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by wpietri 3y ago
> Such a waste of time trying intently to regulate and control communication. It's not an overall waste of time, because the goal is to reduce the enormous wastes caused by fraud, crime, and other malfeasance. I know somebody who w
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yup. And this has always been a problem in software. Too many people treat a team sport as a bunch of individuals running around on the field doing their own thing. But I think it's going to get worse because of the way LLMs differenti
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by wpietri 3y ago
> Nothing shows the power of capitalist monopolies more than the lengths unions go to fight them. Oh wait You say this as if it's some clever proof, but I'd say it's literally correct. It's why all sorts of people in
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by wpietri 3y ago
Your inability (or, more likely, refusal) to distinguish between valid criticism of ideas and abuse, harassment and threats is a fine example of a core problem of online dialog.
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I submitted this because there are a lot of good examples of how driving is not just a process of spotting objects and following lanes, but a social process of interacting with people. I came across another example a couple of days ago. A g
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SF cops, firefighters vent prior to big vote on driverless car expansion(missionlocal.org)
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yeah, my big concern about LLMs is not Skynet or a zillion people out of work. It's that the spammers and their ilk are now vastly more capable. The fact that generative LLMs are glib bullshit machines is a problem for most sane uses,
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by wpietri 3y ago
> If I wanted to live my best life I wouldn't be coming here. ETOOMUCHTRUTH
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by wpietri 3y ago
> Most people have abandoned discourse and given up on having hard conversations. I agree that the lack of hard conversations is a problem, although I'm not sure how much people have given it up versus just never did it at all with
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by wpietri 3y ago
Exactly. Since CFOs are in charge of the numbers and can be legally on the hook for them [1], their departure always gets people to perk up a bit. Even if there isn't crime involved, when they guy who knows the financials best decides
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Which, I should add, is true of most professions, including software development. If a non-developer jumped in to make an app, it would be miraculous if the app and the code base were up to the standards of a seasoned app developer.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yeah, to me that's one of the most poisonous things about bubbles and gold rushes. A bunch of people make good money doing things that are terrible, ridiculous, or both. They don't learn the lessons they would in a normal environm
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by wpietri 3y ago
Please note that you went from my "doesn't matter a ton" to "doesn't matter" period. That's a straw man. If you'd like to argue with something I said, I'd be glad to engage. But not with a cartoo
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by wpietri 3y ago
Sorry, if you want to claim that tech hasn't burned through social capital, you'll have to make that claim separately from anything about the media. But you'll have a hard time making the case. Look at how much HN commenters
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by wpietri 3y ago
A lot of their learning is from experience.
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I personally arrived at my conclusion through, as I explained, long observation of social media. If you'd like to understand the contents of a book, well, there's a common solution for that.
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by wpietri 3y ago
If your point is that life's hard, or that patriarchy is also bad for men, I certainly agree. But neither of those prevents me from recognizing the specific ways that patriarchy is bad for women. Indeed, you might consider that a guy l
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And perhaps I should add that if I focused on my supposed good intent to the exclusion of changing, then I'd have to question what my intent was. Or, putting it differently, the best way I can demonstrate my good intent is by correctin
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by wpietri 3y ago
As a frequent writer, I think most of the burden lies upon the writer because they are the one choosing to put things in front of an audience. Yes, I think readers also have an obligation to not be, say, willfully obtuse. But if they'r
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by wpietri 3y ago
As I already said, it happens to women disproportionately. If you'd like to learn more about when exactly it's misogyny, again, read Manne's book, the heart of which is precisely defining the term.
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by wpietri 3y ago
I knew a very smart guy with an attitude like that. He decided to run the electric wiring for an artist's co-op he made out of surplus shipping containers. When the city inspectors eventually popped by for a surprise visit, it was so f
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yeah, my take is that during the rise of the internet and mobile, tech earned a lot of social credit. But since then tech companies both large and small have been burning through that at a prodigious rate, especially social media, monopoly-
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by wpietri 3y ago
> insta-block [...] seems at the heart of the brokenness of online discourse. > having seen what some of the women in my life go through re: abusive behavior online, I also understand the hair trigger Even from your own words, it soun
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by wpietri 3y ago
I think his point is that markets work through competition. If we have 10 different companies running pipes to every home in Flint, all run by separate companies, then we might be set. But with one, market mechanisms don't work, so a m
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by wpietri 3y ago
Sure, but on the other hand people can learn to read the room. I am interested in lots of things, but that doesn't stop me from trying to fit the context and the interests of the other participants. E.g., I have a lot to say about cryp
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by wpietri 3y ago
It's not a dead end, because public forums are not natural phenomena. They are things we design, build, maintain, and police. Personally, I want experts to be able to talk about their work without feeling abused, harassed, or threatene
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by wpietri 3y ago
If you're interested in the ways in which especially women receive strident pushback in a way that trains them to self-censor, I'd suggest reading Manne's "Down Girl: the logic of misogyny". She's an analytic p
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by wpietri 3y ago
"Groping for a light switch" would be a valid phrase in American English as well. But a "groper" on its own is going to have sexual connotations. E.g.: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/groper I thi
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yeah, same. I have a synology NAS and the desktop-of-windows-in-a-window aspect of it just seems archaic to me. I have a browser with tabs, thanks. If I really need two things going, I'll open two tabs or two browser windows.
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by wpietri 3y ago
This is a good look at the benefits of JPEG XL: https://cloudinary.com/blog/jpeg-xl-how-it-started-how-its-g... It was discussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36801448

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