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by xg15 8mo ago
It's part of a trend though. The tendency of "safe spaces" is several decades old by now. You can still ask why someone would think that this is a good or necessary thing to do.
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by xg15 8mo ago
I can understand it from their perspective, but still don't think it's a good development (same with other exclusionary "safe spaces" for other groups). Or rather, I'd at least like to know what is the end game here
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by xg15 8mo ago
People being able to make a living would be a start?
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by xg15 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism
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by xg15 8mo ago
> Abstractions. They don’t exist in assembler. Memory is read from registers and the stack and written to registers and the stack. [...] But my application-coded debugging brain kept looking at abstractions like they would provide all t
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by xg15 8mo ago
Yeah, that was my intention at least. I didn't mean it just because the article is styled in all-lowercase but because he essentially argued that this is what everyone has to do now to distinguish themselves from LLMs. (even if it was
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by xg15 8mo ago
I refuse to give "everything in lowercase" writers any kind of legitimation.
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by xg15 8mo ago
> “By getting our friends in the tent with our best practices, we will pressure-test a renewed level of adaptive coherence.” That's what she said.
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by xg15 8mo ago
Good software doesn't get you VC funding.
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by xg15 8mo ago
> An artist that paints something that I can't distinguish from a Van Gogh is a very skillful artist and the painting is very beautiful. There are a lot such artists who can do that after having seen Van Gogh's paintings bef
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by xg15 8mo ago
I get their point, but since when does a code editor require an internet connection?
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by xg15 8mo ago
I sort of get his point, but on the other hand, if the debate is "should social media sites be age restricted / have mandatory age verification?" then the argument "I can't see any reason to, because I personally do
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by xg15 8mo ago
care-less people, etc...
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by xg15 8mo ago
Impact assessment: yes.
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by xg15 8mo ago
Good point, and in a way even more crazy.
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> What we actually need is for the WebAuthn spec to include a signal that tells credential managers "this passkey is load-bearing for encryption, not just auth" so they can surface appropriate warnings before deletion. Right n
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by xg15 8mo ago
> For around 280,000 years, roughly 95 percent of our history as Homo sapiens, we lived as hunter-gatherers. OT, but I find this fact mindboggling whenever I read it. Our way of timekeeping and general education emphasizes the last 2 m
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by xg15 8mo ago
As a possible example of this, I was kind of baffled how quickly we're all now throwing the sophisticated AST/program analysis and refactoring methods over board we already had before AI. Just look at the refactoring methods of Ec
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by xg15 8mo ago
Then have a look who is supporting whom with weapons, which militaries are running maneuvers together, who is cooperating - or not cooperating - economically, who is visiting each others' summits, etc. It's true that many countrie
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by xg15 8mo ago
It's "democratizing" in the same way Uber "democratized" taxis...
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by xg15 8mo ago
Also, the official explanation how October 7 could have happened honestly makes no sense to me. Somehow Hamas suddenly gained super powers on that day and could break through the "containment" that ostensibly had been perfectly ad
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by xg15 8mo ago
> Self-attention is required. The model must contain at least one self-attention layer. This is the defining feature of a transformer — without it, you have an MLP or RNN, not a transformer. I think it would be interesting to see chall
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by xg15 8mo ago
I see no "smoking gun" for this yet, but yeah, there are a lot of indicators, such as alarm calls by military observers being ignored beforehand, IDF units having been moved from the Gaza envelope to the West Bank before, etc. Of
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by xg15 8mo ago
> And essentially none of us will know the truth, even the reasons. Maybe not in the details, but the general geopolitical "axes" (USA/the "West" vs China/Russia/BRICS/"Global South"&#x
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by xg15 8mo ago
I like how the other story that has this premise is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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by xg15 8mo ago
Counter question, by that logic, what about the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people? Or the people of Lebanon or Syria for that matter?
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by xg15 8mo ago
You don't "migrate" into a land by flattening villages.
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Always wondered how the parser managed the ambiguity between & for file descriptors and & to start background tasks. (And without a good mental model, I kept forgetting where to put the & correctly in redirects) Treating "&
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by xg15 8mo ago
This is amazing - and somehow channels both Douglas Adams and Randall Munroe at the same time...
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by xg15 8mo ago
Which part of "common ownership" means that you somehow don't own it? The whole idea is that you do own it - in part, but enough to get a say in what to do with it. "It" being the means of production - factories, da

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