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by zaphar 5d ago
Personal responsibility leads to corporate responsibility which is the solve for structural problems. You can never impose a new structure to fix it unless you embrace some form of corporate responsibility which requires personal responsi
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by zaphar 11d ago
I don't really feel like permissions is the hard bit here. The hard bit is that for an agent to do any kind of useful work it needs access to a lot of stuff. Further, the stuff it needs access to probably has vulnerabilities the agen
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by zaphar 11d ago
There are really just two ways to avoid the inflationary spiral. You can either increase income (i.e. grow gdp) or you can decrease spending (i.e. cut entitlements). This is as close as it can be to clearly explain. The problem is that most
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by zaphar 12d ago
I notice none of the octopi seem to be actually facing the organ.
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by zaphar 16d ago
That sucks and I'm sure it feels hopeless. But there are ways forward you can investigate. Look for a local community you can plug into. Ease into them and after some time you will be able to make the kind of connections you need. My p
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by zaphar 18d ago
The value of a feature or a bugfix is not calculated from the effort required but from the need or desire for said feature or bugfix. So whether or not the barrier to entry has been lowered by llm's is irrelevant. What matters as to it
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by zaphar 29d ago
This is completely missing the point. Structurally I don't believe either party is set up to allow truly quality candidates to succeed. They optimize for all the wrong things in their candidates. Candidates who are quality that get thr
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by zaphar 29d ago
At no point in this thread have I made a value judgement about Socialism. He got elected claiming to be a socialist which is fine. My point is that getting upset when someone says he's a socialist when he actually claims to be one is s
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by zaphar 29d ago
This is impossible until a critical mass of voters across every state starts putting competence and integrity ahead of their pet issue and populism. If you actually want to start making headway in this direction you have to stop voting for
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by zaphar 29d ago
Not by me. By the rest of the world along with me.
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by zaphar 29d ago
Yeah, no. I am neither left or right these days and I see just as many attempts to coopt terms to have a different meaning from each side. My solve is to refuse to participate. If you want to communicate to me then you are going to have use
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by zaphar 1mo ago
This line of thought bugs me. We use labels for a reason. Socialism has a well accepted definition and has for decades. We haven't modified it's meaning. I think it's fine to take someone at their word if they use a label. It
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by zaphar 1mo ago
To be fair Mamdani has stated that he is a "socialist" numerous times. So I don't think that the characterization is wrong necessarily.
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by zaphar 1mo ago
I'm too lazy to investigate further but my guess is that if there is a vulnerability here it has something to do with dns name spoofing.
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by zaphar 1mo ago
So they did not in fact build more, by any definition that a reasonable person would use.
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by zaphar 1mo ago
What did they build more of then?
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by zaphar 1mo ago
It is my understanding that they didn't in fact "Just build more" so how would they know it was or wasn't working?
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by zaphar 1mo ago
This is a pretty well studied and researched area. It is in the research almost universally accepted that silence or white-noise is the most conducive environmental soundscape for introspective thought across all groups.
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by zaphar 1mo ago
Introspection is the act of looking inward to examine your own thoughts, feelings, and motives. It is a personal process of self-reflection that helps you understand why you act and feel the way you do. Pretty much everyone can benefit wit
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by zaphar 2mo ago
He was referencing a book that made that case if you "squint". If you read that as actually a serious "this caused world war 1" statement rather than. This looks to have gotten some dominoes rolling that may have contrib
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by zaphar 2mo ago
That was not my understanding at all. She seemed to be making a much more nuanced point than the simplistic: "selfish actors deliberately dismantle..". I was more responding to the idea that she refuted hardin though which is very
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by zaphar 2mo ago
This is a statement of nearly pure faith not fact. Which is fine. I have a lot of things I believe based in pure faith. The difference is that I don't state them as if they were fact. Which you appear to be doing here.
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by zaphar 2mo ago
I donate to this software because it's so much fun to play around with. My wife (of 30 years as of today) knows way more about music than I do and this is one way for me to connect a little bit with her hobby.
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by zaphar 2mo ago
I think you might be thinking about Elinor Ostrom and she didn't show that his assumptions and claims were wrong exactly. She expanded on the work to clarify the difference between managed vs unmanaged commons. Showing that successful
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by zaphar 2mo ago
Comparing a languages syntax to a saw blade is a bad analogy. A saw is a complete tool. Syntax is more like the teeth on the saw blade. The quality of the saw is not just about the teeth. It's also about the size and spacing of those t
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by zaphar 2mo ago
Please do this. I would love to see this timeline actually hold true. Production quality is the bar though. Not something that only works in a very narrow set of circumstances with a ton of caveats.
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by zaphar 2mo ago
The Oracle antipathy is less about the policy itself and more about the apparent hypocrisy of hyping and funding these tools as "solving programming" and then forbidding their use on their own open source project.
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by zaphar 2mo ago
As far as I can tell that is indeed, "it". What is maybe more interesting is that it took this long to find data that shows it wrong given we have so many examples in history of it being in fact wrong.
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by zaphar 2mo ago
This is sort of correct on webkits side. inheritance chains especially when you don't control who is inheriting from you are going to be very brittle. The standard would probably have been better if it had been specified as a form of c
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by zaphar 2mo ago
In the spec custom elements can inherit from any html element you wish. Which should allow you to only have to add the bits you need to add and let the rest be handled by the native implementation. The one exception is Safari which has been

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