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by xienze 1y ago
> Now LLMs are stealing everyone's data, claiming be "fair use", getting away scot free, while irrelevant YouTubers are facing threats to be jailed over nothing whatsoever. I’d like to point out that for decades the argume
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by xienze 1y ago
In what ways are the abstractions leaky? @Tool or @GetMapping make no demands on how to implement “this is a tool” or “this is a GET REST endpoint.” That they’re coupled with Spring (or rather, Spring is the only implementation for the sema
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by xienze 1y ago
Because kids are highly impressionable and have limited ability to make sound judgements?
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> and people thought it'll empower people by letting programs navigate services for them programmatically? I don’t think that concept died because of nefarious business-related reasons but rather that building true HATEOAS APIs is h
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by xienze 1y ago
I’ve yet to see an EV that doesn’t have some sort of flush handle design. My understanding is that it improves aerodynamics and I’m sure a secondary reason is “Tesla did it first” and the high tech aesthetic that EVs are expected to have.
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Presumably truck drivers are skilled enough to know not to ride the brakes, aren’t they?
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> Similar to cars, it's easy to spot Teslas but other brands don't stand out this much and you really need to know the little details to spot. Disagree. All you have to do is look for lack of a front grill or flush door handles
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by xienze 1y ago
To be fair, the parent didn’t specify which direction they were talking about. And is brake overheating a cause for an entire truck to catch on fire? That sounds more like an engine failure kind of thing.
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by xienze 1y ago
> The traditional response to that was violence against scabs And how are you going to do that when the scabs are in India? Unions work in “physical” domains (like plumbing, factory work, etc.), not so much in “virtual” domains where all
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by xienze 1y ago
> So, I’m sorry, why do we want that here (let alone anywhere)? To the second question, not everything in the modern world is going to be clean and green. If you want things like steel, plastic, computers, etc. there's gonna be some
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Cash for Clunkers is what really kickstarted the distortion of the used car market.
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> If you have N dollars and I have Nx1000I can buy more stock than you. I can also diversify better than you, I simply have more options, more power, etc. Unless I am a total idiot or you get absurdly lucky and effectively win the lotto,
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by xienze 1y ago
> Tons of property is locked up as short term vacation rentals You might not want to dig too closely into who exactly owns all these short term vacation rentals. There's a non-trivial number of people who aren't conventionally
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This is what everyone forgets when they label anyone against a wealth tax as “temporarily embarrassed billionaires.” Even if the government could convert 100% of a billionaire’s wealth into cash (they can’t) and confiscated it all, great, w
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by xienze 1y ago
> That's why poor people pay the highest percentage of their income The key word here is income. “Wealth” and “income” tend to be conflated by ostensibly intelligent people who should know better. If I’m granted a million dollars in
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by xienze 1y ago
> This is about giving more people access to more material resources by taking away some of the exclusive access to those resource by the rich. You realize most of this wealth is tied up in stocks and other assets that anyone can purchas
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by xienze 1y ago
The second amendment is “very clearly” spelled out in the Constitution yet many roadblocks to gun ownership are thrown up in various states and people STILL make tired arguments about how the amendment “should” be interpreted. For example,
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> When the company employs designers on a permanent salaried basis, those designers must make changes in order to assure their continued employment. I don't think it's exactly this, but it's close. Every so many years you
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You are aware that humans created and solved the puzzle in the first place, right? Not sure I understand this line of reasoning that if there are humans in this world incapable of solving some problem then boom, checkmate, LLMs can reason a
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by xienze 1y ago
> LLMs are perfectly capable of writing code to solve problems that are not in their training set. Examples of these problems? You'll probably find that they're simply compositions of things already in the training set. For exa
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by xienze 1y ago
But the Tower of Hanoi can be solved without "tools" by humans, simply by understanding the problem, thinking about the solution, and writing it out. Having the LLM shell out to a Python example that it "wrote" (or rathe
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by xienze 1y ago
> I only play games w/ Steam on Linux (Steam Deck or Framework 13 laptop) and Denuvo makes this impossible Are you sure about that? I have a ROG Ally running Bazzite and I have played several games on this page[0] that use Denuvo. 0
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by xienze 1y ago
Source for that claim? If you had spent half a second researching before blindly launching into “Christians r dum” rhetoric you’d have noticed that they actually teach a course on evolution: https://www.hillsdale.edu/courses
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by xienze 1y ago
> when women earn more, they spend most of what they earn, on things that require labor to produce. Uh, what happens if the labor to produce things costs pennies because it's all been shipped out to China?
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... Or illegal immigrants undercutting American workers in construction and low-skill industries, or H1B workers undercutting American tech workers, or...
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It’s right there in the article: >The ministry’s report admits the chief reason why so many women wind up being prosecuted is because they are more likely to open the door to inspectors. Men literally or figuratively tell the inspectors
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by xienze 1y ago
You have to keep in mind that entity beans were developed in a time before generics, annotations, and widespread use of byte code enhancement that made a lot of the easy, magical stuff we take for granted possible.
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> I have heard that it's received wisdom that gamers complain that HDR modes are "too dark", so perhaps that's part of why they ruined their game's renderer. A lot of people have cheap panels that claim HDR suppo
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> “Hey this is (Bank). Are you trying to log in right now from Moscow on a Windows 10 PC using Firefox? If so, please call the number on the back of your card, hit 9, put in your SSN, then we’ll turn off 2FA for one login and let you add
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by xienze 1y ago
That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the act of adding the secret to the authenticator app in the first place. There needs to be documentation to the effect of "open Google Authenticator, and if you don&#

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