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by worik 11mo ago
> Won't the value will be concentrated in the few with the scale to build competitive AIs? No. Open AI and their ilk can sell tokens, but how much business is there in that? Trillions? If not, they're bankrupt. Dead man walking
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by worik 11mo ago
> content creators whose work has been stolen. The law is an ass. Current IP laws are too restrictive, but scraping public facing websites is not theft even under those crazy laws I have no moral objection to the use of Anna's Archi
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by worik 11mo ago
> The value of modern AI seems very hig Very useful, clearly. But valuable? In aggregate it seems clear that it is. But where does that value acrue? It seems to me the value will be thinly spread while the costs are concentrated. It doe
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by worik 11mo ago
I get very frustrated by "carbon credits". This is an example of criminal fraud. But the whole idea is begging for fraud. It is a fraudulent concept from start to finish Reminds me of the Catholic's concept of "indulgen
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by worik 11mo ago
Golly. There are still some who think it is ok to be rude to newbies. $|++ is arcane to anyone not steeped in Perl The newbies could be warmly welcomed and shown respect. But no, RTFM. That is rude to somebody drowning in newness. If you do
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by worik 11mo ago
> Epstein seemed to be a power broker and a political fixer. If so... If so we are getting a window into a world we rarely see. For some of us this is confirming our priors, for others this will be profoundly shocking.
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by worik 11mo ago
No. I came to Perl when Perl 4 was the latest. I was using it as a frame work for distributed computing, moving data between machines. I was on the point of throwing it all away for C++ when Perl5 came out. I forget the details, but it mad
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by worik 11mo ago
Back in the day it was Perl or PHP on the web I was a Perl programmer, and I looked down my nose at PHP. Silly me, then and now Why did PHP, an objectively a worse language, win? Rasmus Lerdorf said in a quote I can no longer find, it was m
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by worik 11mo ago
> quick and dirty one-offs, Then used for huge GUI apps that run slow like a wet week, unreliably The same thing is happening with Python.
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by worik 11mo ago
Golly There, the problem illustrated "You are not serrious" is a downright hostile attitude "man perldoc" as an answer can be translated as "f*^&%k off you stupid...."
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by worik 11mo ago
Terrifying stuff The data centres planned require mind boggling amounts of electricity. It would be better not to build them, rather than relax rules on nuclear
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by worik 1y ago
The Internet is huming along beautifully It is the Web that is being degraded
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by worik 1y ago
Yes LLMs have become a crucial compendium of knowledge, that had become hidden behind SEO
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by worik 1y ago
No you don't E.g: Waiting in pain with a broken arm in hospital, no pain relief (nitros oxide was the appropriate drug) because you look like you might enjoy it That is my personal experience. So do not lecture me
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by worik 1y ago
> And every doctor keeping you well... ...and blah blah blah You get all those services if you conform and obey.
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by worik 1y ago
Good point! "old, tractable" and hard problems. Routine things.
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by worik 1y ago
> The problem with AI is that it offers apparent solutions to non-existent problems Yes The good thing about AI is it offers assistance with old, tractable, problems When it is everywhere it is an unhelpful annoyance
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by worik 1y ago
> AI features can be helpful. Embedded into the operating system? Will they be helpful there? IMO there are better ways
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by worik 1y ago
Why does anybody care? "The establishment" is a relative term. It is all those %!! over there. All those you mention are a part of it, a grinding machine that gobbles up people's lives and destroys them, because rules.
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by worik 1y ago
> RAM is cheap My time isn't
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by worik 1y ago
Me
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by worik 1y ago
Yes. Good.
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by worik 1y ago
> Conflating the "establishment" into a false monolith is rhetorically convenient. It's also wrong. Nonsense How is a person supposed to tell the fine grained difference between the perpetrators of cruelty? It is all the e
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by worik 1y ago
> Moderna has no opioid division. True. That is a fact I believe But pull out a bit for a wider view: The establishment that said "trust us" over vaccines was the same establishment that made billions from killing millions by &
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by worik 1y ago
> They refuse to look critically at the trade offs. That is a bald assertion. I do not agree. Of course it depends what you mean by "they", but medical researchers do look critically at the trade offs There were failures of com
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by worik 1y ago
Real time guitar effects simulator
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by worik 1y ago
There is a conflicting tension. Freeriding If a union negotiates better conditions at a workplace, who should be subject to them? Everybody, of course IMO But what of people who never paid union dues? There is no nice tidy solution to tha
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by worik 1y ago
This is relevant https://gtaforums.com/topic/1004182-rockstar-games-alleged-u...
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by worik 1y ago
No. But you can write dreadful code in any language
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by worik 1y ago
happy employees does not imply no need for a union

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