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by wubrr 1y ago
The only reason NFL is as popular as it is, is because of decades of very intentional top-down pushing of it on society everywhere from schools to government, television, radio, etc. It's not a natural development at all. That goes for
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by wubrr 1y ago
I don't dislike sports. I love several sports, and am actively engaged in sports on a regular basis. What I dislike is the mass propagandization of sports, and the use of sports as a means of mass advertising and manipulation of the pu
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by wubrr 1y ago
The main discussion point of this comment chain is around the practical benefit to society of the NFL. Coming in and saying 'we can't judge the practical societal value of anything because groups of people don't have values&#
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by wubrr 1y ago
> It’s a wild argument that entertainment does not provide practical value for society. I'm talking specifically about NFL (and some other sports). Not all entertainment. > It’s an overwhelming driver of capitalism and consumer b
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by wubrr 1y ago
Your argument amounts to a meaningless tautology - 'everything that exists is good and valuable'. Yeah, maybe, but that's neither useful nor interesting. 'Heroin addition is good and valuable to society - if you disagree
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by wubrr 1y ago
Sports like NFL, Hockey, etc. are completely arbitrary and artificial. The only reason most people that watch these sports is because of marketing and being pushed to do so by society. Remove NFL and replace it with another arbitrary made u
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by wubrr 1y ago
Your logic/math doesn't make any sense. Almost every student studies math, almost none of those ever become a mathematician - who are compensated much less than NFL players. > There are about a million doctors in the US Compari
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by wubrr 1y ago
Just because someone takes risks, doesn't mean they deserve exorbitant compensation for that. Lots of people take risks all of the time for much less. Lots of sports, and even non-sport jobs are much more dangerous than playing in the
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by wubrr 1y ago
> People who play professional sports basically sacrifice the first 20 years of their life for a lotto ticket to get, on average, 2-4 years of playing time. Everybody who studies and works towards a career/goal 'sacrifices the
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by wubrr 1y ago
> If you're taking that standpoint, then all entertainment has zero practical value. Game devs/studios, actors/movie studios, musicians, board game designers, etc, etc - all worthless. I didn't say they are all worthl
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by wubrr 1y ago
The median NFL salary is like 850k/year, and the average is ~3million/year. Seems like a lot for playing with a ball, while producing exactly zero in practical value (other than advertising and distraction, which is a net negative
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by wubrr 1y ago
Your inability to provide a single example, which would immediately disprove my point, is the evidence.
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by wubrr 1y ago
I can't believe people still fall for the 'piracy bad' propaganda in 2025
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by wubrr 1y ago
There were never any good moral arguments against digital 'piracy' to begin with.
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by wubrr 1y ago
It sounds good and ostensibly makes sense, and many companies claim they do these things, just like many companies claim to have unlimited PTO. How many actually sincerely follow through on these claims? I've yet to encounter a single
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by wubrr 1y ago
Very interesting, thank you!
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by wubrr 1y ago
Very cool!
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by wubrr 1y ago
Ahh, I stand corrected, very cool!
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by wubrr 1y ago
> Does ollama support strict structured output or strict tool calls adhering to a json schema? As far as I understand this is generally not possible at the model level. Best you can do is wrap the call in a (non-llm) json schema validato
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by wubrr 1y ago
Apple's software is generally low quality with more bugs and less features than equivalent linux/oss software. There is a long list of 5, 10 - year old, well-known bugs that apple simply ignores. They know their userbase is built
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by wubrr 1y ago
If you're building any kind of product/service that uses AI/LLMs the answer is the same as why any company would want to run any other kind of OSS infra/service instead of relying on some closer proprietary vendor API.
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by wubrr 1y ago
> People do understand it. Often, deeply understand it because they wrote it, and have lived and supported it for years. You're assuming the people that wrote it are still there, which is often not the case.
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by wubrr 1y ago
hype
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by wubrr 1y ago
I'm no LLM evangelist, far from it, but I expect models of similar quality to the current bleeding-edge, will be freely runnable on consumer hardware within 3 years. Future bleeding-edge models may well be more expensive than current o
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by wubrr 1y ago
> One thing I find frustrating is that management where I work has heard of 10x productivity gains. Some of those claims even come from early adopters at my work. Similar situation at my work, but all of the productivity claims from inte
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by wubrr 1y ago
It could also be a way of showing just how much they believe - 'Jesus will return in X years and I'm willing to bet all I have on it!'
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by wubrr 1y ago
Passkeys don't live at any particular level. They can 'live' on a piece of paper, and get lost from wherever they are stored.
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by wubrr 1y ago
Many human 'experts' produce nonsensical data. Verification of data by humans is also mostly based on 'prior' data. We've had many popular medical practices over the years developed and supported by medical experts
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I mean, it really depends on what you're trying to diagnose/do. Yeah, a math PhD might have spent a decade+ studying the subject. Doesn't mean I need to pay for their skills instead of using a calculator/program to solve
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by wubrr 1y ago
What substantial argument?

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