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by vntok 1y ago
What a weird and deshumanizing thing to say. Slaves are definitely people, a machine definitely isn't. Moreover, slaves aren't productive over the medium/long term. You don't get useful and lengthy performance from raw c
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by vntok 1y ago
Having a smart-but-no-smartass intern by my side, that is always eager to help, that is at the very least superficially knowledgeable about most things, that autonomously gets better at absolutely everything non-physical (yet), that is loya
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by vntok 2y ago
> If what you claim is true, with all of this authority, why can't they write a compliant web page? I'm not sure why you'd think that they "can't" write a compliant web page. It's obvious they can, just
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by vntok 2y ago
Surely they have pretty good reasons for doing things that way, don't you think? That page is probably among the top 3 most analyzed, optimized and A/B tested webpages in the world.
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by vntok 2y ago
That's not how applied math works. Sure, two variables may cancel out when set to specific values and multiplied or divided together... however that certainly does not mean that the variables are meaningless in the overall equation!
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by vntok 2y ago
I don't see how it would create a loop? It seems like the parser change only impacts <select>'s descendant elements (to stop "cleaning" them of illegal elements), not <select> itself.
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by vntok 2y ago
On the contrary. It's CSS, you can change all of this in your browser's CSS overrides if you want.
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by vntok 2y ago
Sure, I do it everyday when I chat with AIs. Humans not reading our exchanges doesn't bother me particularly.
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by vntok 2y ago
First step: don't talk to them, (one of you might get convinced)
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by vntok 2y ago
To the tech sector's asking for input to help shape their vision? I would guess they don't.
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by vntok 2y ago
Why would it be ignored? They're the ones asking.
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by vntok 2y ago
Well obviously they will have thousands of applications from which they need to make a selection removing trolls, luddites, etc. How would you do it without asking for some applicants' details?
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by vntok 2y ago
If you're interested in the field, why wouldn't you answer the questionnaire? It costs you basically nothing while the upside is getting something that is potentially at least a tiny bit more useful to you than if you hadn't
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by vntok 2y ago
Pointing out disinformation is a valuable thing to do, and well in the spirit of hacker news.
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by vntok 2y ago
RAM is supposed to be used. "Saving" it doesn't bring any value, it's actually just waste.
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by vntok 2y ago
"A few years" is at least 10 years, though. That's a lot of time to pivot or get morally sounder funding sources (users for example).
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by vntok 2y ago
That's exactly what Firefox originally claimed was a stark difference compared to Chrome: "use us and you can finally be safe and not need to play cat and mouse anymore"
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by vntok 2y ago
Finland for example: https://www.vero.fi/en/About-us/finnish-tax-administration/d... > Individual income tax information for 2023 was released on 7 November 2024. Public information can be browsed on tax o
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by vntok 2y ago
That makes no sense. It would rather be something like this, which actually makes sense: > Company that makes hammers for nailing wood together doesn't want candidates to use hammers during their hammer-making test.
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by vntok 2y ago
Is it popular?
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by vntok 2y ago
Say everyone completely ignores the protest; surely that's a valid data point that should in itself make those artists reflect on their own positions & ideas? Maybe, just maybe, people in the general public actually value generativ
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by vntok 2y ago
I'd rather they do... art? Why not organize a worldwide protest where every participant produces and shares Art denouncing generative AI? "AI might produce single pieces but this collective work, this is what AI can't do&quot
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by vntok 2y ago
What's Mozilla corp's?
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by vntok 2y ago
They did the same with human-produced art.
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The Roottrees Are Dead(jjohnstongames.itch.io)
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by vntok 2y ago
What of it?
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by vntok 2y ago
They genuinely care about their software's UI.
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by vntok 2y ago
> I challenge you to sort Chinese characters. Chinese characters are in fact definitely sortable. There are multiple keys, the most popular ones being by stroke or by sound. Example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
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by vntok 2y ago
Why would you assume that actual election ink is as easily washable as that? Surely other people thought about the problem at hand for more than a minute, right? It actually stains fingernails in such a way that the ink only truly disappear
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by vntok 2y ago
P2P networks are made for this.

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