you probably haven’t heard of and that I am prevented by contract from naming
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by vermilingua 1mo ago
I am in exactly the same position; I don't feel left behind per se but I was just fired for my stance. Management is entirely deluded across the industry, and in my case it was even acknowledged and agreed that my output and the qual
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by vermilingua 1mo ago
Another awesome Racket resource: https://beautifulracket.com/
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by vermilingua 1mo ago
More than 50% of the recent commits are from robobun, jesus
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by vermilingua 2mo ago
I never said the content was worthless, I said the distributors are worthless. If I can get the same content, at a higher quality, more efficiently and cheaper (free) through piracy than legal means, the distributors are by definition not p
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by vermilingua 2mo ago
Sometimes I read these mental gymnastics comments about being leashed to half a dozen providers for “convenience” and wonder if these people have actually tried to learn how to use something like a NAS. I think the part they really dislike
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by vermilingua 2mo ago
You’re surprised? Really? I’m more surprised that they pushed a major change and the site is still up.
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Kaspar Hauser(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by vermilingua 2mo ago|0 comments
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by vermilingua 2mo ago
This comment made me very sad
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by vermilingua 2mo ago
Except that it hasn’t yet hit the real world, the live release is still 1.13.4, the last Zig version. Anthropic does not operate in the real world.
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by vermilingua 2mo ago
Fantastic, I have long used Culture Ship names [0] to name my devices but this is a far easier list to reference than others online [0] https://namingschemes.com/Culture_Ships
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by vermilingua 3mo ago
You can be sure they’ll start using this paper as “evidence” all the same.
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by vermilingua 3mo ago
I’m currently in the middle of this process. I’m finding refusing to be working remarkably well, though I am also in a country with worker protections. Join a union.
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by vermilingua 3mo ago
My favourite Datassette is the electronic artist. https://datassette.bandcamp.com/ https://musicforprogramming.net/
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US and Iran announce deal to end military operations(bbc.com)
101 points by vermilingua 3mo ago|285 comments
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by vermilingua 3mo ago
I don’t see any there that are as focused as this one, perhaps except Talat which is considerably more expensive.

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