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by vkou 4mo ago
All software is non-trivial. You weren't buying a $3000 computer in 1999 to only use 'trivial' software.
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by vkou 4mo ago
It's the Cult of Action, one of the main pillars[1] of any Fascist movement. "Action for action's sake should be undertaken. Without any critical reasoning or reflection." It's exactly how an unsocialized, undiscipl
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by vkou 4mo ago
I find the definition that unless the capture is 100%, it isn't actually capture to be absurd. Any strong, independent media ecosystem would not be so consistently sane-washing the firehose of crazy that we're being hit with every
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by vkou 4mo ago
> I don't know how far back you're talking about when you imply no support for them. It's not 'no support', it was an insane default . For all the talk of 'easy to use', there's a reason context
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by vkou 4mo ago
I'm not sure anyone but investors chasing yield feel a very strong need to see the planet covered in AI data centers, especially when the benefits seem to be rolling up, not down.
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by vkou 4mo ago
> People believing they are entitled to dictate what other people do with their property If the data center existed in a vaccum, with no inputs or outputs, this argument would hold some weight. Instead, they stress limited water supplies
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by vkou 4mo ago
MAGA has captured the media, if not entirely by design, but entirely in practice. Thanks to a combination of attacks from the executive, attacks from the oligarchs (Buy a paper and fire everyone who says things you don't like), or the
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by vkou 4mo ago
By the time the context menu was ubiquitous, their mice still did not have two buttons. Just because the feature is available somewhere else in the UI doesn't mean that the shortcut for it must be a two-handed one.
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by vkou 4mo ago
In a world where ubiquitous ID verification is required, you can just, like, mandate that stores with liquor licenses sell them. If they want to keep their licenses, that is. A simple law against linking those two pieces of information woul
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by vkou 4mo ago
> is just a consequence of the fact that the memory market is now dominated by quasi-monopolies. And software isn't?
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by vkou 4mo ago
You can also just follow people around and look in their windows. Nothing prevents that other than laws and rules and social norms. > In the real world, the system you propose absolutely will not function to the standards required by the
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by vkou 4mo ago
Steve Jobs was also responsible for brilliant bits of usability like puck mice, and the need to have two functioning hands in order to right-click.
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by vkou 4mo ago
The debt would be less painful if the pricks that were responsible for this mess would be billed for the consequences of their poor king-making. We can start with whomever showed up to that inauguration, and expand from there. If they could
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by vkou 4mo ago
I was asked if this problem can be solved in an anonymous manner. I gave a solution that is pretty anonymous and fairly cheap. I am not actually advocating for it. I'm just saying how it's possible to solve it given those constr
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by vkou 4mo ago
> Where does this 3rd party identity token provider come from? Some oracle whose job it is to print tokens and hand out rolls to the stores (and to the websystems). They would know which store got which roll, and which website authentica
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by vkou 4mo ago
> I've also always been curious how a truely anonymous identity verification could possibly work. You go to a store. You show the clerk your id and give him a quarter. The clerk pulls a scratch-off ticket from the front of a ticket
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by vkou 4mo ago
It's a 'good learning opportunity' that distracts you from every other aspect of the work. You can't learn two difficult things at once well. When you have to put significant amounts of mental energy into parsing the sem
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by vkou 4mo ago
Shakespeare would land much better if people were reading it in a language they speak, as opposed to a language that he spoke. When 90% of your mental effort is dedicated to understanding exactly what the hell he is saying, you aren't
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by vkou 4mo ago
After filling the tanks once, subsequent draw would be zero. Most data centers currently use evaporative cooling - where they pull tons of water in, and then... Let it evaporate. Imagine a residential building that reclaims and reprocesses
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by vkou 4mo ago
Plants also communicate with others and gain knowledge from them. Is an elm also conscious?
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by vkou 4mo ago
> “The bubble doesn’t want cheap useful things,” Doctorow said. “It wants expensive ‘disruptive’ things That about sums it up. I challenge anyone to name five things that have gotten cheaper or better in their life thanks to AI. I can&#x
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by vkou 4mo ago
> We've just given them new, more powerful ways to abuse that lack of awareness. Automobiles for 16-year olds have been around for a very long time. Anyways, it's quintessentially American to be talking about oversized landship
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by vkou 4mo ago
> What's the absolute worst that could happen when a water mains breaks? People drink contaminated, unpotable water and die. > What's the absolute worst that could happen when a train derails? People die. > What's th
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by vkou 4mo ago
> The problem is with the human layer of managing large complicated projects. I guess we should stop having large, complicated projects. Potable water mains, road and rail networks, the power grid, the internet, bridges, medicine, etc, a
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by vkou 4mo ago
Prescription glasses are a medical device that corrects for a disability . This shit ain't it. Why are you trying so hard to shoehorn inappropriate criticism of people with disabilities... Into appropriate criticism of this technocr
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by vkou 4mo ago
> I get a sense that the intent is more to persuade via bullying than anything else, which...I dunno. Doesn't feel great! Most advertising persuades you with less-than-rational means. It's just fighting fire with fire. And it&#
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by vkou 4mo ago
> doesn't seem like the best way to spend that time. When the world starts paying people for the best use of their time, people will start prioritizing that.
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by vkou 4mo ago
They do get the benefit of the doubt, but when you're a defendant in a criminal trial, simply having the benefit of the doubt on your side will not mean that you're going to have a great experience with it.
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by vkou 4mo ago
> Okay… do you not feel culpable at some point? 1. No mens rea. 2. He did what was expected of him. 3. You're always free to break into prison if you find yourself in his position, but you might discover yourself sitting in a pool o
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by vkou 4mo ago
Well, these days you'll have 1000 candidates, you drop the 900 that fail to meet the basic criteria, and you're left with 100 that you can't immediately tell are frauds.

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