zaptheimpaler

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by zaptheimpaler 6mo ago
I think everyone I see writing anywhere whether these comments or substacks or just talking to in real life, we all pretty much agree on why we're sad. Its the same 5-6 reasons. We all know. There are much deeper analyses showing trend
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by zaptheimpaler 6mo ago
Yeah I feel like papering over the physical aspect actually misses the main motivation for columnar storage in the first place, which is to more efficiently store some types of data and perform OLAP queries on it.
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by zaptheimpaler 6mo ago
There are lots of leaked emails showing Zuck is creepy. Recent one I saw where he is directly in the conversations about targeting teens/children. There's a twitter account [1] that posts emails from tech execs that have come out
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by zaptheimpaler 6mo ago
This just made me gamble on a yearly subscription for Pro, hoping they will grandfather in existing customers..
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by zaptheimpaler 6mo ago
If you use something like an iPad, you can also do all your reading on one device - substack, blogs, books, newsletters, audiobooks etc. You can also just continue reading on your phone at any time if you end up in line, in transit etc. whi
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by zaptheimpaler 6mo ago
Age of Empires 4 also does this. It's very cool and saves a lot of space, but it does have some significant downsides at least the way its implemented there - you can't rewind replays, and they become unwatchable when the game upd
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by zaptheimpaler 6mo ago
But things really are different this time. Computers and software were nascent industries with lots of room to grow, lots of software to build in previous transitions. Today software and technology companies are the biggest in the world. E
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by zaptheimpaler 6mo ago
This is so dumb. LLMs have some patterns they copied from people, so now people need to stop using those patterns? Not to mention 10000000 famous books, stories, speeches, essays, comments and more are flagged by these stupid tools. These
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by zaptheimpaler 6mo ago
Hetzner is like 1/10th the cost of ripoffs like AWS now, the passport data is deleted after verification and I can actually trust this claim coming from an EU company under GDPR that doesn't have any use for my personal data. You
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by zaptheimpaler 6mo ago
Yeah, it feels like the author is blaming his personal bugbear but entrepreneurship and independent businesses are facing systemic issues of massive concentration of market power and zero antritrust enforcement.
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by zaptheimpaler 7mo ago
This is a case where a person who actually was illegally present is denied release on bond and the court sided with ICE. It does not address illegal detentions or deportations without hearings. There are countless other cases where people a
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by zaptheimpaler 7mo ago
lol judges have ruled 100s or 1000s of ICE detentions in various states illegal by now. None of that has stopped ICE from doing what it's doing. This kind of optimism in the law seems naive today because there is no mechanism to actual
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
They didn’t sell it no strings attached, they sold it with explicit restrictions in their contract with DoW and the DoW agreed to that contract. Their mistake was assuming they operate in a country where rule of law is respected, clearly no
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
This is all just completely wrong. Anthropic explicitly stated in their usage use of their products is not permitted in mass-surveillance of American citizens and fully automated weapons, in the contract that DoW signed. Anthropic then aske
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
Very cool! Yeah I love borderless fullscreen mode, its very convenient.
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
When we ask for regulation and oversight from the government, generally we mean regulation and oversight designed to help consumers or citizens and align the interests of institutions with that of the citizens. Yes the US trying to force An
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
The media organizations and people who pushed the pro-Israel narrative already understand all of this - it's not a failure, it was their intended goal.
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
I'm skeptical any public company is really going to have the strength to develop junior talent no matter how many experts say its important or what the long term consequences are. ShitCo A will slash headcount and see their stock go up
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
I didn't know about the long history of racism involving Elon's companies. But it seems Tesla had a problem discriminating against black workers since at least 2015: "including slurs, nooses, swastikas, and threats found on e
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
Look at the massive and growing wealth & power inequality today, an age of aristocrats, then look at these AI fucks bragging about how AI will eliminate all white collar jobs. Obviously all of the gains are going to go to capital. You c
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
Windows solution to this is exclusive fullscreen, which bypasses the compositor. You can try Gamescope [1] from Valve, that's what Steam Deck uses - i think its a compositor designed to minimize latency but support the few things games
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
I think we should stop making excuses for shitty practices. I can understand why they might do it, i can also see there are much better ways to deal with this situation.
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
Maybe the law should be changed then. The companies that have this level of disregard for security in 2026 are not going to change without either a good samaritan or a data breach.
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
I don't think the article "reeks of LLM style" at all. It's actually very obviously written by a human in my eyes, there are several phrases that LLMs would not write. I see this accusation leveled at basically any piece
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
Here is some of what happened during COVID, according to Patrick McKenzie (patio11) [1] : ---- I want to both be polite about the fact and be honest about it. We, the United States of America, through our elected representatives and through
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
They likely wouldn’t even accept the money because it’s in gold bars, and they wouldn’t be able to prove its source.
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
The people doing the arresting have no ID and wear masks, arrest people without any evidence, throw them in detention centers and then deny them their legal right to a bond hearing and instead detain them indefinitely. Even someone like yo
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
They're happy to fund the military, they have a list of words [1][2] that they use to flag grant applications, including "female", "bias", "political" and others. Cuts seem to be directed at biomedicine, h
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
Yes, Canada has already seen a large uptick in researchers and doctors coming in from the US and other countries have too. It's good for everybody for research to be more decentralized so that it can better withstand shocks in single c
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by zaptheimpaler 8mo ago
Humans invented writing, not LLMs. They are copying us not the other way around. You can’t jump on 1 sentence that vaguely sounds like an LLM and say it’s written by AI. It’s so silly. I understand the aversion to AI slop but this is not th

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